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er to Run
{For Governor
? If Designated
?sWord Passed Around at Re?
publican Headquarters;
Nearly AU Big Leaders
j Are Said to Favor Him
freiner an Opponent
iJFoes of Wadsworth Consid?
er Gol. Woods or La
j Guardia for Sena tor ship
Nathan L. Miller, of Syracuse, for
\ Jner Judge of the -Court of Appeals, ia
,**pected to be a candidate for the Re
?- publican nomination for Governor if
the convention at Saratoga designates
hin.
This word was passed to callers at
Republican state headquarters yester?
day, together with the information that
all the big leaders in the party, with
one or two exceptions, were in favor of
Miller's designation.
But the opposition, led by Fred
Greiner, the veteran leader of Erie
County, are planning a surprise for the
Millerites, and one of the faction op?
posed to Miller's nomination declared
yesterday that before Greiner and his
followers got through, there would be
another tale to tell.
Wadsworth Opponents Busy
Another split in the party was
tnreatened by the faction who are op?
posed to United States Senator James
W. Wadsworth jr. Formal notice has
been served on the leaders that if the
convention designates Wadsworth,
thousands of Republicans, who are op?
posed to Wadsworth because of his
militant stand against woman suffrage
and prohibition, will oppose him opei\ly
in the primaries, and if they lose will
turn to the Democrats.
Men who like T'adsworth personally,
and who are prominent in the affairs
of the party, are hoping that Wads?
worth will withdraw. But with the
backing of William Barnes, State
Chairman* Glynn, George W. Aldridge
and a few other men from up state, and
Jacob A. Livinjrst?n, of Kings County,
Wadsworth hopes to overcome any sort
cf opposition.
United States Senator William A..
Calder, head of the anti-Livingston fac?
tion in Kings, is one of those who is
hoping that Wadsworth will retire and
save the situation.
Several upstate leaders who are not
tied up with the Barnes-Wadsworth
machine also are passing the word that
Wadsworth cannot carry their districts,
either in the primaries or in the gen?
eral election.
Would Not Designate Man
Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, chairman
cf the state women's executive com
Kiittee, has advised that the Sarato?ga
convention designate ?o one for United
States Senator.
The Anti-Wadsv/orth faction in the
party are considering putting either
Colonel Arthur Woods or President F.
l?. La Guardia, of the Board of Alder?
men, in the field against Wadsworth.
The fight against Wadsworth, it is
feared, may grow to such proportions
that the convention may adjourn vr\t\i
out designating any ticket, following
the precedent of two years ago.
The Millerites are striving to avoid
such a contingency. They are now try?
ing to get the majority of the thirteen
candidates for the nomination for
Governor to declare themselves
favor of Miller.
? Miller Non-Committal
When Miller was told yesterday of
-the report that he would be a candi
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date if the convention designated him
he replied:
"I don't know what basis there is for
such a story. I hare told it to no one."
"If the convention designates you
what will you doT"
"I don't believe the convention will
do anything of the sort."
Nevertheless the report? persists,
even to the extent that all is ready ex?
cepting to select a man to put Miller's
name before the convention and get
two seconds, one a man and one a
woman. It is said that Colonel Theo?
dore Roosevelt has been approached
with a view to making one of the
seconding speeches. His cousin, ex
Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson,
also has been mentioned as another
possibility for seconding Judge Mil?
ler's nomination.
Senator Sage Consents
To Run for Governor
? ?. (
Albany Delegates Instructed
for Him When He Allows
Name to Go to Convention
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
ALBANY, July 14.?Senator Sage an?
nounced to-day that he had given his
consent to the Albany County Republi?
cans to present his name to the Sara?
toga convention as a candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination. Senator
Sage has been in the Legislature for
ten years, six of which he was chair?
man of the Senate Finance Committee.
"My record on legislation," he said,
"is open to all. For ten years I have
stood up and been counted on every
proposition before the Legislature.
Most if not all of the problems which
will face the state for the next two
years have been before the Legislature
for its consideration during that period
and in their consideration I have al?
ways stood firmly and openly for my
convictions, and have never refused to
meet a responsibility.
"If my experience in state affairs, my
knowledge of the state's business, and
my methods in handling matters of
public import appeal to a majority of
the delegates as sufficient reason to
recommend me for nomination to this
?office I wi^l accept the honor with no
mistaken estimate of the great re?
sponsibilities and the greater oppor?
tunities for service which that honor
entails."
The Albany delegates have been in?
structed for Sage.
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of Henry Ford. She explained she
had first tried to offer the Detroit
manufacturer to the Single Tax party,
but received a cold reception.
Her speech was halted several times
when delegates booed and hissed.
About two hundred of the commits
tee of forty-eight delegates assembled
at another hall during the receHS, J.
A. H, Hopkins, their national chair?
man, presiding. Allen McCurdy, who
made the keynote speech for their in?
dependent convention, made an address
full of feeflng and before they ad?
journed, to meet again at 9 a. m. to?
morrow, it was clearly indicated that
many of them were far separated from
the labor group.
"We tried to get up a party for just
average Americans, to get into action
in 1920," McCurdy said. "We have been
thrown together with a group who are
working consciously for Marxian social?
ism. There isn't any enmity in me
when I say this. I have been trying
to say it to the fusion convention for
two ?days.
"There has been an irreconcilable
difference between some of us in the
Committee of 48 and the leaders of the
labor ?group. It is all expressed in one
word in the majority report, where it
stands.for 'increasing' control of in?
dustry by the workers. That means
that they want to sink the foundation
of the new party deep into communism,
to be ready to deliver the industries of
this nation into the hands of the work?
ers in those industries, to be owned,
controlled, operated for the benefit of
the workers in them instead of for the
whole people. That's an honest differ?
ence. I say 'God-speed to you if you
believe it. It is an irreconcilable dif?
ference for some of us.
Sees Labor Cause Betrayed
"My feeling is that the real cause
of labor has been betrayed here in
these conventions by' its' real friends."
Melinda Alexander, secretary of the
committee of 48, followed him. She
said the forty-eighters had been
"taken in," put in a position where
their votes could not count and their
voices not be made effective. A num
ber of delegates left to go back to the
labor convention. Others said they
would stay outsid, but. the majority
sentiment appeared to be with Chair?
man Hopkins in his attempt to try and
reunite the body Thursday morning.
Several proposals were made to keep
on with the attempt to proceed with
still another political party.
The single taxers when they with?
drew adopted their one plank platform
and nominated Presidential candi?
dates. For President they chose
Robert C. Macauley, of Fnrladelp\na,
and for Vice-President they selected
R. C. Barnum, of Cleveland. ^
They quit the fusion, Jerome C.
Evis, a single tax leader, said, because
it was not only apparent they could not
obtain their platform desires and a
candidate committed to them, but also
because they "could not stand the
socialistic ideas" of the? dominant
labor group.
' The ultimatum issued by the Forty
eighters prior to their withdrawal fal?
lows:
"The negotiations between the plat?
form sub-committee of our convention
and a similar committee of the Labor
party have reached a stage where we
feel that the members of both conven
tions and the public generally are en?
titled in a full and frank statement of
the inside facts. '
"Aft?r prolonged conferences we are
unable to agree. The underlying cause
of the difference is that the Labor party
representatives think the new party
should b e a class-conscious, radical
party, standing upon the principles of
British guild socialism expressed in
trade unionism language.
"We believe the new party, should
have a short, definite platfoiiu, aimed
at the destruction of economic privi?
leges and the winning back of the his?
toric political liberties lost during the
war.
"We offered the substance of our St.
Louis platform. A platform drawn by
friends of Senator La Follette, now
h?re, also was presented to the con?
ference committee, with the assurance
that the Senator would be willing to
accept our joint nomination on.^his
platform. '. :'M
"The situation, therefore, now is
this: If the platform submitted by Sen?
ator La Follotte's frienas is adopted
we probably can have him as our can?
didate. If the Labor party platform ?3
adopted, the Senator will not run a3
our candidato and, in our judgment,
no other public man having any con?
siderable following can be Induced to
take the nomination.
"In this event the new party will
enter the field with a socialistic plat?
form, headed by a radical labor leader.
Sueh a. campaign, in our judgment,
would be a contest between the candi?
date of the new party and Eugene Debs
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for th? negligible Socialist vota of tht?
country.
"We are unable to join a new party'
established on such llnoe
"One hope still remains.- If the
Labor party convention will accept the
platform submitted by Senator La Fol?
lette'? friends a genuine n?nr party
can b? brought into being, which can
havoetha Senator as its candiAn?
unita behind Mm aad such a ?__*-?
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William Howard Taft
discusses
The Democratic Platform
By William Howard Taft
(Copyright, 1920, by I-ubllo Ledger Com?
pany.)
PHILADELPHIA, July 14.?As in the
caso of the Republicans, so in that of
the Democrats, wo must interpret their
platform declarations in respect to the
league in the light of what their rep?
resentatives in authority did when the
league was dealt with. A two-thirds
majority of Republican Senators voted
for the league with Lodge reservations.
We have every reason to expect, there?
fore, that they will do so again if op?
portunity offers, apd that one of this
two-thirds, if he be elected President,
will give them that opportunity.
? So with the Democrats, if Governor
Cox is elected President his own
declarations and those of the platform
show that he will demand that Article
X be retained in unimpaired form, just
as Mr. Wilson has done, and that he
will not accept the Republican reser?
vation on the article any more than
Mr. Wilson did.
The Democratic platform makes all
this very plain. The platform recites
that the armistice was granted and the
treaty negotiated on a definite assur?
ance that "a general association of
nations must be formed under specific
covenants for the, purpose of afford?
ing mutual guarantees of political in?
dependence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike." These
words aro quoted from the fourteenth
point of Mr. Wilson's message of Janu?
ary 8, 1918, and their meaning is em?
bodied exactly in the words of
Article X.
The article is Mr. Wilson's child.
The platform felicitates him on the
adoption of the league "so near akin
to previously expressed American
ideals." It then commends him for
"steadfastly standing for the covenant
agreed to by all the Allies against Ger?
many." The platform then indorses
"his firm stand against reservations
designed to cut to pieces the vital pro?
visions of the Versailles Treaty." It
then proceeds:
Advocate Immediate Ratification
"We advocate the immediate ratifica
cation of the treaty without reserva?
tion which would impair its essential
integrity, but do not oppose the ac?
ceptance of any reservations making
clearer or more specific the obligatior
of the United States to the League as
sociates."
This last clause is only a consent tc
purely interpretative reservations. . Ii
does not in the slightest degree coun^
tenance any such reservation as thai
proposed by the Republican for Arti?
cle X, which did not merely make
"clearer or more specific the obligation
of the United States," under that ar?
ticle, but took away any binding obli?
gation of the United States at all under
its provisions.
It was the Republican reservation as
to Article X which Mr. Wilson at?
tacked not once, but often. He said
that Article X was the heart of the
league and that the reservation was a
knife aimed at its life. He said that
if Article X was substantially im?
paired the league was not worth sav?
ing. On this ground he called on the
Democratic Senators to reject the
league with the Republican reserva?
tions, which they did twice at his be
'hest.
The crux of the controversy between
the Republican Senators and Mr. Wil?
son in respect to the league was Article
X. The language of the Democratic
platform in respect to the League of
Nations was doubtless approved by Mr.
Wilson. It was well and carefully drawn
and was plainly Intended to conserve
the issue over Article X.
Insisted on Wilson Stand on League
Mr. Cox has in his published utter?
ances of recent date insisted that Mr.
Wilson's Btand on the league must be
approved. In the light of the forego?
ing it is inconceivable that Mr. Cox,
elected as President upon such a plat?
form, would consent to the Republican
reservation as to Article X. In the
event of Democratic success, thesefore,
and with the certainty of the presence
in the next Senate of Republican Sen?
ators to prevent ratification of Article
X, wo should have another deadlock
and a continuance of th?j state of_war
with Germany. ? *
But it may be asked, Why will not
the same deadlock result if Mr. Hard?
ing ? elected? Are there not Demo?
crats enough assured in the next Sen
ato to block ratification of the league
with the Republican reservations? It
can be shown that the attitude of the
Democratic Senators?nearly all of
them?was one of concession in re?
spect to Article X a?d other parts of
the treaty, and that but for the inter?
vention and veto of Mr. Wilson there
would have been no difficulty in secur?
ing the needed seven Democratic votes
to ratify the treaty with Republican
reservations, and that, in the event of
Republican success and. the absence of
a Democratic President, these seven
Democratic votes can in all probability
be had.
It will, however, require the space of
another article to state the basis for
this conclusion.
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