The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05
REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.
CoNGRESSMx AN ODELL NOT TO RUN
AGAIN TIL FALL.

Congressman ward. Also. Does Net Desire n
Executive CouHittee
May Meet TO settIc DlaputCs Up the State
investigation or tho Tnmrnany-Hea Deal.
The Hon. Benjamin b. Odell. Jr, Chairman OF
the Republican State and Congress-
man for the Seventeenth Now York district,
which includes the counties of Orange, Rock
la d and Sullivan. was at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last night, and ANNOUNCED that he would
not be n candidate for denomination to Congress
this fall. Mr.. Odell said that he did not wish
to confound his own candidacy for Con-
gross with his duties as Chairman OF the
Republican State Committee. and that he
proposed to give all of his time to the Republic
can State campaign, which is OF so vital impor-
lance to the party. Mr.. Odell has made ono
or two trips through the State in the last
week, and he said that no found everything OF a
most encouraging character. He smiled some
what at the talk OF Republican conferences
which have been heralded to occur at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel during tho last few days. No
conferences are in sight, he said, and none 10
contemplated.
Gov. Black is now awaiting information as to
the real facts in the New York police situation.
An investigation is in progress which Will de-
termine many things. Until this investigation
is ended no conferences Of any kind are neceS-
| s,ry. Gov. Black is in constant communications
with representation of the Republican party OF
| New York city, but the plan of the Repub-
licans is not to be posted up In print on
every corner in the b~ailiwick. 1t cannot
be denied that the Republicans OF New
/ York city desire most radical action against
Tammany Hall. In this desire very many Re-
publicans from the country districts coincide.
Yet nothing has been determined ana nothing
will be decided until Gov. Black Is made fully
and nuthoritativeiy acqWetnied c Win the IN ia tbs
removal OF Hamilton and Philips. the Rcpubli-
can,Policc Commissioners. and The appointment
of Hess, who instantly obeyed Tammany,s VII
It mag be necessary TO call together the
Executive of the Republican State
counties as to the workings o.. the Primary law
ermined to hayc all Of these probl
solved before the meeting SS Of the ia
be lett for guesswork. for the reason tai
the Republicans desire to enter the Republican,
State convention as united as POSSIBLE. ana VIII
county and one or two other counties settle thril
differences in amic"hlr fashion the Executive
Committee of the Republican State
will take thu matters into their own hands anC
settle them for the best interests of the Republi
'S Uo FInxs William Lukens Ward of thu
sixteenth district. which takes in the county {,
Assembly district Of the city Of New York, doe
not desire a rcnominntion to Congress; Al !
Ward and his friends VIII get together short
man Henry c. Brewster of the Thirty,f first dis
trict. which is the county OF Monroe. Is not t
succeed him is speaker James NJ. Z. O'Grady q
the Assembly. who is. like Mr.. brewster. a res
| dent Of d l;Gch Mish1, H RcSGpslmF 10 az George e@rs W" :
/ S]Outhwiok < of tn. Twentieth district: which
> the COUNTY Of Ain"my' RG ,Pr T,nsn m in% Il
, trict. which is made UP of Oneida ami icrkilnc,
and. in fact, n majority OF the present tt,cpu.
5 licCn Congressman are to be renomlnnted tn