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Show New York Politician Asks For Sympathjr For the Colonel Albany, N. Y.. Feb. 16. William Barnes, Jr., chairman of the Republican Republi-can state committee, speaking at the fifteenth annual dinner of the Albany ' County Republican organization, had this to say of Theodore Roosevelt: "No greater error could be commit ted at this time in the Interest of the very principles to which we adhere than to revile or uphold any man, de- ' luded though he may be In his endeavor en-deavor to break, down those' fundamental funda-mental principles of individual liberty and constitutional rights which form the foundation of our government and which must be the reality of the Republican Re-publican party, because, for a few hours or days or weeks, ho whom we have honorod and to whom we have in tho paBt given our votes, has I stvdyeflthrtfugiT aevoticfn' "TcTt aI3e gods from the real principles of the Republican party. I "We must not forget that durln? the ) t term in which he held the presidency ' of the United States, he perorined a wonderful service to the people of this countryand that, although we do not believe in establishing In thib country a pre-individuallsm. yet wc do not forget oil the great service he has I rendered to the people In those days ' of the Spanish war and the inaugur- atlon of the Panama canal although today we maj utterly deprecate what ' apparently Is an unfortunate error of , judgment." j j Mr. Barnes defined thP true pro-qresslve pro-qresslve as "The man who holds to the constructive doctrine that has given us the reason lor boing" I "At the Saratoga convention in 1910,' Col Roosevell fought the Republican state committee's program and forced forc-ed the nomination of Henrv b. Stlmson Stlm-son for governor. At the polls In the following November John A. Dix, -the Democratic nominee, won with a plu- I rality of Q7.401." |