Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26
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CONFER ON HUGHES
sPicK BEST voTE-cETTER" IS
EDlcT OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT.
NATIONAL POLITICS
TAKES A BACK SEAT
Big Conditions RELOCATED to the Rear
When Chief Is Called Upon to Rec
ommend Man for New York Gov.
ernorship.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 21.-Re.
publican national politics were SUBJ
ordinated Thursday to consideration
of the New York governorship at one
OF the most important conferences
that has been held at Sycamore Hill
this season. The first visit which
James s. Sherman, the Republican
candidate for yice-president, has made
to President Roosevelt since the con-
ventfon was the occasion for a gath
ering of a number of other figures
prominent in Republican affairs.
Among these were Chairman Frank
H. Hitchcock of the Republican ma,
tional committee; Representatives
William S. Bennett and w. w. Cocks,
William J. Youngs, United States dis
trict attorney for the eastern New
York district; George J. Smith, for
merly a member of congress and re-
Gently appointed treasurer of the
state committee; Robert Bacon, as
sistant secretary of state, and Michael
]. Dady of Brooklyn. Captain Came
ron MGR. Winslow, commander of the
battleship New Hampshire, also was
at Sycamore Hill.
Wants "Best Vote Getter."
President Roosevelt approved of
the policy Of Chairman Hitchcock and
made a number of suggestions in
tended to. further bring out the senti-
men1 of majority of the Republicans
of New York state. Ascertain who
is the man-the best getter-and
not who is not the man." was the sub
stance of his advice.
To this end Chairman Hitchcock has
listened to party'leaders and prominent
Republicans of the state, whether
they are for or against the renomina-
ton of Gov. Hughes. He has exam
ined his state correspondence and has
taken from his letters, such express
sions as bear upon the governorship
question. He has been asked many
times to commit himself, but has de-
clined to do SO beyond insisting that
the man to be nominated shall rep
resent things that the national Repub-
iican party has Endorsed in the Chi
cago platform.
Hughes Matter Considered.
All except Mr. Sherman, Chairman
Hitchcock and Mr.. Smith arrived on
the 1919 p. m. train. Mr.. Smith
brought Messrs. Sherman and Hitch
cock from New York on his yacht but
the entire party met at the Oyster
Bay station and went to Sycamore
Hill in automobiles. Being inter-
viewed at the station, Mr.. Hitchcock
said that the Hughes governorship
question would be considered in the
conference to be held with President
Roosevelt and that he expected that
some announcement could be made
later showing the sentiment voiced
at the gathering. Mr.. Sherman said
he did not care to be interviewed con-
corning the gOvernOrship at this time
as his visit was solely for the purpose
of paying his respects to the presi-
dent. He came by invitation.
New York Situation in Spotlight.
Since Chairman Hitchcock's visit
to President Roosevelt fortnight ago
he has spent considerable time in
consideration of the New York situa-
ton with such state leaders as have
visited national headquarters in New
York. He has visited Mr.. Taft at
Hot Springs, Va, spent several days
at the Chicago headquarters and at
tended the notification of Mr.. Sher-
man at Utica. The governorship
question for New York has been up.
permost in his mind, for he has rea-
ized that, it is one of the first i'm.
portant matters that must be settled
before the national campaign can be
opened in this state. TO all of his
callers he has declared that the ma
tional campaign managers have no
disposition to dictate who shall be the
nominee of the New York state con-
vention but that at the same time it
is his duty to inquire into and deter
mine what is to the best interests of
the national ticket.