The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-10

There's q List Of the Disappointed 81
Long 80 YOur A~Fm-Brackett and Al.
bridge on lt-Odell Was Not Considered.
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodiord, president
Of the Hughes National League, demon.
strated yesterday that he had lost none OF
the political aoumen Of the days when he
was a dashing young lieutenant Of Reuben
y. Fenton and Roscoe Conkling. At q
conference at the Hughes headquarters
500 Fifth avenue, Gen, Woodford was con-
fronted with a situation which called for
all his own natural suavity, the ~affability
Of Fenton and the austerity Of Conkling.
As a result Of the days work tho follow
ing we're selected TO be the four delegates
at large 10 be named and instructed for
Gov. Hughes for President by the Repub-
lioan State convention which 10 to assemble
In Carnegie Hall tomorrow morning at II
o'clock:
Stewart L., WoOdford Of King.
Seth Low Of New York,
Frederick Il. Hazard Of OnondaS IA.
Edward II. Butler OF Erie.
The four alternates az large have yet to
be selected. Later In the day 1t was learned
that the four delegates at large selected
were satisfactory to Gov. Hughes. II
should not be understood that Gen. Wood
ford selected these four delegates at large,
for last evening the General issued the
following statement:
Gen. Woodford s attention being called
this afternoon TO the article in a morning
newspaper concerning the selection OF dele
gates AT large to the national convention, the
General said that he was not touching the
matter and that he would take no part d.
rectly or indirectly In the selection Of the
delegates. he wrote Gov. Woodruff TO
this effect on April o. 10 This letter he said
he would not even consider names, He felt
thai any suggest ion bv him would be rightly
regarded as an indirect attempt to do what
the Governor had directly refused to do,
Dozens Of Hughes men we're disappointed
when II Vas announced that Messrs. Wood
ford, Low, Hazard aud Butler had been
selected. Some Of the disappointed were
Charles II. Young. president OF the Re-
publican Club; James s. Lehmaier, John
+. Milholland, Edward +. Cragin. George
W. Aldridge, John Montignani. A. B. Hum
phreys, Frederick { Stevens, b. B .Odell, Jr.,
John v. Dwight and Edgar I. Bracket.
A couple Of the unregenerate remarked
that while the General may not have Sc.
lected the four he had a prodigiOus finger
in the makeup, and one Of the keenly dis
appointed ones remarked. That list didn't
lust grow. like Topsy. for | know that
the General had a long talk with Woodruff
u couple Of days ago ] for one believe
the General will take too many maps IN
the convention, and as for Seth Low, why
he's getting too fat 10 be able to get around
much
= The setting aside Of ex-senator Bracket,
president Of the Hughes State League.
was variously commented upon and there
were those who said that Bracket. Mill
holland. Aldridge, Cragin and Humphreys
had done more substantial work for Gov
Hughes's cause than Gen. WOOdford. Some
thought that the four delegates Fat large
should be Gen. WOodford, Mr.. Odell, Mr..
Woodruff and Mr.. Dwight. on the ground
that they would represent the different
factions In the Republican party Of the
State. Gen. WoodfOrd deprecated the use
Of the word faction" and informed all
his visitors that the divergent elements
In the State should be spoken of as wings,
like the right or left divisions Of an army
or regiment.
MIR. Odell was not selected as n Of the
four delegates at large because he might
not he agreeable to President Parsons
Of the New York Republican county com
mittee, and Mr.. Stevens could not be con-
aidened. IL was stated, because he had lost
his State committeeman. Alr. Milholland
was sci aside on the ground hat not fifty
OF the thousand and odd delegates to tine
convention knew him, and yet Mr.. Mil
hollApd's friends said that he was "one
Of the grandest organizers the State has
ever had Mr.. Aldndge, first ~vice-presi-
dent Of the Hughes State League, lacked
favor because he was one OF the hopeless
minority Of FIVE in a membership OF thirty
eight State committeeman, and 1t was not
considered advisable to afiront the thirty
three members who IN Saturday are to
reflect Mr.. Woodruff TO the chairmanship,
And az for the criticism OF the disappointed
ones that Gen. WOodford would have 10
take too many maps in the Chicago con-
vention and that Seth Low IL too fat TO
mOrp than amble when he should " on
the hop skip and jump. why, Gen. Wood
ford's friends and Mr.. Low = friends merely
said: Wait till you see these warehouses;
In action in that hell in Chicago, that's all.
Gen. Woodford, who Ia TO be chief dele.
gate al large for the New York State Re-
publicans al the Chicago national conyen-
ton. is IS yeas old. He was the States
messenger 10 the Presidential Electoral
i9leas " loOUi llilNOll WHl tltttlOn'
After serving In the Union army he was
In 1883 elected Lieutenant Governor Of
New York. He was defeated for Governor
in 1870 by John T. Hoffman; was Presi-
Dental eleotor and president Of the Elec-
toral College in 1872. Grants reelection;
member Of Congress from 1873 to 1875;
United States Minister TO Spain In 1897
until war was declared. He has been
United States District Attorney for the
Southern District Of New York. He has
been familiar with Republican organization
methods as praotised in the State Of New
York for forty-eight years. He knows
intimately all Of the old time Republicans
in all the States and he has been busy for
the last several months in becoming ac-
quainted with the later generations. All
Of the old. time Republican United States
Senators and members Of the House OF
Representatives are known to him init
mately, as we'll as the President and the
members Of the Presidents Cabinet. He
knows the ropes.
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