The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-09-17
HUGHES IS NAMED
!, ON FIRST BALLOT
iUu.
OPPOSITION TO GOVERNOR OF
NEW YORK coLLAPsEs.
GETS s27 or 1909 VOTES
Choice Is Made Unanimous by Sara.
toga Convention, Ticket Is Com
pleted and Platform ls
! -, Adopted.

Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 16.-The Re
publican state ticket:
For governor-Charles e. Hughes OF
New York (renominated).
For lieutenant governor-Horace
White of Onondaga.
For secretary of state-Samuel s
Koenig of New York.
For attorney general-Edward R
O'Malley of Erie
For comptroller-Charles H. Gaus
of Albany
For state engineer and surveyor
Frank M. William of Madison.
For state treasurer-Thomas B.
Dunn of Monroe.
For associate justice of the court of
appeals-Albert Haight of Erie IRE,
nominated).
Charles Evans Hughes was nomi.
mated Tuesday by the Republican state
convention by an overwhelming ma
jority and on the first ballot to sue
ceed himself as governor of the state
of New York. He received S27 out
OF possible 1,009 votes, as against
151 for James w. Wadsworth, Jr., Of
Livingston county, speaker of the
state assembly, and 81 for former
Congressman John X. Stewart of
Montgomery.
The nomination was made unani-
nous upon motion of State Commit
teeman William Barnes, Jr., of Albany,
who has been perhaps the bitterest
and most outspoken opponent of the
governors denomination.
Opposition Was Failure.
The governors denomination fol-
lowed the utter failure of desperate
struggle on the part of number OF
the county leaders who for four days
spared no effort to discover a candi-
date upon whom they could unite to
defeat him. The rest of the ticket
was made up in the good old.fash-
ioned way as an organization SLATE"
announced an hour or more before the
session of the convention began by
Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the
state committee, after a conference
of the local leaders.
It was the 1S3 votes of all but one
district in New York county that car
ried the governors total beyond the
sos, a majority of the convention, re-
quired to nominate.
Text Of the Platform.
The platform adopted, in part, fol-
lows:
The Republican party Of the state
of New York In convention assembled,
proud of its achievements and prom
Using every effort for still greater ac-
complishments, declares as follows:
We heartily ratify the ticket nom-
mated by the Republican national con-
vention at Chicago, and subscribe to
the platform there adopted We in
dorse the declarations of William H.
Taft and James s. Sherman In accept
Ing their respective nominations. At
this critical time in the commercial
and Industrial development Of the
world, with a revision of our tariff
and CIR banking and currency laws
imp ling, we urge every believer in
sor I money and in the American pol
ICY OF protection to the wage Garner,
the farmer, the manufacturer and the
mechanic to support the Republican
candidates. who are pledged to sound
money and protective tariff.
Hughes Administration lndorsed.
we indorse the administration of
Gov. Hughes, who has shown himself
courageous executive. resolved to ac-
complish what he believes to be for
the public good. He has approved
measures passed by Republican leg.
islature, upholding the integrity Of
the constitution, maintaining the high
character of the public service, pro-
vidirfg for the proper regulation of cor.
porations, and for the protection Of
the peoples interests