New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-14
FOR BLAINE OR DEPEW.
PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES OF NEWYoRK
DELEGATES
~ur STATE CONVENTION MEETS TOMORROW TO
CHOOSE FOUR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LEADING CANDIDATES ARE WARNER
MILLER, THOMAS C. PLATr,
PRANK HIsCocK AND
cHAUNcEr n.
rsY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBuxE.1

Arn.yY. May 13.-The Republicans of the State
- New.York have now elected ffty-cight dele
a,os of the seventy-two that tney are entitled to
md N the Republican National Convention. To-
,no-row two more OF the delegates will be elected
- Niagara Falls and on Wednesday four more by
~. Republican State Convention to be held at
Ruaalo The remaining eight will be elected in
,ha course OF the week following at Binghamton,
osvreeo. Ogdensburg and Boonville. Small as Is
the number of delegates to be chosen by the State
convention there is great deal OF interest shown
o,ready in its probable action regarding them.
This is perhaps, natural in view OF their enlnencc
- nosition Chosen by State Convention COM
nosed OF several hundred delegates the four dele-
sgates-at-large unquestionably have higher RANK
IN the opinion OF politicians and the PUBIC IN gen
oral than the Congressional Dlstflct ueleSa3s sc-
jected by small conventions.
IL is An honor which the friends OF ex-senator
Warner Miller of Herkimer frankly state they are
snshinr 10 confer upon him; and although Mr.
KILLER could have been elected as one OF the deIe-
rates OF the XXIVth Congressional DISTRICT, they
5id not permit his election at the convention III
that district on Friday, but preferred TO push hlm
far delegate-at-large. In several OF the Assembly,
district conventions which were held yesterday
AZ which delegates to the State convention werc ere
acted these delegates were instructed TO vote Tor
Ex-senator Miller and Senator HBcock 1or oele-
gates-at-large. . .,,o ror;s,o+,,ro from thu
son,bern tier of counties, many OF whom are dele
Sstes TO the State Convention, before their de-
ssarture for their homes on Friday sald they
Should urge the selection of Thomas Z. rlatt lor
JsIccate At-large Mr.. Patt will himself go TO
the state Convention as q delegate from 1ioga
Cnunty. and ex-senator Miller will go as dele
cate from llerkmer. s,.
to The State Convention from the LID Assembly,
District of Westchcster County, said on frlday :
a0ur delegates will press the selection OF Chauh,
row NJ Depew as delegate-at-large, ana we snall
;nsist mon his being sent to Chicago Judging
from the news / get from all over the State, l
have no doubt that Mr.. Depcw will be elected as
one The he members of the State Convention, from
Dnondaga County it is already known VIII s,arU
movement for the election oil senator ocI IIiscocI,>
ss one of the delegates-at-large. Mr.. Hlscocl<
nould also have been elected delegate from q
congressional District, the AXVth lOnondaga an anu
Cortland Countess, but his friends were SO conn
dent Of his election as one OF the az
larre that instead of electing him they chosc
Senator Francis Hendricks, who may be cons e1msio-
cred Mr. Hiscock's nearest potlcai c0unSclTr nress
CONGRESSMAN S V. White for delegate-at-largse :
those Of Buffalo may ask that ex-senator u, II,
Mcmillan be one of these deegates aae ~ Gn,,'
OF Senator Evarts, Levi p Morton. and exItIov-
ernor ~ Cornell are also mentioned for delegates
A large proportion of the Republican members
TO the State Convention. When they departed
for their homes on Friday it seemed to be the unaa
jmous opinion among them that the deiegiteS9,ao- 9
coct, warner Miller and Thomas G. Platt. How
eyer the members of the Legislature do not
form majority in the State Convention, and IL
IS rather early for any one to say what the State
Convention win do The opinions Of the members ibss
of the Legislature after they have vlslted thelr
Inmns and talked with their fellow-delegates
VIII viii no of a more Trustworthy nature. The ef-
forts Of the friends Of Messrs DepewS Miller
- ,orce shows that as vet there is no slate"
ar and It is acknowledged by the friends Of these
gentlemen that they have made no combinataaoln aOl
to elect them. Indeed the large nuSer OIL Con Ie,
ysntions renders it almost impossible to arrange
a slate" that cannot be broken; ~. co,,,,o,,.
New-Yorks delegation to the Chcago @ OoIy in
Notionai politics. It is the cities which send
the veterans The country districts e5 senq rhe
,os 81 the delegates thus far elected, with the
Consresscnal @arT Districts which they represent at
the RepubIcan National Convention, are given
ha1n