New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-25
Determined That the Repub-
Iican State Convention Shall
Not Be Managed by
WouId-Be Bosses.
SOME OBJECT TO GUTHRIE
Movement Against the Proposed
Temporary Chairman Because
Barnes Suggested Him
Still All at Sea on
State Ticket.


GF'rom a Stan Correspondent Of The Tr.b1ne'
Saratoga. Sept 2I.-Reyolt rroile out
tonight against William -. Guthrie
who has been selected 10y state Chair
man Barnes as temporary chairman Of
the Republican State Convention. which
will open tomorrow noon.
Mr.. Guthrie IS we'll known cor
poration lawyer Of New York City. for
For years the firm handled 'he street
railway business of the Ryan interests
and similar legal work.
The men in the movement against
Mr. Guthrie-which actually is a move
ment against Barnes to that extent
are mostly upstate Republicans of in
dependent prOclyities and a .rofound
idea that no Corporation taint" must
be permitted 10 attach itself To The pro-
ceedings Of this convention. Prom-
nent among them are ex-Scna or Frcd-
erick G. Stevens. who brought Charles
T.. Hughes 10 public attention by en-
gaGing him as counsel for the gas in
vestisating committee. and later served
with distinction as Governor Hughess
superintendent of Public Works and
Senator Charles NJ. Hamilton. IL Chau-
tauqua County, one of the best Of the
younger group of Legislators, now a
candidate for Congress.
Both these men and others have pro-
tested 10 Mr.. Barnes against the sslec-
ton OF Mr.. Guthrie but without result
They have talked over the situation
with upstate men and men from greater
New York, and believe that when the
delegates understand Just what appear
ance Guthrie delivering !. keynote
speech will have the convention may
decide, ii il is Embossed" that some
body else might be wiser choice.
Opposition Unexpected.
Mr.. Guthrie is Barnes's personal So
lection. q choice made after conversa-
tion with various lawyers and others I'm
sympathy with the Barnes views on
saving the constitution and regulating
corporations and political parties. No
opposition TO his election had been eX-
pected from any quarter. A committee
ot the state committee. composed OF
NTessrs. Koenig, Merritt, Odel, Hen
bricks. Aldridge, Daniels and Living
ston was to report his name through
Mr.. Barnes 10 the convention to-mor-
row. and the schedule was that he
should be elected unanimously.
The opposition TO the state chairman
is precisely the opposition voiced py
Mr. Bryan at Baltimore TO the selee-
tion OF Alton b. Parker as temporary
chairman of the Democratic National
Convention. Mr.. stevens. senator
Hamilton and especially the upstate
men who have lined up with them, pc
lieve the Barnes policy regarding a
safe and sane platform and chairman
is entirely wrorg. They argue 1hat
Governor Hughes put this state, so tar
as legislation was concerned, on an eN
tremely high standard, and that he did
his utmost 10 divorce corporations from
politics. The Republican platform OF
1910 was an Endorsement of the
Hughes administration and distinctly
progressive document.
They contend that TOR this conven-
ton to select lawyer who had been
connected with the old railway inter
ests. even if in very slight degree.
would be worse than silly. whatever MS
special qualifications in denouncins at
tacks on the Constitution might be-
Moreover they and many other deie-
gates who are not with them in the ei-
fort to oust Guthrie. have made
plain to-day that the platform should
be no whit retrogressive - co.aAAr.a
with the 1910 document.
Little Effect on Mr.. Barnes.
All this has been told 10 Mr.. Barnes
Apparently it has had little effect OH
him.
What's all this talk about IN attack
on Guthrie?" he queried. 'Wha, Is
il? Are the newspapers going to Civ.
big headlines against him? What d"
these fellows want anyway? some
body who don't know anything and
has never done anything"
MIR. Guthrie of course. is a corpora
ton lawyer" Mr.. Barnes said. mo-
ment later. 81 suppose no man Of any
size In New York doesn't get corpora
ton business, or wish he had IT, But
he is also professor of constitutional
law at Columbia. Don't forget that.
What if he was in Cravath's office? So
was Charles L. Hughes"
Thereafter Barnes apparently dis
missed the subject from his mind, but
it is deemed sufficiently important by
many of the men here to be the subject
of a midnight conference with Senator
Root.
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