New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-29
Wilcox and Whitman
Sidetrack Plank
at Saratoga.
ELECTORS NAMED
ASHARMONY RULES
Vacancies Left for Moose
Women Gain Partial
Victory.

rr.-, So Correspondent oi The Tribune
Saratoga. Sept. 2s.-The "old guard
last out at the Republican unofficial
eorvention here to-day. William X.
Wilcox. chairman of the Republican
National Committee. and Governor
whitman succeeded in sidetracking the
,ropOsed plank in the platform direct
Cd against the present state primary
system.
Frederick C. Tanner, state chairman,
backed by a strong following in the
,,,,s committee, had framed resolu-
zion fsvoring the restoration OF the
nominating convention, with the cor
,se.ive features advocated by Charles
=. Hughes when he was Governor, but
i died in committee. The subject was
not mentioned in the platform.
The woman suffrage leaders did not
ce, all they wanted. The convention
.dop,ed plank merely fsvorinS the
adoption Of the suffrage resolution by
the next legislature, thus insuring the
resubmission Of the suffrage amend
ment at the 1917 election.
The convention did not pledge the
party to even work for suffrage. The
women wanted a simon-pure indorse-
nent Of -for-women as a party
pledge. as well as a submission Of the
question 10 the next Legislature. Mem
bers Of the State Woman Suffrage
party, as we'll as representatives Of the
aantis," appeared before the committee
on resolutions 10 debate the question.
The fight in the committee over the
form Of the suffrage plank was bitter.
Leaders Avoid Controversy.
The leaders who prevailed were sue
rssful in smoothing over all threat
,,ed differences on matters to come
ssfore the convention and keeping out
, declaration which might lead to ma
tonal controversy. The convention
Va enthusiastic, but the absence Of
ans debatable questions on the floor
robbed old-timcrs of excitement they
had hoped for.
The name Of Hughes, when first men
toned by Chairman Nathan L. Miller,
eJudge Of the Court of Appeals, was
thesred for several minutes. The
name Of Governor Whitman was warm
y received, but not with the same en-
husiasm. Chairman Miller made a
telling attack on the Wilson Admin
s,-s;ion and commended the admin
',ra,ion Of Governor Whitman.
The persistent effort 20 keep con-
iroyersiai matter out Of the convention
led the state committee TO postpone
q decision as 70 putting Progressive
electors On the Presidential electoral
,.eke; Jonn McGrath, secretary 20
George " Perkins, insisted upon eight
Bul! Moose electors among New York's
torty-:ve. The state committee left
SIX vacancies on the ticket. and ad-
jogrned 70 meet in New York on Oc-
'obsr Q, when the matter will be
settled II is likely compromise will
Be reached and seven Progressive
'fosen a. electors.
Moose Suggested as Electors.
The Progressives unoficially sug-
gssied here as Presidential electors
we're William II. Hotchkiss, Oscar 5.
s.nsgs, Virgil Kellogg, of Watertown;
nAiiam u. Childs, Brooklyn; Ernest
= Cawcroft, jamestown; Horace ).
tnnklnson, Syracuse, and Frank I. IL
hson. Rochester.
The two Presidential electors at
sgc chosen by the convention were
sscfge u. Eastman, Rochester, and
4sonas =. Proctor. Utica.
ne other electors selected are:
~ .li4renee u. Mackay, Roslyn; Robert
higbie, Jamaica; stephen J. Bur-
nrss, William ". Owens, Lewis VI.
sage. Edmund W. Voorhis, Charles
.. sertou, Brooklyn; Joseph Spatt. An
MTaio D'Alessandro, Louis Jacobson,
ss,.....i1m Henkel, Charles l.. Bernheimer,
sANam &. Hecht, Samuel VI. Feiber,
vishk X. Bowers, Ernest r. Eilert, New
sof<; Richard W. Lawrence, The
ss'Sa1; Alexander s. Cochran, Yonkers;
y ?. Hamilton, Sterlington; Joseph
.ss,eh, Newburgh; Joseph u. Sehoon-
s,essfi Kingston; Louis Waldman,
tesny; y. II. Cluett, Troy; Howard 6.
,ssNsy, Cloyerswlle; Herbert g. Aid
p-r' Gouverneur; Charles ID. Bingham.
esfriDNn; Seth e.. Heaeock, lion;
;ysyIze A. Kent. Binghamton; Nathan
r,.Mller, Syracuse; Frederick ". Crit
11h, PALMYRA: Alaugon B HoughtOn,
M,fhing; James Could Cutler, Roehes-
~ Nslcott J. Humphrey, Warsaw;
IN Walker, George =. Urban. Buf-
-, Henry H. Persons. East Aurora;
1flin J. HcCsrty, Silver Greek.
.hs Development Of serious trouble
~ The contest for the leadership Of
,.Ipzs County Was avoided BY The
n'hi'tfe On credentials by passing
al nstier along ~ the law committee
4. re tt@te committee, where ~ will
esti1ed later. Meanwhile the com
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