New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-24
Republicans
Headed TODAY
For Saratoga
Candidates for Covernorship
Close Headquarters Here
and With Their Stats
Set Out for Convention
Clynn Also to Depart
State Chairman to Begin
at Once on Conferences
to Map Plan of Action

The headquarters of the candidates
for the Republican nomination for
Governor were closed last night until
after the Saratoga convention The
candidates and their STATS prepared to
leave for the meeting of the delegates
next Tuesday.
George A. Glynn, chairman of the
Republican State Committee, also will
leave for Saratoga to-day, along with
other members of the committee, and
will begin at once holding conferences.
At state headquarters the WORD
again yesterday was that the conven-
ton would designate a ticket. There
were offers, with no takers, that the
deslgnee would be Nathan L. Miller, of
syracuse, former judge of the Court
of Appeals and a friend OF Chairman
Giynn and other members of the state
committee. Miller, incidentally, is a
member of the executive committee
which selected the chairman and tenn
porary chairman of the convention for
the delegates to indorse.
The permanent chairman chosen Is
Colonel William Hayward. of this citv
former Public Service Commissioned
under Governor Whitman, and David
Jayne Hill. of Rochester, former Am
Dassador to Germany, was picked to
preside temporarily. The progressive
members of the state committee made
night against Hill, but were run
down by the Old Guard steam roller.
Whether the progressives will 90
ahead with their fight and try to have
some Younger man named in place of
Hlll Will not be decided until Mon
day, when many leaders will meet in
answer to call issued by ex-senator
Theodore Douglas Robinson. at Sara
toga. They will determine their line
OF action at that conference
There will be other gatherings of
party leaders who are not satisfied
with the program mapped out by those
IN control of the state committee. and
surprises may be sprung by some of
the insurgents when the delegates as
semble Tuesday morning.
Some of these are opposed to Miller
heing designated. Others are against
united States Senator Wadsworth be-
ing put up for reelection. Manv are
against any one being designated on
the theory that it would violate the
spirit, if not the letter, of the direct
primary law.
Opposition to Wadsworth
Both Wadsworth and Miller know Of
the opposition against them. While CON
siderable sentiment has been stirred up
for the latter through declarations
such as eve are looking for a candi
date OF the Miller type'-uttered bv
Chairman Glynn after Miller declared
ne would not be candidate con-
trary has been true of Wadsworth.
Wadsworth has encountered such
hard Shedding that he has discussed the
advisability of writing a letter to the
delegates asking that he be not desig-
mated. The Senator, however, recently
SAID he had no intention of withdraw
ing, bellevlng that the organizat on
vote could be swung to him in the
primaries regardless of the opposition
of the thousands who have openly at
tackled him for his continuous stand
against woman suffrage and the drv
element.
Many Of the party leaders believe
that Wadsworth should withdraw lest
he cause the defeat of the state ticket
and be the means of losing the FORTY
five electoral votes to the Republican
national ticket. Chief among these have
been Senator Thompson and Mr..
Hooker
Back of it all is fight for control
OF the state machine between William
Barnes and Wadsworth. who now domi-
nate 1t, and the progressive element.
LINED up with the prOgreSslVeS are
two powerful state leaders, Fred
Greiner, of Erie, and United States
Senator Calder. The latter who has
never been friendly with Barnes. is be
ing fought in his home county by Jacob
A. Livingston, county chairman.
Calder won the first inning in the
fight. being credited with having
brought about the publication of the
charges against the administration of
State Comptroller Eugene N. Travis,
which resulted in the formal with
drawal of Travis from the guberna-
torial race. Travis was backed by Liv-
ingston and had the support of nu-
morous friends of Barnes
Now Livingston is determined to
wage war on Calder's candidate for The
nomination for State Comptroller, SEN
ator Charles c. Lockwood, of Brooklyn.
Lockwood, however, has good start,
being supported by public school teach
ers throughout the state as a result
of his successful tight to increase their
salaries at the last session of the Leg
islature. He also introduced the new
anti-rent profiteering bills
Lockwood and Calder are against the
convention designating ticket, and
will join hands with the others in at
tempting to prevent the slate from 60
ing through.