Besides, three amendments to the State Constitution were proposed: to transfer the settlement of contested elections to the courts, to authorize the sale of the state-owned salt works at Salina, New York, and to increase the number of New York Supreme Court justices by ten.
In 1892, there was only one officer to be elected statewide: the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William C. Ruger in January 1892.
Robert Earl had been appointed temporarily to fill the vacancy until the end of the year.
The Republican State Committee met on October 11 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City.
[1] The Democratic State Committee met on October 12 at the Hoffman House in New York City.