New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-14
In Response to State
Leaders Governor
Consents to Run.
q. O. p. NOMINEES
ALL IN RACE
Seabury Movement Brand
ed as PrO-WilSOn Cam
paign Dodge.

Governor Whitman and the rest Of
the Republican candidates on the state
ticket, together with the candidate for
United States Senator on the Republi-
can ticket, have been invited by several
Progressive leaders of the state to en-
ter the Progressive primaries in Sep
tember.
Governor Whitman has accepted the
invitation on behalf of himself and his
associates, and in an interview at the
Hotel St. Regis yesterday declared
that he felt certain that he and his
fellow Republicans would easily win
out in the Progressive primaries over
sudge Seabury and other Democrats
and Tammany men who are going to
try to capture the Bull Moose nomina-
tions with the aid of a few disgruntled
Progressives.
The Progressives who have asked
Governor Whitman and others on the
Republican state ticket to enter their
primaries are real leaders, and men
known in and representative OF their
communities. Some are county chair
men, others members of the Progress
sive State Committee, and nearly all OF
them were delegates TO the Progress
sive National Convention at Chicago.
WHY They Want Whitman.
In their invitation, which took the
form of a letter 10 Governor Whitman,
these men threw Judge Sesbury into
the discard and declared that Governor
Whitmans record as Governor entitled
him to the votes of all Progressives.
In doing this, they characterized the
ticket Bainbridge Colby and his col
leagues arc trying to put through as
a pro-Wilson ticket.
az appreciate the compliment ex-
tended TO myself and to the other mem
bers of the state administration By
this request" said Governor Whitman
Yesterday, "more particularly in view
Of the fact that local branch OF the
Progressive organization in one OF the
boroughs of the City of New York sp-
pears to have framed a mixed ticket
for the consideration OF their Progress
sive friends in the apparent hope OF
helping Mr.. Wilson and his Democratic
associates.
at is significant and most crafty
ing that Progressives representing, as
these gentlemen do, the leadership of
their party throughout the whole state
feel that our present Republican ad-
mnistration is their kind Of admins
tration and justifies the Endorsement
which they now give"
The signers of the invitation are:
Horace S. wilkinson, egate-at-large
to the Progressive National Conven-
tion and member of the New York
State Progressive Committee from
0nondsga County;
Virgil X. Kellogg, alternate-st-
large TO the Progressive National
Convention and member Of the
Progressive State Committee from
jefferson County;
William II. Hotchkiss, chairman
of the Progressive State Commit
tee in the 1912 campaign;
Walter A. Johnson, present frogres-
sive State Chairman;
Ernest Cawcroft. State Committee
man. of Chautauqua, and, Deputy state
Treasurer under State Treasurer Call;
B. c. Dunlop, County Chairman of
Rockland County, and one OF the
Progressives elected to the Assembly
in 1918;
". ]. j. Kunzie. q State Committee
man from Erie County;
W. w. Babcock. State Committee
man from Steuben;
Hugh Abbott, State Committeeman
from st. Lawrence;
Frank L. Ellison, State Com
mitteeman from Monroe;
Jesse Fuller, jr., a State Committee
man from Kings;
George Repperger, a State Commit
teeman from Queens;
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