New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-11
Says He'll "FoIIoW Hughes's
Footsteps" in Compelling
Democrats to Make
Good Party Pledges.
FIGHT SET FOR DECEMBER
Governors Hint That Appoint
ments Will Depend Upon Re-
suit of Contest Has Ap-
palling Effect on Tam
many Contingent.

many Contingent
From STAR Correspondent Of The Tribune J
Albany. Nov. 10.-Governor Glynn
announced to-day that he was not sat
isned with the Democratic legislative
record on direct primaries, that he Gid
not believe the present legislation full
filled the party's platform pledges and
that he INTENDED to follow Hughcs's
footsteps" in attempting TO put real
direct primary legislation through the
present Legislature at the final session
Of the Senate and Assembly in Decenl-
Der.
The Governors surprising announce
ment Of direct primary campaign
came voluntarily in an interview upon
his general plans. He was asked
whether he agreed with the idea OF :he
legislative leaders that the present
Legislature could not accomplish any
thing except by meeting in an ad-
iourned and final session Of the extra
session some time in December He
said that he thought that was probably
that at the meeting in December the
Legislature should clean up all fnan-
cial legislation so as TO start the new
year with clean slate and allow the
nF 70 chance
10 handle financial matters next year
without airy entangling hang-overs.
To Wait for Special Session.
The Governor had been asked mo-
ment before about the possibility OF
appointments to the several places now
open or in which hold-overs from the
Dix administration are still in office,
and he had said that he would not send
in any Of these appointments until the
December meeting Of the Legislature.
Then he added that he would not send
in any message embodying his direct
primary views until that session.
your appointments would not have
TO wait upon any direct primary pro
gramme. would they" he was asked.
"They might" Governor Glynn re-
piled.
81 want 10 make il clear while YOU
are here that / won't use patronage TO
get any legislation ! am in favor Of. |
said that in every interview ! gave
20, ha n Tho
position Of turning a sOmersault. So
that YOU won't misunderstand II. l
want 10 say again that I won't use
any patronage to force my ide on
anybody.
Governor Hughes did not do II and
don't intend to do II. intend to fol-
low Hughes's footsteps in that respect.
He fought along for q principle and he
did not use patronage 10 force his ideas
through. I intend to follow his foot
steps along that line
Tammany leaders who heard II
Glvnn's announcement that he intended
10 follow I'm Hughes's footsteps in his
fight for direct primary legislation put
on glum faces when they recalled how
Governor Hughes vert out and fought
his own organization throughout the
state on tina. issue. Senator Robert
f. Wagner. who became Lieutenant
Governor when Glynn moved into the
chair left vacant by Suffers impedch-
ment. but who is still the active leader
Of the Tammany forces in the Senate,
appeared to be nightly cheered up
when he learned that the Governor had
in a measure repudlated the inference
that his statement meant that he would
starve the organization on appoint
ments unless he got his direct primary
legislation.
Wagner was more thar eager to declare
for cooperation with Glynn's programme
as soon as IT was explained To him by
the reporters, and ignored fatty the Blau-
welt bill which the Tammany majority
jammed through both the regular and
extra sessions this year Senator Blau-
welt. the sponsor for the bill. which
Glynn had just declared did not meet
with his ideas of the Democratic platform
pledges. was in the Executive Chamber
when the Governor held his interview. but
he was silent.
Sneaker Smith Doubtful