The evening times., 1900-04-17
MACHINE men OPERATING
Pla rs Workers Indicate Intentions
Toward Roosevelt.
Oden May he Brought Forward as
the Next Republican Candidate
for Governor of the Empire s'"'e'
LemreI r.. Quigg Again Restored
TO Favor-He Writes a Platform.

NEW YORK, April 17.-Rspublican ro.i-
ticjans from all over the State flccked
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel last hlsnt'
and most of them found their way TO
Senator Platt's room. They were all as
dumb as oysters about the proposition ~
have a resolution passed at today COIL
vention declaring that the party was in Ia
yor OF a second term for the Governor
They were emphatic in declaring that the
Convention should take no action regard
ing New York's choice for the Vice Presl-
dency. On all sides could be heard talk IN
dicating that the programme as 1t is now
understood is that the Republican Nation
al Convention shall be stampeded tor
Roosevelt for Vice President, and ne Will
be dared to decline it..
The Republican leaders from the SKY
counties in the State were unanimous in
praising the diplomacy of Chairman Odell
that had prevented single contested seat
from figuring in the preliminary work OF
the Convention In the corridors and about
the bar the talk was general that II
Governor Roosevelt we've nominated for
J Vice President Mr.. Cden would be nomi-
, mated for Governor in S ptember, ard
George W Aldrdge Of Rochester, would
succeed Mr.. Odell as chairman CT the Re
publican State Committee"
| There could be 70 mistaking the senti-
! ment that il is a general belief OF the rank
ard file that the programme is to get
! Roosevelt on the national ticket. II he can
[ possibly be induced to go there.
Now and then a weird rumor came Whis-
pering down the rotunda that some dele
gate was going TO offer resolution today
/ declaring il 10 be the sense of the Repubi-
/ can party that the Governor should be re-
! nominated. Usually this delegate proved
! TO be a nameless individual. In one in
stance he was the figment OF Abraham
! Gruber's imagination. Mr.. GgubeT sad ira.
4 delegate OF the Twenty y-seventh distTi
WOULD offer such a resolution, ard he vou
support it. The name given By Mr.. GfUber
| does not figure on the Convention rolls.
II the Governor had few friends around
the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night, some OF
Gs enemies had many. Postmaster Leg
/ gett. who had come down to contest the
election OF Frank s Blacks delegates from
the Third Rensselaer, district, went home
with a fea in mis- ear
The fortunes Of Louis F. Payn as a State
! committeeman are tied up in this fight
II was decided that there should be no con
test.
Il was decided that Senator \. A. Els
berg shall be the temporary chairman oi
the convention. and it is also on the book.
that Representative James 5. Sherman o.
Utica, shall be the permanent chairman.
Senator Elsherg is a newcomer in poh'
ties and is one of the two Republican SEN
tors from the Borough OF Manhattan. liz
has made a very good record al Albany
ana the thing that probably weighed mos
I in his favor in getting him this honor We.
the spirited and sarcastic manner in "hici
be struck back at Senator Grady during DE-
bates in the Senate last winter on Nc1
York city legislation.
Some surprise was expressed when j
was learned that Lemuel Z. Qugg, tn
president Of the county committee. who i
slated for retirement in favor OF Geors
r Bidwell. was to be the chairman cf IN
committee on resolutions. This VIII reall
he he most inpOrtant function OF ihi
convention. Ii was said last night taa
there was no political significance in M
QuiEg's selection FOR this honor. but tha
he had been chosen because he could writ
a better platform than anybody else. Nj
Gucg wrote the platform yesterday, an
II was edited by Senator Plat last night
II indorsas the Administration OF Hresi
dent Mckinley. praises the adminis,faGo
, Of Governor Roosevelt. and the low Ia
rate. and says a lot of things about patri
? otism expansion, and the old f2g.