New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Republican Plan
For Harmony Hits
Snag il, Barnes
Friends of Albany Man
Trying to Prevent Joint
Conventions
Cannot See Benefit
Opposition IL Expected to
Continue at Meeting To-day
Of the State Committee

or the state committee
The friends Of William Barnes, Of
Albany, were active yesterday in trying
to prevent the working out Of an
understanding tentatively reached in
Washington on Thursday between Sen
ators Wadsworth and Calder, who
called the Republican assembly to meet
in Saratoga on July 18, and George A..
Glynn and Lafayette B. Gleason, of the
Republican State Committee, on merg-
ing the assembly and the state conven-
tion.
There is every indication that the op-
position Of the friends Of Mr.. Barnes
will be continued at the meeting Of the
state committee to-day at noon in the
Republican Club.
mittee meeting to-day is for the ap-
pointment of a conference committee
OF five to confer with Senators Wads-
worth and Calder in Washington and
work out programme for a merger Of
the Wadsworth- Calder assembly, or
mass meeting, and the state conven-
ton, which the state committee doubt
less will call for the same day and
place.
The Whitman men desire complete
merger of the proposed mass meeting
fathered by the Senators with the state
convention, with the understanding
the transaction of business or the pro-
mitigation Of a platform the accredit-
ed delegates appointed by the regular
party organization shall alone be per-
mltted to vote.
Differ in Programme
The Wadsworth- Calder men have not
assented to this, but at the same time
seem desirous of having a joint meet
ing, with the power to adopt a olat-
form and transact business left with
the assemblage as whole. In other
words, the Whitman men wish the ac-
credited delegates to the cony ention
to be the authoritative body, while the
opposition cling to the idea that every
thing should be left to the assembly or
mass meeting.
When Mcssrs. Glynn and Gleason
left Washington on Thursday night
there was good prospect that all the
details for putting through joint as
semblage would be carried through.
The. Barnes men dropped in to the
Lewis headquarters yesterday, and ST.
multaneously with their presence ru-
mors began to circulate that there
would be opposition to the harmony
programme at the meeting of the State
Committee to-day.
Senator Henry W. Sage, Of Albany,
and Ellis j. Staley, chairman of the
Albany County Republican Committee,
were early callers yesterday on Attor-
ney General Lewis in the Murray Hill
Hotel. Others who dropped in to con-
fer with Mr.. Lewis during the day
were Senators George Slater, George
Cromwell and Robert R. Lawson, N. A.
Elsberg, Robert c. Morris, Justice Cole
man, Jacob A. Livingston, Fred W..
blyman Ellenbogen. Senators Slater
and Sage, 2. j. Staley and M. Leroy
Austen held a conference during the
day In the Belmont.
Can't Figure Benefit
One Of the conferrees in talking with
q Whitman man, a personal friend,
said that the Barnes men could not
figure out any benefit to themselves in
the proposed harmony programme. and
that therefore they were opposed to
the abandonment Of the original dis
tlnctively mass meeting plan. The
Wadsworth-Calder men possess a cer-
tain advantage in having the promise
from Colonel Roosevelt and Ex-Presi-
dent Taft that they will address the
mass meeting. This makes them indie
pendent, they say, of the regular state
convention, controlled by the friends
of the Governor.
AT state committee headquarters, in
West Thirty-ninth Street, State Chair
man Glynn was busy all day with the
long distance telephone, talking the
situation over with the Governor and
with members Of the state commit
tee: Among others who conferred
with Mr.. Glynn yesterday were Lafay-
cite B. Gleason, Jesse Phillips, of
Steuben County; John s. Parsons. Of
0swego County; County Chairman
Samuel s. Koenig. Of New York,
Charles o. Platt, n. G. Tenant.
Congressman Bertrand H. Smell. Of
Potsdam, Congressman Norman Gould
and Public Service Commissioner #.
]. II. Kracke.
During the day it was learned that
neither Senator Wadsworth nor Sena-
tor Calder would be present TO-DAY at
H"a,nn 5he meeting I'M Of the state committee.
george W. Aldridge, of Rochester,
low Weed Barnes will keep william
Barnes in Albany.
1t was announced at the Lewis
hesdguarters hsrt; qua ,'s,, that perley Morse, a
the'inea tbe Te1u,1 PUBIC accountant. would be
urer.
The Whitman men were in conference
until midnight at the Republican State
Committee headquarters, in Thirtv-
ninth Street. Among the late arrivals
were T! Excise Commissioners Herbert S.
vvs{A
Frank R. Gutter, of Allegheny COUNTY.
=, : AT the Lewis headquarters, in the
Murray Hill Hotel, it was said that
Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson.
Mr.. Lewis's manager, would appear to-.
day at the meeting Of the state com
mlttee to protest against holding a
state convention, on the ground that it.
is too late to hold one in accordance
with the provisions of the direct pri-
mary law. pa
John Poole Elected
Head of Rotary C1,,h.