New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-03
N. Y. Democrats
TO Run Smith
For Reelection
State Leaders Feel Sure
He Will Win and That
F. ID. Roosevelt Will Give
Wadsworth a Hard Fight
May Meet in Syracuse
Only Mildly Moist Plank
Believed Possible, De-
spite Committee Action
From a StoN Correspondent

planning to hold their state convention
August :. Just now they are trying
to make arrangements with the Sara
toga Hotel for accommodations but
believe they will be forced to meet in
Syracuse, as the racing season at Sara
toga opens about that time
Colonel Michael J. Walsh, the West
chester County leader, and State Tax
Commissioner, VINO, with Norman E..
Mack, of Erie, National Committeeman,
now controls the upstate machine, is
supo rvising the preliminary arrange
ments for the convention in the absence
Of William Farley, chairman Of the
democratic State Committee. When
Chairman Farley returns from San
Francisco. the call for the convention
will be issued.
Smith to Run Again
Democrats from all parts OF the
state, who did not go to San Francisco,
have been holding informal conferences
here in the last few days. All are
agreed that Governor Smith will be a
candidate for denomination and that
franklin Roosevelt, in all probability,
will be the candidate for United States
Senator to oppose Senator Wadsworth.
They are equally confident that Smith
will be reelected and that Wadsworth,
with an opponent like Roosevelt, will
have anything but an easy time of it.
The Democrats will designate an
entire state ticket. Whether Lieu
tenant Governor Harry C. Walker, of
Binghamton will be redesgnated. has
not yet been decided. The fact is that
Walker. who has made many friends
while presiding over the Senate, may
wlthdraw so as to to be SUPERNATURAL
possibility in 1922. Should he with
draw, Mayor George R. Lunn. of
Science tady, former Congressman,
might be drafted for second place on
the ticket. Mayor Lunn is Presby-
terrain minister and made successful
fight against the unit rule at San
Francisco
1t is the fervent hope of the Demo
Gratis that the Republicans will nom
mate for Governor an anti-suffragist
ike Senator Henry M. Sage, or, failing
that, some one with the brand of Will
liam Barnes upon him. With Wads-
worth unopposed to date and almost
certain of denomination, the Democrats
believe that another anti-suffragist
heading the Republican ticket would
insure Democratic victory in this
state this fall.
Whoops Of Joy went up from the
Democrats when Thaddeus c. Sweet
made public a statement here to-day
announcing that he would be a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Governor. But Sweet made it
plain that he would not enter the
primaries, knowing full we'll that out
side of his own county he could not
muster handful of votes
But the Democrats are not fooling
themselves that the Republicans will
dare to designate Sweet, or any one
else identified with the Socialist custer,
which was condemned by almost every
Republican of prominence in the state
and nation.
What the Democrats do believe is
that Sweets name will be presented to
the convention, as his home organiza
ton, the Oswego County Republican
Committee Endorsed his candidacy for
the Governorship.
The very presentation Of Sweets
name" said one of the most prominent
Democrats in the state, would serve
to revive in the minds of the cleo
torate .he unseating of the Socialist
delegation and resultant structures
heaped upon Sweet by Republicans and
Democrats alike Governor Smith was
not a whit less condemnatory of the
custer than Charles f. Hughes ano
other Republicans. and he outdid al
the critics Of the Lusk- DAILY
repre- ssive measures by vetoing every
one of them. The Sweet custer will be
made an issue this fall regardless OF
the efforts Of Republicans, who are
striving for party success, to keep it
in the background So, too, will
Wadsworth's opposition to woman suf
frage even after it had been overwhelm
ingly ratified by a popular vote il
1917"
The platform which the Democrat:
will adopt at their state convention
will contain planks attacking Senator
Wadsworth and the Sweet custer. Blu
those who had hoped for .he inclusion
of the wet plank adopted at the meeting
of the Democratic State Committee held
here last February will be dsap.
pointed.
That plank, which was described b!
Democrats who objected to it as wiring
ing wet, attacked the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead act. Thu
plank on the wet and dry issue which
will be adopted at the state conven
ton will be but mildly moist. At best i
will declare for a liberal interpreta
ton Of the law and urge the repeal of
or an amendment to-, the Nolstead act
so as to permit the manufacture ant
L. re-