"UNMITIGATED LIAR."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 7

"UNMITIGATED LIAR."

a . MR. ROOSEVELT ATTACKED. A REPUBLICAN LEADER VIOLENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New York, October 21. • Mr. Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican .State Committee, which blocked Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for tho chairmanship of the New York Republican Convention, caused a sensation at a political rally at Ithaca. In the course of his speech, Mr. Woodruff referred to Mr. Roosevelt, and, amid uproar, described the exPresident as "an unmitigated liar." When the uproar had subsided, Mr. Woodruff again spoke of, Mr. Roosevelt as a liar.' Writing of the conflict between _Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Woodruff, the New York "Evening Post" said recently: "■\Yhat stronger arguments in .favour, ot the abolition of the party convention and the substitution therefor of a direct primarv could there be than those furnished in' the last two weeks both, by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Woodruff? When Mr. Woodruff, after turning down Mr. Roosevelt as temporary . chairman of tho ; convention, left- tho meeting room, he laughed at the suggestion that the exPresidenfs friends might reverse in.the convention the action, of the State Committee. . ... Thanks to the convention system, Mr. Woodruff believed, tnat he had stacked tho cards. 'No matter whether the rank and'file of the party desired Mr. Roosevelt, or not, he said his allies "controlled" the delegates; .what was the use of talking further?' .-■ ' "As for Mr. Roosevelt, ho is not one whit different from Mr. Woodruff in seeking to impose his will upon the convention, save that he has for-the hour a majority of his 'party at his back. _ It was not ; the plight: of the party that aroused his anger when he was turned down. The statement that he first issued to the press related to himself, and what he desired to achieve by his speech before the convention. 1 The real sting lay not in the spectacle afforded by the bosses, but in the insult to himself; His attention at the convention is now pledged, and we shall see there his old skilful political manipulation, the'same utilisation of his personality ' and his great reputation, to bend the . delegates to his own purposes.", ', \".,