The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-22
BLACKS FRIENDS DIE HARD.
UNABLE, TT SEEMS. TO ACCEPT DEFEAT
NTH coon GRACE.

In View of Their Present Attitude Republic
cans Recall How the Men Who Made
Way for Black Himself Turned In After
ward and Worked Hard TO Elect Him.
1t was q light day yesterday in Republican
politics. There was not even n new turn to tho
gossip. Chairman odell OF tho State Commit
tee said he was positive that already III dele
gates out Of the OIL were for Col. Theodore
Roosevelt. President Quigg OF the New York
county Republicans reiterated his statement
that 178 OF the 1888 county delegates were for
Roosevelt. The Brooklyn Republicans were
positive that 100 of the 49, Delegates
there would be for Roosevelt. While
these statements were stoutiy comhatcd
by Gov. Blacks friends. they lad nc
figures to give out; ut least they said they
would not give, out any at this time. Tn Black
people are not amiablc people to meet now
adays. They say all sorts Of cross things. for
getting that the friends OF other candidates for
Governor at Saratoga In 1sD0 took their medl-
cine like men when II was decided TO make
Frank 4. Black the candidate.
The disappointed Republicans on that occa-
sion did not 20 about threatening to knife
Black. but. on the contrary. they all pitched In
and worked like majors for his election. George
W. AldridGe. with y delegates at his back two
years ago. gracefully retired from tho race when
II was made known to him that the Republic
can leaders deemed It advisable to nominate
Mr.. Black. Mr.. Aldridge even went to Mr..
Blacks home in Troy the night the conven-
tion adjourned and made q stirring speech
for the candidate. Representative Odell.
who was the candidate OF eleven out OF
fifteen Republican leaders who met in
tho Worden House. Saratoga. to select the can
didate for Governor in 1898. returned to his
home in Newburg without u murmur after Mr..
pIatt had chanUni tho vote fnrnaH 1ONvn fhn
eleven who voted for odell. md said that in his
opinion Mr.. Black was the most available can
didate. Speaker Hamilton Fish. who was an
toSS his c meaiepne Ike sn a aS sSersInfssHin OF 1886
Not one of these Republicans objected then to
Mr.. Blacks nomination. but on the contrary all
put their shoulders to the wheel and worked
like so many dray horses for Mr.. Black. Mr..
0dell was then Chairman OF the Executive
or three days rest at mis- home In Newburg In
1895 he turned up at his desk In the Fifth Ave-
this.
Some of the Republicans who recalled these
titude Of Gov. Black and his friends when it
was apparent to even the most disInterested
wanted Col. Theodore Roosevelt for their cam
didate for Governor. This will be amply DEM
SPstEstSs It. s9YE et Gov ON BBR}Sifd!sy i Rf5t;a i T Sps
around town damning this or that Republican
and swearing at eYGeFyh1dy who through .
ognized the demands for Roosevelt's nomi-
nation.
The contrast between the present situation
and that in 1896. It was declared. is allthe more
difficult to understand when it Is known that
all of Gov. Blacks l~ieutenants in the present
fight are old salts In the affairs OF the Repub-
lican party Of tho State. On many occasions
they have swung along with the majority and
seen it crush the minority only to see the mi
nority accept the situation without a murmur.
Now these same old salts are in the minority
and their criticisms. Of the majority arc so
intensely bitter aR to be almoSta absurd.
Many OF Gov. Blacks friends. in their CONVEX
sation. seem to think that the Roosevelt move
ment is n bitter warfare on them. From all THAT
Is known it has been Gov. Blacks friends who
for n year or more have been engaged ina fight
against other tepuolltanS. Naturally, me nc
ant feelings toward Gov. Blacks friends
in Albany. But all these arc incidental
matters, for the reason that. the majority
Of Republicans conversant with the situation
have not hesitsted to say that Mr.. Black would
be a weak candidate before the people OF the
State Of New York this fall. Yet. as already
to!bow to the VIII 81 the majority.
1t has been practically settled that Speaker
James NJ. E. 0'Grady Of Rochester is to be the
Convention. and Senator Horace White OF
Syracuse the permanent Chairman.