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HUGHES ON FIRST BALLOT
R%enominated For Governor Ey
New York Republicans.
He Gets S27 Votes to ISL For Wads-
worth and 81 For Stewart
Choice Made Unanimous.

Saratoga, N. Y.-The Republican
State Convention nominated this
State ticket:
For Governor-Charles E. Hughes,
/ of New York.
For Lieutenant Governor-Horac
White, of O~nondaga.
For Secretary of State-Samuel S.
Koenig, of New York.
For State TreasureT-Thomas E.
Dunn, of Monroe.
For Comptroller-Charles H. Gaus,
of Albany.
For Observation-Disclosures R.
O'Malley. of Erie.
For State Engineer and Surveyor
Frank NJ. Williams, of Madison.
For Associate Judge of the Court
of Appeals-Albert Haight, of Erie.
Governor Charles E. Hughes was
renominated before the roll call on
the first ballot was half completed.
At the end of the ballot the Governor
had S27 votes, Speaker James W.
Wadsworth ISL and John K. Stewart
81. The motion to make the nomina.
ton unanimous was made by William
Barnes, Jr., of Albany County.
1t was at 2.07 p. m. when Chair.
man Elihu Root called the convention
to order after a five-minute struggle
with two ever energetic bands, which
refused to be subdued.
The report of the Committee on
Credentials reported that the only
contested delegation was the First
Assembly District of Manhattan. and
that the committee had failed to act
on this, being tied in the vote.
The temporary organization was
then made permanent upon recon-.
mendation of the committee on per-
manent organization. and Secretary
Root as permanent chairman de-
clared that his speech would be the
same as the opposition's attitude on
the financial question-silence.
Job E. Hedges, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, then pre-
sented the platform.
While Hedges was reading the
platform it became known that Sena-
tor Horace White. of Syracuse, had
withdrawn as candidate for Governor
and announced himself as a candidate
for second place.
When Mr.. Hedges came to the poT-
ton of the platform which says, I'VE
indorse the policies of Governor
Hughes" the galleries burst forth in
a frenzy of applause and cheering.
The demonstration gradually reached
the delegates. The Lewis County
delegation was first on its feet. and
was followed by New York, Kings,
Warren, Hamilton and finally all ex-
cept Albany. whose delegates re-
NAMED seated with stolid faces.
The demonstration lasted a little
more than a minute when the chair
man raped to order.
Mr.. Hedges concluded his reading
If the platform at 2.25 and the reso-
luton to adopt was accepted without
a dissenting vote.
At 2.27 Secretary Gleason started
the roll call of counties for the nom
nation for Governor.
Albany County yielded to Living
Frank x. Cook, of Genessee. placed
in nomination James w. Wadsworth,
Jr. $50,
At the mention of Wadsworth's
name there was a round of applause.
Mr.. Wadsworth's Congressional dis
trict came to its feet cheering, but AL
bany was the only other delegation to
rise.
Shortly after the Wadsworth
speech was finished, Senator Page
took the platform and nominated
Governor Hughes.
Judge J. L. Moore, of Fort Plain,
put in nomination John K. Stewart.
Of Amsterdam. an ex-Republican Con-
eressman. Charles E. Nichols, of
Scboharie County, seconded the NOM
nation.
Then the roll was called with the
result that Mr.. Hughes received S27
votes, Speaker Wadsworth l51 and
former REPRESENTATIVE Stewart 81. A
large sized uproar in the convention
followed when Mr.. Barnes, of Albany,
moved to make the nomination unan-
imous.
The nomination of the remainder
of the ticket was made without fric-
ton. The contest for Secretary of
State showed 661 votes for Chairman
Parsons man. Samuel S. Koenig: 263
for former Senator Barnes, Of Rens-
| selaer, and SIS for Mayor Samuel
Carlson, of Jamestown. There was
no opposition to Mayor Gaus, Of AL
bany. for State Comptroller. Queens
County attempted to butt into the
program on the question Of State
Treasurer, but was able to muster
only 81 votes for H. Homer Moore
against 927 for Senator Thomas B.
Dunn. of Rochester. After Judge AL
bert Haight, of Erie, had been pre-
sented for Associate Judge of the
Court of Appeals, vacancies in the
electoral ticket were filled, a notifica-
ton committee was appointed, of
which William Berri is chairman, and
the convention adjourned.