In the 1914 election for governor of New York, Roosevelt supported progressive Republican Harvey D. : 99 Roosevelt then ran as the candidate of the new Progressive Party, and the split among Republicans enabled the election of Woodrow Wilson. : 96–97 When Roosevelt ran against incumbent Republican William Howard Taft for the presidency in 1912, Barnes played a key role in obtaining the nomination for Taft. Barnes was conservative while Roosevelt was progressive they sometimes worked well together, but were frequently at odds because of their different political ideologies. : 95 Barnes was also an influential figure at the state and national levels as head of the New York State Republican Party from 1911 to 1914 and New York's member of the Republican National Committee from 1912 to 1916. Barnes, the grandson of Whig and Republican party leader Thurlow Weed, was a successful newspaper publisher and the "boss" of both the city of Albany and Albany County as the head of a political machine that elected Republicans to office and ran both governments. had been active in New York's Republican Party politics. Going back to the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt and William Barnes Jr. Barnes as a member of the Republican National Committee at around the time of the trial
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