The sun., 1916-09-29
PROGRESSIYES GET
SEVEN N. Y. ELECTORS
Gov. Whitman Compromises
Roosevelt Demand at Sara
tOga Conference.
WAR ON NJ LAW
Platform DenOunccs Wilson
Administration and Ar
raigns Adamson Act.

SARATOGA. y. v, Sept. 2S.-The only
ripples which disturbed the harmony Of
the State Conference Of Republican. here
to-day were the demand Of the Progress
sives for eight instead Of six Of the Pres
dental electors and the attempt to in
ject the direct primary issue into the
campaign.
Col. Roosevelt's secretary. .John W.
McGrath. brough, an ultimatum 10 sara.
toga that the Progressives mus, get a
bigger representation OF the electors.
Frederick Z. Tanner, state chairman.
was not inclined to increase the list of
six. which practically had been agreed
upon in New York city a few days ago.
Vacancies had been lcf, in two Brooklyn
and four Manhattan districts. and II was
agreed that the state committee should
meet in New York Tuesday to name tho
Progressive electors.
Failing TO move Chairman Tanner Nv.
McGrath next saw Gov Whitman and
WILCOX. national chairman. Afterward
Gov. Whitman said the Progressivcs
would be allotted seven electors. and that
one OF those elected by the state COM
'Vees NOtfu NSiku IL ~ sdlu
this compromise would he agreeable to
the Progressives. The additional clector
will come from up State. probably from
Monroe.
Restoring the Convention.
The following plank. designed to effect
a restoration OF the party state conven-
ton. was In the tentative draft OF the
platform:
The people OF the state, recognizing
the nenectiveness and extravaganza ~
the present direct primary law. demand
its amendment.
report by and Of dei,bera;lve action IN
harmony with the principles advocated
by Gov. hughes. reserving. as he pro-
posed. to the individual party mcnbe-
The right Of appeal from nominations
made by committee or nominating COM
mittee."
Herber. Parsons. Senator Wadsworth,
State Senator Elon r. Brown. Represen-
tative James X. Parker Of Washington
and Harold J. Human. Deputy A,tor-
n~ey-General. had various suggestions AS
TO the best way of meeting this issue.
but the only real test vote was on a mo-
ton to oppose openly the direct pri-
mary and IA v the establishment OF
the party convention.
This was overwhelmingly defeated be-
cause Of the contention that the confer
ence was not an official body and could
not bind the members Of the Legislature
Notwithstanding the declaration Of Sell
ator Brown that 30 per cent. ~ IN"
members of the political committee
really ia vored the repeal Of the direc.
primary law. The question was no,
settled until Gov. Whitman took a hand.
and after "A consultation with Chairman
Wilcox had his friends ON the COM
mittee vote solidly 10 eliminate from the
platform n reference to the direct
primary.
DodGtnG Woman sa9raxe.
Despite the efforts Of Herber, Parsons
TO change the woman suffrage plank so
as to have the Republican party OF this
State favor the suffrage question the
convention merely added a plank favor
INK the passage by the next legislature
Of the woman suffrage constitutional
amendment passed by the last Legisla-
iure. This merely would mean IA re-
submission Of the suffrage amendment
TO the voters next year.
Mrs. Norman de X. Whitehouse headed
a big delegation of women before the
platform committee in favor OF the
widest recognition of suffrage. and Chair
man o6u'h - ~ saw tiiflH diIlDle
opportunity to present their views. Miss
Price. representing Miss Chit,enden for
the anti-s~uffragists. opposed any refer
ence whatever to suffrage in the plat
form. Herbert Parsons thought it would
help MIR. Hughes In the equal suffrage
States II the New York state Repub-
licahs tool an advanced position, but his
efforts were unsuccessful.
Points Of the Platform.
The platform as finally adopted de-
voted 1900 OF its 1000 words to an in
dorsement Of Governor Whitman and his
administration II gives generous sup
port to the stand MIR. Hughes has taken
On public questions, declares for n re-
submission of the woman suffrage
amendment in 1917. and severely de-
nounces the Adansop bill.
Nathan l." Miller. temporary chairman.
delivered an address which his friends
hope will have the effect Of making him
a Gubernatorial favorite two years hence.
The former Judge Of the Court of APP
peals severely arraigned the Democratic
party for -four years Of misrule and in
efficiency" praised Whitman's adminis-