The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-02
ToOEARLY FOR CANDIDATES
REPUBLICANS Will TAKE THEIR TIME
I'M PICK TIE BEST.

ANU 1lgh I1H bAhNIs
Canal Commission's Report Nay Clear On
the Situation in Some Respecta-SuEHes-
tiOn That Gen. wOodford Run for Gov.
ernor and Why He Isn't n RInior-General
Chairman odell Of the Republican State Com
mittee took a run up to his home OF Newburg
yesterday and was back at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in the evening. His mission to Newburg
was to look after his business Affairs and Incl
dentally to take a glimpse at tho Congress sit
uation In his district Although Mr.. Odell does
not desire a denomination for Congress, It is q
dollar TO q big apple that he and his friends
will control tho Congress Convention which Is
TO name his successor.
1t was intlmated yesterday that it might DO
just as we'll not to figure on the Republican sit
uation in the State as to candidates for Gov
ernor. &C.. until the report Of Gov. Blacks
Canal Commission IL handed out on Wednes-
day. This report, 1t Is expected. will be a
factor In the situation and may result in clear
ing up many things which now appear to be
somewhat dif1cult to understand.
No matter when the Democrats are to bold
their State Convention, Sept. Is or Oct. / or
Oct. 4. the Republican programme will not be
changed. The Republican State Committee
will meet about Aug. "a. and call the conven-
ton for Sept. %. The Republicans have de-
cided upon a short. sharp. and decisive cam
paign. Richard Croker suggests that the Re-
publicans should adopt bold tactics. mas
much Us they believe that they are to be
the winners. The Republicans declared
yesterday that they were attending to their
own campaign and that the Democrats under
no circumstances could carry their State ticket
or the State Legislature that the people of the
State would have nothing to do with the dis
rupted and disintegrated Democratic party
which has for Its backing all the hideous doc
trlnes Of the Chicago national platform OF 1895.
The Hon. Timothy Woodruff Of Brooklyn. It
appears. does not view with complncency any
mention Of a Republican candidate for Gov
ernor other than Gov. Black. The mere men,
tion OF the names OF Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
eE.Ma{Sr FFsdoF4Iek 4 Schroeder; It Is said.
either q these TIRES kSPub|sanS Would
snantSdoyernoT In ali the tall about
R EsR& inS9Pa iaeq to GsS. S &SCdf Il ao' FSd ss ssesaii
3 3GTamiI BSSSy$jdipEF that Coy essSil BjpG & i SG SSS e Be
last night that Gen. Woodford did not accept at
the hands OF President Mckinley 2 ,proffered
nomination to be a Aalor-General. There were
as 70 his reason. Gen. Woodford himself,
should have the preference in the war with
Spain. ~ hde dSceI ldliltu, luouRni Ilhl GER
tain eminent Republicans advised Gen. Wood
ttord not to accept z ne pr%SIPSssd pr0notionIf r. but
said there may be something better in store
for you than aPromotion from BriGadier-Gen
This may have meant a good deal, and then
ofRaP It s,o %Sy d ears meant G 3SshiR %Eoo q a1ldi T dee
s SiSSPh Z H. IT, 4 %o5S / fOFf frIs SsS tFss hi i
ss SENATE. 4ec SHIta not e Il those sSni iamfiIaF D' viii IL
ies s asEFle7 e AP af Gen Una! w6 sshfeS9F b SSsRss
q Cen Wood51Td,s alleged utter9nces
PP1Hnr1 sun was sHSs sent u to 1 Thy at f TIE sime ~ the be-
f p%S9tfaiiy Tit I, i tnrPSG oaa. s sS slvS the TO fi sSe a iR-
depce taken at the inquest over the body OF
robert BosS; that the murder was the result Of
the 'icsn nomination nnmsd hd for AlderPaG Of a. 3 ReaP SIo
81 p the shoFt;h sfpS aaeP %is Shs N s tee a hiiIe .
s sssss ssSs6 aist tssn Va asP p 8 @SgEs on lsPR8R:l aaa 1 1St
story. as told By those familiar With it last
ss eEass;o Te Murphy qP to Sse ssE thss last ssst 'R Il Rss T pral
posed 70 promote Gen. Woodford to be n Major:
States Senate as to make it impossibis. without
an unseemly fight. to confirm Gen. Woodford's
nomination, senator 1lurpnE lelt deeply ag-
grieved at Gen. Woodfori. He believed that
Gen. Woodtord had unjustly attacked him. and
Il Is well known In Washington that Senator
Murphy is one of the most popular Senators in
the City Of Magnificent Distances.
Furthermore, il was said that Senator Muir
ply produced the evidence of Gen. Wood
ford's alleged unjust attack upon him and sub
mitted it TO Gen. Woodford's friends. and that
President Mckinley was made aware that II
would be unwise TO send in to the Senate Gen,
MaIor-Gcneral. This incident, II was said. may
turn up as a factor In the present political stu
alton in New York State. for the reason that
President Mckinley and Senator. Plat aud all
Senator Woodford's friends believe that he
made a very able Minister to Spain. and that he
was entitled to the promotion to be q Major
General If he desired that distinction.
Finally. certain Republicans in authority said
that 1t was . little early TO talk serioualy about
& boom for Col. Roosevelt, Hamilton Fish. Gen.
Woodford. eI-Mayor Schroeder or anybody
else. The convention is nearly two months off
and many things may happen during that time
Nevertheless. al Republicans In authority are
at wSrk mapping out the plans for q victory ir
dorsemont to President McKinley's condpct u
the war and the Republican administrator Of
affairs generally.