New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-15
DELEGATES DEPART FOR
CHICAGO CONVENTION
Solid Taft Train. Except for
Prendergast, Says KoenIg;
Ward Statement Absurd.

The New York State delegation special
for Chicago left the Grand Central Station
at 1905 o'clock yesterday. ten Pullmans
and two diners hitched on TO lodge and feed
the marty on the twenty four hour trip.
Pulling out Of New York II was prac-
ucally a solid Taft train. about the only
exception it made by way Of carrying any
Roosevelt votes 10 the convention city being
| in the person OF Controller william a.
Prendcrgast. VINO is so openly for the colo
mel that he IS scheduled 10 put him In
nomination.
Three Pullmans attached 10 the regular
i12:40 y. m train carried out the Roose-
A.. welt train at that hour, but the IT. H.
! speciaIr was lacking in men who will have
{ vote at Chicago Mr.. Prendergast chose
! To GO with the crowd Of Taft delegates
rather than travel later with his own sym
pathizers.
! Samuel $. Koenig, Republican county
! chairman, asserted that the statement Of
William /. Ward, made in Chicago yester-
dav. that Roosevelt would get wentylfour
| votes from the New York County delega-
ton was so far wrong that 1t was absurd
I'VE are going to Chicago to nominate
a candidate for President Of the United
| States" said Mr.. KoeniG. and | expect
TO see President Taft renominated. Every
delegate from New York County. with the
possible exception OF one viii vote for TAFT
and even that one may vote for TAFT on
the rollcall.'
Edwin Merritt jr. one Of the four dele
| rates-at-large from New York state was
/ to catch the special at Albany.
Among the district delegates from New
! York County tho train were Samuel $
Koenig. president Of the county committee !;
Otto r. Barnard. Frank X. Bowers, ex-
| Congressman william II. Douglas. Herbert
Parsons Ezra j. Prentice, Martin Stein
thai. Frederick G. Tanner and James l..
| Wells.
Among those from Kings County were
A. T.. Vass. r. II. Pforr. T. r. Lineburgh,
NJ B. Campbell a. r. Hobley. Congressman
William NJ. Calder, Jacob Bremen. Lewis
NJ Swasey, Clarence r. Smith and r. Linde.
Other delegates on board were Frank o..
| Anderson, of jamestown: #. n. Burden, OF
Queens Borough President George Crom-
well Of Richmond. Congressman George W.
Fairchild OF Oneonta Congressman George
r. Malby. Of Ogdensburg; Frank c. Stew
ems. OF Attica. and Albert NJ. Patterson. of
Waterloo
! r. w. b. Brown and Charles W. Ander-
| son, Of New York city. were also on the
train. and so was John Boyle. jr.. secre-
tary Of the county committee and an alter
nate delegate
| Among others travelling in the party were
ex-senator George r. Agnew. A. p. Colvin.
C. X. Lexow, Lewis II. Pounds. Commits
sloner Of Public Works. in BROOKLYN Jo-
seph Levenson. Albert Ottinger, W. VI. Ten
Fyck ". II. Wadhams and George w.
Wanmaker.
MANY Of the delegates had their wives,
and some their children with them. and the
Youngsters were apps rently enjoying the ex-
element as much az their elders. In tho
long string CT cars there was one put aside
exclusively as n smoker and mems club
car and another equally as exclusively re-
served for a club car for the women
Earlier in the day. leaving the same sta
ton al S.45 a. m. Louis J.. Hammerling,
who is a Taft delegate from the 10Th Dis
trict OF Manhattan, took out party In a
nr,yate car. Among them were Samuel
s,rasbourger also a delegate John j.
, ,,ors Republican leader Of the 33d Assem-
bIv District: Louis slverstefn and ex-Con-
gressman William S. 'Bennet all of them
| strong for Taft
The Roosevelt party which went In three
special cars attached to the 1910 train IN
| cluded Oscar s. Straus, with his wife and
son. Richard Harding Davis. William Hep
hurn Herbert Mcclellan. Hugh Gordon Mil
Ter and T.. l.. kincald
| Alexander Wolf, Republican district lender
a, the 4th Assembly District, and Taft
delegate. got to the station platform about
two minutes after the departure Of the Taft
special lie was bemoanins his luck. when
a. WAS suggested to him that the Roosevelt
marty were leaving on a train that went
forty minutes later, and that he might lind
accommodations there. Mrs. Wolf declared.
hovever. that she would not have him go
o,, with the Roosevelt crowd, so the dele
oate and his wife waited over for an after
noon train.
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