Governors and lawmakers clash over direct primary plan
A shelved session narrative shows Sen Healey criticizing Governor Sulzer as overreaching. Wagner and McKnight push back on alleged Senate investigations, while Assembly members unveil parallel bills. Levy assails the governor’s grasp of law, citing primary law flaws and recent highway signings, with recess likely after calls for further committee action.
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Wagner
McKnight
Rensselaer
Blauvelt
Fiener
Manhattan
Sulzer
Assembly
van Voort
Lewis
Blauvelit
Crown
Hinman
Judiciary
Prince Endures Hot Hike With Cadet Edward at Aldershot
London reports Prince of Wales as Cadet Edward while trailing in the Oxford Section Officers Training Corps after a twenty mile march from Mortimer under a broiling sun. The dusty journey and heat are described as a triumph of endurance for the young cadets.
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Edward
Mitchel Farm
Camp Aldershot
Oxford
Officers’ Training Corps
Prince of Wales
Mortimer
Progressives Win Recannvass Call Rocks County Vote
Supreme Court Justice Tompkins ordered the Rockland County Board of Canvassers to recanvass votes from three districts last fall for governor. Progressives allege ballots counted for Independence League candidate Oscar Straus favored him over their nominee. The outcome could shift the ticket order, placing Progressives second and Republicans third in next fall's ballot.
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Supreme Court
Tompkins
Board of County
Canvansers
Rockland County
Progressives
Oscar G. Straus
Independence League
Job E. Hedges
Straus
Progressive Party
Repubicans
Pice
Voters Demand Primary Law In New York Albany Plan
Albany June 1 Governor Sulzer urged the Legislature in extraordinary session to pass a state-wide direct primary bill. He frames abolition of nominating conventions as essential, cites other states and party platforms, and argues that voters should directly nominate all officials including governor and U S senator. He recalls past attempts and stresses party pledges and public obligation to enact direct nominations.
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Seriatim
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Dougherty Wins Five Thousand Dollar Judgment Against City
Mayor Gaynor released a statement noting J Hampden Dougherty won a Supreme Court verdict against the city for 5000 dollars over Croton water shed land and charter drafting services. The case split two counts with 40000 and 7500 claimed, the court cut the total and the jury reduced the other claim to 5000 after a tough trial. The mayor questions the cost of these services while praising direct primaries and public voters rights.
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Dom
J. Hampden
Joseph H. Dougherty
Cty
Beling
City Club
Hin
Mrs Pankhurst Released After Hunger Strike
London reports Mrs Immetine Pankhurst released last night after a brief hunger strike while rearrested on the funeral procession attempt. She was taken to a nursing home and had recently endured over forty eight hours in prison under a conditional return to custody Monday. The suffragette leader has cycled in and out of detention, having been sentenced at Old Bailey to three years penal servitude for instigating a fire at David Lloyd George's golf villa, with sixteen days spent in prison over around two months.
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Immetine Panthurst
Old Bailey
Golf Villa
Fusion conferences in full swing today
Political maneuvering fills the day as fusion committees meet with representatives of Progressive and Republican groups. Francis W Bird of the Progressive County Committee attends at 4 pm to push a platform, while five county Republican chairs confer separately.
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Progressive County Committee
Republican Oreanization
Tte
Republican Club
Attoreney Whitman
West Side
Wtech
Whitman
Hotel Astor
McAlpin Hotel
Broadway
Perkins
Albany Curbs on Cohalan Case Delayed by Paper Delay
Albany reports say Secretary Kanar J. Chrystie of the New York Bar Association's grievance committee has not yet met Governor Sulzer with papers on the Cohalan charges from Joan A. Connolly. The governor will act only after receiving the documents, while Cohalan may visit Albany to appear before the Legislature if the matter reaches that stage. The Bar Association probe continues with hearings set tomorrow and Thursday, and final recommendations will be sent to the governor.
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Kanar J. Chrystie
New York Har Association
New York
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Joan A. Connolly
Sulzer
Coralan
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Pear
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Henry A. Robinson
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Bax Association
Connolly Charger
Connolly
Foss vetoes nine hour bill on street railway labor
Governor Foss vetoed a bill that would ban street railway companies from forcing workers to toil more than nine hours in an eleven hour span. The measure had backing from all state labor unions.
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Hoston
Mie
Sulzer Attacked by Murphy McCabe in Albany Power Fight
A state correspondent reports Charles Murphy and McCabe of Albany County launch a Tammany driven assault on Governor Sulzer. The statement accuses Sulzer of political offenses and details alleged meetings with Murphy, calls his primary plan a betrayal, and cites a Baltimore caucus vote as proof of insincerity.
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Sulzer political fight over hydro power bill sparks attacks
A heated column accuses Governor Sulzer of selling out to the power trust and using politics to aid himself and the poor man. The writer denounces his veto of a hydro power bill as a betrayal of honest citizens, calling Sulzer a demagogue and alleging he drags in national politics to serve private ends. The piece contrasts Albany's overreaching executive with Wilson's Democratic credit to the nation.
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Albany
Governor Sulzer’s Appointment of Mitchell Questioned
Albany June 46 hours of Appeals heard for the first time the issue of gubernatorial appointment powers in the Mitchell case. The court reviewed whether Governor Sulzer acted with or without Senate confirmation in naming John Mitchell as State Labor Commissioner, a ruling upheld by the Appellate Division. The Attorney General argued the vacancy timing and Senate checks require confirmation. Justice Herrick noted Williams resignation after adjournment created a fillable vacancy
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Wours of Appeals
Sulzer
John Mitchell
Mount Vernon
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Cheater
Carmody
Mitchell
Senate
Attorney General
Justice Herrick
Willams
Planning to Urge Early Republican National Convention
Washington dispatch reports progressive Republicans led by Cummins and Jones Crawford plan to press the National Committee to call a local convention this year. They argue for early party reorganization ahead of the next Congress election and discuss reducing Southern representation, primaries, and the unit rule. Currency legislation and the timing of a full committee meeting may delay any convention.
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Washington
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Cummins
Jones Crawford
Dete Cramton
Rogers
Chicago
Can National Committee
Hadley
New Jersey
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Congress
Waanington
Nation Committee
Maas
National Committee
Republican National Committee
Republican Party
Man Arrested on Warrant for Abusive Prank In Wisconsin
John Fretmamath of Campbell was taken into custody on a warrant after the state humane office charged a man with cruel conduct toward a child. The incident occurred in near freezing sun as the accused allegedly forced a mule and a cultivator to harass a boy during farm work. The case involves humane offense allegations and legal action.
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Lampen Yen
Latelve Sears
Suite Sot
John Fretmamath
Campbell
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