CHAPTER VIII.
THE NEW YORK GOVERNORSHIP In September, 1898, the First Volunteer Cavalry, in company with most of the rest of the Fifth Army Corps, was disembarked at Montauk Point.
Shortly after it was disbanded, and a few days later, I was nominated for Governor of New York by the Republican party.

Timothy L.Woodruff was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor.

He was my stanch friend throughout the term of our joint service.
The previous year, the machine or standpat Republicans, who were under the domination of Senator Platt, had come to a complete break with the anti-machine element over the New York mayoralty.

This had brought the Republican party to a smash, not only in New York City, but in the State, where the Democratic candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Alton B.Parker, was elected by sixty or eighty thousand majority.

Mr.Parker was an able man, a lieutenant of Mr.Hill's, standing close to the conservative Democrats of the Wall Street type.
These conservative Democrats were planning how to wrest the Democratic party from the control of Mr.Bryan.They hailed Judge Parker's victory as a godsend.