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NEW YORK CLASSEO
AS PIVOTAL STATE
BY BOTH PARTIES
Regarded as Chief battle-ground
in Presidential Campaign
Now Opening.
REPUBLICANS ARE SPLIT
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New York. July 26.-With New
York now classed as pivotal State
hv both Republican and Democratic
leaders. Efforts are being made by the
national campaign committees TO restore
harmony in the respective State machines
There is evidence that Governor Cox
and Senator Harding may take hand,
either directly or indirectly, IN strength
ening out the New York tangles II they
reach q stage such as to endanger success
Of the respective national tickets IN the
State.
Coleman du Pont, fresh from the
Harding notification ceremonies at Marion
told the State leaders that they must
select for gubernational and Senatorial
candidates "clean-cut men of proved
business ability" Any other course,
he warns, would be "a party blunder. =
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 Secretary of State Francis Hugo
is the choice of another wing Opposi-
ton 10 Senator James Wadsworth has
been such as TO create a real rift IN the
Republican ranks on the question of a
Senatorial candidate.
The strongest kind of 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 i'm
possible without New York. He adj
mitted that those with whom he had
talked at Marion, urged the Importance
Of getting this viewpoint.
with
all elements Of IL having pledged support
70 the Cox-Roosevelt ticket, had been
feeling pretty good about the outlook
until today. 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
rffectnr the nomination of Franklin
Roosevelt for Nice-PreSldent, Tammany
felt that il would be left alone in the
matter OF selecting a Senatorial nominee.
But IL figured without ex-Mayor
Iunn. Of Schenectady, who successfully
led the fight against Tammany at Frisco
10 abolish the unit RUE Of the New York
delegation. Lunn and Roosevelt worked
together in this endeavor and during the
convention and Roosevelt's selection
was designed, for one thing, to quiet
Iunn
But Lunn has spoken up and said
that he will go after the Senatorial
nomination against any man Tammany
may propose As a result he has Tam
many gong over its lists of possibilities
again. Norman +. Mack, State Ma
tional Committeeman: Robert Lansing
and former governor Martin II. Glynn,
we're among these Tammany was con-
sdcring. with emphasis on Mack. What
will be done now with Lunn threatening
d. start trouble is something else. It's
not likely that Tammany may appeal
81 Roo. evelt 70 assist in preventing any
damaging conflict in the State that might
impair the chance Of the nationsl ticket
carving New York this wear.
Both Harding and Cox are 10 make
speeches IN New York. There Is no
doubt that they will make direct appeal
to their respective party leaders and
followers 10 insure harmony above every
thing else, lest national defeat be the
result Of intro-State party differences.