New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
Last Years Situation Over Again
in This State.

in This State.
dore,rith regard to the Governor
ship this year is only what was oone WIZ"
70 the Mayoralty last year
7, was realized then that without union oi '"'
snti.Tsmmany elements a Tammany VICTORY III '"'
osrtstn Accordingly a union was ar
ranged last year and ticket acceptaole 10 MI anu
rommanv forces was nominated Idiiin""'
,.,c,orv IN the state this year is equally certain
r,loss there is cooperation among those opposeu
to Tammany.
This YEA, Colonel Roosevelt offers to support
eood Republican for Governor if that sooo Ne'UO
rc.n "a sereeable-to the Republicans general!'
That g. the only way in which a union OF the
.slr.umanv narties can be effected A mutually
agreeable candidate has to be suggested a p''
ross, has TO come from side or from the o'ner'
- both sdes stood upon their dignity ana eacn
u..,,.d n snproach the other cooperation would
be impossible
r, 1vonId have been regarded as treason 10 tue
c,tv II the antiITammany parties last year nau
tprned Yteir backs on each other and gone 'heir
several WAYS Our Democratic friends VINO are
now denouncing measures looking toward co-opera'
ton would have exhausted their vocaouianes OF
condemnation If the Republicans or the Progress
.iros had last wear refused to make common cause
with the other anti-Tammany forces against the
Fourteenth Street boss Colonel Roosevelt was De-
sought then 10 use his influence for Whitman oy inc
very people who are now loudest against the he-
,uhroors r,,nninc q candidate for Governor who
will have Progressive support.
Wherein is the situation different now! Inc
issue IS the same Shall the sta be saved from
Mummy? II il is TO be it can only be by nominal
ing a man who Will have the support OF more thah
one PARTY. If the Republicans refuse the support
Of the Progressives offered in the way 1t IS Win
out conditions and for so good a Republican tnat
no was the leading candidate for the Republican
nomination for another high office than the Gov
ernorship-if the Republicans refuse Progressive
support under such circumstances, on them and not
on the Progressves will rest the responsibility for
dividing the opposition to Murphy and for turning
the state over TO Tammany Hall.
4 union against the forces E corruption Is pos
sible and upon Republican, Republican whose
name was upon everybodys lips as his partys
nrohable candidate for the United States Senator
shin. What more can the Republican party ASK
than the prospect Of victory with one Of It's own
favorite sons:
he ia 70 rect
prmaries which Will come from thinking before
voting In them. Our nelghbor The World which
lie getting ready to do its annual service to Murphy,
sheds the largest tears. 1t didn't damage direct
Of union in advance Of them.
Governor Hughes a good direct primary
man, the father OF direct primaries in this state.
The very people who are now 20 solicitous about
direct primaries used 10 say then, when they were
fighting him, that direct primaries would prove a
curse because they would make fusion impossible
That was count IN the indictment against them
then Now It seems TO be regarded as their singu-
lar virtue to be preserved at any cost that they
prevent fusions. That not the Hughes idea
He believed and said that 1t would be perfectly
possible for parties that wanted to get together
for election to talk II over in advance precisely
As was done in this city last year These old OPP
ponents Of Governor Hughes are very much keener
about the integrity OF direct primaries than he
was now, when il suits their purposes to he So
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