SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Special Correspondence Waiting for Roosevelt New York, June 11, 1910. ON FRIDAY evening, June 10, at Batavia, N. Y., Gov-ernor Hughes delivered the strongest speech of all he has made in favor of...
...The legislature would not enact the Hinman-Green Bill which provided direct nominations for all offices in the State, At the last, the Republican organization agreed to a compromise and would have passed the compromise law if a minority of Republicans had not joined with Tammany Democrats to beat all direct nominations legislation...
...Roosevelt their attitude is like to seem tremendously sinister...
...It is the same as the Hinman-Green Bill in the essentials of operation...
...But the members of the legislature, who will meet in special session, are strangely silent...
...Ever effective in keeping otherwise intelligent men from seeing and thinking, they have done more, these three, for Privilege, Monopoly and Legalized Wrong, than all the Aldriches and Cannons in creation...
...So it seems that Mr...
...ON FRIDAY evening, June 10, at Batavia, N. Y., Gov-ernor Hughes delivered the strongest speech of all he has made in favor of direct nominations...
...It is easy to know why the public has lost some of its interest in Governor Hughes...
...Yet there is a great army of Hughes Republicans, standing quietly, grimly aloof, loyal to the principles and the personality of the Governor who is about to go away...
...It seems to have been received listlessly, even though the extra session of the legislature called to meet on June 20 to consider direct nominations is in everybody's mind...
...Everywhere one hears the question—"What will Roosevelt do...
...Roosevelt will be called on to decide whether or not New York will have a direct nominations law this year...
...The active ones of New York City have been getting ready to receive Theodore Roosevelt...
...A little while ago it would have aroused the whole State...
...Even to Mr...
...The public, and especially the politicians, have been looking eastward toward the ocean for some time...
...It was, probably, his last speech on the subject while he remains governor of the State...
...The organization will beg Mr...
...Overthrow this triumvirate and petty human bosses will shrivel up and die for lack of nourishment...
...Governor Hughes, in spite of criticism by some leading direct ncminationists, some of which is manifestly insincere, frankly accepts the compromise, saying that it is a big step forward and eventually will bring about direct nominations for all offices...
...They are waiting for Mr...
...Now, at the special session, the compromise bill, known as the Cobb Bill, because it was nominally framed by Senator Cobb, the leader of the Republicans of the Senate, will be presented with the Governor's indorsement...
...He will come into New York harbor on June 18...
...R. D. * * * ¶Puck says: "The bosses who have held the voters of the United States in abject thralldom for years, but whose hold gets looser daily, are Indifference, Ignorance, and Partisan Prejudice...
...Roosevelt to take command on the day he arrives...
...The Republican party of New York State is without captain, compass and rudder...
...It limits direct nominations to party candidates for congress, for the legislature, and for county offices except in New York city at the time of a mayoralty election...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 24
