The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-22
REPUBLICANS GET TOGETHER.
Chairman Odell IL Sure OF the Assembly
-Moasures blocked Last Winter, Include
ing = State Police, TO Have n Show.

| Chairman Odell IL Sure of the Assembly
| -Mossures Blocked Last Winter, Include
ing = State Police, TO Have n Show
The Hon. BENJAMIN Il. Odell. Jr., Chairman
| OF the Republican State Committee. has got
along far enough In the fight for Republican
Assent bly, this winter to make the casual an
nouncement that the Republicans are sure OF
| electing W Of the $50 m mbers OF the Lower
House. Chairman Odell made this statement
last night at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr.
| Odell Is a conservative sort of person, and. II
anything. 10 inclined to err on the side Of eau
| ton. 1t will require rs votes to control the
Assembly and possibly 1t will call for few
more votes than rs to have 1t copper-rlveted to
suit the Republican leaders.
AS an evidence OF Mr.. Odel's conservatism
IL may now be said that last fall he predicted
that Gov Roosevelt would be elected by 10000
plurality This estimate Mr.. odell stuck to
from start to finish Gov. Roosevelt himself
said on the Saturday before election day last
fall that he would be elected by 10000 plurality.
This was q demonstration that Mr.. Roosevelt
was keeping tab ON the situation quite as
much as anybody else. Most OF the other
Republican leaders outside OF Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Odell believed that Mr.. Roosevelt
would have 100000 plurality. This little story
Is told for the purpose Of demon strating how
carefully Mr.. Odel has gone over the Assembly
situation. Mr.. Roosevelt was elected by a
plurality OF 1873.
Chairman Odell won't on to say that mas
much as he was sure Of 80 Assem- blymen
he was not at all alarmed lest the other eight
and possibly more Republican Assemblymen
should not be elected In fact he was positive
In his conviction that the Republicans would
easily elect good majority.
From other Republican sources 1t was as
certained that tho Republican State Senators.
who were somewhat on the hooks" last win
ter. will be ready this winter. as things look
now. to regard the wishes OF the Republican
leaders concerning State Constabulary bill
and other matters, which are regarded as Of
vital i'm portance to the Republican party by
certain OF the Republican leaders. A State
Constabulary bill would obliterate the BIZ
partisan board which now sits In Mulberry
street. In fact. 1t was said yesterday that II 1t
becomes necessary Gov. Roosevelt will issue
message to the Legislature calling tho atten-
ton OF tho Senate and the Assembly to the
need OF some sort OF police bill for New York
city which will leGislate out OF office the pres
ent board.
The Republicans are getting together.
There have been personal differences among
several OF the leaders. but the wise ones have
come to the conclusion that IL is about
time that personal differences should be set
aside. superintendent OF insurance Louis L.
Payn has had an agreeable conversation with
the Republican leaders associated with State
affairs and will do everything possible TO mako
matters at Aloan this winter serene and happy
for the Republicans.
To put it in nutshell. the conservative
leaders OF the Republican party In the State
are engaged in q movement to regulate the
affairs Of the party at Albany this winter In
such fashion as will rebound to the welfare Of
the party In the mighty Presidential battle
which is now only a little more than six months
away.
Over at the Hoffman House last night were
gathered together such sturdy Democratic
fghters rs ex-senator Edward Murphy. Jr.
OF Troy. ex-senator Arthur Pue German OF
Maryland. ox-hayor Hugh J. Grant OF New
York city. Senator Patrick Henry McCarren.
Chairman OF tho Executive Committee Of the
Democratic State Committee. and Anthony n |
Brady OF Albany. 1t was ascertained that |
these gentlemen talked good deal about bust
ness matters, but that politics was not en-
trely ignored. As matter OF fact the
Democrats are putting up. in subterranean |
fashion. tho strongest kind Of a night to elect
a Democratic Assembly this winter The |
Dem ocratie powers Of the State are aware OF |
the Importance to them OF preventing any leg
islatlon which will wipe out tho present bi par
tisan Police Board in New York city