The sun., 1908-01-31
WOODRUFF, VGRDGD BARNES
LAY PLANS To KEEP CONTROL or
STATE ORGANIZATION.

Ellhu Root. Tor DeIegate at Large. m
gtFuCeed for Hughes-Tho Men IN Poo
sesalon Give AdVeRsarlss Not Ono-GouEth
% the state Convention Dclesates.
The Republican political pot was boiling
hereabout yesterday. Chairman Timothy
l.. Woodruff Of the State committee, Will
lam l.. Ward, national committeeman for
the State. and william Barnes, Jr., the
leader Of Albany county. had a conference
at the Union League Club which lasted
all the afternoon and far into the evening.
They met to discuss plans for the State
convention, which In all probability will be
called to meet In New York city early In
April. Among the matters talked over
were selections for temporary and per-
manent chairmen. the delegates TO head
the important committees like credentials
and resolutions and the four delegates at
large and their alternates TO the Chicago
convention.
IL was learned after the conference broke
up that Gen. Horace Porter had been talked
OF for temporary chairman. II was an
nounced that following the precedent Of
1896, 1000 and 1904 the four delegates at
large and their alternates will be instructed
by the State convention TO use every
honorable effort 10 bring about the nomina-
tion OF Gov. Hughes for President. In
1895 the delegates were instructed for Gov.
Morton. IN 1900 for President Mckinley
and in 1904 for President Roosevelt.
Ehhu Root, Secretary Of State in President
Roosevelt's Cabinet. will be one OF the
delegates at large, and is offered to attest
the sincerity Of the instructions OF the
delegates at large and alternates for Gov.
Hughes. Senator Depew may be another
OF the Big Four from the State. but this
has not been decided upon. II Senator
Depew Is selected Senator Platt will be
also. There Is then one place left for either
chairman Woodruff or Representative
Parsons or some upstate Republican,
Mr.. Ward, for instance. IL was observed
that apparently no selection from the
Hughes State League, OF which Edgar 7.
Bracket Is president. or from the Republi-
cans who from the first have been out
spoken in their advocacy Of Gov. Hughes
had been considered.
This omission as explained by the be-
lief OF the three Republican conferees that
Of the lOi0 delegates TO the State conven-
tion the Republican opponents in the State
organization TO the domination OF Wood
run and Parsons will not be able 70 elect
that the availability Of Gov. Hughes as a
Presidential candidate did not enter into
this part Of the discussion. for the reason
that the delegates at large and alternates
at large are to be instructed for the Gov
ernor. and the Governor willundoubtedly
have ten or twelve Of the thirty-seyen Con-
gress districts In the State instructed for
him. When Mr.. Woodruff Mr.. Ward and
Mr.. Barnes put the number Of delegates to
the State convention allotted to the oppo-
sition az 25O they said that they meant that
that number only could be elected by
MessrS, d lell Black AldridRe pracketT
Stevens. Payn and Dunn, rer resenting the
counties OF Orange, one-haf of Dutchess,
Columbia, Ulster, New York. Rensselaer,,
Saratoga, Monroe. Wyoming. Niagara.
Orleans. Broome and Putnam. The three
conferees gave seventy-hve delegates in
New York county 20 the opT osition. which
would make the support OF President Par
sons Of the New York county committee In
the State convention 1l0 delegates out of
l9i. The oonferees did not rive the oppo-
sition a delegate in Kings county, and they
claim for Themselves. besides the support
below The Bronx. the counties az Albany,
Onondaga and Erie, - well as ChenunR,
Stsuben ana one or two southwestern
counties Of the State. The three con-
fsrees made { Tlain that they and Parsons,
Greiner Of Buffalo, S~eaKer James W.
Wadsworth. Jr.. of Mount Morris, Rayrc-
sentative j. Sloat F9ssett OF Flmira, John l..
Mott of Osv-s~" ard John F. O'Brien Of West
Chazy are ar ~ 4 in the fight for the con-
troll Of the OF ,aDisation in the State gainst
OdeL. Black. Aliridge. Rrackett. stevens
anI PAW
The fight for control Of the Republican
or0anization, II was further announced.
will he continued after the Republican
national convention at CHICAGO. full
State tichet-ConRresGren Senators and
Assembly e"1--is 70 Re nominated NEXT
fall, and the Legislature to he elected next
fall is TO elect a successor TO Senator Platt.