New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-19
THE STATE CONVENTION.

hENrS TO CONTINUE HIS LEADERSuuP-THE
STATE OFFICERS wEO ARE CANDIDATEs-THE
SENATE
~ HoocAsioNAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE ]
AH"ANf' Sept. 1S.-The little drum and the big
"i"'h are sounding in the rural press summon,no
,'e" 10 the conventions at which the delegates TO
1he approaching Republican State Convention oro
=" "e elected; and already there has been pood de
''"iuehtal talk about the delegates under the
toi 80 Siieds at the town caucuses Guantanamo and
Ca''araugns indeed have already elected their
u"oSates Senator Sessions heads one of tbe district
delegations
IL is plain that the election of the dcIcgatos in
"''hy or the districts will be made only after
struggle between opposing partv forcas NJ, CT,
mug a"herents seek to continue in the coming ve.r
~ ~ 'SouC cohtrol OF the party organization and
WV '"iS OBJECT are exerting themselves through
o' the state TO elect delegates to the State Conven
."h winch Will decide this matte when if cboosee
NV "Pu'licao state Committee. This labor is not
u."ertaken with any avowed or apparent pnrnose
OF making an attack upon President Garfed,s Ad-
~ iis'raton. Care has been taken in some districts
thit are known widely as wholly under Mr.. Conl-
mugs control to pass resolutions of sympatbv with
@ .,io PRESIDENT In his sicXness. C.. NJ Dennison of
''I'' one OF the chief lieutenants of Mr. Conkllnp
Nv 'ne Interior of the State and his intimate Nor
'''' lriehi, himself offered these resolutions of
s'p''"y at an Oneida County Convention. Poll
oonal without any surprise. They saw il was
10 be expected that the "macbinev world
sru 'ge I" perpatuate its existence II has heen
o 'oor Oh years for Mr.. Conking to construct this
,iohiie' or contederacy of powerful Republican
P'o'ans' ana they do not wonder that he cannot
re ram from putting it into service again IL is n
charac'ersfic of the "machne" to work like IFS
mechanical prototype, blindy and without saoac,tv
lhis quality OF the machine" is leading to the
proscr pon in many dis ricts of the members f tba
Leeisatnr' who opposed Mr.. Conklng's reelection
10 the United States Senate Delegates to tbe
Assembly and the Senate District Conventions are to
w o''o'o at the same time in most counties outside
or the cities with the delegates to the State Conven
"on' me same town caucus that tects one affects
All; the division of the eleg ties afterward IN the
several Conventions to County Senatorial and
Assembly District Conventions being merely tho
separation INTO groups OF of the same political
stripe. Usually State Conventions are held
SO much earlier than those for the nomna-
uon OF members of the Legislature that
they do not affect each other but the present wear
owing to the unusually late date for holding the
state Convention. their affairs are woven together
In surprising manner. With each day. also, their
relations to each other more and more Observable
he Assembly and Senatorial Conventions, it is sus-
pecte'l, are thermometer owing Mr.. Coukling's
real temperature toward President Gartield's Ad-
mih'Stratlon The prescription of the opponents of
Dir. Conkling in the Legislature is artfullv done
lhere Is no open attack made upon them as anti
Cohkhhg men; but a Thousand and one reasons are
given why they should not be reuomnated News
papers are freely used in this enterprise There is n
indlcr"ns disregard of a consistent policy by some
OF these Journals. One of them has inst given a
long sketch OF a prominent member of the Legsla-
tuie' and suggested his denomination, who talked
himself h'arsr IN opposition to the Hepburn bill
forbniding discrimination in railroad rates. The
member was drygoods merchant, and had special
rates for the transportation of his goods: il was
natural that he should op ose the bill Forgetting
his position, the newspaper which had printed the
eulogy the following day printed an editorial op-
posing the denomination of several Administration
members of the Legislature the ground that
they were 'monopolsts" having voted against the
discrimination bill.
Th re will be a chance in The State Convention
for clash of opposing party influences over the So
lection of candidates for at least two of the State
Offices. Controller Wadsworth and State Treasurer
WendelI will not he candidates foI reelection The
retirement of these officers is greatly regretted Mr.
Wadsworth had the difficult task of putting into
operation the new tax laws. Owing to his energy
and skill in enforcing of them. the corporation
Tax law, the State Is over million dollars the
richer to-day. Ii is understood that he declines to
b candidate because the Office of Controller re-
4nrrs him to he constantly IN Albany, completely
depnVing HIM of life with hls family III his beaui-
ful home at GeoeSeo. lie does desire, however to
succeed Elbridge G, Lapham rs the Representative
OF his own home county of Livingston, and On
taro and Yates. From the virtual withdrawal
the other candidates MIR WnIsworth's nomina-
tion would seem assured. Mr.. Wendell made an ex-
ccient State ireasnr"r putting into practice in the
office tn same thorough business methods that had
previously placed the bank of which he was cashier
among the leading ones of this city. He retres
from Office III to give of his time TO GER
tain business enterprises III which he is interested
The other state oiccrs-Secreary Of State Carr At
torney-General Ward and State Engineer seymour
are all candidates Tor denomination. Mr.. Seymour
~ II Democrat. will seek his denomination from the
Democratic state Convention; but there is no oppo
sitlon to his renomination and his cectioneering
card, in the shape of report iavorIng free canals
Finch are cophdcnt that there will he no opposition
to his nomination for judge of the Court of Appeals
Despite the nearness of the meeting of the f pub
liean Convent on, the number of candidates for tho
offices ~ that , are to become vacant are
GSe. iGT N'gspy 1d4 Mr. h'rS waGESo S Fs Ss nSs
Mr.. WendeiPs places; for their opposition !
need not be- dreaded IN the Convention. Henry l..
Duguid, Of Syracuse. one of the present Assembly
men from Ouondaga County, ls II candidate for Con-
trolIer Ills friends will uuqucSionably press his /,
nomination as representative of public sentiment
on the relations of the railroads to the state ; |
Mr.. Dugull having been the leader in the Legisla
ture of tne members who favor the passage of the |
Hepburn's Committees bills providing strict SUI
pervsion o. the railroads and their tariffs by the
State state Senator Day nport is also said to be a
candidate for Controller having determined to de-
cline u denomination for senator. The name of |
George 3. Sloan has also been used as a candidate
but without Mr.. SlOan's authority.
ln the XXlid Con ressonal District there |
test Tor Warner Mlers late position as |
Representative from the district. The district is
posed of the Count es of Jefferson, Herklmer and |
Lewis. Charles X. Skinner, who for live years sue |
cessively has represented Jefferson County in the !
Assembly, and was last year the anti-ConKling can
ddatc for Spea ker is ut present the most prominent
nddatc, having secured the delegates from hso own
county to the Congressional Conventon-or half in |
number I the Convention
1i,in has IN ho, t,nsr