The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-23
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
| odeti Sure.-Benjamin B. Odell will be
nominated for Governor of New York by
the Republican State Convention Sep
TENDER 4. The Hon Thomas Collier Platt
admitted last night for the first time that
oeells nomination had been decided upon,
and when Platt speaks in the Republican
politics of New York there is no going
behind the returns" The decision of the
! Platt machine to nominate OdeH its chief
] lobbyist at Albany, indiea ties plainly the
belief on the part of the Republican man
ayers that the Democrats of New York will
not nominate the Hon. Bird S. Coler for
Governor. In substantiation of this theory
it is pointed out that Mr. OdelI would
not admit that he was the likely nominee,
! nor would Mr. Platt positively assert his
! Willingness 10 accept Odeu until Mr.. Gro
! ker and Mr.. Murphy began to actively and
! vigorously oppose the nomination of Mr.
Coler- 1t is believed Mr.. Plat is convinced
that even if Coler should now win the
democratic nomination. the split in the
/ democracy caused by the Tammany
: eniefs fight on Hill and CoIer will give
! the Republican State ticket an easy vic
! tory IN November. At the same time it is
thought TO be possible for the
democrats 10 get together in spite
OF the fierce fight now raging
between Fill and Croker Mr. Gro
ker is generally credited with a sincere
ueSlfe for the success of the national
ticket. So is Mr. Hill. In view of this
TACT IL Is considered to be not impossible
1or them to work in harmony The chances
OF Coler winning the gubernatorial noIni-
nation seem to be increasing every day
Inc latest TRDOTtS to hat No
Laughlin, the boss of Brooklyn, has rot
deserted his brilliant young protege, Mr.
CoIer, contrary TO the claims of Cookers
henchmen that an understanding between
the boss of Tammany and the boss of
Brooklyn has been arranged ON the basis
Oh Coler.s defeat. 1t is believed that when
Mr.. Croker becomes convinced that CoIer
is the choice of the party and that vic
tory is assured with the Comptroller as
the leader, he will yield and thereby fool
Mr. Platt. Meantime the Plat machine
Will proceed to get everything in shape
for Lobbyist Odells nomination. and as
Mr.. Hanna and the other national man
ayers are at the mercy of the Platl ma
chine in New York they will not dare pro-
test against this, even though they are
known to be opposed TO Odeli's nomina-
ton on the ground OF expediency.
Applied for MedaI.-It has lust be-
tered out OF the army the Rough Rider
applied TO the War Department for a
medal attesting his valor in the Spanish
war. The application was made in writing
and addressed TO the board empowered by
law TO bestow medals of honor for distiu- I
guished and meritorious services. Whether /
this board formally rejected the Rough
Riders application aud notified him to that
effect is not known. though it is known
that the medal was never issued. Nor Is
1t known what particular act of bravery or
yalor the Rough Rider claimed as his tite
TO the medal OF honor 1t is supposed, /
however. that his application was based /
upon his boosted claim of having pre-
vented, single-handed and alone a dis /
graceful retreat of the colored troops at
San Juan Hill. 1t Will be remembered :
that in a magazine article written soon /
after the war the Rough Rider record d an .
important occurrence which strangely es-
capped the observation Of every other his- /
torian OF The Cuban campaign. In mod !
estly describing his part in the battle OF .
San Juan Hill he stated that one OF the |
negro regiments of the Regular Army was
preparing to run away from the firing line,
that all of the white officers of the regi-
ment had disappeared, and that he whip
ped out his revolver and standing across
the path of the affrighted blacks warned
them that the first man who dared run
away would be shot dead in his tracks BY
no other means, according to the Rough
Riders own admission in the magazine ar
tiele referred to, could the day at San Juan
have been saved. II is fercely coHtendeti
by the admirers Of the Rough Rider that
this act entities him to a medal OF honor,
and tnat the board in failing to issue It
10 him is displaying a narrow jealousy
urbcPOmi0Q officers nj he
Dotliver a Senator.-The Hon. Jona-
than Prentiss DolIiver, OF Fort Dodge. has
been appointed by Governor Shaw, of Iowa,
to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by
the death of Senator Gear Mr. Dolliver
VIII resign his seat in the House inlmeeii-
ately in order that his successor may he
nominated by the Republicans of the Tenth
Iowa district for both the unexpired por-
ton Of the present Congress and the full
term of the next. The House loses its
most attractive orator by the transfer Of
Mr.. DolliVer to the Senate and his friends
very greatly fear that Mr. DolIiver also /
will be the loser in a sense By the transfer.
1t is doubted whether he can adapt him
self TO the chilly atmosphere of the Sen
ate Mr.. DolliVer is a WaTm-natured i'm
pulsiVe man. genial and democratic in the
bToaCest sense of the term. He is also
poor-so poor, in fact that he has found
it necessary to exc out his Congressional
salary by Joining with the Hon Champ
Clark OF Missouri, whose superior he is
as an orator. in a sort of hippodrouing
performance on the Chautauqua circuit OF
the country in debate on the imperia1ist
question The dignity of the Senate will
not permit Mr., Dolliver to continue this
performance, and the Hon Champ Clark
will either have to get another partner or
give up his income as paid lecturer II
is believed Mr. Dolliver is strong enough
in Iowa TO carry the next Legislature
which will elect the Senator for the regu-
lar term of six years. Pending the elec
ton of the next Legislature Mr. DolIIyer
presumably will be resppointed by Cover
nor Shaw 10 fill the vacancy which will
exist from the expiration of the Fifty
sixth Congress next March to the begin
ming of the Fifty-seventh Congress in
March 1902
The Huntington Lobby. MANY
statesman in and out of Congress. and
many a professional promoter of Iegisla-
ton. is anxiously eaquiring what is to be-
come of the lobby that was maintained AT
so many years by the late