The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-29
CONVENTION. TO
MAKE CHOICE
President or National Commit.
tee Will Not Interfere in the
New York Nomination.
ROOSEVELT is FOR HUGHES
WILL NOT, HOWEVER,, FORCE
HIM ON PARTY.

New York, Aug 2S-"Should the pres
ident, highly as his political judgment
is valued, or should our national can
didates, Mr.. Taft or Mr., Sherman, or
should l, as chairman OF the Republi-
can state committee, or should the com
mittee itself attempt to direct the course
of the forthcoming convention, for DIT
against any candidate, such a course
would invite Republican disaster in this
momentous national and state cam
paign.'
Thus spoke Timothy l.. Woodruff
chairman of the state committee. when
asked what action the executive com
mittee would stake regarding the NOM
inatiOn of a candidate for governor at
it's meeting which AIr. Woodruff, short
ly after his declaration. called into ses-
sion.
Committee Meeting.
The executive committee met shortly
after u o'clock to determine the basis
of senatorial representation in Cayuga,
Seneca and Cortland counties and it
was generally reported in Republican
circles that some action would be TAX
en- with reference to the question of the
nomination of Governor Hughes. Pre-
vious to the meeting many prominent
Republicans called at the state head
Of the executive committee the guber-
Material situation and the likelihood of
a capitalization of sentiment upon
some candidate in opposition to the
governor. When questioned as To what
action, if any, would be Iaken with
regard to gubernatorial nominations
Mr.. Woodruff. after speaking as quoted
above, said:
1T is absurd to suppose that the
executive committee or the state COM
mittee, would under any circumstances.
take any action such as that indicated
in your inquiry. | don't see hhw any
one can assume to know what the SEN
timent of the great Republican elect
crate is until the official primaries and
caucuses have been held, the delegates
elected and the convention assembled.
Tins Tall Talk.
The delegates to the Republican
state convention. called to convene az
Saratoga on Sept. IA will number 1,010,
representing constituents amounting to
over three-quarters of a million of Re-
publican voters. and elected by $50 as
sembly district conventions, composed
in the aggregate of about 5000 dele
gates, who represent in turn every one
of the 4.522 election districts in the
state. Only these delegates, when they
get together in convention. can convey
TO the public positive knowledge as
70 what the sentiment OF the party ac-
tually is throughout the state. No 9TH
er means is at hand or Obtainable for
determining 1t, not even the attitude
of the public press. These delegates
alone have the power to determine who
our candidates shall, be.
There is no authority vested any
where else. either to direct or make a
nomination. The president, National
Chairman Hitchcock, and Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Sherman have repeatedly assured
the public and individuals with whom
they have discussed the situation that
they have no desire or intention of in
fiuencing or debating what the state
conditions of the party shall be-
William Barnes, jr. declared that the
report that he had said he would vote
for Bryan. if Hughes was nominated,
was nonsense