New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-20
Says if Colonel Runs Tie
Will Need Best Men
to Frame Laws.
PLACE FOR WOMAN
IN ASSEMBLY PLAN
Four EX.GOvernOrS Named "a
Roosevelt Aids-Acts OF
State SOlOnS Scored.

+ Colonel Roosevelt decides TO run
for Governor this fall i; is tho hope
Of George Henry Payne. who managed
the publicity campaign in this city Tor
the Colonel in 1919, that he VIII have
srca. Assembly WORTHY Of him.
Mr. PAYNE. who ran for Assembly and
for Congress in The BrorX. and who
l.. orc OF the leading Psogressivcs OF
Tho -.ate. ha. written letter 70 Colo
mel Rcosavelt expressing this hope. and
he names some Of III, men and one
voma,- whom he would like to see
elected TO The Assembly in the event
Of the Colonel running.
Mr. Payne picks among inc oes' %, o.
al parties for Worthy men 10 'il ~ tnc
lov.eY house. and in his list are the
rc,r 1i,.irp ex-Governors of tho state
besides The Colorel-W William Sulzer
Jobn 4. Dix. b. B. Odell and Horace
White.
Tho re; Of his list follows:
Mrs. q. ". p. Belmont cor some other
equally distinguished sufragettel' Dr.:
Nicholas Murray Butler. president Of
Columbia University: Henry l.. Slim
son. Vincent Aston. Paul WarburG'
bald Jaync Hill. Oscar Strsus. Will
lam II. Hotchkiss. Or. Albert SHAW.
Goorce ". Perkins. Frederic X. Cou-
dert Harvey D. Hlnman. William r.
Wilcox. Bird :. Coler. Henry l.. Stod-
Gard. William Halpin. Frank Bird
Edward Everett Hale. Dean kirchwey,
T VI. Davenport. Amos Pinchot. Carlos
Alden. Horace Wilkinson. Regis Post
DR. Stebbin-. Virgil Kellogg. cambridge
Colby. Montgomery Hare, +. j. Mcguire
Cbeunccv J. Hamlin. Robert Grlcr Mon
roc. George Gillespie. Morris Hillqut:
Everett J. Wheeler and Charles EdWard
Russell. A., ~
From the above il IL seen that NJ
PAYNE would give the Progressive n d.
dorsement 70 those OF all shades o.
nolitics Republican. Democratic. FRO
hioitionist. Socialist and woman SUI
fragc. c.1o
mel. e-plans why he select men. y"
matter what their political affiliations
rro-idcd they have "a distinguished
record Of public service. TO run ior
Assemble. The explanation IS ma.
there -rould be al ADEQUATE setting
i9r Tie Colonel.
"'Chc men who are calling on YOU 10
r.ato . sacrifice for the state should
,lso makes sacri:ccs. \ great GoF-
rruor dealing Ni.h the Leg stature con
trolled bv hidden bosses would he al
unhappy spectacle. # you eN-Presl-
don't o nc United States. first citizen
Of .he .tale will agree % run Tor Gov
emo, here should be a Legislature Of
the biggest men intellectual, political,
financial Of the state.
and Il that their sacrifice would be
t.. no We. commensurate "ith you're.
at world be easy TO make up list
Of men who would make a great A..
eeDbly an Assembly Of record Tor all
times. To ash the first men Of he
statc 10 run for the Senate would I'M
plv two-year service which thoy
might with some color OF reason reIuse
70 contribute on he other nand. Win
an Assembly composed OF educated
men. cS-Covcrnors statesmen ana
rnaucicrs. the Senate nominee "ooIG
of necessity be mon OF higher charac-
Ter han tho political BACK. VINO 40"
crowd the capital elevators W'th Deei
and cigar smo6e.
"The Assembly Of this state D. a Joke:
II is the training school for bosses
0edglings. II hundred or more men
we're to agree 20 give in the spirit OF
Jury duty portion of their time 10
the state the session would not last
fftv days. the state would be saved
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars. an
surd legislation would be laughed 10
B. death at its birth. corruption would
become Gargantuan memory ana
perhans. who knows We might nave
hat strange and unheard-of thing =
legislative body with Imagination and
an idea"
The platform Mr.. Payne would have
consists Of one plank:
"The States Business.