New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-10
HIS STRENGTH SHOWN.

The results of the primary elections in Man
haitian in those districts where a test vote upon
the denomination of Governor Hughes was held
were q great triumph for the Governor De
spite all the adverse conditions despite the fact
that the test was an eleventh hour device, that
the Governor was run against the field, that
only the regular primary voters or active Or
ganzation men participated, among whom the
Governor was weaker than among the mem
bers of the party at large, and notwithstanding
the utter lack of organization for bringing out
the Hughes sentiment while the opposition to
the Governor was perfectly organized. six of
the nine districts were carried by the Gov
ernor. who had also majority of the total vote
cast in all the districts. The vote at the pri-
maries was small. indicating that the Gov
ernor's friends refused to be governed by such
method of determining his hold upon the
party generally, but the result did show that
even where the Governor was admittedly weak
est he was strong-stronger than any and all
of his rivals named and unnamed, actual or
potential Even the organization voters. who
were supposed TO harbor a grievance against
the Governor because of his habit of placing
his duty to the public above his Obligations TO
his party, are shown to favor the Governors
nomination No other conclusion is possible
than that If every Republican in Manhattan
and The Bronx had participated in the voting
the result would have been an Overwhelming
victory for the Governor.
The results in Brooklyn signify little. because
the districts chosen for the tests over there
were admittedly not typical. County Chair
man Bremen. in an interview recently, ac-
knowledged the strength of the demand for
Hughes throughout the borough in general and
said that the tests were TO be held in districts
where the Republican party was not strong
If
strength. If other Brooklyn districts had been
included such districts as the Republican
party has to depend upon for its votes, the
strength of Mr.. Hughes would have been dis
closed in the same way that it was in Man
haitian.
President Parsons of the Republican County
Committee interprets the result in Manhattan
and The Bronx as indicating demand on the
part of the enrolled Republicans for the Gov
ernors denomination and predicts that large
majority of the delegates from that part Of
the CITY will favor it. With these delegates at
his back Mr.. Parsons will probably be in posi-
ton 10 effect the Governors denomination, and
thus he will be able to do for his party the
same sort of service he did two years ago,
when he gave it a winning candidate for Gov
ernor He is entitled to praise for his prompt
perception and acceptance of the meaning OF
the test The sooner the opposition to him is
a andoned the better it will be for the party.
There is now no longer any excuse for 1t. Evi-
dences of the general desire for the renomina-
ton are Overwhelming. And, moreover, the
opposition nas no alternative to offer III II
objects that Mr. Hughes is weak with GER
tain classes of voters, it has no one else to
offer who is not weaker still with certain other
classes of voters or with the voters in general
There is no one else but Mr.. Hughes to nom
mate There is nothing to gain from further
opposition which can only leave the party i'll
a poor position TO enter on the state campaign,
now only a few days off. To Mr.. Parsons be-
longs the credit of perceiving this, and his an
nouncement that most of New York COuntys
delegates will be for the Governor is likely to
prove a powerful factor in demoralizing what
is left of the opposition.