New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-31
And the State Primaries
Still Are Sixteen
Months Distant.
WHITMAN'S NAME
HEADS THE LIST
His Presidential Aspirations by
No Means Forgotten, He Is
playing Safe"

from sian Correspondent ~ The Tribune
Albany, May 80 With the 1916 pri-
maries sixteen months away and most
persons worrying about their vacations,
Republican politicians in this state al
ready are focusing their attention on
the 1915 state primaries.
Twelve men have announced. either
70 friends or through 'riends, tf t
they are in the race for TIE Republican
nomination for Governor, md three are
in the field for the Republican nom
nation for United States Senator.
For the toga now worn by the Demo
cratic Senator, janice A. O'Gorman,
William Barnes has no longer any
aspirations. He has Withdrawn from
the race IN favor of Frederick &. Tan
ner. who succeeded him as state chair
man. But Tanner has two rivals also
from New York City eX-Representa-
tive William H. Calder, Of Brooklyn,
who ran for the nomination last year.
and Senator ogden l.. Mills, Of Man
haitian. who led the fight against
Barnes.
Candidates for the nomination for
Governor are Governor Charles s.
Whitman, ex-senator Harvey d. Hin
man. Lieutenant Governor Edward
Schoeneck. Francis VI. Hugo. Secretary
Of State; Eugene VI. Travis. State Con
troller; ElOn X. Brown, president pro
TEN. of the Senate; Thaddeus NJ.
Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly; Egg
=
erai; exNayor Seth Low Of New YORK.
John II. Finley. president OF the Sta o
Department Of Education; Nicholas
Murray Butler. president Of Columbia
University. and Jacob Gould Schurman,
president Of Cornell University.
The chief claim most of these men
have to the high Offices to which they
aspire is that they are holding or have
held some office. Four pedagogues IN
the race for Governor are Messrs. But
Ter. Finley. Schurman and Low. OF
these the last named two are leading
members Of the Constitutional Con-
yentiOn.
That Governor Whitman is after a
denomination does not mean that he
has lost his Presidential aspirations
not in the least. He is playing safe. "
He feels and most of his friends
openly admit--that nothing short Of a
miracle. a sort Of political Becker case.
will make him Presidential posi-
billty
A Republican we'll known in the ma
ton said at social dinner last week:
TO be restored 20 the public esteem
in which he was held on January l
Whitman must do something between
now and the end of the next legislative
session that will make him as great
an idol as Governor Hughes was when
he was Governor. Just wha' that some
thing is ! confess do not know. That
such a chance will arise doubt. His
political future is 10 longer, as II was
on January /. in his own hands. Il is
now in the hands Of fate"
Should tho nomination for Governor
fall TO Whitman or some other New
York CITY man the nomination for
United States Senator would fall to
an upstate man. With the withdrawal
Of Barnes from the senatorial contest
no man north Of the Harlem has en-
tered the lists.
The retirement OF Barnes was due 70
the verdict Of the Syracuse jury and
the dragging forth by Colonel Roose-
welt of the skeletons the Albany man
thought safely tucked away in his
secret closet. His friends admit that
Barnes made a mistake in suing Roose-
welt for libel. and his retirement from
the race for Senator is regarded here
as his admission that his friends are
right That he still will try to WELD
power in state and national affairs
despite his inability TO convince twelve
men that the Colonel lbelled him in
calling him unpleasant political names
no one here doubts for a moment.