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Show N. Y, REPUBLICANS CONVENE TUESDAY President Eoosevelt "Will Have tho Indorsement of the Empire State Convention. . Special to The Tribune. Nr EV YOPvK, April 0. Congressman Sereno E. Payne is likely to bo chairman of the Republican State convention which is called to meet next Tuesday, April 12th. Edward Lautcrbach probably "will be chairman of the. committee on resolutions. resolu-tions. The resolutions which will be presented for adoption by the convention conven-tion will, it is said, be of a nature to satisfy the most exacting friend of President Roosevelt. They will recite the executive and diplomatic triumphs of the Roosevelt administration and pledge to the President the heartiest support of the Republican party In his own State. It is now said that, despite the popular pop-ular demand for Ellhu Root as the next Republican candidate for. Governor, Gov-ernor, the former Secretary of "War will not make the race. Great efTorla have beon mado to induce in-duce him to do so, because the Republicans Repub-licans recognize that they will need to put forward their best men .and place their organization in the beat possible working order if they mean to win against the Parker-McClellan-11111 combination. President Roosevelt is well aware that Hill is fixing up a programme which threatens to make New York Democratic, and the President has been anxious to get Mr. Root to make tho race for Governor. But Mr. Root is unwilling and there's an end of that.' Gen. Horace Porter, now our Embassador Embas-sador at Paris, has been suggested, probabjy by President Roosevelt himself; him-self; but Senator Piatt does not take kindly to tho Idea. How Odell feels about It Is not yet known. The President Presi-dent thinks Gen. Porter would make a good candidate, as he Ls an effective campaigner and has been out of the country long enough' not to bo connected con-nected with any of tho recent squabbles squab-bles and caterwaullnga. The Administration continues to worry about the situation ' In New York, and all the more so now that Hill is working on his tripartite peaco scheme. |