Alexander Barkley for Canal Commissioner, the incumbent Prison Inspector Henry A. Barnum, and Campbell H. Young for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, were nominated by acclamation.

[1] The Democratic state convention met on September 2 and 3 at Tweddle Hall in Albany, New York.

Mayor of New York City John T. Hoffman, the Democratic candidate of 1866, was nominated again for governor by acclamation.

[2] A German Democratic state convention met on September 2 at Schreiber's Hotel in Albany, New York with Henry Clausenger as president, and endorsed the nomination of John T. Hoffman for governor.

At this time, the term was three years, and the next election of the Clerk would occur in 1871, but in 1870 the Court of Appeals was re-organized and the office became appointive.