The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
WHITMAN-BARNES
SHOWDOWN WAITS
ON CONVENTION
New York Delegates Get To-
gpthcr-GOvernOr Is
Chairman.
HAS MAJORITY or
VOTES FOR HUGHES

CHICAGO. June e-The great Whit
mar Barnes showdown on the election OF
4 national committeeman did not ma
|,t-illize in the caucus Of the New York
delegation tonight.
Agreeing TO postpone the election until
after the nomination OF the Presidential
candidate. the delegates organized Tor
the convention with a Ane but superficial
appearance OF unanimity. The Governor
we chosen chairman and the other ofn-
GERS picked without dissent. Chauncey
Depew made n harmony speech.
The Governor is believed to have a
ma jorlty for Hughes for the nomination.
ard If 40 he has Barnes and his Root
campaign beaten. He also would have
vote to elect himself chairman OF the
delegation. There again he has
trlumphed over Mr.. Barnes. who said a
few weeks ago that the New Workers.
would never put Mr.. whitman at their
head when they got to Chicago.
But in the matter OF Herbert Par
sons. his candidate for national commit
teeman. the Governor found to-day that
he cou,dn', elect him in to-night's eau
Gus. Too many Hughes delegates sided
with too many Root delegates in agree
ing with Mr.. Barnes that there was no
sense IN New Workers. going into the con-
veniion with their hair rumpled and
the.r collars torn.
Determined this morning to put the
Parsons election through tonight. the
Governor and his war board found out
this afternoon in a conference attended
By only thlrty-seven delegates tina they
could not do Il. The Barnes crowd
Claimed fifty votes for %postponing the
election Of national committeemen and
seemed 10 have them too.
Governor Gives in.
So the Governor acquiesced in the
notion OF ~postponement for the sake
Of harmony and In order tina the ma
uonal committeeman when elected would
- sure TO be acceptable to the candidate
ts President"
Brown Loses Credentials.
IN their attempt to bowl Mr.. Barnes
elear out Of the alley the Whitman folks
schemed to-day to deny to Senator f.
r. Brown. who was scheduled to head
New York's members of the credentials
committee. any place IN the organization
OF the delegation. At the last moment
they relented to the extent OF giving
6enator Brown a place on the rules
committee and substituting Congressman
Charles NJ. Hamilton Of Chautauqua for
Tie committee on credentials. This was
part OF the harmony programme.
Fred Tanner, who was to have gone
"a the rules committee according to
programme withdrew to nah the new
new arrangement possible.
So the officers elected o-n!ght are
Chairman of Delegation-Gov. Whit
Committee on Observation-Disclosures
Wadsworth.
Committee on Rules-Senator Brown.
Committee on Permanent Organiza-
tion-Walter Weatherby.
Vice-Chairman for New York-will-
ian Berri.
Nominee-George w. Aldridge to notify
V'ce-presidential nominee. J. Sloat Fas-
ee,i.
The delegation met in the Florentine
room of the Congress Hotel. Gov. Whit
man was nominated for chairman by
Frederick c. Tanner and Herbert Par
sons himself moved the postponement of
thA election OF a national committeeman.
Mr.. Barnes. presiding It the start
- national committeeman. turned the
gavel over 10 the Governor and the
caucus prope was ended In . few min
utes.
Party Facing Crtsis.
Mr.. Depew, hailed as our favorite."
hid he had been going TO conventions
for ffty-two years and never had seen
q more important one than this one was
going TO be, Thu party was meeting In
the greatest Of crises.
And the party must meet this crisis
In q way to take our country out OF
the miserable position before the world
which It now occupies. We've been
drifting. drifting, without a policy TO
make US respected. nor one that would
protect us In a n~eighboring nation where
Americans are entitled to our protec-
ton, It's the happiest thing In my life
that 7 am 4 delegate from New York
o. this time"
Senator Wadsworth said the platform
was going TO have strong planks for
military and Industrial preparedness.
Job Hedges made a solemn speech and
finished while a band in front Of the
Weeks headquarters outside the door
tore of The End Of a Perfect Day.
The Whitman men are now claiming
fortv-six Hughes votes in the delegation
n 'hirty-ninc for Root and two for
Roosevelt. Joseph De Bragga OF Queens.
vii was marked 'un~certain,' Is now
rs''d as for Root aud George W. Fair
chld ~ Dneonta has declared himself
~ Root. But the Barnes-Wadsworth
CONTINUATION III their private talk are