Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-16
Empire State Republicans
Re-nominate Hughes.
Efforts Of Opposition Fail and
The Governor Tfiumphs.
Receives 027 Votes Out Of Posi-.
bic Total Of 1909.

Rochester, n. ", Sept. la am
deeply sensible to the honor conferred
upon me. / wish to express my appre-
citation OF the confidence reposed il.
HE by the Republican party
Thus did Governor Hughes make his
first public statement after his Motif
cation of re-nonl ina ton for governor
this evening Beyond that the COVER
nor would say nothing. either as tt
his running mate on the Republicah
ticket or his policies for the secont
term. should he be elected.
He gave no reply to question as t.
whether he would disregard the Re
publican platform in relation to pri-
mary reform.
TUESDAY, SEPT Is. 1903.
Charles Evans Hughes of New York
was nominated today by the Republi
can state convention by an overwhelm
ing majority and on the first ballot, to
succeed himself as governor of the
state of New York He received 50.
votes out of a possible 1909 as against
151 for James W. Wadsworth, Jr., o:
Livingston county. Speaker Of the
state Assembly, and 81 for Former
Congressman John X. Stewart oi
Montgomery.
The nomination was made unanl-
nous upon motion of State Committee
man William Barnes. Jr.. of Albany
who has been perhaps the bitterest ano
most outspOken opponent of the gov
ernUr'S denomination. seconded by
those who had placed Speaker Wads-
worth and Mr.. Stewart in nomination
The governors denomination fol-
lowed the failure of Il struggle on the
part of number of the county lead
ers. who have spared no effort to DIS
cover q candidate upon whom they
could unite to defeat him. The balance
Of the ticket was made up as an or
ganization "slate," announced an houl
or more before the session of the con
Vention began. by Chairman Tlmuth!
l.. Woodruff OF the state committee
after il conference of the local leaders
Senator White. who was chosen as (
candidate Tor lieutenant governor, wa
out for the governorship until th'
early afternoon. when after a meeting
of his delegation he requested hi:
frien,ls not to present his name. Inc
Il votes of his county delegation
(Onondaga). We're cast for speaker
WadsWorth.
II was the 1S3 votes of all but one
district in New York county that car
ried the governors total beyond th'
sos. majority ii the convention, re
quired to nominate.
The nine votes Of Nassau count!
had brought the Hughes total to 391
Amid IL brcathless hush in which wa
incarnated all the intensity of bite
ness and suspense which up to tina
moment had characterized the strug
gle to prevent the denomination Q
Hughes, the secretary of the conven
ton called New York
Herbert Parsons. president OF I'M
New York county Republican genera
committee rose in his place under IN
gallery. his slender figure Alert an'
tense with the excitement of the cru
cial moment. his lean features. IL pos
sible, more inscrutable than Is thci
wont. his eyes, nevertheless, ailSh
with the consciousness that he wa
for the moment the custodian OF word
which would be flashed in u few sec
onds on waiting wires to far corners
of the civilized world. and said:
New York county "a Assembi!
District. gives four for Wadsworth' th'
balance of the county ls3 for Chare'
Evans Hughes.
A thousand pencils in two seconds nae
footed the Hughes total to 31S in az
many heart-beats every person in the
great hall knew that the battle was over
and the place was instantly bedlam o
cheering.
Hardly less sensational had been the
moment when State Chairman Woodrufl
delivered to Hughes. in spite of gen
eral expectation to the contrary, the en-
tire vote of Kings county. 1873. bringing
the governors total to $40. for Wood
ruff had been -avowedly opposed to the
governors denomination and even ar
ter William Berri. the choice of Kings
county for the governorship, had with
drawn from the race, il was expected
that some, at least, of the Kings county
vote could never be delivered to tbs
Hughes column In fact, it was really
the action of Kings county which sig
nalized what might be called the STAN
pede to Hughes and when its 13S votes
were cast in block for the governor
any remaining doubt of his nomination
was swept away.
Orange, the home of Ex-Governor Odeli
a,.rs,7a5 vote FIVE for Hughes an.