The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-07
GOVERNOR oDELL.

the opinion Of Republicans. does not seem
TO care whether the representatives OF his
party maintain their majority In the Assem-
bly, next fall or whether the Republican
State ticket. the Presidential Electors ticket.
the Senate and Assembly tickets, and the
Congress ticket are elected In the State
year from next fall. The foregoing is the
sober, discreet, calm and conservative esu-
mate Of Republicans who care nothing
Whatever about political machine matters,
but would not like to see the great Empire
State turned over 10 the beaten, demoralised
and unhappy Democracy.
1t Ia admitted on ell sides that the Demo-
Gratis will have q lovely time OF 1t getting
together In the State and Presidential
fights next year. but the wisest Repub-
licans and their fusion friends do not
hesitate TO say every day that great care
must be exercised from this time on lest
the great city Of New York Is turned over
to Tammany Hall next fall. Within the
memory Of most politicians, Republicans
and Democrats, 'Tammany Hall 10 dead
That statement has been repeated so often
that some folks like TO believe II.
Once upon q time there was seen In an old
print shop In Ann street a cartoon with
the legend THE Burial Of Tammany Hall
The print had the date OF is4s. There was
the hearse in which was the coffin Of Tam
many. and marching beside the hearse
were the good citizens Of New York Of that
year, and behind was great congregation
Of New York cityites who believed that
Tammany was dead then, dead In the future
and dead forever. Yet Tammany seems
to have survived and Ia still militant, and
Leader Charles F. Murphy and his friends
are watching hourly the course Of Gov.
Odell and Mayor Low with but one
idea, to reap any reward that may como
from Republican overoonhdenoe. Repub-
lican temerity, or worse, and IL
Is for this reason that Republicans and
all interested In beating Tammany Hall
next fall and retaining the State . year
from next fall In the Republican column
arc not averse, but rather glad. to sound
the toosin and, II necessary. put upon Gov.
Odell and Mayor Low the structures which
blind egotism, laundering ignorance and
all self-sufiiciency deserve.
Mayor Low. It may be said. Is not scien-
tito commercial gentleman. His integrity
has never been questioned. Gov. Odell
Is compelled to repel almost every day
criticisms which, from q healthy business
| standpoint, he should not be called upon TO
answer.
Some Republicans recalled yesterday
the familiar history Of their party, and
they spoke Of the time when Gov.
Cornell attempted TO establish a personal
party, forgetting his creator. Roscoe Conk-
ling. and then II was added that II Gov.
Odell continues in his present line OF con-
| duct he will have the will-o'-t he-wisp
| reputation Of Cornell-.The Lizard on the
HILL" as Conkling described Corneli-next
political oblivion. to be followed by the
disintegration Of his party for fifteen years.
All this has only an incidental relation to
Gov. Odell, for the reason that, like Cornell
and other Governors. and even Presidents
Of the United States, he is but an atom in
a great party.
That Gov. Odell Is bent on building up
! a personal machine to further his political
fortunes Is seen In many ways. For In
stance, there IL Charles Spencer Boyd.
whom the Governor picked out from No
where and made Superintendent OF
Public Works. Mr.. Boyd " a perfectly
genial gentleman. but he knows as much
about the poltiosl machinery Of the Repub-
ncan party OF The State - q canary bird
with seventeen claws. All know that Gov.
Odsll 10 the master Of the Public Works
Department at Albany; that Mr.. Boyd
IL the Seven-Foot Tiddle-de- Winks. and
that the Governor Is the master Of every
political place under Mr.. Boyd. Then
take the Railroad Commission. The Gov
ernor has just appointed his personal
friend, Capt. Joseph NJ. Dickey Of New
burgh, on the board, and Assemblyman
Bedell and Senator Goodsell are the Gov
ernor's good friends on the railroad com
mittees. The Governor does not desire
to reappoint Frank M. Baker Of Owego
TO be q Railroad Commissioner. He wants
to appoint In Mr.. Bakers place Repre-
sentative James 8. Sherman Of the Twenty
fifth Congress district.
Then there Ii the Charities Department.
Of which Harry H. Bender Of Albany is
the head. Column after column could be
written about Bender and his connection
with Gov. Odell In the mana gement OF the
charities institutions Of the State Of New
York as a political machine in the interest
OF Gov. Odell. not to say anything about
the purchase Of supplies a Ia Matthews
d Co., and 80 forth. and 30 forth.
Following out the line that Gov. Odell
IL attempting to build up personal ma
chine, II il only necessary to record the
selection OF Robert ]. Hill Of Newburgh
to be State Superintendent Of Public Build
ings, and 1t Ia known that this department
Ia a veritable jungle OF patronage So
that IL is quite apparent to political OBJ
servers that the Governor and his friends
hope by every and all means to be- in a po-
sition next year TO control the delegation
Of the State to the Presidential Convention.
Meantime, II anything should happen to
President Roosevelt Gov. Odell thinks he
would not be In bad shape a. a Presidential
possibility from the Empire State.
Something has been said in The Sun
and other newspapers As to Gov. Odell's
immediate future. II is known that his
representatives have entered into certain
combinations. both in New York city and
Washington, by which the Governor hopes
to be renominated q year from next fall;
and yet. on the other hand, there Is indis-
putable evidence that Gov. Odell has said
that he did not care for a denomination,
and then the Governors critics have added
that The most sagacious thing that the
Governor could do after his attempts to
wreck the Republican party In the State
Of New York Is TO come to New York like
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