New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11
N. Y. Delegation
Without Strings
koenigg Asserts
County President Believes
Members Will Seek Senti-
ment of Chicago's Gather
ing Before They Decide
Wood Is Strong Upstate
Western and Northern Parts
Report Formidable Move
ment i'll Soldiers Aid

Samuel S. Koenig, president of the
Republican County Committee, said yes
terday at the National Republican
Club, that the delegate situation, so
Tar as the New York contingent is con-
cerned, is nebulous and that few of the
members will indicate their choice for
the nomination until they reach Chi
fago the first week in June
81 believe the New York delegates
will wish to confer with those of other
states before they make up their
minds" said Mr.. Koenig. "After we
have been there for two or three DAYS.
doubtless meeting will be called and
there will be something doing. l ex-
pect that DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
Will get t1attering vote from among
the New York delegates, but as fol-
myself, | shall go there with the idea
that 1T is the first duty of a delegate
to cons ider the needs of the country
and the party as a whole rather than
personalities. We certainly need to
choose 4 candidate who can win"
Glsefner, of Erie, Without Choice
Ere derrick Greiner, the veteran Re-
P"D,iSHii !eaucI u Erie county, also
at the club. when asked about his cam
ddate for President. said:
~ haven't any choice. l am not a
delegate to the convention. l thought
would let the younger men have a
chance. 1t Roosevelt were alive he
would be the candidate, and there
would be no question about his nomi-
nation and election. In and around
Buffalo there is rather more talk about
General Wood than about an other can
didate. I suspect that the delegates
Wlll feel that the next President must
be man Aod sound common sense and
with business capacity. The country
needs business reconstruction. There
will be no trouble about electing Re-
publican Pre- sident if the delegates
pick out the eight sort of candidate"
Assemblyman H. Edmund Machold,
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, and n'touch with affairs in the
northern part of the state, said that
the Wood people are more active than
any one else in Watertown and other
places in the Northern Tier. N
1.-THE Wood admirers have a strone
organization in WATERFOWL, and seen,
to be working all around the northern
part OF the state" said Mr.. Machold.
Gen. Woods Admirers Confident
IiC SuPPOItcI VI GonGTdl w QOd
think that he will get from fifty to
sixty New York votes on the second
ballot Both Governor Lowden and
Senator Harding are expected to figure
in the ,'ew York delegate distribution
after the first ballot. 1t is generally
understood among New York Republi-
cans that former Senator William J.
Tully, of Corning and New York City,
and former Representative John Dwight
of Dryden, delegates from the Steuben-
Chemung-Tompkin district. will vote
for Governor Lowden, and former Gov
ernor Charles S. Whitman also is re-
garded as a Lowden man.
William Barnes and Senator Henry
M. Sage, of Albany, and ex-senator
Elon r. Brown, Of WATERFOWL, arc
classed as Harding men, with Lowden
as second choice
The Wood men count on the major
portion of the delegates from the
greater city, the two Long Island dis