The sun., 1916-09-28
REPUBLICAN STATE
CAMPAIGN OPENS
Leaders at Saratoga Springs
for Conference to Pick
Electors.
WILLIAM BARNES ABSENT
Mr.. Hughes aud Gov. Whit
&, man To Address Delegates
Tonight.
WILLIAM BARNES ABSENT

SARATOGA SPRINGS. y. Y. Sept. e.
When Charles u. hughes reaches Sara
toga Springs tomorrow he will flnd
gathered the representatives OF a re-
united Republican party such as existed
before lie retired to the Supreme Court
bench. Practically every local Repub-
: lican leader throughout the state II here
tonight or will be here by the time the
Republican State conference meets In
Convention Hall tomorrow except Will
lam Barnes. who for the first time since
OF Republicans. Mr.. Barnes Is not II
member of the State committee, II APP
parently at his own request he was not
sent as a delegate by the Albany Repub-
leans.
State Chairman Frederick G. Tanner
will call the conference to order at noon,
when Nathan J.. Miller of Syracuse. who
resigned from the Court of Appeals 10
resume tho practice OF law. will make
the keynote speech for the State cam
puign. and incidentally. his friends hope.
%inauguratc n movement which will lead
to his nomination for Governor two
ear hence.
sioS. whitman will come from Albany
tomorrow afternoon and Mr.. Hughes
will arrive about d o'clock. Chairman
amer plans to nav a session OF the
conference from noon TIL . o'clock, when
n committee on platform and credentials
will be appointed to report to the ron
ference at $50 O'Clock. at which time
the candidates for Presidential electors
will be announced. the platform adopted
and the business of the conference con-
ciuded. Thus the delegates will Ice able
to get an early Inner and devote the
evening to listening to Mr.. Hughes and
GOV. whitman review the issues OF the
campaign.
Features of the Platform.
The conference will go on record UNI
eQuivocally in opposition to the ADAM
son eight hour law and the abandon
ment OF the principle OF arbitration of
labor disputes by the Wilson Admins
tration. Tho platform likewise will con-
tain the kind of "A protective
tariff plank. 1t also will uphold the at
titude OF Gov. Hughes Upon al public
questions. with the possible exception OF
suffrage and will commend to all Re-
publicans and Progressives the upbuild-
ing administration OF Gov. Whitman
following the four years OF Democratic
disaster.
The suffrasists want the convention 10
indorsc fatty their cause. but the pre-
liminary draft Of the platform simply
ropOse hat the suffrage referendum
shall be approved by the next Iegisla-
ture and submitted to the voters. The
suffragists were here to welcome the first
~ M pf IeIapnfls tn-ltN and tho II rect vs.
were cmblazonci with suffrage banners
Among the leaders here We're Mrs. Nor
man de X. Waiteholise. Mrs. James Lees
Laidlaw and Mrs. Raymond Brown. \
big suffrage rally was held tonight.
There IL a general demand for IA plank
IN the platform condemning the Glynn
direct primary law. while there are some
who feel that 1t would be unwise to adj
vocate a change in the present direct
primary law pending the selection OF n
Republican President. There has been a
suggestion that such "a course might dis
courage Procressivcs returning to the
Republican party, but state Chairman
Tanner insisted to-nigh, that he has al
ways consistently opposed al attitude by
any Republican tina would keep a single
Progressive on, OF the Republican party
The State chairman made II plain tina,
IL there Is a change In the direct primary
law he favors a new primary Law alone
the Ines of the fnal Hinman-Green bill
urged by Gov. Hughes. which failed Of
passage only after the hardest Kind OF
. hght.
In the national field tho platform in
dorses the platform Of tn" Republican
national convention at Chicago n /!
generous In its praise of the nomination
of Gov. Hughes for President. Another
plank sets forth the inequalities OF tn
snHthods OF raising none for the nail
tcnance OF the national Government ant
shows that the enormous increase q
taxation by such schemes as the incom,
fax and other new met hods bears NOR,