The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15
The Governor Is Nominated for
Reelection on First Ballot.
Opponents Had United Upo1
Ambassador Hill.
FIGHT A BITTER ONE.
They Did Not Believe the Gov
ernOr Could Be Elected.
Root Might Have Had 1t But He
Refused.

Saratoga, Sept. 15.-Gov. Charles
| E. Hughes was nominated to succeed
himself on the first ballot, by the Re
publican state convention
Cheers for Hughes.
Saratoga. N. Y, Sept. 15.-wfth the
winch had threatened to turn the sec
| ond days session of the Republican
state convention into one of sensational
STRIFE the convention resumed its ses-
Sons soon after p. m. today, with
something resembling real enthusiasm.
When Secretary of State Root,
chairman of the convention, entered
the nail he was given an enthusiastic
greeting, the cheering lasting two min
utes. The temporary organization has
been made permanent. the report of
the credentials committee was sub
mitted and adopted
The platform was then reported and
read. The references to. President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft were received
with applause. At the words eve en-
dorse the administration of Governor
Hughes, the convention broke into
cheers and applause. Most of the
oelegates rose but Albany and Kings
| county delegates renamed seated.
Line Up for Hill.
| Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 15-Dr. David
L
| of the United States to Germany. is
the man whom the anti-Hughes lead
| ers nave decided upon as their candi-
| date for governor to defeat the re-
nomination of Governor Hughes.
A conference of state leaders repre-
| senting both the Hughes and anti
Hughes wings Of the convention. ad-
Journed in the early hours of the morn
ing after a protracted discussion of the
conditions. Practically all of the more
influential leaders Of the Republican
| organization were present at this
| gathering, the net result of which was
an adjournment to meet again this
morning and a more or less friendly
agreement that in the interval the
nomination for governor should be Of
fered to man regarded as filling the
needs of the situation at least by those
opposed to the nomination of Governor
/ Hughes. e - .-.-E-.-.-
That the leaders in the van of the
pro-Hughes movement have little con-
| f1dence in the acceptance by this man
of the proffer of the nomination was
clear from the fact that Herbert Par
sons, leader of the New York county
delegation, who is definitely committed
| to the support of Governor Hughes,
said as he left the conference:
IT am still of the opinion that Gov
ernor Hughes will be renominated and
think it will be upon the first ballot" ."
| Those present in the meeting over
1 which ex-Leutenant Governor Timothy
L. Woodruff, as chairman of the state
committee, presided, included Secre-
1 tary of State Root, who is acting
| chairman of the state convention; ex-
Governor Odell. National Committee
man William L. Ward, Speaker James
w. Wadsworth, jr., and Senator Horace
| White of Syracuse, both of these last
being leading candidates as opposed TO
| Governor Hughes; senate leader John
Raines of Ontario; former State Super
| intendent of Insurance Hendricks,
former Railroad Commissioner Aldrich,
Representative Fassett, Representative
Parsons, Representative Malby, ex-
Representative Littauer, William
Barnes, jr, of Albany; Postmaster
Greiner of Buffalo, and William Berri,
| of Brooklyn.
In this conference there came to a
head the last and most urgent con-
structive effort of the opposition to
| Hughes. At no time has there been
any question of the ability of the op-
position to prevent the nomination of
| the governor if it could unite upon any
single candidate, actual or prospective,
who could be induced to accept the
| nomination.
| p The efforts which were made
Yesterday to induce Secretary Root
| to accept such a nomination may be
fairly described as tremendous. But
I MT. NOOI WAS OOuOA ate nc lOlO Tic
| conference that he could not for a
moment consider such a proposition.
'If I should do such a thing" said
| he in substance, "I should be accused,
| and rightly as senior member of the
cabinet, of disloyalty to President
and with much justification,
of insincerity in his declaration made
long ago and reiterated today, of en-
phatic desire for the denomination of
Governor Hughes"
Secretary Root having been thus
| definitely removed from the situa-
ton, left the conference and went off
| to bed leaving the leaders face to
face with a problem, the solution of
which they admitted was the next
thing to impossible, save by the
nomination of the governor, upon the
prevention of which they had staked
their all.
Discussion of the remainder of the
| ticket had not been reached by the
| conference. Nor was there any dis
cussion of the platform, all else be-
| ing subsidiary to the question of
whether the organization must after
all accept Hughes as the nominee
| of the convention and try to nerve
itself to work for his election. 1t
was the expressed opinion of almost
everybody at the conference with the
possible exception of Secretary Root
who was not quoted on that subject
| that Governor Hughes could not be
reelected in November. Beyond a
doubt that is the honest belief of
many of the Republican politicians in
the state. Apart from the personal
antipathy of many of the leaders
toward Governor Hughes, this was
one of the arguments against the
governors denomination upon which
practically all of those present in this
conference were agreed.
BY IL O'Clock the conviction was
widespread that the opposition had
"gone to pieces" and that while there
probably would be efforts up to the
| last minute to find some one upon
whom to unite. the battle was really