The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-11
HUGHES WILL
Outbreak Against Hin days State Convent
 Headed Off.
OUTLOOK WAS DUE
Instructions for Taft in WestcE County Caused Fear of
 Stampede.

NSN iplh, ApTll lU.--Tne pOlitlcal mosphere on this, the eve of the II publican state convention has bdI heaVy with rumors of dissenslon, dI Tor a time to-day there were stolI warnings of a fight on the conventt| floor to-morrow agast the endorl ment of Governor Hughes for the prI idontial nomination. Tonight the has cleared and the original progrA will be carried out, probably withou ' hitch.
 Reports of an upsetting of the py| arranged plans to endorse Gov. HuglII developed from opposition in cert | quarters 10 those slated for delega at large. A meeting of the executI| committee of the Hughes league which resolutions were passed leavA| the selection of delegates at large the state convention, and the arriJ| of Congressman J. Sloat Fassett,
 Chcmung from Washington, with reI| lutlons endorsing Governor Hughes president, and commencing the Il| tional and state administrations cleI| ed the situation of It's uncertainty. N| lowing meeting of the republidl state committee tonight. to prep1| the conventions temporary roll, XII best opinion obtainable from the pd| tical leaders was that the conventf| tomorrow would be harmonious a| the program of endorsing Gov. HugI and naming General Stewart L. Wod' ford and former Mayor Seth Low, this city, Frederick R. Hazard Syracuse, and Edward H. Butler
 Buffslo, as delegates at large WI their alternates to the republican rE tional convention at Chicago woJ likely go through without opposlta from any of the 1909 delegates to Il convention which will assemble in Cd negie hall at Il o'clock to-morr morning.
 Former Lieutenant Governor Tin thy L. Woodruff. chairman of the publican state committee in sta ment tonight said:
 "The convention tomorrow. so as I can observe, will follow the plaI arranged and l know of no oppositl that may develop to the selection the delegates at large already slad for these places.
 "The resolutions to be adopted VI be of national rather than of std character, and they will endorse q administrations of both Gov. HuglI and President Roosevelt. The resol tons will further instruct the dclegaj to present the name of Gov. Hughes| the national convention and to use honorable means to bring about nomination. Until the eleventh hour to-day 1t al peared to tho delegates arriving heI that the conventions machinery vi well greased and that the business the delegates would be expeditI quickly and smoothly. The chail in the situation developed late to-dI when Chairman Woodruff lcarnl that all the delegates at large wf not satisfactory to some of those ldd tilled with the Hughes league.
 Chairman Woodruff made 1t kuo | that such opposition was not only II timely but i'll advised. Coindid with these reports William l.. Wal national committeeman from q state, made statement to the neV paper men that Secretary of War 'Ht would be nominated in Chicago 2 tho first ballot and in the electi| would carry New York, byl 'ait majority. Mir. Ward said to-nlal that thea delegates from WestchesH county would caucus tomorrow n ming before the conventiop ont VIZ stand they would take in the cohv@a | tion The Westchester congressioN district convention yesterday selcct two delegates to the Chicago convf 1 tionton instructed for Secretary ra
 The executive committee of I Hughes league, having been in col munication with Chairman tWoodrl of the republican state committt held a meeting late to-day to Gonsid the selection of delegates at laTge q ter which the following state oufliniI the committees position was ma public:
 "A meeting of the executive So1 mittee of the Hughes league Of N state of New York, was held headquarters Friday afternoon witip very large attendance. It was unal imously agreed to continue the san policy heretofore pursued by u league. which is consistent with tn of Governor Hughes, viz: To leave Il whole matter of suggestions Tn refe ence to the selection of delegates large to the national convention in | hards of the republican organization