Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-16
HUGHES IS NOMINATED
Receives 827 Votes on the
First Ballot.
BARNES FIGHTS IN VAIN
Reads Speech Criticising Course Of
the Governor.
INTERRUPTED BY DISORDER
Prendergast Makes Best Address of
the Day-President Roosevelt Ex-
presses His Qualification.
INTERRUPTED BY DISORDER

SARATOGA, n. V. September 10
Gov. Hughes was nominated by the state
republican convention yesterday after
noon on the first ballot. The vote fol-
lows:
For Charles E. Hughes. .......S21
For James w. Wadsworth, jr. ..151
For John X. Stewart. ........... 81
The nomination was afterward made
unanimous.
The only semblance of fight for any
of the minor offices was made for the
nomination of secretary of late. Sam
uel S. Koenig of New York city was de-
cided on, while all along 1t wa expected
that the place would go to former Sen
ator William D. Barnes of Rensselaer,.
The convention reassembled shortly
after o'clock Job E. Hedges, chair
man of the committee on resolutions
read the platform, which was adopted
later. His announcement that the con-
vention Endorsed the administration of
Gov. Hughes was greeted with a round
of applause and cheering that lasted
seventy seconds. Two-thrds of the dele
gates in the body of the hall joined in
the demonstration, but the bosses were
too tired to rise.
When the order of nominations was
reached Albany county gave way to Liv-
ingston county, and Frank P. Cook placed
Speaker James w. Wadsworth in nomi-
nation for governor. Wadsworth's name
was cheered thirty-five seconds. Mr.
Cook made sighting references to Gov.
Hughes repubiicanism which were en-
Enthusiastically received by the anti
Hughes men.
Barnes Denounces Hughes.
BOSS" Barnes of Albany county, who
has been in charge of the opposition to
the governor. was cheered when he
~ IN he Sf a fn
nation of Speaker Wadsworth
He read his speech. His delivery was
savage and tragic in turn, and he en-
phasized his attacks on the governor
with a vigorous shaking of the clinched
fist
Three cheers for Hughes" was the
intermittent cry. At times during his ad-
dress the disorder became great. At one
point free-for-all fight IN the gallery
drowned the speakers voice.
Barnes recalled the circumstances sur
rounding the nomination of Gov. Hughes
two years ago. He said:
That convention. upon the advice of
President Roosevelt, nominated unani-
mously for it's candidate for governor a
man unknown to practically all of the
delegates, a man of no political expert
ence, but who had shown incisiveness and
ability in the gas and insurance investi-
cations. which because of their remark
able revelations had made him the cyno-
sure of ALL
Governors Recommendations
He was elected. after a campaign in
which the district ward, county and
state organizations participated with fer
. vor and loyalty. When he became gov
ernor he recommended that the legisIa-
ture pass a form of ballot known as the
massachusetts,, which groups candidates
py orlces and not by parties, and in al
phabetic order; he recommended the es-
adjustment of the direct primary PLAN
Which would result in the nomination of
candidates for office by the direct vote
of the enrolled electors doing away with
all conventions of representative dele
gates. (Cries of "Good.O
He advocated the public service COM
missions, which should have extraordinary
powers over the public service CORPORA
tons of the state, and the repeal of the
Percy-Gray law, though a proposal for
that repeal had been defeated in the
committee on resolutions of the conyen-
ton which nominated him.
Continuing, Barnes called attention to
the fact that the public service COM
missions had been created the Percy
Gray law repealed, but that the legis-
lature had refused to pass the bills pro
viding for the Massachusetts ballot and
direct nominations. He referred sar-
castically TO the fact that these recon-
mendations. with the exception of the
public service commissions were not a
part Of the platform on which Gov
Hughes was elected.
we WHO SIT mere dlfIer regarding the
wisdom of these recommendations" he
went on. Some of us believe in one
and not in the other; some believe in all
and some disbeleve in all. But during
the last two sessions of the legislature
every member of that body and every
active republican in the state was held
up to execration and his motives were
1mpugned If he expressed an honest OBJ
lection to their enactment
Barnes Utters Protest
II, for one. seriously protest that nv
republicanism shall be questioned when
] oppose the recommendations of a re-
publican governor upon matters not con-
tanned in the party declaration made in
convention, while l have a right to my
day in court
The governor has taken it into his
own hands to make the party creed re-
CARELESS of your views on public matters
although you are the sovereign party au-
thority. In the last six weeks the dele
gates to this convention, and all men
who have been active in republican poll
tics In this state, have been deluged with
advice and with threats that this conven-
ton must renominate the governor or the
advisers and highwaymen will not sup
port the republican ticket. If the repub- |
ncan party does not respect itself there
Will be none so low as to do it reyer- |
ence."
Differs With the President.
Barnes said he found it difficult to
agree with source which we are ac-