New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Big Republican Factors in
State Would Name Third
Man as Candidate
Committee Opens
Harmony Meeting
Attorney General Declares
He Will Stay in Race Re-
gardless of the Governor

The Republican State Committee met
Yesterday at 1880 at the Republican
Club, in West Fortieth Street, listened
to brief resolutions not possessing
erest significance and adjourned till to-
morrow morning after appointing a
conference committee to thrash out
with Senator's Wadsworth and Calder
harmony programme.
The Senators last week called an as
sembly or mass meeting for July Is
in Saratoga. The Whitman men con-
troll the state committee. They desire
TO hold state convention and merge
it with the Wadsworth-Calder mass
meeting. If delegates are chosen by
the county committee in the regular
way the Whitman men will control the
convention. The Senators have invited
Colonel Roosevelt and former Presi-
dent TAFT, who have accepted, to speak
at the mass meeting, which they thus
far haXe refused to merge with the
proposd regular state convention.
Little Progress Made
Little progress was made on the har-
mony programme. The conference COM
mittee winch will take up the differ
ences with the Senators to day at the
Republican Club consists of Fred
Greiner the veteran Republican leader
Of Erie County; Alfred E. Vass, chair
man of the Kings Republican County
Committee; Jesse Phillips, State Super
ntendent of Insurance; Congressman
Bertrand H. Smell, of Potsdam, and
Samuel S. Koenig, chairman of the
New York County Republican Commit
tee, with Chairman Glynn and Secre-
tary Gleason of the state committee
ey-oficio members Of the conference
committee.
While the original lines between the
Whitman ard Lewis men have not
changed, an interesting development
connected with the situation was the
fact that back Of the move made by the
Senators is movement backed by re-
spectacle factors for the shelving of
both Governor Whitman and Attorney
General Lewis as candidates and the
taking Up If new man.
In connection with the new drive the
names being quietly discussed among
certain Republican leaders are those
Of Robert Bacon, who came pretty near
being elected United States Senator;
James NJ. Beck and James r. Sheffield,
former president of the Republican
Club.
Think Compromise Unlikely
The hackers of this new candidate
movement apparently are working in
the belief that there will be no COM
promise between Senators Wadsworth
and Calder and the Whitman men and
that the clock will strike the hour for
them as soon as it becomes apparent
that there will be no merger of the
Wadsworth- Calder assembly and the
proposed state convention. Then they
will be in position to say, Why lose
the State of New York through fac
tional Guarrelling, when we can take
up with new man ard force the re-
slrement Of both the Governor and the
Attorney General?
Attorney General Lewis, when asked
about the existence of the new candi-
date plan, said that he had heard of it,
but he followed up his admission by
saying that under no circum stances
would he withdraw from the race. An
other item of proof that the Senators
'are not tied up with Attorney Cen
ersl Lewis is found in the official state
ment from Senators Wadsworth and
calder, made by John A. Stewart, their
local representative, who on Friday,
said:
ut should be understood that the
lacts surrounding the publication of a
statement indorsing the initiative of
Ssnators Wadsworth and Calder do not
warrant any assumption on the part of
anybody that this movement to bring
seout conference was initiated or
that it has been directed by men COM