New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-15
Donovan Selected for
Lieut.. Gov. and Judge
Rogers for Attorney
General at Conference
Secretary of State
Post Left Opel,
Roosevelt and Others Will
Make Fight for Wood,
Who May Not Protest
spectal Dispatch to Tho Trtnnns


| determined opposition from many parts
| OF the State, Governor Miller and other
Republican leaders at informal con-
ferences on the State Fair Grounds
to-day practically decided to rofuse
nominations to nearly all the State
ticket and select new slate from Gov.
ernor down with one exception. The
new slate. is:.
! Governor, Nathan L,<Iiller.
Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Will
liam u. Donovan, Buffalo.
| Secretary of State, open.
| Attorney General, Judge Erskine G.
Rogers. of Hudson Fails, or ex-Mayor
wv. ]. Wallen, of Yonkers.
Comptroller, Mayor Thomas A. Will
son, of Binghamton.
State Engineer and Surveyor, open.
State Treasurer, N. Monroe Marshall.
| The biggest fight looms over the re-
lection OF Lieutenant Governor Jere-
miah Wood, of Lynbrook Personally,
Mr.. Wood is not inclined to revolt, but
| his hackers refuse to seek his advice
and have served notice of war. Theo-
| dere Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of
| the Navy, former Speaker of the As
isembly Thaddeus G, Sweet and Speaker
| H. Edmund Machold are among those
who objected.
! Jacob L. Livingston, of Brooklyn, also
sent work to the Governor that if
Wood was dropped he would carry the
| fight to the floor of the convention.
Despite this the leaders are determined
to go through with their program and
have offered Mr.. Wood Supreme
| Court Judgeship in Nassau County for
his peaceable withdrawal.
| Newton's Friends Object
Fred Griener, of Buffalo, and William
L. Ward, of Westchester, are credited
or blamed for the decision to pick a
new ticket. Ward got the ear of Chair
man Glynn first, seeking his consent to
/ substitute Wallen for Newton for At
torney General. After this had been
! agreed upon Griener discovered west
ernsN New York would have no repre-
| sentatlon on the ticket and demanded
that Colonel Donovan get the Lieuten-
4 ant Governorship. 1t was then that
friends of other candidates declared
| If these two must GO all must go,
Colonel Donovan was with the Eight
ing 69th." The present program calls
for him to be placed in nomination at
| tho state convention by the Albany
| delegation.
| Attorney General Newton and a
| group of friends came to the fair de-
termined to fight any attempt to oust
him, but it is practically sure that he
will walk the plank Erskine C. Rogers
and former Mayor William j. Wallen
of Yonkers are the two more likelycan-
| didates.
! William j. Maier, State Comptroller,
! is indifferent toward denomination
and is willing TO step down. The same
| is. true of N. Monroe Marshall. Maier
| Is to be supplanted by Mayor Thomas
H. Wilson of Binghamton, young man
whom the leaders consider we'll quail
ied aor the Job. There is possibility
that Marshall may be retained
I State Engineer and Surveyor Frank
| M. Williams, who is completing his
| eighth term, has bowed to the will Of
4 the. leaders and to day announced his
| withdrawal as g candidate.
| New Blood Demanded
No decision has been reached in the
case of Secretary of State Lyons. al
though several of the Miller hackers
| still hold grudge against him for
statements when the Miller ECONOMY
| program" was put in effect aid the
patronage of the Automobile Bureau
| removed from the Secretary's office.
| They are after his scalp for that rea-
! son. However, he has powerful back
ing in New York City and is ready to
fight,
George A. Glynn, state chairman
limited that the leaders had agreed
upon "clean sweep" and new blood
| on the ticket. While disclaiming in
tention to speak authoritatively on the
| matters which the convention will de
termine, he admitted finding sentiment
strong to surround the Governor with
| a new list of candidates.
'If the opinion of party leaders can
be taken as forecast" he said, "the
convention will heed the demand for
new blood on the ticket. In accepting
denomination Governor Miller is max
ing sacrifice greater than any of his
cabinet in retiring and they will un-
doubtedly find it possible to make some
sacrifice themselves.
"It is q pretty good policy to draw
new blood into the state from time to
time; two terms appear to be about
enough. When the same men are
nominated from year to year other
good men get discouraged. They ought
to have their chance" !"