New-York tribune., 1888-03-26
POSSIBLE DELEGATES.
MEN WHO MAY GO TO THE NATIONAL CON-
NENTION.
AN ABUNDANCE OF WORTHY CANDIDATES IN ALL
THE CONGRESSIONAL DIsTRIcTs-THE EMPIRE
STATE WILL BE STRONGLY REPRESENTED
AT CHICAGO.
lBY TELEGRAPH To THE IRIBUSE.1

| oIATk WILL BE STRONGLY REPREcENIED
| AT CHICAGO.
lBY TELEGRAPH THE IRrBUyE-1
ALBANY, March 25.-Now that the Republican
State Committee has named May as the day for
holding the State Convention and Buffalo as the
place, there is considerable gossip about the
election of the delegates from the Congressional
districts of this State to the Republican National
Convention. Practically the State Convention
will have little to do with the election of the
delegates to the National Convention, because
sixty-eight delegates out Of the seventy-two from
this State are elected at the Congressional district
elections, leaving only four delegates-at-large to
be chosen by the State Convention. The district
conventions must be held within the fortnight
preceding the State Convention There promises
to be lively contest in some districts between
the various candidates.
III, The leaders of the Democratic party here say
that they will hold their State Convention at
Syracuse on May or May 0, probably the latter
date. No Prohibition State Convention will be
! held. Frederick T. Wheeler, chairman Of the
, Prohibition State Committee, says that the bulk OF
the Prohibition delegates Will be elected from the
Congressional districts, and that he has made
arrangements to have these district conventions
Prohibition mass-meetings, at which Prohibition
speakers will make speeches. and there will be
singing by the Silver Lake Quartet.
No LACK OF ABLE MEN FOR DELEGATES.
Already there has been a good deal of work done
Of the Congressional district delegates. In the
Ist District, which Is made up Of the counties Of
Suffolk and Queens on Long Island and Richmond
on Staten Island, the political gOssps say that
tremendous amount Of wire e-pullng Is In progress
between the friends Of John Birdsall the State
committeeman Of the district, and Simon s Iaw-
| kins, State Senator, who represents Suffolk and
! Queens. Both Senator Hawkins and ex-senator
| Birdsa IT. is said, desire to go delegates to the
National Convention.
In Brooklyn, among the men named as possible
district del l,gates State Senators O'Connor and
| Worth, Sheriff Rhinehart Congressman S. V.
White, Michael j. Dady Seth Low and Andrew
d. Baird.
Republicans who came here from New-Yor1 say
that among the men spoken of for district dele
Cornelius n. Bliss, Levi p. Morton. John d. Law
son, Elihu Root George Bliss John j. O'Brien
Assemblyman Ernest H. Crosby Assemblyman
Robert Ray Hamilton Jacob NJ Patterson Sen
ator Van Cott and Solon b. Smith
Westchester County politicians say that the
delegates from the Westchester district will prob
ably be Senator William III. Robertson and ex-
Speaker james w Hustled
Across the Hudson River In the Xvth District
consisting of the counties of Orange, ROclland and
Sullivan. it is said ex-Mayor b. B. Odel of New
burg, IS likely to be one of the delegates, as he
was in Ss4. The other delegate is likely to come
from the County Of Sullivan.
CONTEST LIKELY IN THE SEVENTEENTH
The Congressional district to the northward
Of this one, the XvIIth has in it the counties
of Ulster, Greene and Delaware. There is an
abundance Of able men in It. Thomas Cornell
president Of the Delaware and Ulster Railway,
exSpcaker GEORGE II. Sharpe and Congressman
Ste hen 7. Hopkins pressed for district doic
gates Senator Lewis says that Delaware County
will also have a candidate, and il looks ms If
there would be contest among the friends of
the ecntl mn named there not being enough
Here in Albany, the XIXth District, there
such keen riValr"s That II Is rather dangerous
even TO name "A candidate for delegate However
1t may he stated with fear and trembling that
among the men named are Senator Russell, ex
c1RgTess,an S1 g no John Bailey D. sSnstd, NSrh
Hamilton Harris, John A. Slechcr editor Of
" The Albany Evening Journal Eugene Burln-
game, State Committeeman. and ex-senator Wal
ter W. Braman. The programme is to elect an
Albany man and some man living outside of
Norih Of Albnny is the XvIIIth Dstrirt,
made up Of tho Counties Of Rensselaer, and Wash
ington. The moro prominent candidates at the
present are John VI. Francis, Of The Troy
Times ex-Conercssman james s Smart. of Cam
bridge. and cx-Congressman Henry c. Burleieh,
OF whitehall.
Still further north is the XXIst District, which
holds in is territory the Counties of Clinton. Es
sex, Warren and Franklin Among the candi-
dates named in this district are Congressman
John IT. Morct Of Pldtt,burg, and F. s. Wiihcr-
In Tho Mohawk Valley il is said the friends Of
ex Congressma John H. Starin and ex-senator
james Arllcll are pushing them for delegates from
the XXth District, which consists of the Counties
of Saratoga, Schenectady Montgomery, Fulton
aud Hamilton.
WARREN NTrLFR As prrrGATF.
Sonator Arnold. who represents In the Senate
the counties In the XXIVth District, namely,
Herldmer, Otsego and Schoharie. said few days
ago: Il think the delegates from my district
will he ex-senator Warner Miller and Congress
man David Wilbur
In the XXIId District, which consists OF the
Counties of St. Lawrence and Jefferson, there
ere numerous candidates. Said Asscmblyman
Kimball few days ago. The favorites at
of Wata
e> Mayor w i. Proctor, OF Ogdensburg. General
Edwin A. Merritt, of Potsd,m, desires to 60 but
he Is too much Of SSers awr%ace ma conntV n% Mr.
Proctor is strong Blaine man, and his second
choice Is Depew." In the counties OF Oswego, wayne
and Cayuga which compose the NAvllth Dls-
trlct the men named for delegates are State Sen
ator George b. Sloan, OF Oswego; ex-Coneressman
John H. Camp Of Lyons; and ex-Congressman
Serene f. Payne, and General John n. Knapp oi
Auburn.
A STRUGGLE PROMISED IN THE BIG DISTRICT.
There promises to be somewhat Of a struggle
in that large district the XXVII1th, composed
Of the counties of Tompkns Chemung, Schuyler
and Seneca. The Chemung County Republicans
will it is said, press the selection Of Senator ].
Sloat Fasset. In Tompkns County the friends
Of John w. Dwight, State Committeeman, are
pressing him as candidate. In Schuyler County
the friends of Fremont Cole, Speaker of the As
sembly, desire him to be sent as a delegate.
Politicians say that Thomas @. Platt can 20 as
delegate from the XXVIth District II he desires
to do So The district has in its territory the
counties Of Tioga, Madison Che mango, and Broome.
Congressman DelanO Is mentioned for delegate
from this district
Two strong friends Of Senator Frank Hiscock
will be sent from the XXVth District (Onondaga
and Cortland COunties.) o. G.. Warren, son OF
James d. Warren. Will probably be a delegate
from one OF the two Buffalo districts.
There is district, the XXXIVth, in the south
western part of the State composed OF the counties
of Allegany, Chautauqua and Catteraugus
Among the candidates for delegate named from
this district are Frank s. Smith, son Of Health
Officer Smith, OF New-York and ex-Attorney-tien-
eral Hamilton Ward, both of Allegany County;
Frank Higgis, OF Olean, Norman N. Allen, OF Day
ton; ex-senator b. Sessions, of Panama and jerome
Fisher, Of jamestown.