The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-18
NAMING GOVERNOR
NEXT ON PROGRAM
List of Candidates in Both
New York Camps.
FlERCEST FIGHT IN YEARS
President Roosevelt and Judge Parker
Likely to Take a Hand
in the Melee.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-With the ma
tional conventions out OF the way the
politicians have turned their atten-
ton to the fight in New York State this
fall The national managers of the two
parties. 1t was said. Will not be back
ward about suggesting the candidates
for governor.
Il was recalled that Mr.. Hanna in 1896,
after Mckinley was nominated at st.
Louis, made IL very plain TO Senator
Thomas c. Plat, then the Republican
leader OF the State. that George w. Al
bridge. Of Rochester was not the man
10 be nominated for governor that year
and the nomination went TO Frank S.
Black, of Troy. because of the stiT sr-
gument Louis F. Payn, of Chatham,
put up TO Senator Platt at the last mo-
ment in a caucus OF Republicans at the
Worden House. Saratoga Springs. The
caucus began TO vote for OdeI. when
Payn took Platt aside and begged that
he throw his influence to Black. Platt
did.
Want Elihu Root.
For year the Republican sentiment
OF the State has favored the nomination
or Elihu Root for governor this fall
Many Republicans from the up-country
district have said that they cannot win
In the State unless Root is nominated.
This feeling has grown since Mr.. Roots
speech in the Republican National Con-
vention at Chicago as temporary chair
man, and yesterday IL was said very
positively that President Roosevelt and
the Presidents friends greatly desire
Root nomination. 1t all rests though
with Mr.. Root himself who has stead
1dstIy adhered TO his determination not
10 be the candidate
II Mr.: Root" one Of the Presidents
closest friends said. only lifted his
Mite niger IN Specification that he was
cAnoluate or that he would accept the
nomination. 10 power in the state could
prevent his nomination"
To Meet at Saratoga.
1t has already been announced that the
hepuDicans desire to have their State
convention held at Saratoga on 6eptem-
Der IA, and between now and then there
IS 10 be a still hunt for the candidate
lot governor After Mr.. Root, the most
available name presented as a candidate
Tor governor is that OF Timothy L.
Woodruff, Of Brooklyn, who is now in
Europe, and yet, sad to relate, some Of
President RooseVelts friends said that
Ihe President at the moment doesn't
cotton 10 the idea Of Mr.. Woodruff
nomination. For all that Mr.. Wood
run friends declared yesterday that he
was not only strong on his native heath
but was immensely popular in the up
country communities.
The brand-newest idea in Republican
State politics Is the plant put out by
Observation-Disclosures Odell's personal and
financial organ in Newburg that Mr.
Platt should retire from the United
State Senate and become Senator Plat
emeritus"
Discussed by President.
The recent talks the governor-chair-
man and Senator Plat and their friends
have had at Oyster Bay with the Presi-
dent have had entirely TO do with the
Republican candidate for governor this
fall. and in these talks the views of
George b. Cortelyou. chairman OF the
Republican National Committee. and
Cornelius \. Bliss, treasurer Of the COM
mlttee. have been most welcome
Now for the Democrats: All the talk
among many Of them since the St Louis
convention adjourned has been to the
effect that Martin W. LIttleton. presi-
dent or the borough Of BROOKLYN, who
made the nomination speech In the na-
tiOnal convention for Judge Parker
should be the candidate for governor
his ialk has not been agreeable 70 the
friends Of Comptroller GrOuJ also Of
brooklyn, who insist that II IL hadn't
been for the support Mr.. GrOut gave
Senator McCarren IN the way Of patron
Murphy, Of Tammany, McCarren would
be already where the woodbine twineth
Jerome Available.
When Tammany tumbled out Nc
Carren men from snug municipal ber.hs
Grout gave McCarren the best he had
at his command at the time in the
comptroller's Office
Then a great deal has been heard
concerning the availability OF District
Attorney William Travers Jerome.
whose friends say that In an upstate
stamping tour he would make Governor
Chairman Odell and the Odell machine
quake Then, too, the name of John
B Stanchfield Of Elmira, defeated for
governor in 1900. is still heard in the
land and his supporters declare that q
city Democrat, because Of the present
entanglements between Murphy and
McCarren. should not be taken: that
country Democrat should be nominated
The Democrats are TO hold their State
convention at Saratoga after the Re
publicans hold theirs.
One positive assertion IS heard in the
two camps: the contest between the Re
publicans and the Democrats OF the
Empire State is 10 be the fiercest In
years. Judge Parker. the Democratic
nominee for President, is TO take quite
as active an interest in the battle as
his adversary, President Roosevelt.