The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-24
REPUBLICANS ARE CONFIDENT.
NEWS FROM Up STATE TNPROI.
ING An the TINE.
Hili's Attack on Odeli Expected to Fan
Elat-CoI. Dunn Asks what the Dcmor.
racy Offers the People Of the state
aS substitute for prOsprrItN.

Col. George W. Dunn, chairman Of n .
Republican State Committee. sp"akr x
vest, rday e Mr. Hills attack on Gov.
Odcll and the reply 81 Gov. Odcll al
Roche'rr, said
Tile Governor struck right out from the
shoulder His answer 10 Mr.. Hill will he
believed. because II was a frank and true
| statement
Ex-ioy. Frank $ Black. who defea, ed
Mr. Odcll for the nomination for Cover
nor in 1896. and who was turned down for
denomination in 1895 by Mr. Plat and Mr..
Odell, said concerning Mr. HIS attack Oh
MIR Odoll
Il regard the attack a. unfair, uncalled
for, and in bad taste If Mr. Hill had taken
the time 10 look into IN" things lie charg, =
h" would have found the facts to ba a.
Gov. Odeli afterward said. Tho attack
in my estimation, is damnable piece If
business
Away back in 1894, in the national fight
between James G.. Blaine and Grover Cleve-
land, sorne mighty hard things we're said
Some of these have not been printed. and
never will be printed until the warriors of
that great campaign are under the rod. But
both Republicans and Democrats said yes
terday that for eighteen years personal
attacks on candidates had teen eschewed
and that the voters were becoming 80 en-
lightened a. 10 politicians and their ways
that these personal sluTS had lit To- effect
in determining the result oil election day.
Col Dunn said yesterday that every mail
brought brighter news of the situation
IN the country districts. Two weeks ae"
the republican situation looked like 80
cents I'm the elegant language of the dayb;
but now, Col. Dunn saws that his news
from all OF the districts above IN. The
Bronx is TO the tnact that the folks believe
that they have had a pretty good time
for the last six or eight years, that the
woJd-ba!n has been filled and that the
farm crops have been good, that the women
folks have had comfortable gowns and
ina, the Youngsters have been warmly
clothed, and direct State taxes almost OBJ
liberated; ana so the Colonel said that he be-
heved that understanding all of the high
falhtin notions advanced by the Democratic
orators IN this campaign, the people had
really come TO understand the situation and
mat they would not be taken of their feet
Oh elect ion day
Then the Colonel asked what has Mr.
Hill TO Offer to the seven millions of voters
of the State OF New York in substitution
Tor the happy ana comfortable times Of the
last seven or eight years, He offers them
the proposed Government ownership of the
coal mines OF Pennsylvania OF course,
no such proposition a. his could be enter
tanned by the Federal Government without
the consent of the States. and il would take
about four hundred and ten years 10 secure
me consent OF three-quarters Of the States
70 such an amendment to the Constitution
MIR. Hill must have known that such a
proposition as this was suprenely rdicu-
lous, and he only put this in the platform
for a catch phrase, and for campaign pur-
poses only"
Col. Dunn, as he closed his desk last night,
said All the news as | receive il bv tele-
gram and letter Is that Gov Odells majority
Is swelling every hour and every day"