New-York tribune., 1908-01-16
HUGHES BETW ZEN THEM
PARSONS And PAGE PART
F;pht Ouer Endorsement OF GoUer-
nor by County COMMITTEE.

HUf w SOh'''S
President Herbert Parsons, of the Repunhcah
County Committee and Senator Ailreo n. Is
the loader of the Hughes forces in the county eoi
,,;..oo have narted company a result OF ths
es,+ over the proposed Endorsement OF ToVerhoi
Hughes in the county committee. 0e - n
,-icenres;deut of the county committee put ne
is marked for the shelf on account OF MS s'pp0
of Governor Hughes in the present Crisis
rho socalIed conference of the Hughes men 7'
.ho panubIican Club last night to make arrahse
ments for the battle in the county coi'ihit'eo -
night did take place senator Iase -.
hand and five six well known s, riusi.e -.
a~onne5 in TO talk things over, but nothing was
s' - Senator Page said that no plan OF oattie
had been decided on for to-nishl' 70
"we shall oppose any further postponenleh. u
consideration of the Hughes resolution saiu
ator Page last night II understand thal 1t ie ~
Parsons plan to postpone 1t. "neuer we 7"'I
ceed in getting vote on the main questoh o"H
NOT cav but we shall make hard fight
Tho meeting of the county committee will be held
to-pieht in Lyric Hail. in Sixth avenue, near 4lst
street that place affordins better accommodauohs
than the basement of the Murray Hill byceum
which when packed with seven hundred men. is
almost intolerable from heat and tobacco smoke
Tickets of admission will be required for entrance
TO the hall.
Senator Sake whose district takes in Governor
Hughess Assembly district, said that the 18th
District would be against further postponement at
the meeting tonight
II don't know just how we will stand. said
he but think the lineup will be pretty close.
] think the Ode men will line up with us against
another postponement- l suppose they are not
really for Hughes. but don't think they will do
anything that will help Mr.. Parsons. As prac-
tcal men we are going TO aVall ourselves Oh tldI
attitude on their part"
President Parsons will be on hand to-day at
county committee headquarters to talk with the
district leaders. The executive committee VIII
meet in the afternoon. The Parsons men control It,
IT is generally conceded that the Parsons men
can prevent the passage OF resolution indors-
ing the Governor if they want to do it Some of
them think that it will not be good politics to
oppose a Hughes Endorsement
I'VE ought to stand for favorite son indorse-
ment of the Governor on the first ballot, said one
Of the Parsons leaders last night. I'VE ought to
do that as a matter of pride, and matter
of principle 1t does not stand to reason that the
Westerners are going to accept another New YORK
candidate for President if they can prevent IT.
They will take Taft or Cannon in preference TO
Hughes We ought to stand for our state cand-
date on the first ballot, and then be guided by
common sense"
The Parsons men see in the organization Of the
Hughes National and State League a movement
to make a fight at the primaries next September
They believe that the Ode1l men in the state will
get in behind the Hughes State League boomers
and make use of them.
The Parsons men chuckled last night over the re-
turns of a postal card canvass being made in the
18th district by former Mayor Seth Low, John H.
Hammond and others. Six thousand postal cards
were sent out Twelve hundred have been returned,
and of the twelve hundred votes canvassed Hughes
received 400 and Taft $50 The remainder were scat
tered among La Toilette. Fairbanks, Knox and
others The Taft men said last night that they
were amply satisfied with the percentage of votes
that Taft received.
William n Cohen former justice of the Supreme
Court came out yesterday in interview urging
that the delegates from New York in the national
convention be not hampered by instructions for
Hughes or any else Mr.. Cohen says that those
who are urging the instruction of the delegates for
Hughes largely mercenaries and representatives
of the old corrupt comrercialistic system. which
the Roosevelt system has done away with in large
part Mr.. Cohen. among other things, said:
Governor Hughes is not only strong man. but
as l wrote when he was candidate for his pres
ent office. great man. and an honest and a Tear
less one and he has nothing and will have nothing
to do with the mercenaries of the Republican
party Neither will their support do him any good
II he is he the candidate of the Republican
party in my Judgment it will be because he is the
only candidate with whom that party can win
I'm nv Judgment, the Governor of the State of
New York ought not to be misrepresented and in
iured by the Republican mercenaries of his state
That is not his real support or his real strength
Anv delegation instructed for him through their
nstrumentaty will go to the next Republican con-
vention precisely as the delegation of 1904 instruct
ed for Roosevelt. went to Chicago. You could count
on the fingers of your hands those who were
actually for Roosevelt. The rest were awaiting an
opportunity to betrdy him. But he was so largely
rhe choice Of all the delegates that they dared not
mutter
.'As there is no likelihood Of any such uniformity
at the next convention. any delegation instructed
by the mercenaries of New York will betray and
desert Governor Hughes surely they dislike
him and his straightforward methods 1t seems to
me that the efforts of decent Republicans in this
state should be toward the selection of delegates
of high character unnstructed and unpurchasable