New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-05
Delegate Train
Departs To-day
For Chicago
Three Aspirants to the
Covernorship Will Be
Aboard n. Y. Special:
Pulls Out at ? p. Nj.
Butler Started Yesterday
Eligibility of Hoover, on
Residence. Is Questioned
by Upstate Republicans

The Empire State Republican dele
gate train to the Chicago convention
vii depart over the New York Central
this afternoon at EOS o'clock, city
time. Before the train leaves Buffalo
Il will consist Of fourteen Pullmans
and two dining cars. George A. Glynn.
chairman of the Republican State Com
mi:tee, and John 5. Parsons, OF Oswego.
are in charge Of the train. which is
due TO reach Chicago tomorrow even
ing at i:o5 o'clock. central time.
Three governorship aspirants will be
OF the train. They are State Comp
troler Travis. Secretary of State Fran
CTS NJ. Hugo and Elon H. Hooker.
There IS every indication that DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler will receive
nearly the solid support of the New
tork delegation on the first ballot.
Alter the first ballot, according to pres
Hnt Indications, the majority of the
delegates VIII swing to General Wood
Some of the Reservations
Reservations on the delegate train
have been made for Charles d. Hilies
president OF the National Republican
Club, and Mrs. Ailles; Speaker Thad-
deus c. Sweet. County Judge Reuben
L. Haskell, State Senators Lusk.
Iowner and Lockwood; Mrs. Arthur l..
Livermore, Mrs. Ruth Lift, Miss Helen
Narlck Boswell, Miss Hannah Mitchell,
Captain Joseph NJ. Dickey, Mrs Olive
Suit Gabriel. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Boardman, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F.
Murphy, Jacob A. Livingston. james A.
Wendell, Judge and Mrs. Russell Wig
gins. Of Middletown Senator and Mrs.
George Cromwell, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Willard,
ex-Representative Robert ". Bonynge,
Edward n. Smith, William L. Ransom,
representative John McCrate and Mrs.
McCrate and Judge J. E. Nash, of Sill
yer Springs.
At Buffalo a car containing Senator
and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Fred
erick Greiner, the Erie County leader;
Or. Conrad f. Wetlaufer. State Excise
Commissioner H. s. Sisson, William f.
Waldow, Sheriff Frederick Bradley and
others Will be attached to the special
Representative Norman J. Gould,
Eastern manager OF the Wood cam
pagn, Will join the train at Syracuse.
Before leaving Watertown yesterday
for the convention ex-senator Elon
R. Brown said that the New York dele
CATION would vote for DR.. Butler on
the first ballot. After the first ballot,
It is understood in his home city, he
and his colleague from the 32d Dis
trict, Perry G. Williams, of Lowvile,
will vote for General Wood. They are
not definitely committed.
Questions Hoover's Eligibility
At a conference yesterday of poll
teal leaders Of northern New York in
Watertown, prior to the departure of
the delegates TO the convention, the
question as to Herbert Hoover's eligi-
bility to the Presidency was raised
again. Subdivision OF Section l of
Article Il of the Federal Constitution
says:
No person except natural born
citizen, or citizen of the United
States at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution, shall be eligible to
the Office of President; neither shall
any person be eligible to that office
who shall NOT have attained the age of
thirty-fve years and been fourteen
years resident within the United
States"
Senator Brown held that the latter
clause requiring fourteen years resi-
dence meant fourteen years continuous
residence Immediately preceding cleo
ton. This he contended, would bar
Dir. Hoover, who has resided outside of
the country most Of the time for the
last nineteen years. Other politicians,
however, differed with Senator Brown.
Hoover Sentiment Appears
Until ten days ago General Wood ap-
peared to be the preferred candidate
among the Republicans Of northern
sew York. Many meetings have been
held TO advance his candidacy and a
s.rong organization in which women
are taking an active part has been
built up.
Until very recently no effort to
erysta.lize Hoover sentiment has been
MADE, bu. within & weea a movement in
ht' behalf mas been launched in SYRIA