New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-29
SENATE TAUNTS COLONEL
0ix'S Message on DueI| Request
ProvokeS Irony.
UNFAIRNESS CHARGE DENIED
Bracket and Newcomb Declare
There Was No Dishonest
Bipartisan Bargain.

Albany. March Ex-Governor Dix sent
special message TO the Legislature to-day.
/ inclosing the telegram received from
| Charles H. Duell. chairman OF the Roose-
Welt Committee of New York city, suggest
ing that another primary be held there be-
cause Of the delay in delivering ballots a.
the polls. and opinion from Attorney
| General Carmody that legislation may be
| necessary to this end. The Governor makes
no recommendations on the subject. the
/ message says:
Complaint has been made TO me by the
chairman of one OF the Republican COM
mIttccS in New York City that the primary
election there and throughout the state was
mOCkerN. and that by reason or pro-
tracted delay in the delivery Of the ballots >
IN some instances said not TO have been
delivered at all-great numbers or voters
were deprived OF their suffrage. No similar
complaint has been received by me from
any other political party or facton' nor
am ! aware that such general unSatis-
! factory conditions I'm connection with the
primary election are alleged 10 nave en-
listed elsewhere than in the Republican
primaries in New York City.
The Governor quotes Judge Duel's tele-
gram and the opinion Of Attorney General
Carmody. I'm which the latter advised the
enactment Of legislation to give the courts
absolute power to order a new primary and
concludes:
| am credibly informed, and believe, that
the natural confusion attending the first
trial Of the new primary system was ma
terially augmented 10y an elcventh-hour
court decision in an unsuccessful attempt
ION the part of the same committee when
has complained to mel TO compel real
ranGement of the order in which Candi.
dates names were TO appear on the ofiiC tai
urOnOEp1 BOARD I,Ipt
lions. The printer Is said to have mad"
affidavit that. by reason OF the consequent
delay, in settling the form Of the ballot Il
thereby became physically impossible TO
complete the printing in time.
Time has not permitted me 10 inquire
/ whether, under the alleged facts II Is feas-
ible 10 provide for another primary 10 he
held al a future date ny one political party
only IN a single city of the state T there
fore transmit 70 your honorable body All
the facts In my possession as herein set
forth for such consideration and action as.
in your judgment may he deemed proper
and advisable.
The message preCipitated a lively debate
| in the Senate where II finally was referred
70 the Judiciary Committee In the Assem-
| bly,, after the message had been read Mr.
| Bush. Of Chemung. moved to extend the
sympathy Of the House to the members 81
the Republican party who think they have
4 >
Young the minority leader that the mo-
| ton was out of order was accepted by Mr.
Bush. and no further action vas taken.
Judge Duell's reference 10 "a disingenu-
Gus attempt OF bipartisan machine to
escape honest compliance with an ire
! sistible public demand for some means Of
| primary expression on the part Of the
voters" stirred Senator Bracket 10 hot
denial that there had been a bipartisan
bargain. Such a charge he declared to be
| "outrageously false"
"If Judge Duell would only turn and look
at himself As others see him" he added
'he wouldn't write letter Ike that"
! Il see 10y the papers he's raging inter
| rupted Senator McClellsnd
"Whos raging7' asked Bracket.
Theodore" was the reply.
Il deny and denounce.' exclaimed Sen
ator Newcomb. the charge that there was
any unfairness 10 Roosevelt in the recent
primary" He said It was unfortunate hat
some ballots were missing, but that If there
had been no irregularities the colonel would
have been beaten so much the worse.
Il very much regret" said Senator Fer
! ris. that our Governor has been induced
by some one TO spread on the records the
irresponsible screed OF a disappointed cam
| paCn manager"
The Senator repudiated the bipartisan
bargain insinuation and declared that tho
law provided ample adjustment Of griev-
ances through the courts.
Senator Wagner. with mock gravity, de-
| plored the fact that the colonel had no one
on the floor 20 speak for him. Tn which
case" he continued. II suppose I must
perform that kindly office. We need the
colonel TO save us from everlasting de-
struction. If he ie not elected the country
will 20 to the dogs. lie SAYS so himself"
The Senator Contended that the present
law Will do its work all right II il has
fair chance.
Senator Roosevelt declared that there
was ground for the bipartisan bargain"
charge. He recalled that Last year the
Senate passed a primary bill very similar
10 tho Hinman-Green measure, and that
It was a notorious fact that the bill was
defeated in the Assembly by a bipartisan