New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-03
JUDGE FOLGER ACCEPTS.


| AT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BY THE ADMISrsrRA-
TIoN LEADERS Mr.. FoLGER PRESENTS HIS
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE - WHEN HE WILL
LEAVE THE TREASURY Mr.. HEPBURN WITH
| DRAWS.
An important conference of Administration Re
publicans to decide whether not the ticket non-
mated at the Saratogs Convention should be with
drawn and new convention be called, was held at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday afternoon. Inc
persons present invited by telegrams sem OUT
from the State Committee room Friday last
signed by George H. Sharpe, chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee. The kilograms stated that the
conference would meet at IL o'clock. noon. but it
was considerably after that hour before all those In
vited made their appearance.
| During the forenoon General Sharpe, John f.
| Smyth and John NJ Davy, of Rochester, called on
Judge Folger at his rooms in the Hoffman House.
| They held long consultation with him, and
! Others also called upon him Soon after II o'clock
| they went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the per-
sons invited to the conference assembled IN room
| No. l. adjoining the 23d-st. entrance. There were
present Secretary Folger. the candidate for Gov
ernor; b. Platt Carpenter, the nominee for Leuten-
ant-Governor; A. B. Hepburn, who was nominated
Congressman-at-Large, and the following persons
representing different parts Of the State James d.
Warren of Buffalo; John NJ Davy. of Rochester
Frank Hiscock of Syracuse; John J. Lamoree, Col
lector of Customs at Oswego ex-senator Halbert,
| of Binghamton James 5. Smart of Cambridge;
| Gilbert Robertson, Postmaster of Troy John +.
Smyth, of Albany; Congressman keteham, OF
Dover Plains; United States Dstrict-Attorney
Tenney, of Brooklyn; ex-senator Madden, of
Orange County, who was chairman of the Saratoga
Convention, and d. G. Wilbur, of 0tsego County.
Jay Hubbell. chairman of the Congressional Com
mittee was III the room for a short time.
c. S. Cole, member OF the Executive Committee
of the State Committee, who is rot an Administra-
ton Republican, was in the hotel part of the tme
but he SAID that he was not invited to the confer
ence and had no knowledge of it until apprsed by
| TRIBUNE reporter John A. Nichols and W. w.
Goodrich, of Brooklyn. were also in the hotel but
they had difficulty in finding ont anything about
the conference even after it adjourned. A. NJ
Clapp of Buffalo, Jacob Sharp, of this city, James
r. Davis John J. OBrien, Thomas Murphy. ex-
Senator Robert H. Strahan, Pierre G. Van Wyck
and others among those in the hotel corridors.
but were not present at the conference, which was
held with closed doors
DISCUSSING THE SITUATION.
General Sharpe called the conference to order
and stated its purpose and the members fell at once
to discussing the situation. After an informal talk
speeches were made by various members giving
their opinion of what ought to be done, and the
situation in their respective districts.
Mr. Hepburn, the nominee for COngressman-at-
Large was the only distinct representative of what
known as santi-AdministratiOn Republicans. He
made speech in which he Is reported to have
frankly stated his views of the situation. He
thought that the ticket ought TO be with
drawn and a new placed in the field, As the
dissatisfaction with the outcome of the Saratoga
Convention was too great to be.overcOme by any
other means He gave strong reasons for his belief
q d.. in h ntUV
and other districts. He was willing he said to dc
ANYTHING to save the party from defeat, and he
thought this could only be done by heroic treat
ment.
= Mr. Hepburn's view dId not meet the approval OF
the other members of the conference. In fact, II
was reported about the Fifth Avenue Hotel last
night that Mr. Sharpe and Mr.. Smyth had previous
knowledge of Mr. HepOurn's feelings. and called
the conference with the express purpose of per-
suading him to remain on the ticket and that for
this reason only such persons were invited as were
known to favor the course pursued by the Saratoga
, Convention.
Mr. Sharpe criticised Mr. Hepburn's
speech. and asserted that there nothing
done at Saratoga which was lot entirely
fair and honest, excepting the forged proxy by
which Stephen b. French was enabled to vote in
the State Committee. That he said. changed moth
ing and the only way was for the Candidates 70
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affection would grow less and the election OF the
ticket would be assured
WITHDRAWAL or THE TICKET IMPOSSIBLE
Mr. Smyth agreed with Mr.. Sharpe. Ii was out oil
the question, he said, to talk of withdrawing the
ic ket. The duty Of Republicans was to support it,
The letters of acceptance should be published al
tonce, and active stump canvass should follow
with such men as George William Curtis
and w NJ Evarts as speakers. This would cure DIS
fhraa nf he q
newspapers could be induced to give the ticket a
warm support which he thought would be done
He thought that the action OF the Saratoga con,
ven had been mlsrepresented TO the people, ana
J would elect the ticket. United States
Distrct-Attorney Tenney, OF BROOKLYN was somei
the idea of withdrawing the ticket. de SAID that
the action of the Brooklyn Young Mems RepqDll-
, designing men; that most Of the mem-
bers were young and inexperienced IN politics
and were rather unyittingly led INTO the poslt ION
they took he thodght TINS influence was not al
mach as was generally believed. lie Is reported 10
have said that before the canvass was closed Mr.
Beecher would probably preside at q meeting and
retract his utterances OF Sunday night
Collector LamOree, OF Oswego; SAID tnat
there were not more than 100 or l5O disanected
Republicans in that county, all OF whom he Thought
could be induced TO vote tne stragnI tiehe!. nc
saw no reason why the Congressional district IN
which he lived should not give the usual Republican
mai0r1ty Many Democrats, he said, would vote tor
Juage FOlgerbecauoe they knew him and esteemed
hm personally man and a citizen He also de,
Tended the action of the Saratoga Convention ana
asserted that he never knew state Convention IN
when there was little Federal influence exert u
az at Saratoga. He thought that when the people
came to understand these facts as they would the
present feeling would change TO one Oh enthusiasm,
and that it was the height Of folly to talk OF With
drawing the ticket.
there was some dlsafectiOn In his district out
il would pass away, and the ticket would be
: elected. If The iRBUNE and one or two other
newspapers would keep at the head OF
their columns the part OF Mr.. Clevelands speech
in winch he SAID that the contest this veal
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