New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-30
SHAPING ODELL CAMPAIGN
REASONS WHY THE REPUBLICANS rv
PECT TO SWEEP THE STATE.

Inc AIlenuS OF Governor Odeu already
quietly planning for vigorous campaign in
every county of the State. believing that the
Governor VIII be renominated. The organization
will enter on the fall campaign in the belief tia,
the Empire State is in the Republican column
to stay and that the Republican ticket will b
elected by magnificent majority.
An early reconnaissance Of the political linz,
of battle shows that the Republicans are in
! excellent fighting trim and that their oldtims
/ opponents thoroughly demoralized. withou,
any we'll grounded hope of harmony. The Stata
seems to have left the Democratic column when
the Ballot Reform law in 1898 guaranteed I,
the electors an honest counting of their votes
II is a noteworthy fact that since 1898. when
the operations of the repeater and heller in the
tenement house districts in this city were
blocked the Republicans have steadily strength
ened their grip on the State government
In 1893 Bartlett was elected Judge Of the
/ Court of Appeals by plurality of 101. 064 New
| York County at that time giving Maynard
| plurality of 80 coo. This plurality was made I'd
/ in part by a plurality Of 10000 in the lid As
/ sembly District of this city, whereas last year
/ the entire Democratic vote polled in the I'D
| district was only 5.O41. Maynard received $3.50
votes in the LIST Assembly District in 1898, while
/ in 1901 the entire Democratic vote there was
7 only 2T67 In the lid District he received
/ 1000 while last year the Democratic vote there
was only 405S. He received in the With 55SS
| while last year the Democratic there was
, only 2.16S. These figures are sufficient to con-
! vince the thoughtful man that the Democrats
pluralities in this county in the eighties and
early nineties were made up by stuf1ng the
| ballot boxes. Since 1898 there has been a com
/ parative absence of any such thing. In the old
/ days there was a wholesale naturalization OF
voters in the weeks just preceding the election.
/ Now all naturalization must be done four
/ months before election, or the citizen is not
entitled to vote. AS a result Of better ballot
/ laws and partly account OF dissatisfaction
/ with the Cleveland administration, the Repub-
licans carried the State for Morton in 1894
! by 156 600 David B. Hill carrying this county
! by only 2.7SO
/ In 1895 the Republican candidate for Secre-
/ tary of State carried the State by so LAG. the
| Democratic plurality in this county that year
| being Is, Go This was due in large part TO the
| disaffection of Germans over the enforcement
| of a new excise law.
TIDAL WAVE FOR MKINLEY.
! The tidal wave of McKinleyism in 1896 gave the
/ Republicans the State by 26SOOO plurality. and
I for the first time in their history the Republt-
T cans carried this county for President by a
/ plurality of %. 49,, and for Governor by plu-
rality OF 5.216.
/ The friends of ex-senator Hill have tried TO
extract comfort from the election returns Of
1897 by pointing to the election Of Mr.. Parker
( as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. Mr..
Parkers plurality in the State was 60,SS9. This
was the year OF the first Low campaign, and
Judge Wallace. the Republican candidate. was
/ not on the Low ticket at all. IN that year Mr.
! Low polIed 1920 and General Tracy, his Re
publican opponent. 1854 votes in this county
/ The Republicans who voted for Low and did not
/ vote for Wallace were sufficient TO elect Judge
Parker The Democrats hoped that the pendu-
lum would take it's proverbial swing backward
in 1898, but il did not Colonel Roosevelt car
ried the State by plurality Of 1885. and New
York County gave Van Wyck a plurality OF
10000, while Kings County turned in a plurality
J OF 1900. The strength shown by the Demo
Gratis in this election is attributed to the fact
/ that the Republicans were on the defensive
both in New-YOrk and Kings While the Re
publican margin Of victory in the State was a
/ mparatively narrow one, stiU the Republicans
I retained control Of both branches of the legts-
/ lature. and Governor Roosevelt was enabled u
/ accomplish a number Of reforms which the peo-
| pie had come to consider desirable.
In 1899 State officers were elected. In
/ 1900 when the Democratic managers hoped that
the State would so for Bryan, Mckinley carried
1t by 1889 and Odel by 1l1126. In New
York County Governor Odeu was beaten by
IS. OG4. The strength Of the Tamnany OrgantZa-
tion was exerted 10 its utmost to make a good
showing Richard Croker, by word and act
melted his following To violence and the police
used old fashioned methods TO swell the Tam
many vote. Governor Oden was then regarded
as a politician out and out, and independent
voters appealed TO TO vote against typi-
cal machine candidate The election OF last fall
is too fresh in mind to need a reCapItulatlOn
The anti-Tammany forces demonstrated once
more that when they are united not even the
county of New-YOrk could be classed as a Tam
many Hall Gibraltar.
COUNTING ON ODELL's RECORD.
! When the friends of Governor Oden are asked
for the reasons for believing that they will cut
the normal Tammany vote TO pieces next fall they
reply that his record as Governor has Won the
admiration of thousands Of independent Demo-
, Gratis. They point to his superb accomplish
ment in doing away with the burden OF State
taxes by imposing the burden on the great cor
pOrations. They say that the State and local
administrations now are in the hands or onclals
who viii insist on an honest election Iney IN
wife attention TO the record OF Governor Odell
in giving the fullest possible measure Of home
rule to this city consistent with good govern
ment. They call the attention OF Democrats 10
the fact that he vetoed every bill disapproved
by Mayor Low and that he signed, sometimes
when the State leaders protested, every measure
requested by the local authorities They point
to his vetOes of the Hudson River Bridge bill
and the New-York Central Tunnel bill as proof
that the Governor Is disposed 10 give the city
the benefit Of every doubt
In addition to the full Republican vote and
large accessions from independent Democrats
the Governors friends say that II he is noml-
mated he will get very strong support from or
ganiZed labor all over the State. They assert
tnat ne Is the nrSt Governor that ever uESeo
the passage of d employers liability bill, and
followed up mis- suggestion with the necessary
activity in order 10 make the bill law. the
employers liability bill that became a law last
year is regarded more satisfactory by tne
labor interests than that has ever been put
on the statute books in this State The Gov
ernors friends confident that the Democrats
will not be able to present the name OF any man
who viii appeal by comparison so strongly 10
the people throughout the state as the Gov
ernor.
When asked by Tribune reporter last week