The sun., 1903-12-18
ONLY4 NOES FOR ODELL SLATE
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY YCOMIITTEE
is NOW REFORMED.

Thirty Members "NOt votlnE"--A Good
Many "Ayes'' 'Hypothetical-One Vote
for "CharIey Murphy''-Rosslsky Leads
"de Ate''-Mason to Drop Out ss Leader
Against the process by which the Re-
publican county committee was groceried
and trading-stamp officers were installed
only four feeble peeps were heard last night.
These came from committeeman of the
Nineteenth and Twenty y-seventh districts
who could not be controlled by their leaders,
respectively Lemuel E. Quigg and James
W. Perry. Except that Louis Stern. the
merchant, had decided not to take the
Office Of treasurer, leaving the managers
without instructions from Albany, the
programme Gov. Odell handed in last Sat-
urtlay at the Fifth Avenue Hotel caucus
was carried out to the letter at the United
Charities Building. II Charles II. Murray
lad been friendly with Tammany in the
past his fellows of the committee were
willing to forgive and forget.
If reform Mayor. William l.. Strong,
had removed him from the Office of Police
Commissioner, had he not been baptized
anew, they asked, by his removal later
from the Office of Aqueduct Commissioner
ny tlfC ldIliiidhy htoDVie "a
Van Wyck? Two removals, they argued,
worked like a double negative, Mr.. Murray
appeared among them sans the marquise
ring which was the lust Of Afro-America
" bile he was Police Commissioner, and
having put aside the marvellous jewell with
chain and time lock attachments, which was
the decoration of his bosom as Aqueduct
Commissioner.
H. -, - tha fixyn
committee OF 1903 was held in the after
noon at l Madison avenue TO distribute
among the leaders the typewriter resolu-
tions which were necessary to the for
nalitiee Of last nights gathering George
r. Sheldon, who declined to act longer as
treasurer OF the committee, presented
report showing a 600 on hand and bade
farewell to the committee in a we'll ex-
pressed sentence or two. 1t was made
known that Mr. Stern would not take the
place Mr.. Sheldon was vacating, and the
executive committee decided to ask the
county committee to leave that nomina-
ton unmade for the present. President
NJ Linn Bruce and Secretary George R.
Manchester also delivered their farewells
to the committee.
1t was expected that some one might
break bounds when the name of Armtage
Mathews for secretary was reached on the
slate. This did not occur during the formal
session OF the committee. James w.
Perry said afterward that some of the MEM
hers had discussed among themselves the
propriety Of the choice, but did not feel
that anything would be gained by Offering
opposition in the committee.
crowd Of unusual size altered at the
Il ~ - liz. .~lt otal
thfaL scarcely two-thirds Of the committee
men attended. The secretary's roll, made
in haste and generously, showed only
thirty absentees. however. Abe Gruoer
was an early arrival, and in the interest of
his candidate, Mathews, conduct ed series
OF closet conferences with such members
ss he knew to be OF heart hostile to the
election Of the Alderman to such office.
The Governor has military representa-,
Nelson H. Henry, who sat right across
the aisle from Mr.. Murray until MIR. Murray
was called to the platform. Lemuel F. Quigg
looked very white and composed sitting
beside Gruber. Senator Elsberg came IN
his evening clothes; President Bruce was
heartily cheered when ne took the gavel.
Some Of the onlookers thought It had some
thing more than tine lit OF tie ordinary
good- by. He was named as temporary
chairman and referred to it as honorable
distinction. William Haipin OF the Ninth
offered Mr.. Manchester for the same tenn
porary employment as secretary because
Of his long and efficient service to the party.
Temporary officers having been chosen,
Alexander T.. Mase n Of the Twenty-ninth
proceeded to present Mr.. Murray's name
Tor president. He stood about four feet
away from Mr.. Murray and told OF the
candidates. not able faculty for establishing
pleasant relal ions wit his fellow Repub,
licans. Since the election of Edward
la,lt erbach, said Mr.. Mason, the committee
had found it convenient to go outside the
dist rict leaders 10 ge, man who met the
specifications, sacrificing practical knowl-
edge OF politics to get the possessor OF other
Bruce.
AT this particular time, with the pri-
maries very near and long campaign
before U.S." said he, at is necessary to select
a, man of long practical experience. as
in the work" He thought Mr.. Murray would
give such an administration as the county
committee had not had in long time;
No district leader, he said, would be read
out of the party because he expressed
After Mr.. Mason came George ". Wan
maker Ferdinand Eidinan, William II.
Ten Eyck, Otto Rosalsky and Charles X.
I,exow with scconding speeches.
On the resolution to have the, secretary
cast one ballot for Mr.. Murray four mega
live votes we're cast. Mr.. Quigg called
the attention of President Bruce to, the
fact that the law must be met by q roll call
in that event This disclosed the iden-
,ity of the protestants. They were Henry
", Mack and j. Lee Honigman of the Nipe-
teenth (Which ia Quiggs district and James
B. Ford and Henry l.. 81 mson OF the Twenty
seventh. They made no protest except
by their votes and did not care to tell their
reasons to reporters.
The explanation offered by other per-
sons was that the two men from the Nine
teenth are members of the Associated
Republican Club ard anti-Quigg and that
the two men from the Twenty-seyenth
have been interested in the Citizens Union
movement and were out Of sympathy
with the Murray Mathews ticket. Another
member blundered by voting for Charley
Murphy"
As announced the vote was 1888 for, 4
against, 30 not voting. Mr.. Murray
was helped to the platform by Messrs.
Mason, Wanmaker and Ten Eyck, while
workmen carried to the plat form a horse
shoe eight feet high, made of flowers. 1t
was from Mr.. MurIay's club in the Eighth
district, where he is leader-non-residen
leader.
Mr.. Murray said that any man honored
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