New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-07
Nav Vote for Any One
They Please, County Com
mittee Informs Them.
WANT SEABURY FOR
GUBERNATORIAL RACE
Kisses Mingle with Cheers at
Mention of the Name of
Colonel Roosevelt.

ON mittce last night refused 10 AVll""
the recommendations of the Progress
sive National Committee and adopted
resolution which will allow the Bull
Moose Of this county TO vote for whom
ever they please for President The
committee also adopted resolution in
viting Justice Samuel Seabury to be-
come the Progressive candidate for
Governor this fall. and pledged him its
support.
The meeting, which was held at
Bryant Hall. was lively one right
from the start. Every one of the four
hundred members seemed 10 have some
thing on his mind that he wanted 10 get
rid Of. Once. when the name of Colonel
Roosevelt was mentioned. Kisses we're
mingled with the applause. A few min
utos later, however. when an attack
was made on the Colonel by one of the
committee, the resentment was so
strong that the remarks were unani-
mouSly eXpunged from the record.
Both resolutions were adopted BY
committeeman voted against the reso-
luton leaving the Progressives free TO
vote for any Presidential candidate
they chose. while twelve were recorded
IN the negative on the resolution in
dorsinc Justice Seabury. Both res
olutions had been unanimously adopt
ed by the executive committee at
meeting earlier in the day. The Pres
idential resolution was presented by
Ferdinand Pecora, who acted as the
spokesman of the committee. and was
is follows:
The Presidential Resolution.
Resolved; That it is the sense o.
this meeting that the New York State
Committee Of the National Progressive
Party should not nominate the Presi-
dental electors OF any other party, but
each Progressive should be guided
solely by his own conscience and judg-
ment on Election Day. Ant it is fur
Their
Resolved, That a copy Of this res
olution be forwarded 10 each member
Of the New York State Progressive
Committee an TO the Progressive State
Chairman Of each state in the Union.
There was some opposition TO this
resolution. but il soon quoted down.
One or two Of the delegates were in
sistent on straight-out Progressive
candidates. After Chairman O'Con-
nell. however, explained that the resO-
luton left the Progressives free 10
vote for who they pleased for Presi-
dent, and that, if necessary, they could
put Progressive ticket Of electors in
the field, IL was adopted with q whoop.
The debate on the resolution was
particularly testy, however, while IL
lasted Such remarks as "The Pro
gressive party was never a personally
conducted expedition" and "No man
or group Of men can srrogate 10
themselves the right TO tell the Pro-
gressives for whom they shall vote in
the absence Of candidate" filed the
air.
Benjamin c. Marsh. the single taxer.
started 10 attack Colonel Roosevelt dur
ing the discussion of this resolution.
but was promptly hooted down by the
committeeman. The name of President
Wilson was also cheered, but 1t re-
NAMED for the mention Of Justice Sea-
bury 10 get the house. His name was
cheered for a whole minute, although
the resolution indOrsing him was not
adopted until there had been a red-hot
debate over il. The resolution invited
Justice Seabury 10 enter the Progress
sive primaries as candidate for Gov
crnor, and pledged 10 him the support
Of the Progressive County Committee.
Justice Seabury's golf playing was
the cause OF most Of the opposition 70
the resolution. One Of the committee
men said the justice was accustomed 20
play golf with Charles +. Murphy on
Sundays, and he wanted the resolution
amended 10 provide that Mr.. Seabury
must not accept the Endorsement Of
Tammany Hall. For more than an hour
The discussion of go,f went on. One
committeeman declared it was up 10
the justice 20 get all the Endorsements
he could, while others declared that he
must purge himself Of tho Tammany
stigma before receiving the indOrse-
ment of the Progressives.
Then one Of the committeeman re
minded his colleagues that Governor
Whitman had received the Tammany
Endorsement when he ran for District
Attorney, and the feelings of the
Progressives toward the Governor
we're revealed. Tim Healy referred 10
him as that little grasshopper at
Albany" while Michael Halpin de-
clared that Progressive principles
would surely be better served by the
election Of Justice Seabury than by
lhe re-eleclloh OF Governor " hltilhH'
The chief reasons urged by the Pro-
eressive friends of Justice Seabury for
the adoption Of the resolution were that
il would keep the Progressive party in
the state intact and would probably
furnish il with a candidate for Presi-
dent IN 1920, If Justice Seabury was
elected Governor. 10 was explained. he
would be reelected two years from now,
and would then he the logical candidate
of the Progressives for the Presidential
nomination
There were lots Of unkind things said
by the committeeman about the Pro-
gressive National Committee and
George W. Perkins and his friends,
though no names were mentioned. When
the regular business Of the meeting
was finished cambridge Colby had
few pertinent things 20 say.