New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Indorses Summons for Re-
publican Conference Is
sued by N. Y. Committee
Mass Meeting Is
Called "Mistake"
Chairman Clynn to Order
Gathering Suggested by
Wadsworth and Calder

Governor Whitman yesterday. at the
g. Regis. indorsed the idea of a state
conference of Republicans, to be called
by the state committee. State Chair
man George A. Glynn will issue call
for meeting of the state committee
this week.
There is strong probability that the
conference will be ycalled for date
later than July 1S, the date set by
Senator's Wadsworth and Calder for the
proposed Assembly" Of Republicans to
be addressed by party leaders. The
Governor yesterday, after conference
with State Chairman Glynn, Public Ser
vice Commissioner Kracke, Assembly
man Schuyler, NJ. Meyer, D. H. Ralston
and W. W. Wingate made the following
statement:
cans CT the state meet in conferences to
discuss and declare principles and pur-
poses of the party in the coming cam
paign meets with my hearty approval.
1.-THE mistake that the two Senators
make is that they suggest mass meet
ing instead of G. conference. The con-
ference plan is preferable, US it will
bring together the men and women
from every Part of the state in a rep
resentative capacity, and that repre-
sentation would be in proportion to the
Republicans in each locality.
Might Not Be Representative
"A mass meeting might conceivably
convene from one or two localities and
its action would then be in no wise
<o<, nf c$o<a xutI1
sentiment.
"The value of the suggestion made by
the two Senator'S, in my opinion, would
have been enhanced had they included
among the purposes Of the conference
q re-declaration of the unqualified pa
triotsm which dominates the Republi-
cans of our state and nation in this
crisis and has been so helpful in the
prosecution of the war.
"This conference can be brought
about by the action Of the state COM
mittee. whose duty it is to fix a repre-
sentation in accordance with it's estab-
lished rules"
Asked if he would attend the pro-
Wadsworth and Calder, the Governor
said:
II shall, if other engagements are not
too pressing. | do not see how it can do
any harm, although, of course, it will
have no real relation to state con-
ference called by the Republican State
Committee in accordance with the
rules"
Hope Plan Will Be Called OF
The Whitman men are indulging in
the hope that inasmuch as the Gov
crnor has indorsed, the idea of q state
conference, to be called by the state
committee, the proposed assembly of
Republicans will be called off; but even
II 1t is no. they do not expect to OBJ
struct it in any way, as probably the
greater number of the members Of the
state committee will attend it to see
What happens and hear what is said.
The Governor to-day will address war
savings stamp meetings in Saugertiesi
and Catskll. On Tuesday he will adj
dress the State Medical Association id
saratoga, and in Buffalo on the same
Gay will address the session of the In
ternational Sunday School Association.
On Wednesday and Thursday he will
speak at war savings stamp meetings in
ithaca and Rochester. Asked about the
candidacy of Senator Charles D. New
ton, OF Geneseo, candidate on the Whit
man ticket for the nomination for At
torney General, the Governor said:
Senator Newton is lawyer of great
ao'ilty, with one of the largest prac-
nces in the western part of the, state.
ne viii win in the primaries and be
e'ected beyond the shadow of doubt"