The sun., 1896-06-29
AT SARATOGA AUGUST Is.
PROPOSED DATE OF THE REPUB-
LICAN STATE CONVENTION.


Time to CircuInte-Then the Miller Mcn
Can BOLT and Vote Ballots with % TO
co X's" On Them-whO for Governort
Should the present intention of the leaders of
the Republican state organization be carried
out, the state Committee. which will meet at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel week from to- morrow,
will call the State Convention for Aug. 25 at
Saratoga. II may be called for date n week
earlier. but this is not considered probable. 1t
is usual to call the State Convention early in
years when Presidential contests are on and to
make the campaign for State officers coiIcident
with that for the national ticket
Not since 1883 have n President and Cover
nor been chosen at the snme election. The Re-
publican Convention was held that year on Aug.
2s. on call issued twelve days before. Warner
Miller was the partys candidate for Governor
then.
There are some organization Republicans who
want Convention earlier than the date pro-
posed, in view Of the threat made by Mr.. Miller,
William Brooktleld, Lieut.-Gov. Saxton, Cor
nelus n. Bliss and their friends. to bolt and
nominate q ticket OF their own. The advice OF
Mr.. Platt is not to pay any attention to these
gentlemen, but to go on attending to the affairs
of the party in the ordinary way.
Mr.. Miller. Mr.. Milholland. Mr.. Brook
field. and the Lieutenant G overnor will have
plenty of time to make their swing around the
circle of the counties In parlor car and at
tempt to break the ranks of the organization.
and nothing will be done by the organization to
interfere with their plans except to keep the
ranks closed up to prevent a break. The local
leaders in the sections to be visited will look
after this.
After the circuit the machine leaders say, Mr.:
Miller and his co-work will find that Mr. Platt
will still have behind him more thnn 600 OF the
75s delegates elected to the state Convention.
The Mckinleyites. under the leadership Of the
Ia,
sade against Platt, managed to get 100 votes for
Mckinley resolution In the state Conyen, ,en,
mon month ned to IN eees @s s%a dslsrates large
st. Louis Many of these votes were ,polledd
by Brooklyn delegates; since then tho 70 Worth xra
county. ana it is said that there will be fewer
anti-Platt votes from Brooklyn In the August
the Herkimer statesman in his own county. and
to elect delegates In several Assembly districts
vention. and they say they don't believe Miller
will have 100 delegates, at least 100 who VIII
follow him 10 the extent OF bolt,ng. There may
he some men who can secure election to the
Convention who are consistent anti Platt men,
but who are too thorough organization men to
bolt.
The o..ensible basis Of this aght is to be the
maintenance OF supremacy by Mr.. Plat through
Albany and Syracuse. The election district
o M M his
said that 1t was designed to do away with poiti-
cal bosses.
AS soon as Plat captured 1t, the cry of
fraud was raised. and now the system Is de-
nounced. although Gen. Coils and others OF the
reformers are attempting to use 1t in securing
delegates to the StaIe Convention who will bolt
with Mr.. Miller.
In Albany the opposition to the Barnes ma
shine has been In a minority for long time.
The organization there is an enrolled one quite
similar to tina. in this city. In IS, Syracuse ,Sn u the
bricks Republicans, and have been shouting for
free and open primaries and claiming the right
simply because they are republicans. They
refuse to recognize the right Of the organization
ment a condition precedent thereto.
This is to be the slogan Of the anti-Platt men
an ee Eew n m
Syracuse. and everywhere else where there is
an enrolled organization, they will call prima-
ries and conventions, advertise them at great
length in the newspapers which are friendly to
them. go through all the forms Of electing dele
gates to Assembly district conventions and TO
the state Convention and then present their
delegation at Saratoga as the free choice OF all
the kepu ubicans OF the sections concerned.
As the right OF q political organization to pre-
scribe the conditions which It's members must
observe to he entitled to vote at a primary cleo
tion Is recognized everywhere excepting at the
State Club in East Twenty-second street; all
these delegates will have TO crack their
heels on the outside OF the Convention hall un-
til Mr.. Miller can muster his friends 20 leave the
regular Convention TO Join them. ~
contests in the first instance, has but two men,
bers Of the thirty-four. it is said. who can be
sPe M Sn The
city district and William II. Robertson OF West
chester. Although Erie county is expected to
j. IRON hurd h'FS '0sa said viii " eu ]
the Thirty fourth district. which sent two
Mckinley delegates to st Louis. comes from
AllegAny, county. which was true to thee cause
no chance Of getting on the temporary roll, the
action Of the Committee on Credentials Will be
vi ha
There are several interesting questions which
The Raines Ballot law presents one OF them.
The boilers cannot have the party en- blem. but
viii not be permitted to have the full column
are chosen at Congress district Conventions by
'r This res4 means that the Mckinley men who vote
the boilers ticket will have to put an mark
afixed ballot In order TO do t. The ballot will
be a big handicap for Mr.. Miller and his candi-
dates.
Another matter of interest involved is the con-
troll OF the Assembly by the Republicans. II Is
understood that the arrangement Of the kiGksrs
pendent candidatea for the Assembly in all
cases where they cannot secure the nomination
One OF the results Of this new movement will
probably be general purginR OF the rolls OF the
authority granted by section 2G OF the Constitu-
tion, which permits the striking from the rolls
or the name or every person VINO shall animate
with or become n member OF any organization
hostile or inimical to that OF the organ ization OF
the Republican party of the city and county OF
New York"
The Mckinley League. which is behind the
movement, may be declared to be OF that order,
in which case the Committee on Organization
may go to work and strike from the rolls lie
names of Mr.. Brookfeld, Mr. Bliss. A. II. Steele,
and others who have Joined 1t.
Just who Will be nominated for Governor and
Lieut. Governor by tho State Convention no one
can tell yet. It is an open fight. Messrs. Miller,
Bliss. Brookfed, Steele, Saxton, Milholland,
Roberts and u lot more OF the original seventy
seven candidates seem to have declared them
selves out of it by their movement against the
organization.
There has been talk of renominating Gov.
Morton, but 1t is rememb bered how he refused to
permit his name to be used when he might have
been nominated for Eice-President at st. Louis
because a fight was being made against his So
lection. IL is not believed that he would accept
a nomination for Governor with bolt pending.
Oriental Hotel. Manhattan beach yesterday.
The weather kept the politicians away, 50 that
he had an absolute rest. The, Hon. Warner
Mill was at tho Beach, but he did not get east
OF the bathing pavilion, and consequently did
not see Mr.. Platt. He was not looking for the
TiOga statesman,
Mr. Miller said he thought that the proposi-
tim call the Convention for the latter part of