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New York Times 100 years ago today, July 12, 1912:
Barnes and Koenig Open Fight to Hold Organization Vote Here.
    Five hundred election district workers and members of the James G. Blaine Club of the Second Assembly District sweltered last night for three hours in the assembly hall of the clubhouse at 236 East Broadway. The meeting marked the opening of the early Summer campaign of the Republican organization in this county. Among the speakers were William Barnes, Jr.. the Republican State Chairman, and Samuel S. Koenig, county leader, both of whom made it plain in their speeches that the object of the early campaign was to repair party fences and hold the enrolled Republican vote of Manhattan and the Bronx. Officially the meeting was to ratify the Republican National ticket named at Chicago and to unfurl a campaign banner bearing the pictures of the candidates with the words "Progress with Order.''
    Joseph Levenson, Republican leader of the Second Assembly District, opened the meeting with an address, in the course of which he denounced Gov. Woodrow Wilson as an avowed advocate of the policy of free trade, and declared that Roosevelt represented nothing except "pure demagogy."
    "We have had demagogues in the past," he said— "Jackson and Van Buren. We have them to-day, Bryan, Roosevelt, and Debs."
    Mr. Levenson introduced State Chairman Barnes by saying that he was the man denounced in all of the newspapers of the country as a "boss." "I want to tell you," continued Mr. Levenson, "that the man who won the victory at Chicago for sanity in politics and constitutional government is the man most feared to-day by the demagogue who is trying to disrupt the Republican Party."
    Mr. Barnes opened his address by saying that he was not so sure that he was being denounced as a "boss" because of his attitude at Chicago.
    "I have rather flattered myself," he continued, "that I have been commended." Then Mr. Barnes launched forth upon a philosophical talk upon politics. In the course of it he said:
    "I told my dear friend, Tim Woodruff, before the Chicago Convention: Remember, Tim, that the preservation of your own sanity is more important to you than who is President of the United States.' Unfortunately, it did not make any difference to Tim."
    This sally was greeted with laughter.