New-York tribune., 1906-07-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FAvORs MR.. WILCOX FOR GOVERNOR.
Correspondent Would Lay Aside Party Lines,
but Not Principles.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: It begins to look IL those who desire above
all else a clean and able administration of state
governmental affairs without suspicion of corrupt
corporation influences on the one side or yield
ing to unhealthy demagogic clamor the other:
an administration honestly Of and for. the people.
with the same consideration for capital for labor,
the protection and favor for labor as for cap
ital, may have to put aside for little while party
lines without in any wise abandoning party prin-
ciples 1t seems to most unwise for the Re-
publican party in this state this fall to nominate
either an Odell anti-Odell man. either Platt
or an antiPlatt man, Higgins or an anti-Higgins
man, Parsons or ant-Parsons man. or even
Roosevelt or ant-Roosevelt man, just
question Of party expediency without any crlti-
cism of either eminent name mentioned.
To be successful the nominee should he free from
criticism as to character and ability. should be
geoUs and independent and should be nomi-
mated from that section of the state where per-
sonal adherents and converts will most weaken the
adversary. The foregoing premises being admitted
and established, convinced that the man for
the Republican party to nominate for Governor this
fall is William r. Wilcox, our present very ef-
flcient postmaster.
Mr Wilcox is easy to know and hard to forget;
he makes acquaintances rapidly, friends easily, enc
mics rarely. He is young. with all the zeal and
courage and ideals of youth; has rare executive
ability is free from all pro anti personal cor
porate entanglements. is capable lawyer and
man sane. safe and sure. who thinks for himself.
He is a Of force. one who does things. one who
strives accomplishes AS proof of this, note the
improvements in the park system and administra-
ton of the city because of his one term of Office.
and note the increased appropriations for the bet
terng of the cItys postal service and the increased
receipts increase in the army of postmen and car
rers, and the preparation for the increased marine
and railway postal facilities.
Mr.. Wilcox is president Of the Genesee Society.
president Of the fraternity Society Of Rochester
University, of which he is alumnus, eX-presi-
dent Of the Chenango Society, honorary chairman
of the Brockport Society, the members OF all OF
which are very fond of him, and would form an
army Of thousands of workers delighted TO aid IN
the election of one whom they know to be capable,
honest and eninently practical without having lost
his ideals He would be strong with the voters in
the country districts of the state being the of
a farmer with an abiding love and respect for the
hedges and furrows of that Smyrna farm. He would
be strong with the voters Of the western counties
where he taught school and has many warm per
sonal friends, and for party success he would be
strongest in this great city, where he now lives
and where he has an army OF personal and pGnti-
cal friends, a mighty large Union League ana UNI
versity Club following, and a greater army OF
the workingmen in whose interests ne mas alreaoy
accomplished much =, , ,,-
and name new young man. a clean man,
and one whose nomination would tend 10 close up
rather than separate the ranks of the voting pha-
lanxes? Why not? H. T.
New York. 16, 1905