New-York tribune., 1908-01-26
HUGHES FIGHT STILL ON
ODELL VERSUS PARSONS.
Governors Friends Distrust Latter
Kings Committee Blackboard.

| While the way is clear for the Endorsement or
| Governor Hughes as the choice of the Repub-
lcan County Committee for the Presidential
nomination, it looks if there would be warm
| primary fight all along the line in this county
between the so-caIled organization under
the Parsons banner and the Hughes State
League largely composed of the friends OF ex-
| Governor Odeu but reinforced by a large num-
her of tndependent Republicans who care moth
ing either for Parsons or Odel as poiltlcai lead
ers, but who desire the nomination of the Gov
ernor purely on the grounds Of good govern
ment.
Timothy I, Woodruff chairman of the Repub
Ucan State Committee, who returned yesterday
afternoon from the Adirondacks said that be-
ginning Tomorrow, he would be at the state
committee headquarters, in East goth street.
every day from 10 to IL and from to o'clock
Asked II he was ready to make statement
with reference to his attitude toward Governor
Hughes as q Presidential possibility, he said
that he had nothing whatever to say. and di-
rected attention to previous utterances. when
he said that the chairman OF the state com
mittee had no right 10 interfere in matters OF
party policy. which should properly be left to
the voters themselves.
Mr.. Woodruff said last fall that in national
affairs the Republicans owed strict allegiance TO
President Roosevelt and in state affairs sim
liar allegiance to Governor Hughes, and that
the policy of the two executives. respectively IN
the nation and in the state should be Loyalty
supported by every Republican. His friends say
that he Is personally friendly to Secretary Taft
and that If he can do with propriety he will
further the interests OF the Secretary. They
are confident, however. that chairman of the
Republican State Committee he VIII preserve
strictly independent attitude.
II Governor Hughes is to receive an fndorse-
ment from the Kings County Republican gem
eral committee at once his friends will have to
force the organization into line for him. When
the general committee in Kings adjourned this
month II was to meet in April, the commit
tee does not ordinarily hold February or March
meeting. The April meeting will be after the
spring primaries to choose delegates to the state
convention, which is to elect deiegates-at-Iarge
to the national convention. When Jacob Bren-
ner, chairman of the executive committee of the
general committee asked last night about
the probability Of Endorsement Of Governor
Hughes by the general committee at special
meeting he said:
Il don't think there will be any special meet
ing Of the county committee TO indorse the Gov
ernor. Why should there be? Now that the
Governor has announced himself as q candidate
II is reasonable to assume that If his friends
want an Endorsement of him at the next meet
Ing of the county committee they Will get II. He
is favorlte candidate and is entitled TO the
support Of the delegates from this state. 1t was
only natural that the Republicans should hesi- |
tate about indorsing him until they knew lust |
where he stood. IN his speech at the Repu blican
Club on the night OF January 81 he will un- |
doubtedly make known his views on national |
Republican policies. After that / assume that |
all the New York State delegates will be in |
favor Of having his name presented at the ma