The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-04

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crats Majority say u IL Too Early Vet
10 Report or the Drift Of Sentiment.
Chairman Woodruff Of the Republican
State committee decided yesterday that
the visit of the State committee to New
York city as a notification committee to
Charles +. Hughes would be a good
opportunity to ascertain the drift Of
sentimopt IN the State. so at 3 o'clock
the State committeeman from all the dis
tricts, with but few exceptions, were
closeted with him for a couple Of hours
at Republican State headquarters, ~ East
Thirtieth street, II was expected that
Mr.. Hughes would be present, but Mr..
Hughes was engaged on other matters.
Quite a number Of the State committeeman,
including William Barnes, Jr., OF Albany,
said that they had never seen Mr.. Hughes,
but Chairman Woodruff told them all that
before the campaign was ended they would
all be thoroughly acquainted with him.
Mr.. Hughes is the only Republican can
didate for Governor since the organization
of the party in the State who had not pre-
viously held public Office. either az a Con-
gresham, Senator or Assemblyman. or
in some other post in the public service;
NV wi NN"J OdNo WI IlukDtN IN n
few opportunities to become acquainted
with the generals. maj~or-generals, captains
and lieutenants Of the Republican organi-
cation in the State. Edwin d. Morgan
Reuben T.. Fenton. John A. Dix, Alonzo
B. Cornell, Levi p. Morton, Frank s..
Black, Theodore Roosevelt and BENJAMIN
y. Odell, Jr., had all held public Office be-
fore they were nominated for Governor.
apI ,r,~. I'll
men. county committeemen and others
in the party organization. One Of the
reasons for holding the notification cere-
monies TO Mr.. Hughes in the Republican
Club last night was that he would have
an opportunity to meet the well known
members Of his party.
At the meeting of the State committee
each committeeman was called upon for
his opinion as "a the situation in his district
The majority told Mr.. Woodruff that il was
altogether too early in the campaign for
specific information. Other committe@nen
said that in their dist riots they had observed
a number OF Hughes Democrats and an
equal number of Hearst Republica ns and
that in the counties along the Mohawk
Valley from Albany to Buffalo this state Of
affairs was notable. Several Of the State
committeeman announced that they had
already begun the first CanVasSeS az their
districts, but that these would not be ready
for scrutiny for a number Of days. Most
of the committe m said that they realized
that the campaign was to be an exceedingly
short one and they suggested that all hands
should get OF a hustle.
Not a. few gave il to be their opinion, as
elected from what they had already OBJ
served in their districts, that Mr.. Hea rst'E
campaign il TO he largely cd in the
country dist riots Of the State, and some
Of these State cOmmitteemen added that
they had heard from Mr.. Hearst = followers
in the up countr districts that Mr.. Hearst
and his managers were not inclined 10 hank
very heavily on Democratic support in the
five horoughs which make mp New York
city. The Hearst men up state, according
TO these Republican State committeeman,
were to put in great ticks for Mr.. Hearst in
every crossroads town and hamlet in every
COunty, for the reason that the indications
in the Democratic State convention at
Buffalo all pointed to an irrevocable split in
the Democratic party, in Manhattan and
Kings especially, over Mr.. Hearst's nominal
tion.
Several Of the State committeeman said
that the fact that both Mr.. Hughes and Mr..
Bruce lived in New York CITY was having
some little effect with Republicans in some
of the upstate bailiwicks, these Republic
cans feeling that perhaps the candidate for
Observation-Disclosures should have been an
out and out up-Stater.
The State committee as a body seemed
to he greatly pleased because the Republican
campaign was to he conducted entirely on
State issues, and yet they were glad to
know, they said, that Speaker Cannon,
Senator Beveridge and Secretary Shaw are
TO make speeches in the State on the Con-
gress situation under the direction Of Repre-
sentative James =. sherman. chairman of
the Republican Congress campaign COM
mittee.
Most Of the State committeeman said
that they believed that the campaign was
10 be made an exceedingly expensive one.
Some of their Democratic neighbors, they
added, had welcomed Mr.. Hearst's nominal
ton because he is the only rich candidate
the Democratic organization of the State
has presented for the SURFACES Of the farm
ers since the late Roswell p. Flower was
nominated in 1891. The information given
by the State Committeemen that the indica-
lions were that Mr.. Hearst and his managers
we're to make a most effective campaign
for support in the upper counties of the State,
in fact were to make their great battle in
the country bailiwicks, was considered by
some at yesterday meeting to be worthy Of
the most serious consideration.