[1] The Prohibition state convention met on June 26 at Alhambra Hall in Syracuse, New York.

[3] The People's Party state convention met on September 11 at the Town Hall in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Charles B. Matthews, manager of the Buffalo Refining Company and arch-enemy of the Standard Oil Company", was nominated for Governor; Robert C. Hewson, of Penn Yan for Lieutenant Governor, and Thaddeus B. Wakeman for the Court of Appeals.

Charles T. Saxton was nominated after receiving 340 votes on the first ballot (393 votes were cast for James W. Wadsworth, George W. Aldridge, George E. Green, Arthur C. Wade, Francis Hendricks, Henry J. Coggeshall, Albert D. Shaw and Azariah C. Brundage) and a few subsequent changes.

[5] The Democratic state convention met on September 26 at the Skating Rink in Saratoga Springs.

[7] Gaynor declined to run,[8] and the Democratic State Committee met on October 6 at the Park Avenue Hotel in New York City, and substituted Charles F. Brown on the ticket.