The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-16
oVsrnor Receives S27 Votes Out of a Possible 1009 Running Against
 Speaker.
MACHINE SLATE ACCEPTED
Inti. Hughes Man Gets Second Place on Ticket--Taking of Vote a Highly Dramatic
 Performance.

Saratoga, N. Y. Sept 15.-The rcpub-
 can state ticket;
 For Governor-Charles F. Hughes of ;ew York (renomInated,)
 For Lieutenant-G Governor-Horace White of Onondaga.
 For Secretary of state-samuel $. <oenig of New York
 For Attorney -General-Ed Edward R,
 'Malley of Erie.
 For omptroller-Charles II. Gaus of Albany.
 For State Engineer and Surveyor Frank NJ. Williams of Madison,
 For State easurer-Thomas R. Dunn of Monroe.
 For Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals Halght of Erie Ge-
 Dominated
 Charles Evans Hughes of New York. Yas nominated today by the republican 'tate convention, by an overwhelming najority and on the first ballot. to sue ;eed himself as governor of the state of New York He received S27 votes out pf a possible 1909. as against 15l for bames W. Wadsworth, Jr.. of Living ton county, speaker of the state as- senbly and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stewart of Montgomery.
 The nomination was made unanimous ipon motion of State Committeeman William Barnes. Jr, of Albany. who has been the bitterest and most out spoken opponent of the governors re- Domination.
 The governors renomination follow ed the utter failure of desperate struggle on the part of number of the county leaders who for four days, hsve spared no effort to discover a Candidate upon whom they could unite Do defeat him. The balance of the Ticket was made up in the good old Fashioned way" as an organization slate" announced an hour or more be- fore the session of the convention be- kan. by Chairman Timothy L. wood |ruff of the state committee. after a ccnference of the local leaders.
 Senator White who was chosen as q |candidate for lieutenant governor, was Tin the running" for the Iovernorshir until the early afternoon. when after Id meeting of his delegation he request. land left the delegates pledged to hln' |free to vote for whom they would. The |ffteen votes of his county delegat ton fOnondaga) were cast for Speaker Wadsworth.
 It was the 1s3 vote of all but one dis trict in New York county that carried sthe governors total beyond the 50b, q majority of the convention. required tc nominate.
 The nine votes of Nassau county had brought the Hughes total to 3a5. Amid a breathless hush in which was incar- nate all the intensity of bitterness and suspense which up to that moment had Characterised the struggle to prevent the renomination of Hughes the score tary of the convention called New York
 Herbert Parsons, president of the | New York county republican genera | committee, rose in his place under the | gallery, his slender figure alert and | tense with the excitement of the crl' | cisl moment. his lean features, if pcs eibie, more inscrutsble thar is their won't, lis eyes. slisht with the con l eciousness that he was for the moment the custodian of words which would be flashed in few seconds on waiting wires to far corners of the country and said
 New York county, second assembly district, gives four for Wadsworth; the balance of the county, 1s3, for Charles Evans Hughes"
 A thousand pencils in two seconds had footed the Hughes total to 57s; IT as many heart-beats every person 1T the great hall knew that the battle wa over and the place was Instantly bed lam of cheering
 Hardly less sensational had been th' Noment when state Chairman Wood ruff delivered to Hughes, in spite of general expectation to the contrary the entire vote of Kings county, i3s DIlnEiiE Lbt SuNClllOi . tp,pi tD "'@' " Woodruff had been avowedly opposed to the governors renor1lnation Orange. the horne of exGoverno Odell, divided It's vote, five for Hughes and three for Wadsworth. St. Law renee, home of Congressman Malhy who has been regarded as anti-Hughes gave the governor it's total of IS.
 The convention went fairly wild witt the first real surprise of the roll call when Saratoga answered. Eleven fol Charles F. Hughes. for Saratoga 1! the famous home of racing and almos anywhere you TO in Saratoga you vii be told that election day will show vol Saratoga feels or the subject of thu race track gambling bills Few would have believed that Hughes could b. anything short of a miracle receive < the unDroken total vote of the sara toga deie ga ton. II was a full mlnut, before order was restored.
 The remainder of the ticket wal oulckly completed, the usual routine resolutions were passed and at 530 ? m, Secretary Root. declared the con vsntion adjourned without date.