The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-16
Opposition MeIts Away and Gov GrnOr Is RGnOminated On
 First Ballot
TIMOTHY WOODRUFF IS
 NOW IN THE BAND WAGON
Vote for Hughes Causes Surprise Be. cause It Showed That the Popu- larity of the Governor
 Continues.

ratoga. N. Y, September 15.-Charles
 as Hughes of New York was nomi-
 "a today by the republican state con-
 ion by an overwhelming majority and
 kthe first ballot, to succeed himself
 overnor of the state of New York. He
 zAiyed S27 votes out of a possible 1909, f asaiRst 151 for James W. wadsworth,
 z Livingston county, speaker of the Ai x~sembly. and 31 for former Con-
 fif John K. Stewart of Montgom- Ehe 6nomination was made unanimous
 notlon of State Committeeman Will l-m Barnes, Jr. of Albany, who has been perhaps the bitterest and most outspoken opponent of the governors renomiuation. The governors renomination followed the. utter failure of desperate struggle lon the part of a number of the county leaders who for four days have spared no effort to discover candidate upon whom they could unite to defeat him.
 The balance of the ticket was made on an organization slate" announced an hour or more before the session of the con- vention began, by Timothy l.. Woodruff, Ol luC SldAS SOAllilNtcC.
 Senator White, who was chosen as a candidate for lieutenant governor, was in the running" for the governorship un- til the early afternoon, when he requested his friends not to present his name.
 It was the 1S3 votes of all but one dis trict in New York county that carried the governors total beyond the 5o5 a ma jority of the convention required to nomi- nate The nine votes of Nassau county had brought the Hughes total to ss6
 Decisive Vote Cast. 4a
 Amid a breathless hush, the secre- tary of the convention called New ] York
 Herbert Parsons. president of the New 1 York county republican general commit tee, arose in his place and said dramatic 1 ally:
 New York county, second assembly dis l triet gives four for Wadsworth the bal ance of the county, 19S, for Charles Evans Hughes"
 l A thousand pencils in two seconds had l footed the Hughes total to 57S, and ev- cry person in the great hall knew that the battle was over, and the place was instantly a bedlam of cheering. | Hardly less sensational had been the moment when State Chairman Woodrun delivered to Hughes, in spite of general expectation to the contrary, the entire vote of Kings county, 1SS, bringing the governors total to 342, for Woodruff had been avowedly opposed to the governors renomination. It was really the action of Kings which signaliZed what might be called the stampede to Hughes and when it's 13S votes were cast In piock for the governor any remaining doubt i of his nomination was swept away
 Convention Goes Wild. The convention went fairly wild with the first real surprise of the roll call when Saratoga answered Eleven for Charles E. Hughes For Saratoga Is the famous home of racing. i After the nomination of the governor the rest of the work was routine, as far as the majority of the people in the halr were concerned.
 The remainder of the ticket as agreed upon by the leaders in control of the l convention was generally known. The other nominations were quickly made and at 5:30 D. m. Secretary Root declared the convention adjourned without day. The full ticket follows:
 For CSovernor-Charles E. Hughes or New York (renominated). For Lieutenant Governor-Horace White of Onondaga.
 For Secretary of State-Samuel E. Koe- nigin of New York.
 For Attorney General-Edward K. O'Maley of Erie.
 For Comptroller-Charles H. Gaus of Alabny.
 For State Engineer and Surveyor Frank M. Williams of Madison.
 For State Treasurer-Thomas B. Dunn of Monroe
 For Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals-Albert Haight of Erie Genomi- nated).