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Show I HUGHES WINS IN NEW YORK. iReeeives Overwhelming Majority on First Ballot Taken. Saratoga, N. Y. Charles Evantf Jlughcs of Now York wns nominated on Tuesday by tho Republican stnto (convention by an overwhelming ma (Jorlty, nnd on the flrHt ballot, to sue eecd himself as governor of the Htnto !nf New York. He received 827 out lot n possible 1,000, ns ngalnst Hl for 'James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston Living-ston county, speaker of the statu assembly, as-sembly, and thirty-ono for former .Congressman John K. Stewart of 'Montgomery. The nomination was made ununl-;nous ununl-;nous on motion of Stnto Committeeman Committee-man William Dames, Jr., of Albany, who has been perhaps the bitterest nnd most outspoken opponent of tho governor's renomlnatlon. Tho governor's gov-ernor's renomlnatlou followed tho titter failure of a desperate struggle on the part of a number of tho county coun-ty leaders, who for four days havo spared no effort to discover a candidate candi-date upon which thoy could unlto to defent him. Tho remainder of tho ticket Ib as follows: For lieutenant governor, Horace Whlto of Onondaga; Onon-daga; for secretary of state, Samuel B. Koenlg of New York; for attorney general, Edward It. O'Malloy of Erlo; for comptroller, CharleB H. Gnus of Albany; for state treasurer, Thomas D. Dunn of Monroe; for associate Judgo of the court of appeals, Albert Halght of Erlo (renominated). |