Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-14
PLEADING FOR HUGHES
Root Working With the Gov
ernor's Opponents.
ALL EYES ON SARATOGA
Country Waiting to See What Re-
publicans Will Do.
PARTY TREASON PROPOSED
Suggested That Hughes Be Renomi-
mated and Then Allowed to
-
Go to Defeat.

SARATOGA. n. Y, September
I4.-That Gov Charles Z. Hughes
will be renominated by the repub-
llican state convention became all
but certainty today, and even
the anti-Hughes leaders, while
publicly still determined, began
to admit privately that it might
, even be done upon the first bal
lot.
Special From STAFF Correspondent.
SARATOGA, n. Y, September 14.-By
way of solution OF the problem confront
ing the bosses in the denomination and
election of Gov. Hughes. 1t is now being
proposed to them to acquiesce in the
nomination of the governor and then let
him be beaten at the polls. if necessary.
for nominated he must be, 1t is con-
| tended, since it is certain that his rejec-
ton would lose the state to the republi-
cans as well as hurt the national ticket
in other states. He might carry the state,
| it is claimed, but no other republican
nominated over his head could do it,
| Now. isn't that a fine thing to call q
| compromise
Proposed Party Treason.
Isn't that a sweet and toothsome mop~.
sci for republicans of the Empire state 1
| chew upon in a campaign where a state,
! congressional and presidential ticket is at
stake? Let the proposition is being made
in earnestness by republicans of promi-
nence, and to my certain knowledge half
a dozen big republicans, men not counted
/ aafin h,,f
| are interested in the larger features Of
the situation, have told me that the sug-
gesuon is being put forward. In other
words, the republican organization. and
this is not to be confounded with the
party at large In the state, is in such
desperate straits over the candidacy of
Gov. Hughes. backed by the reform sem
timent, which is not to be denied that
it is seriously proposed to swallow his
candidacy and let the ticket go to defeat
IN November to get rid Of him once
and for all time.
| There is very little difference of opinion
among the rank and file assembled at
| Saratoga over the claim that the gov
ernor may lose at the polls. Even Oys-
ter Bay realizes this, but with Oyster Bay.
as with the big men who are advocating
| his denomination, his Endorsement is re-
garded as the less of two evils. I know
what L am talking about when I saw
thls, and l am speaking right out in
meeting, to the readers of The Star, that
they may know all the motives of this
most remarkable situation
Taft First Consideration.
The important consideration now is to
save the electoral ticket in New York.
not to permit anything which will imperiI
TAFT OF course, it is desirable as a gen.
eral proposition to elect a republican gov
ernor, but there will not be a flood OF
briny tears if Hughes goes down. as long
| Taft jS Il
that among the most radical of the anti
Hughes men feeling has reached such a
stage that state and local considerations
are even topping national questions
Oh, it's fine kettle of fish, but I fear
me there is ptomaine poison in it for
some one. From the furrowed brows
| and puckered mouth of some of the lead
ers around here one would think that
premonitory symptoms were already ap-
/ pearing.
If you ask why it is so readily assumed
that Gov Hughes is likely victim OF
| defeat at the polls let your memory
! bark back over the trail to the last GU
| bernatorial election. Do you not recall
| that New York went democratic on the
whole state ticket, save the head of IL.
| and that Hughes himself was probably
saved by the eleventh-hour intervention
of President Roosevelt, through Secretary
| Roots attac. on Hearst?
| There is not such stable margin in
Gov. Hughes plurality by which he
| holds his office if you come to analyze
the motives which impelled the casting
| of the vote.
Hughes Friends and Enemies.
1t is not to be denied that he has
made enemies and friends during his
incumbency The proportion can only
be estimated on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November. 1t is claimed
1 that he has alienated voters in entire
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