The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-02
ROOSEVELT RULES MACHINE
UPSTATE AND DOWN-STATE con-
troll IS COMPLETE.

winners Are Taking Of WadswOrth, white
ar Bruce for GOyemOr-Tan Said 10
Have suggested Parsons for senator
Woodruff, Chairman, or Barnes7
with the primaries In this State out
Of the way Gov, Hughes will be asked to
take up the suggestion that he select the
four delegates at large and their a%lternates
10 be named by the Republican State con-
vention in Carnegie Hall on April II. The
committee recommended 10 the Republican
voters OF the State that Gov. Hughes be
their choice for the Presidential nomina-
ton at Chicago, and the State convention
will accept and indorse this recommended
ton and instruct the four delegates at large
and their a~lternates 10 use every honorable
means TO bring about the nomination Of
Gov. Hughes.
There was but one statement yesterday
as to the result Of the primaries in New
York city-the Roosevelt Woodruff Parsons
organization Is in complete control, and
the returns from the cities up the state
demonstrate equally that the Roosevelt
Barnes-H Hendricks .Greiner machine is on
ton. The Woodruff and Parsons people
and those acquainted with Republican
n%olitioal affairs above the Bronx line have
no hesitation in saying that the State organ
ization is under the complete domination
Of President Roosevelt. There was gossip
Yesterday TO the effect that Odell and his
friends will not make a contest at the pri-
maries in September. The Odell people
said that nothing definite had been settled.
The winners declared that no September
primaries could wrest the control from
them and that they would name the State
ticket and eventually dominate the Legis-
lature which il January is to elect a successor
to Mr.. Plat in the United States Senate.
They said that Speaker James W. Wads-
worth, Jr., Senator Horace White and NJ.
Linn Bruce, formerly Lieutenant-G Governor
of the State, we're being discussed as candi-
dates for the Gubernatorial nomination
with the chances at the moment very largely
in favor Of Mr.. Bruce, who is to be tempo
rary chairman Of the State convention.
The availability Of Mr.. Bruce m from
the fact that he has not been forced to take
part in the legislative quarrels OF the last
| two winters at Albany.
Concerning candidates for Mr.. Platt's
seat it was told that Secretary Taft had
recently suggested that Representative Her
| bert Parsons, president Of the New York
Republican county committee, would make
a splendid United States Senator to succeed
the Tioga chieftain. But it was remarked
that Mr.. Woodruff had at his back a more
solid Republican constituency than Mr..
Parsons,
Some Of the winners say very positively
| that Mr.. Woodruff will be chairman Of the
new State committee to be chosen next
week. This matter, though, it was added,
will be decided entirely by President Roose-
welt, and a number Of President Roosevelt's
friends in New York city are saying that
! Mr.. Woodruff should give way TO William
Barnes, Jr. Indeed, II was commonly
! heard hereabout yesterday that Mr.. Barnes
had been selected for Mr.. Woodruits place,
but that whether Barnes il to succeed Wood
ruff within the next ten days or whether
he is TO take WOodruf's place after the
Chicago convention has not been definitely
decided.
The work Of electing the Congress district
delegates throughout the State, and espe-
clally those in New York city, promises now
/ to be the interesting feature. A number of
! these district delegates in the upstate terri
| tory have been elected. but the scramble in
Manhattan and ings will be the interesting
sight for ten days to come,
Ii was said last night that it had been de-
cided not to crafty the aspirations on Sen
| ator Alfred h. Page to be a delegate from
his Congress district to the Chicago conven-
ton. II was also stated that DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler may also be left out. Surely,
it was finally stated, many aspiring Repub-
leans are TO meet with disappointment in
| these diggings. There is a good deal OF
guessing az 10 how many Of the s~eyenty-four
district delegates for the State will be in
, s~tructed for the Governor, Some OF the
mathematician believed tnattwenty-fouro OF
these district delegates would be instructed
for the Governor and that tho remaining
fifty would 60 unpledged t. the WindyCity.