The sun., 1903-02-19
POLITICS, ROUND THE BOARD.
HDOSEIELT, PLATT, ODELL, HILL,
BRYAN AND MURPHY.

TAFT On the Horizon:--No New Roose.
,cit.Odcil Alliance -Odeii. Low and
Greene After the County Com.
mittee--Lsw Can't Escape-WlI on
"That Fellow Parker (thief Judge)
This ia a political story saucisson de
LYON or, if you choose. saucisson d Aries
utere's little difference In the mixture).
The component elements Of which are made
M from statements by forcible Republic
can and Democratic politicians.
President Roosevelt has not made any
new alliance with Gov. Odell looking to
the support Of the New York delegation
N The Republican National Convention
next year for the reason that the President
relies on the promise Of Gov. Odell, made
in Buffalo on the day the President was
sworn in az Mr. McKinleys successor.
that he Gov. OdelD would be for the Presi-
dents nomination in ioo& There was no
evasion al that time. Gov. Odell. on that
WHIT to p eeident Roosevelt. was accom-
panied by Representative Lucius n. Lit
tsuer of the Twenty-secopd district. who
wanted 20 be Secretary ofv6e new Depart
rnent Of Commerce and Labor, the port
folio Just given by the President to George
Bruce CortelyOu. 1t is doubtful II the law
making this new Cabinet place would have
leen passed and sent to the President IL
Mr. Littauer was to have been named for
tho post
The President has brought Senator Platt
and Gov. Odell together In Washington
and now the relations between Mr.. Platt
and Mr. Odell are outwardly friendly.
Immediately after election day last No
vember. Senator Platt and Gov. Odell had
n long heart-to-heart talk. wherein Gov.
Odell expressed his eternal gratitude to
Mr. Plat for the substantial support the
.enior Republican Senator for the State had
given 20 Mr. Odell in his second campaign
for Governor. little later came the
break OF the three Republican Senators
at Albany, Brackett OF Saratoga Springs.
Brown Of Watertown and Elsberg Of New
York city, and the frequent intimate con-
ferences at Albany and elsewhere between
the Governor and these three Senators.
Meantime the President had sent several
communications to Gov. Odell inviting the
Governor to Washington. one or two Of
which the Governor replied to.
Three months before President MoKin-
lev was shot at Buffalo, Gov. Odefl made a
far.we.tern trip. So did Vlce-President
Rooscv welt, and Mr.. Roosevelt also pene-
trated Vermont and the environment.
Gov. Odell had started his boom for
the Republican nomination for President
iu 1904. vice-President Roosevelt had
started his. These efforts ceased with the
death OF President Mckinley. Mr. Roose-
welt was New York State man. 20 also was
Gov. Odeu In Republican National Con-
vention Mr. Roosevelt could not be de-
feated for the domination and the New York
man. Gov Odell. nominated Such course
would NECESSARILY lose the State to tbs
Republicans. Gov. Odell was compelled to
bow to the mandate OF fate. He has not
done this graoiously. ..
President Roosevelt knew nothing in ad-
vance OF the appointment OF Con. Francis
vinton Greene by Mayor Low to be Police
Commissioner Up to ak months ago the
Mayor consulted the President on important
matters. 6enator PlAtt was quite a. is-
norant concerning Gen. Greenes coming
appointment a. the President. When
GOV. Odell comes to New York city Gen
Greene calls upon him and the Mayor
and the Governor also have frequent con-
ierences. The Governor. the Mayor and
Gen. Greene do not call on Senator Platt.
lhe message OF the Mayor and the pro-
posed legislation at Albany looking to a
fourteen-year term for Gen. Greene or a
four-year term for the Mayor OF New York
city beginning in 1903 mean that the Gov
ernor. the Mayor and Gen. Greene and their
friends are to attempt to capture the New
York Republican County Committee from
those who at present dominate it-Senator
Platt, President Robert c. Morris, National
Committeeman Frederick S. Gibbs and
William II. Ten Eyck. chairman Of the
executive committee Of the County Com
mi,tee, and their friends. the majority Of
whom favor the Platt domination.
Yet Mayor Low Ia to be renominated
next fall
In the words OF former Governor Frank
9. Black at the Holland House the other
night; Low TO he renominated? OF course.
he is-wo can't let him escape
NEVERTHELESS Mayor Lows friends be-
Heve that he will be nominated for Gov
ernor by the Republicans in 1900.
Immediately after the Republican State
Convention in Saratoga in August. where
Gov. Odell was renominated and George r.
sheldon was overthrown a. the candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor, Gov. Odell's
friends poled the thirty-four members Of
the Republican State COMMITTEES. The quee-
lion put to the committeeman was:
In the event Of clash between Platt
and Odell where would you stand?'
considerable majority Of the com
mittee replied .Platt." Again. after elec-
ton day the COMMITTEES was polled by Gov
Odels friends and tho same answer was
made Then came the "break" between
Timothy l.. Woodruff and Col. Michael
J. Dady Of Brooklyn. Col Dady insists
that II Mr. Woodruff had sincerely supported
him for reappoin.ment a. Brooklyn's mem
Der on the Bureau Of Elections he would
have been reappointcd. Mr.. Woodruff
was ostensibly for Representative Henry
Hanbwy, but Rudolph C. Fuller was ap-
pointed by Mayor Low to the place. on
Mr.. Woodrun's Recommendation. Now Mr..
Woodruff has moved to Syracuse to en-
gage in business enterprise It is not
snown how long Mr.. Woodruff In TO be
resident Of the Salt City, but all On n
oaea county loves him for the special work