The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-22
PILOTS FOR GOVERNOR HUGHES
PERHAPS he WON'T WANT ANY,
PERHAPS STEVENS WILL HELP.
There Are others Who Think They Could
Be OF Use Near the steering Gear LIS
Plat News IL THAT the senator VIII
Hang ON UutI March q Anyway.

Most OF the Republican politicians who
had anything 70 do with the recent State
| campaign are exercised to learn nols to be
Gov. Hughes's tidus Achates. If Mr.. Hughes
is TO have one. Perhaps Mr.. Hughes may
lave one, and he may have half a dozen,
according to the anxious whispers of sew
eral Of the Republican statesmen last night.
Mr.. Woodruff, William L. Ward and
William Barnes, Jr., the three Republicans
who we're most at State headquarters
during the campaign, are keeping their
ewes wide open day and night. While
Mr.. Hughes had no information to hand out
on this matter, certain Of his friends said
that while he was not dependent on any one
TO any great extent for advice or counsel
Frederick c. Stevens of Attica, Wyoming
head OF the gas investigating committee
would be as close to him as any Republican
in the state, if not closer. Mr. Hughes
was counsel for the Stevens gas investl-
eating committee and the two mea became
good friends.
Gov, Higgins and members of his kitchen
cabinet, in making up the Senate apportion-
ment last spring, sliced up Senator Stevens's
Senate district so that he could not be
renominated. and it has been said that
Representative James W. Wadsworth OF
Ceneseo took a hand in the slicing operation,
Senator Stevens's Senate district ben Z IN
representative W~adsworth's Congress dis
trict. Senator Stevens, however, seems to
have been able so to stir the echoes in that
bailiwick that Representative Wordsworth
was defeated for reelection.
Hughes will 60 to Albany an untried
man said a friend Of Mr.. Woodruff last
night. practically as untried and ineXperl-
enced as Cleveland was. and yet IL LIS not
forgotten that Cleveland had at his elbow
such men as Daniel Manning, Daniel 5.
LamoI ard Edward +. Apgar. Mr. Hughes
will need some Republican TO steer him clear
Of tho pitfalls which some OF the ola
Republican machine hands may dig Tor
him. Yes. | We heard all about the story
that Mr.. Stevens is To be very close TO Mr..
Hughes. But then Mr.. Woodruff should
be close 10 Mr.. Hughes too, and 50 should
Mr.. Ward and Mr.. Barnes. The party or
MIR. Hughes doesn't look out some Of the
Republican politicians who got a black eye
ON election day will bob up and organize
the cid line of the last two or three yeas.
there was more gossip about the n!teo
States SenatoTslip. Rep Ihlicdns said that
President Roosevelt had not been par
ticulsrlv anxious To have Mr.. Woodruff
FOR Republican State chairman, expecting
that Mr.. Woodruff UoIld immediately set
m shop for himself in an effort to be elected
10 the United States Senate Senator
Platt's friends said last night that - would
not resign until after March 4, when the
F%iftv-ninth Congress adiourns for good
and all. and that he may not resign then.
He il not disposed at the present. stage
Of the game to do anything that President
Roosevelt would Ike him TO do said a
member Of the Republican state COMMITTEES
who has been one of MIR. Platt's lieuten-
ants for many years. The President
hasn't been very good TO Mr.. Plat for the
last two years. Mr.. Plat knows that Mr..
Roosevelt would like him TO resign, and for
that matter Mr.. DPpew is not unaw are that
President Roosevelt would like to have him
also retire: hut neither Mr.. Plat nor Mr..
Depew will tumble out of bed before sun
rise TO please the President