New-York tribune., 1908-01-25
WILL INDORSE HUGHES.
P4RSONSiS PRESENT PLAN.
MAJ Try to Hare Instructed Dele
cation for GorerROr.


President Parsons of the Republican County
Committee. after conference yesterday with
various district leaders. returned TO Washington
last night. He made arrangements for calling
a meeting of the county committee for Wednes-
day night OF next week if practicable. with the
understanding among the Parsons that the
Mack resolution indorsing Governor Hughes as
the choice OF the county committee Presi-
Dental nominee be put through.
What The committee will decide to do cannot
re exactly foreshadowed.'' said Mr.. Parsons last
night Tribune reporter II believe that ii
will pass q resolution not only indorsing the
Governor for President, but pledging every
member who votes for the resolution 10 work
for the election of instructed DELEGATES from
his Congress district. The county committee
has no power over the conventions in the Tari-
Gus Congress districts. but the adoption OF
resolution in support of the Governor would l
think. have influence ! am in favor OF
making il strong as possible The lhdorse
ment should be lived up TO loyalty and We
should have an instructed delegation am al
favor OF having a resolution 10 that eHec'
nassed AT the special meeting next week
state Chairman Woodruff, who has been an
tie Adirondacks for a week viii be BACK Io-
dav 81 trains are running the railroad from
Utica north into the Adirondacks- 1t is uiloei
stood by Mr.. woodruffs friends that the hiit7'
County organization will swing into line anu IA
dorse Governor Hughes for the fTeSiuei'''
nomination. ia
The friends of Ex-Governor ooeh' VIZ =
,akar an active hand in forcing the hshl i'
- ,,o+ 1,o, with cordiality on the sud
den change in the attitude Of the i9'-e
a, W., Samuel Strasbourger. chairman OF
,,-,i+tee on organization Of the Hushes
STATE League. was seen yesterday ne SAID
.e1g,a ,.,,e- from Secretary Taft TO Congress
= r,s,ye indicates TO every one VINO knows
ANYTHING about politics that Parsons was acl-
,,sIv ~ work for Taft in this county, and 1t Is
g fair assumption that he still is at work lor
him 1t goes without saying that II MI Far-
sons is for Taft he is not for Hughes lie mas
,o- been for Hughes any OF the time, and he
& not now. Mr.. Parsons seems 10 think that
-4,e ,oters Of this county should trust him and
his friends with the custody OF the HCsheS
boom / don't think they will
..Ho matter what Mr.. Parsons and his i'm
,,adia-e friends DO in the county committee
-,aerJnr they cannot be trusted by the friends
Of Governor Hughes. The thing for the friends
~ the Governor to do is TO elect delegates at
the spring primaries who will be for Hughes
first. last and all the time. and who viii not
h looking around for an excuse to desert
Hughes in the national convention The Hughes
state League will go ahead with its work OF
developing sentiment for the Governor just as
II nothing had happened to change the attitude
OF the Parsons men.
Ex-senator Edgar T. Bracket. president OF
the Hughes stateLeag1e, says that the sudden
shift OF the Taft viii prove of great I'M
portance and benefit TO the Hughes boom
throughout the state As he was leaving town
for his home IN Saratoga last night he said:
II looks as if the friends Of Secretary TAFT
counted on doing e great stroke OF politics for
The Secretary by Withdrawing opposltlon ana
coming out openly for Governor Hughes
mink that their action no matter how intended,
viii prove of great benefit TO the canvass beng
made bv the friends Of Governor Hughes
PREDICTED on Wednesday night that sentiment
throughout the state was growing for the Gov
ernor al such rate that our work "ouId De
made light. That does not mean that we shall
aha-e o,,- efforts in behalf of the Governor
The thing the friends Of the Governor will do
now is to see that in the spring primaries only
Hughes rnen-real Hughes men-are placed on
guard. The work Of the Hughes State League
viii be pressed vigorously, without reference TO
the probable action Of the country committee
here"
The friends Of Congressman Parsons say that
the Oden men. who say that they are for
Hughes. are At heart only waiting for chance
10 swing to Uncle joe" Cannon in the Chicago
convention They assert that if it appears on
the first rollcan that Governor Hughes cannot
be nominated and that successful combination
could be made by agreeing on Speaker Cannon
all tie Oden men now shouting for Hughes
would gladly swing to Cannon without making
g determined effort to accomplish the nomina-
tion Of the Governor
John Henry Hammond. Of the 18th District
ssys that he will insist on a resolution at the
meeting Ct the county committee indorslng
Taft Is the second choice Of the committee
Mr.. Hammond says that such a step is justlhed
b. the fact that in a postal card canvass OF
the enrolled Republicans in his district 1ai'
sas found To be the second choice Of a ma |
Scrty II Nj. Hammond makes such motion /
n is sure % provoke bitter fight in the county |
oornmittee