New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-01
SYRACUSE, OCTOBER 6.
STATE CONVENTION CALLED.
THE REPUBLICANS IN ALL PARTS OF TIIE
COMMONWEALTH AGGRESSIVE.
GREAT INTEREST IN THE MEETING. OF THU
STATE COMMITTEE AT THE FIFTlI AVENUE
HoTEL-CHEERIN REPORTs BROUGHT
FROM HE INTERIOR.

HOTEI-CHEERING Reports BROUGHT
FROM HE INTERIOR.
The Republican State Convention will be held
In Syracuse on October g. the day after the Demo
cratic State Convention meets. lhls was de-
cided upon at tie meeting of the kepuolcah
State Committee yesterday at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel The meeting was well attended, NJ
publicans from all parts of the State were here
20 take part In it Early in the morning 'he
corridors of the hotel began to fill with PROM
Trent Republicans. Many Of them were members
of the State Committee. but the large majority
were men who are not officially connec'ed WIZ"
.ho oroani,ot;on Tho prescnce of these men
sho,vod that The Kepublicans of the State arc
active and that they are interested in the state
Committees work.
1t had been thought that the State Convention
,vould be held the first of the week following
the Democratic State Convention. This I'M
doubtedly would have been decided upon had it
NOT been that the halls in Syracuse were engaged
for the very days on which the RepablicanS
wanted 70 secure one. The original intention
was TINT the convention should be held III SYRIA
anse on October 20 or II which would give the
Republicans time to look over the ground after
The Democrats had nominated their State ticket
md allow them to take advantages of any mistakes
that the Democrats might make. Seldom i'll
what is termed an off year. has there been
larger attendance at a meeting OF TN" ReruD lean
State Committee than there was yestcr NY An
hour or two before the committee was cailei 10
rether the corridor OF rhe hotel was crowded with
Republicans As they came from all parts OF the
State there was good opportunity to lind out
what the sentiment really was in regard to the
political outlook this fall. From not single
man could the least bit of dscouraglng lniorina-
ton be obtained. Every member of the com
mittee who came from country district reported
that the people OF his region were sick already
with the change which they had experienced sine"
The last election
wELIrKyOwN MEN WHO WE'RE THERE
In the hotel corridors were Thomas c. Platt
William Brookfeld, the chairman Of the Repub-
ican State Committee: William H. Bcllamy, sec
rotary of the Republican County Committee: :
Congressman Charles f. Chickcrng. Congressman
Uohn r. Van Voorhs. Assemblyman Philip keck
Of Fulton and Hamilton counties, the first kc-
publican TO he rcnominated this year for the As
scmbly Hamilton Fish, jr- who could probably
IA elected TO the State Senate from his district If
,e would consent to take the nomination; Louis
= Payne, ex-senator Jacob Worth, of Brooklyn;
a. Thomas Stsarns, William H. Ten Eyck. Henry
{ we, Jacot$M Patterson, chairman of the Re
pueacan County Executive Committee; Congress
tnan James W. Wadsworth, William Barnes, jr,
Editor Of "The Albany Journal: ex-Assemblyman
kvfffMrd II. Mase, Of Dutchess County ex-senator
frederick S. Gibbs, Police Justice Clarence W.
Hcsde, Colonel Louis r. Stegman. ex-sherlh OF
krooklyn: George Wanmaker, John r. Reisen-
weber Robert A. Greacen, job Il. Hedges, Clarence
&; Brown, of Syracuse: Colonel John S. Kenyon,
= EI,-p n nj
Secto Francis Hendricks George b. Curtis, and
yudrt l. L. Arms, of Binghamton; George +.
Greene, the president Of the Republican State
Leagre, and a large number of Others.
SYRACUSE WINS THE PRIZE.
number of Syracuse men at the hotel
~ n two hours before the committee called
1ether they worked hard to get the convention
for that city They argued that it would be
good thing for the Republicans TO meet in SYRIA
tuse. Outside Of the fact that it is a central
city, they declared that the failure OF cX-Nayor
William Kirk who wants the Democratic nom
inaton for State Treasurer 10 secure the Demo
bratio Convention for that city had hurt the
Democrats there, and that it might tend to in
-rcase the Republican vote in that part OF the
State should the Republican Convention be held
in that city. A number of hotel men also were
for every one in the convention sent TO
that city. Long befor the committee met IL
was found that d considerable majority of the
members were in favor OF going to Syracuse, but
then they We're met with the fact that the hall
which needed could not he secured for the
time at which almost every one thought that the
convention should be held. 1t then was de-
termined to hold the convention on October g,
Dsrn il
There was some opposition to this and it was i'm
possible TO find out how a majority of the MEM
bers Of the committee stood, before the meeting
was called to order This done about noon.
Nearly all Of the members Of the committee were
present, and there were fewer proxies presented
than there were at the meeting of the Democratic
State Committee in the previous week. Those
present were:
Dist:
I-Wllliam a. Jones. jr.
II-wiIlism ]. Buttling.
1II-James L. Brkett.
IV-Cbares NJ. Newins.
V-wliam J. Taylor.
VI-Robcr. NJ. Johnston.
VII-Cornclus Donovan
NIII-Comelus Van Cott, proxy for Lucas l.. Van Allen
IX-JOhn Collins.
X-Robert a. Grescen.
XI-Wiiiam i. Daly.
XII-wiiliam Henkel proxy ior william N Hoag.
XIII-Wllam Brookfcld
xIV-Chares i. Bruder.
XV-Henry Grasse.
XVII. f.. Hedges proxy Tor Colonel f. ~ MacAiph'
XvII-B. B. Odell. Jr.
xvIII-C d. sharpe, proxy for Chories +. 'shuhe'
XlX-John A. Quackenbush
XX-Wiam Barnes. jr.
XXI-Colonel Reuben l.. Fox. proxy for d. j. WILDER.
XXII-Philip Keck. proxy for William L. Proctor
xXlT-Floyd J. nadley. proxy for +. d. kiouin.
XXlV-Isaac l., Hunt.
XXV-Charies W. Haekett.
xXVI-Georgc W. Dunn.
XXVIl-Iiarence q. Brown.
,XVIII-Burnett II. Davis.
XxlX-E. II. Mangn proNy for John i. Psrkhufst
XXX-Jamcs w. Wad,worth.