[2] The Socialist state convention met on July 20 at Schenectady, New York, and nominated again Louis Waldman for governor.

Their own candidate for governor had polled only a little more than 20,000 votes, not enough to get ballot access, but the openly "wet" incumbent Senator Wadsworth had been defeated.

The Prohibitionist had not run a ticket in 1928, but now, alarmed by the massive growth of the movement against Prohibition, they emerged again under the name of Law Preservation Party, trying to stem the tide.

Twenty representatives of "dry" organizations met at the headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and nominated Dr. Robert Paris Carroll, a Syracuse University professor, for governor without any running mates.

[5] The Democratic state convention met on September 30 at Syracuse, New York, and re-nominated the incumbent governor, Franklin D.