The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-06-12
new WORKERS TO CHICAGO
SPECIAL TRAIN LEFT NEW YORK
AT NooN-HUGHEs BUTTONS
"oUR GOVERNOR"

New York. June Wearing but.
tons bearing the legend our Gov
ernor,' the New York delegates and
alternates to the republican ma.
| tional convention. accompanied hy a
| party OF politicians. boarded special
train at noon today for the trip .
| Chicago Stops will be made al Al.
bany. Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and
| Buffalo 10 pick up other delegates ana
| politicians. The special will reach
/ Chicago, according to schedule at
l1:l0 o'clock tomorrow morning
Neither General Stewart l.. Woodford
nor Seth Low, delegates at large.
accompanied the official party. State
Chairman Woodruff Is one of the
party, having abandoned his plan to
carry his vice presidential boom to
Chicago on a special train
In Chicago the delegation will have
its headquarters at the Auditorium.
where the delegates will also have
rooms The official badges OF the
delegates this year are gorgeous.
They consist Of medallion bearing
ON one side the arms OF the state
and ON the reverse side the words.
Republican National Convention,
Chicago, June lG, 1905 The medal.
lion Is suspended ON a heavy ribbon
Of blue, which is the color of the
state Attached to the ribbon is a
cross bar of gold and blue enamel on
which the word delegate" and al
ternate" will appear.
The Hughes buttons are very small
and inconsp.cuous instead of the
words our Candidate, which gen
orally appears on ante-conyyutiun but
tons. the legend Our Governor oc.
ours.
Senator Plat and several other
delegates instructed for Gov Hughes
by their congress district convention.
are not members OF the party.
Their altelnates are to take their
places.
An outbreak is threatened when the
= legation assemblies in Chicago Mon
day to select chairman Of the dele
cation and the representatives Of the
delegation on the important commit.
tees Of the convention, Ike resou.
lions and credentials.
Representative Payne has already
been practically selected as the dele
cations member of the platform COM
mittee. It was ascertaiuod, though,
that there is considerable opposition
to Gen. Woodruff as chairman of the
delegation. This is very important
post Since the organization Of the
republican party it has been filed by
the following republicans: 1856,
Moses II. Grinnell; 1850. William NJ.
Eyarts; 1861, Henry J. Raymond;
1865, Daniel +. Sickles; 1872, Gerritt
Smith. 1876, Alonzo b. Cornell 1850,
Roscoe Conkln 1854, Andrew d.
White; 1SSS and 1892, Frank His
cock; 1896, 1900 and 1901, Thomas
c. Platt
Disinterested political mathemau-
clans have gone over the delegatesy
and they find that there are exactly
forty-two delegates, including the
four delegates at large, instructed for
GOV. Hughes and that the remaining
thirty-siX delegates are free to flock
in any political pasture. The old time
machinists object TO Gen. Woodruff
as chairman of the delegation, and
yet he is an old timer himself The
real trouble appears to be objection
TO number of Gen. Woodruff as
sociates in the Hughes State League
in whom the machinIsts profess to
see claimants for future political rec
ognition in the state by precedent
and political propriyJy Gen Woodruff
is entitled 10 be made chairman Of
the delegation, and yet any attempt
TO boost any Hughes state Lacquer
into glittering prominence at Chicago
is to be thwarted if the statements
made by important republicans are
truly prophetic.