Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-17
Bitter Fight of New York Bosses
Ended in an Overwhelming
Defeat.
RECEIVED S27 VOTES
Wadsworth HAD 15f and stewart al
VIM. Harness. Jr., Mndc Motion to
Make Nomination tunuimous-
A wild enthusiasm, over
the Results.

Saratoga, Sept 15-rhe republican
State ticket.
For governor Charles f.. Hughes OF
New York Gcnominnted,.
Lieutcnant-r governor Horace White OF
OnondaGa
Secretary of state-s Samuel s Kocnis
Of New York
Attorney general Edward Il O'Malley
Of Erie
Comptroller-Charles H. Gaus of Al
hany.
state engineer and survcyor-Frank NJ.
Williams of Madison.
state troa Thomas Il Dunn Of
Monroe.
Associate Justice Of the court Of an
poals-Abort T1aEht of Eric Gc-
nominatedD
Charles Evans Hughes Of New York
was nominated to-day by the republican
State convention by an overwhelming
majority, and on the first ballot to Sic
coed himself as governor OF TIE state
OF New York. lIc received 81 votes ont
81 possible 1."n, as against III for
James W Wadsworth, Jr.. Of G.vings-
Ton county, speaker of the state ascm-
Ply and n for Former Congressman
John x stewart Of Montgomory
The nomination was mad" unanimous
rp,1 motion Of state Committeeman
VIM Rar1es. Jr., of Albany. who has
been perhaps the bittercst and most out
spoke. opponent Of the governors re-
nouu'ror rondcd 10y those who had
placed 81. fr WadsWorth and Mr.
S-oV.u iu Wination
Tho Iro'. Ynor's denomination followed
III utter failure of a desperate struggle
on the part of n number of the county
leaders, who for four days have spared
no effort TO discover n candidate upon
whom they could unite to defeat him
The halance of the ticket was made up
in the good old fashioned way" as an
organization "slatc" announced an hour
or more before the session of the con-
vention by Chairman Timothy l.. Wood
ruff Of the State committee. after a
conference of the local leaders
WHITE WANTED TO RE GOVERNOR
Senator White, who was chosen as n
candidate for lieutenant governor. was in
the running" for the governorship until
the early afternoon. when after n meet
ing Of his delegation he requested his
friends not TO present his name and left
the delegates pledged to him free to vote
for whom they would The fifteen votes
Of his county delegation were cast for
Speaker Wadsworth.
1t was the 1873 votes OF all but one dis
trict In New York county that carried
the Governors total beyond the 500, a
majority of the convention required TO
nominate The nine votes of Nassau
county had brought the Hughes total
10 3o5 Amid a hreathless hush, in which
was incarnate all the intensity Of bitter
mes and suspense which up to that
moment had characterized the struggle
To prevent the denomination OF Hughes.
the secretary Of the convention called
New York
PARSONS ANNOUNCEMENT.
Herbert Parsons, president of the New
York county republican general commit
tee, rose In his place under the gallery,
his slender figure alert and tense with
the excitement OF the crucial moment
his lean features, II possible, more In
scrutable than Is their wont, his eyes
nevertheless, alight with the conscious
ness that he was for the moment the
custodian OF words which would be
flashed in a few seconds on waiting
wires To far corners OF the civilized
world and said;
New York county second assembly dis
trict gives four for Wadsworth the bal
ance OF the county, 1S3, for Chas. Evans
Hughes"
thousand pencils In two seconds had
footed the Hughes total to 57S: in as
many heart beats every person in the
great hall knew that the battle was
over and the place was instantly bed
lam Of cheering.
a TRIAL FOR WOODRUFF.
Hardly less sensational had been the
moment when State Chairman Woodruff
delivered TO Hughes. in spite OF a gen.
eral expectation to the contrary, the en-
tire vote of Kings county. 1875; bringing
the Governors total to 342: for Woodruff
had been avowcdly opposed to the Cover
nor's denomination and even after Will
liam Berri, the choice of Kings for the
governorship, had withdrawn from the