The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-29
NEW YORK To Be
PIVOT Al STATE
Points Out Fact Dupont Says
Demos Cant Hope to Win
Without Knickerbock-
er State.
BY ROBERT J. RENpER.


New York, July &c. With New
York now classed as pivotal state"
by both republican and democratic
leaders, efforts are being made by the
national campaign COMMITTEES to re-
store harmony in the respective re-
publican and democratic state ma
chimes.
And there is evidence that Cover
nor Cox and Senator Hading may
take hand. either directly or indi-
rectly. in Strengthening out the New
York tangies If they reach state
such as to endanger the success of
the respective national tickets in the
state.
Coleman Du Pont has just returned
from the Harding notification cere-
monies in. Marion with counsel to the
state leaders that they must select as
gubernatorial and senatorial candi-
dates, clean out men Of proved bust
ness ability" Any other course, he
warns. would be "a party blunder."
State Leaders Split.
Thus far, the state republican
leaders have been widely split on the
question of candidates, for both these
posts. Judge Nathan Miller is the
choice of one element of the state
machinery for governor and Secre-
tary Of State Francis Hugo is the
choice of another wing. Opposition
to Senator James WadsWorth has
been such as to create real rift in
the republican ranks on the question
of senaaSrial candidate.
THE strongest kind of a republican
should be nominated for governor"
said Du Pont. New York is to be the
pivotal state. Everyone knows that
democratic success this year will be
impossible without New York He
admitted that those with whom he had
talked in Marion urged the import
ance of getting this viewpoint.
The state democratic machinery
with all elements of it having pledged
support of the Cox Roosevelt ticket.
had been feeling pretty good about
the outlook until Sunday. although
not supremacy confident. Tammany
and the upstate democrats felt they
had a vote winner in Governor Smith
as their candidate for re election
And. by appeasing the anti Tammany
crowd at San Francisco by effecting
the nomination of Franklin Roose-
welt for vice-president, Tammany
u
matter of selecting a senatorial no.
minee.
Lunn After Nomination.
But it figured without former may
or Lunn, of Schenectady, who sue
cessfully led the fight against Tam
many in San Francisco to abolish
the unit rule for the New York dele
cation. Lunn and Roosevelt worked
I,se n
velt's selection was designed, for one
thing, to quiet Lunn
But Lunn will go after the sena-
torial nomination against any man
rTarmany may propose. AS a result
he now has Tammany going over his
lists of possibilities again. Norman
E Mack, national committeeman. from
New York: Samuel Untermeyer.
Robert Lansing and former Cover
nor Martin H. CHynn were among
those Tammany was considering
with emphasis on Mack. What he
will do now, with Lunn threatening
to start trouble is something else. It
is not unlikely that Tammany may
appeal to Roosevelt to assist in pre-
venting any damaging conflict in the
state that might impair the chance
of the national ticket carrying New
York this year.
Both Harding and Cox are to make
speeches ii New York; And there is
no doubt that they will make direct
appeal to their respective party
leaders and followers to insure har-
mory above everything else lest ma
tional defeat be the result of intra-
state party differences.
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