The New York herald., 1922-09-18
MILLER HOLDS PARTY
ss9LID AS DEMOCRATS
SPLIT ON CANDIDATES.
Old Style Convention Re-
turns With Governor Re-
placing Old Bosses.
HAS FUSED IRRITANTS
Liberal Conservative Policy
Has Eliminated Repub-
lican Factions.
HEARST FIGHT LIKE 1906
Radical Program Stirs Bitter
Dissent and Tammany
Is Bewteen Fires.
HEARST FIGHT LIKE 1906
BY LOUIS sEIBoLD.

BY LOUIS SEIHOLD.
The chief interest of professional
politicians in the old style nominating
conventions. which the two parties
will hold next week, is reflected
in these questions generally asked
throughout the country:
VIII the Democratic program turn
ont to be as radical as is now expected.
and the Republican policy continue as
literally conservative as Gov. Miller
has made it UP to date?-
win the Democratic leaders Of the
State be able to reconcile the bitterly
intense factional disputes which at
the moment seem to menace any
chances for success at the November
election?
City and State leaders of both parties
preparing to test for the first time
the diluted direct primary law to-
morrow are in fact giving most of
their thought to the Republican and
Democratic nominating conventions
which are to be held in Albany on
September 27 and in Syracuse on the
following day The modified primary
law provides for the selection Of MEM
bers OF Congress, delegates to the
nominating conventions and local can
didates.
The work Of selecting candidate
for United States Senator and nom
fnees for State officers will be pcpk
fnr,,,ed n, anccr<o,,oa x,,;tl, %t,o ..,,ia-
that governed the -gamc of politics be-
fore the adopsbn- OF the Statewide
direct primary law covering all nom
nations which prevailed up to nine
years ago.
MilIer's Diplomacy.
Tho Republican State convention
win renominate Gov. Miller who has
won commanding place in the cal
culations of national Republican poll
ticans because OF the record made by
him during the last twenty-one
months. This much has already been
settled. not through the insistence Of
any single group of leaders or small
fry bosses but by overwhelming party
sentiment. The principal and almost
only complications in the Republican
situation grow out of conflicting per-
sonal ambitions, the desire OF a
majority of county leaders asserting
the privileges once monopolized by one
or two bosses and affecting individuals
fortunes rather than party policy.
There does not appear to exist at
the moment any reason TO doubt the
EntA .f..n 49, f<~fs
crs TO accept the record of the Harding
Administration at its face value and
to line up the Republican voters OF the
State back of the program which by
comparison with the trend of Demo-
cratic sentiment will seem solidly con-
servative and in contrast to the re-
dictionary or stand pat record of the
Republican majority in Congress ''rea-
sonably liberal"
Gov. Miller is credited by the
national leaders of his party with hav-
ing effected a most agreeable COM
promise between the dominant con-
servative element of the party and the
rapidly disintegrating progressive SEN
timent now almost obsolete and with
out present power In the present
councils. He Is considered to have
eliminated the line OF contentious
demarcation by fusing the chief irri-
tants.
For the first time In the history
OF the Republican party in fifty
years t is without boss of the old
style The control of the party
machinery is In the hands of dozen
or more important sectional leaders
for whom Gov. Miller acts as UNI
pire. 1t lis likely that this amicable
arrangement will prevail during the
selection of candidates for the va
rious offices to be filled.
Calder and Wood.
Next to the Governorship the
larger general interest of course re-
lates to the successor OF Senator
Calder. who Is ambitious for another
term. There are one or two weak
spots in the Calder armor. Several
leaders and n substantial element Of
tho delegates 10 be chosen tomorrow
would probably prefer the selection
OF Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant Sec
retary OF the Navy and son OF the
former President and creator of the
Progressive venture. II may be that
the promoters Of the enterprise to
srAs@:s Col. Roosevelt in tho Sena-
torial contest will essay TO stampede
the Albany convention for him with
out reference to his own personal
wishes, which at tho present time
do not point in that direction.
Professional Republican opinion is
that Senator Calder will be renomi-
mated without opposition. Col Roose
velt's chief concern appears to relate
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