The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-12
New York Republicans Indorse
 Him for Presidency
CONVENTION VERY LIVELY
Sharp Debate Is Started By An oppo- nent of Hughes, But Oil Is Thrown On Troubled Waters and
 Hughes Is Choice.

New York, April Ex-Governor Charles
 b. Hughes was indorsed as New Yorks republican candidate for President by that party's state convention held today, and the four delegates at large. with their alternatives, elected to the Chicago na- tional republican convention were in- structed to use all honorable means to bring about his nomination. The four delegates at large are Gen. Stewart L.
 Woodward, ex-Mayor Seth Low of this city. Frederick R. Hazard of Syracuse and D. II. Butler of Buffalo.
 The convention the thirteenth held by
 the republican party to elect delegates at large to a national convention, was
 repetition in its distinctive feature of the Oneida convention of 1880, when Roscoe Conkling sought vainly to have not only the delegates at large but the congress sional delegates also instructed for U. s. Grant. Ex-State Senator Edgar T. Brack- ett of Saratoga, president of the Hughes State league, precipitated a sharp debate by presenting a minority report from tue
 committee on resolutions to amend the
 resolution indorsing Governor Hughes and to instruct the delegates at large to
 work for him and other delegates to per sistently labor for his nomination until a nomination is made"
 Much Excitement.
 MT. Brackets action caused the thou 1 sand ldd delegates and the hundreds of
 spectators who filled tho gal IS much i excitement. When the debate d reached | Wadsworth moved that the question l of advantage. the majority report of the l committee on resolutions containing the 1 indorsement of Governor Hughes along 1 lines of the convention indorsement of
 Levi F. Morton in 1896 and that of Pres ident Roosevelt in 1900. be put in the plat
 form, and with a loud applause and much
 cheering this majority report was adopted l by a viva Voce vote with only a few 1 scattering noes"
 Premonition of a turbulent session was l felt before the opening of the convention, 1 when the Westchester county delegation, l at caucus decided to protest against the l indirsement of Hughes, by voting against ] the Hughes resolution and declaring for I an uninstructed delegation. This plan was l nullifed by the unexpected action of Sen l ator Bracket in submitting his minority 1 report. In meeting this situation the ma | jority of the convention adopted the plat ] form by viva voce vote, and the West l chester delegation lost all chance of vot- l ing as a delegation against Hughes in- ] dorsement.
 l New Committee.
 l The new republican stat, committee ] elected at the convention held a brief session Immediately after the adjourn
 n1Aot If thp convention and re-eleptpd i former Lieutenant Governor Timothy l.. i Woodruff as chairman. Believing that ! the platform foreshadowed the platform i that will be adopted by the Chicago na-
 tional republican convention, more than
 usual interest is attached to its recom- :, mendations, which were confined princi- ] pally to national issues.
 Congressman J. Sloat Fassett of FL mira, although not member of the com
 mittee on resolutions, said in inter ] view that he had taken the resolutions l to Washington a few days ago and care i fully considered them there and that he felt assured that they would be most satisfactory to all the delegates. The platform indorses in strong terms the ad 1 ministration of President Roosevelt and I Governor Hughes and commends policies
 of the federal administration. A revis- l ion of the tariff is favored and the action l of Congress fn declining to revise the l 1 are advocated in the currency laws, to 1 provide a more elastic and satisfactory
 monetary system.
 Uncertainty Lasts Long. | Uncertainty over the programme pro- 1 posed by the party leaders dulled the 1 enthusiasm of the delegates until long | after the convention had got down to l business, and 1t was not until State
 Chairman Woodruff announced former 1 Governor Odell and Herbert Parsons, | chairman of the republican county com
 mittee. as a committee to escort former 1 Lieutenant Governor M. Linn Bruce to 1 the platform as temporary chairman. that the first real demonstration occurred. l The gathering of the political leaders by applause, which has hitherto charac-
 terized state conventions of the party.
 For the first time in q score or more of years, Senator Thomas T. Platt, one time leader of the party in state councils. 1 was not in his accustomed seat with the Tioga county delegation. It was said
 that Senator Platt was i'll. There was lively applause when Chairman Bruce | referred in his speech to President Roose-
 welt and Governor Hughes, but the pro
 ceedngs generally were not frequently in i terrupted by demonstrations.
 
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