Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-11
FURRY At THE OUTSET
New York Republicans in State
Convention Today.
SCENE OVER A RESOLUTION
Attendance at the Function Unex-
pectedly Large.
MANY CONFERENCES HELD
Will Elect Delegation to Chicago
and Name Thirty-Eight Presi-
Dental Electors.
SCENE OVER A RESOLUTION
MANY CONFERENCES HELD
Special Dispatcb to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE thirteenth
republican state convention to elect dele
gates-at-large to national convention OF
the party met in Carnegie Hall at IL
o'clock today. In addition to electing
four delegates and four alternates at large
to the national convention to be held in
Chicago June 1s. the convention today Is
to nominate the thirty-eight presidential
electors for the state.
The attendance at todays convention
was unexpectedly large. The call for the
convention provided for 1000 delegates
and an equal number of alternates. The
moods of the delegates as they assembled
this morning were varied. Some were sui
len. some angry. but none was indifferent
and few were enthusiastic.
1t had been planned in advance, planned
by a peculiar combination of combina-
tiOnS In politics, that the convention was
to pass resolutions indorsing Gov Hughes
for the nomination for President. Things
began to go wrong with this program
yesterday. Congress district conventions.
one after another. had failed to instruct
known yesterday morning that Gov.
Hughes could not go into the national
convention with solid delegation from
his own state.
granted that this condition of affairs rem
dered 1t practically certain that no mat
ter what action the state convention
might take as its session today, Gov
Hughes could not be nominated at Chi
cago.
Many conferences and consultations
were held yesterday and last night, and
this Is about all that came of them BE
regular II you can and if you can't be as
near regular as possible"
The Calls for Hughes.
The state committee. the New York and
some other county committees have
passed resolutions calling for the indorse-
ment Of Gov. Hughes by the convention
today. So the early morning gossip was
10 the enect that the convention would
Try ana ne as near regular as possible
% pass. unless it should be beaten on the
floor OF the convention, but there was no
enthusiasm over it.
The convention was called to order by
N.a.e chairman Woodruff The state COM
mittee presened the name of former Lieut..
Gov. N. Linn Bruce for temporary chair
man Of the committee
'At the conclusions of temporary chair
HhoH DtuCe speech one OF the delegates
caused considerable amusement by offer-
Ing resolution to the effect that all reso
lutions offered be referred to the commit
tee on resolutions without debate and
without being read.
1t was adopted and then the trouble
began Former State Senator Edgar 7.
brackett. president of the Hughes State
League, arose and made q protest He
said that he had nothing up his sleeve
out ne had never. In republican con-
Ia u6o
resolution. He moved Reconsideration
OF the vote and for a few moments there
was the first real excitement of the con-
vention
To the complete surprise of the dele
gates Chairman Bruce entertained the
motion to reconsider. declared the mo-
tion carried, and then all interest In an
expected sensation fell fiat. At this point
the convention took recess until $50
pm.
Resolutions Discussed.
Before the convention met there was a
protracted conference at the republican
state headquarters over the resolutions to
be offered. State Senator Horace White
had been selected I'm advance as chairman
OF the committee on resolutions
Advance copies of the resolutions were
refused. but 1t was made known that they
are TO indorSe in most enthusiastic terms
the administration of President Roosevelt.
ana also lndorse the administration of
Gov. Hughes. and to instruct the dele
eates-a large to work and vote for the
nomination of the governor for President
as long as his name is before the national
convention.
At the conference at state headquarters
doubts were expressed as to whether or
not the resolutions would go through
without night.
Ihe preliminary announcement from
the conference was that the original slate
TOT delegates-at-large-Ge Stewart !.
WoodIord former Mayor Seth Low, Fred
p,.., .h n. haggard OF Syracuse and f. II.
butier OF Bufalo-would be presented to
the convention. The alternates agreed
on AT the conference were State Senator
John Rafnes of Syracuse. Thomas P. Pc
ters, owner and editor of the BROOKLYN
Ilmes: Norman j. Gould of Senaca Falls
ana charles w. Anderson of this city
Anderson Is the negro who was apboint-
cd collector OF internal revenue in this
city by President Roosevelt The seIec-
ton OF Anderson as an alternate delegate
at,iarse. II confirmed by the convention,
Will contradict the reports from Wash
fngton that no federal ohicehoIders are to
sit in the national convention
But the forty leaders who took part in
the conference at state headquarters used
good many Ifs and butts in predicting
what the convention might do. They
were not sure that any of the plans and
resolutions they had prepared in advance
would go through 1t was about the
most mixed up and uncertain pro-conven-
tion plan on record in the history of the
party in the state.
The plan of procedure agreed on at the
morning conference was for the conven-
tion after the morning session to take a
recess until 3:3O in the afternoon But
1t was admitted that all tentative plans
might be upset when the convention got
going.