The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-25
REPUBLICANS IN COUNCIL.

MEETING OF THE STATE CoMAIIITEE-THE con-
| vENTIoN TO BE HELD AT SARATOGA sEprEMBER
3-cossIP ABOUT THE CANDIDATES.
The Republican State Committee met at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel at eleven O'Clock yesterday morning.
Twenty-Five of the thirty three members in at
tendance. the largest number which, it is said. has
attended any summer meeting of the body In the
past ten years. For an hour before the organization
prominent republican politicians from the city and
interior of the State fitted through the hotel corr
doris and buttonholed members in every corner.
Among those present. besides the members OF the
committee, Police Commissioner stephen b.
French Senator stephen wendover. Charles f.
Smith of the Albany Bce'an9 Journal; General Ham,
ilton Ward. of Allegheny county; United States
Marshal Payne, ex-Deputy Collector John Il. Ly-
decker General Patrick Ii. JONES' Colonel George
Bliss, John j. O'Brien. Scion Ii. Smith, Colonel
George b. Van Brunt. Alderman II. d. Perley. Ber-
John III. Brady Robert G. McCord.
MEMBERS.
ExSurveyor a. B Cornell, the chairman, called
the committee to order, and Edwin NJ. Johnson.
Clerk of the Assembly, who is also secretary to the
committee, called the roll OF members The follow
ing answered to their names :-Benjamin d. Hicks.
OF the First district; James Jourdan, Second; Al
bert Daggett. Third; Philip S. Crooke. Fourth; De
Witt q. Wheeler. sixth; Jacob NJ. Patterson, Jr..
seventh; Cornelius Van Colt, Eighth; Thomas MUIR
ply Tenth Alonzo b. Cornell. Eleventh.; W. II.
Robertson, Twelfth; John b. butcher. Thirteenth;
jeremiah Drew. Fourteenth; George II. Sharpe, Fiji
tenth; John L. Smyth. Sixteenth; Mortimer Wade.
Charles S. symonds. twenty third Moses Summers
Twenty-nith; John M. Knapp Twenty.sixth; Daniel
p. Allen. Twenty-seventh; Thomas c. Platt. Twenty
eighth Maurice s. Decker. Twenty ninth; Cornelius
Il. Parsons. Thirtieth; James d. Warren. Thirty
second; and Edwin NJ johnson. at large.
Nine members We're absent-Abraham Lent, of
the Fifth district; Joel w. Mason. Ninth; james s.
Smart Seventeenth; w. w. Rockwell. Eighteenth;
W. ,. nickins1n. N,neteentn william Lewis MIS-
lard A. Cobb, Thirty first and Commodore p. Ved-
, der delegate ut large.
An informal discussion cnsued upon the selection
of time and place for holding the next State Con-
vention. Saratoga, Rochester and Syracuse were
named, when resolution was adopted, with but
slight opposition naming Saratoga as the place. and
September as the date. Some unimportant discus
sion followed upon the question Of reapportionment
OF districts of Oneida county, when tho meet
ing adjourned.
The next Convention will consist of 452 delegates.
based upon the new apportionment, which is two
less thar the number composing the last Convention.
After the adjournment ex-Sherf Daggett. OF Brook
lyn invited the members to visit Brighton Beach
his guests
LEADING CANDIDATES.
The drift OF sentiment among The republican poll
ticians who were grouped in the corridors was that
the majority OF the members of the committee in
attendance upon the meeting were in favor of Mr..
Cornell for the nomination for Governor His ad-
said that the invisible hand of Senator Conk-
ling was upon the lever, and that he WAS surrey
shaping things to that end Tho absence of General
Arthur, it was urged. had no significance, the
plan oi the campaign only i'll process of incuba-
ton. All that was now desired, it said that
Earring. and that Conklings trusty leutenants
there put the oil on the aud wheels. Senator
Fcnton, according to interior delegate is thus far
passive the diminishing, and is evidently
ing his ammunition to deliver it with effect later
Some OF the wise thought that
the ticket to be made at Saratoga would
contain the names of A. Is. Cornell for
Governor; Senator Pomeroy, OF Cayuga, for Lou
tenant Governor. and General Hamilton Ward, of
Allegheny, for Attorney General The river county
pressing the name OF Senator Robertson for
the first place the ticket. and Congressman John
II. Starin, Senator PoMeroy and Congressman Hitch
cock, of Rochester, moro less strongly urged
by their respective partisans.
Said veteran poitican:-"There is of
talking of any one else now Cornell is leading them
all. A decided majority Of those in that meeting
would declare for him II it deemed policy
to have them show their hands. This committee
Will have the naming of the officers OF the Conven-
tion and you can depend they will be Cornell men.
He powerful throughout the Interior and the city
machinery and patronage if not directly i'll his
hands, is practically at his disposal.
The basls upon which delegates to the next Con-
vention shall be chosen was provided fortby
luton adopted by the State Convention of 1863 One
delegate assigned to each Assembly district with
additional delegate to represent every 1900
or fractional majority of that number. based upon
the last preceding election for Governor. SO that to
Assembly district where there but 600 voters
only delegate is allotted while to district hAv
ing 800 voters the allotment is two delegates.