Evening star., 1914-08-11
Unique Spectacle Promised for
New York G. O. P. State
Convention.
HARVEY D. HINMAN is TO
SIT WITH THE REGULARS
Candidate at Primaries for Bull
Moose Nomination for Governor to
Seek an Endorsement.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

BY N. o. MESSENGER.
NEW YORK. August 11.-An intensely
dramatic political situation will be pre-
sented when the regular republican state
convention meets at Saratoga. one week
from today. Occupying seat in that
meeting will be Harvey d. Hinman, en-
rolled as republican, but who will later
be a candidate at the primaries for the
bull moose nomination for governor. MT.
Hinman hardly hopes the convention Will
fndorse him. although he expects that the
voters represented by many Of the dele
gates will later support him.
In other sections of the convention hall
will be Charles S. Whitman and Job
Hedges, regular republicans, who Will De
rival candidates In the primaries later
for the regular republican nomination for
governor. Mr.. Humans attitude will be
that of asking the republicans to come
to the bull moosers. The two others will
ask for republican support first and bull
mooser afterward
Harvey D. Hinman is to be confronted
at the outset with very embarrassing
question. 1t will be propounded to him
on the floor of the convention and repeat
ed by newspaper inquirers. The question
will be this:
IF you fail to receive the nomination
at the primaries of the republicans, VIII
you support In the election the man the
republicans nominate?
Mr.. Hinman must. perforce. answer this
query in the negative, as he himself Will
be a candidate for governor in the cleo
tion. the candidate of the bull moosers.
Thereupon he will place himself in the
position of saying to republicans. "Nomi-
nate me as your choice at the primaries
or i will endeavor to beat your candidate
at the polls in November
This 1t is said by republicans here. will
be the logic of the situation and will
work TO the destruction Of the Hinman-
Roosevelt plan of reunion Of the repub-
Gcan factions. This, they declare IS the
fatal rift In the lutte upon which the
refrain of harmony.
Some Against Convention Expression
In inside republican circles here it is
said to be the plan of Senator Root and
State Chairman Barnes to have the con-
vention take no action upon the indorse-
ment of candidates for governor. The
convention is not authorized to do SO and
an expression of favor for either Whit
man or Hedges.
Their idea is that 1t will be eminently
Inappropriate to utter such expression.
It is altogether desirable that the two
aspirants for the nomination should take
their claims before the people in the pri-
maries, for such is the very purpose of
the primaries. and fight out their candi-
dacy there. This information as to the
attitude Of Senator Root and Chairman
Barnes comes to me today from an un-
questionable source.
Next Tuesdays convention is not
conference, nor an unofficial meeting, but
a regular convention to which delegates
have been elected by primaries. 1t will
deal with platform and number of
questions, but not formally with candi-
dacies. Questions relating to candidates.
will be discussed privately in the cot
tages and suites that cluster around the
court of the United States Hotel. where
so many fateful dies have been cast in
the old days of Platt. Odell and the lead
bosses
People at Large in the Saddle.
Col Roosevelt calls William Barnes
a boss now and no doubt Mr.. Barnes
wishes he were a boss. The fact is
that when the primaries are held
September rs. Mr.. Barnes and his en-
tire committee go out of office, to be
supplanted by committeeman chosen at
the primaries. Think of that, to have
the state committee elected by the
people at large. and not named by the
convention.
Don't you suppose it make Thomas
C. Platt and the departed bosses 1urn
over in their graves?
In the convention, the regular re-
publicans, who are for Whitman or
Hedges and are opposed to the Roose-
velt-Hinman plan to have the progress
sive appendage swing the republican
body, intend to go after Mr. Hinman
rough shod. They will charge that he
is trying to nullify the primaries by
his implied threat that the republicans
must take him or find him their enemy
at the polls.
Mr.. Hinman at this moment is going
steadily ahead with his project of win
ming the support of old-line repub-
licans. His latest move was to seek
Benjamin u. Odell jr the last great
admitted republican boss, the end Of
the dynasty. which for wears ruled
New York republicans Mr. Odell is a
boss emeritus now, and hiding like the
shy and modest violet from the politi-
cal spotlight. 1t falls out, however.
that his residuary legatee Of political
power in Orange county, John Il. Rose.
is very friendly to Mr. Hinman. and
IL the scattered odell strength can be
reunited. Mr.. Hinman will find il a
strong. valuable asset
Counties Strong for Hinman,
IL is estimated that Uinman will he
strong In the primaries in Orange Su,-
Ivan, Delaware. Saratoga, Washington,
Chenango, Chemung and Tioga conn.
ties. with some strength in Cayuga and
Madison. But 1t is said that Long
Island. which casts on-fifth of the vote.
will be all Whitman; that the Hudson
lower valley counties will be anti-Hin-
man: that Albany and Rensselaer, will
be hostile TO Hinman. casting one-tenth
of the vote; that Manhattan will GER
ainly be against him. The northern tier
of counties are divided and neutral. while
in the northwest counties Whitman is
said to be strong.
1t is considered an important question
how the sincere bull moosers are tc
reconcile the fact that their proposed
candidate is an enrolled republican n
is declared here that the Saratoga repub-
lican convention will come out uneouiv.
ocally against every bull moose policy
and will oppose all the radical planks
of that party.
Some figures of the waning bull moose
vote in the state are worthy of consider.
alton. In last years by-election in this
state for chief judge the republican.
gained 10000 over their vote of 1912
the democrats lost S0.O0O. and the pro
l. gressives lost 2oO.oO0.
The vote for Roosevelt in 1912 wa
$4,000 although. of course, that was no
All progressive vote. Some of it wa
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