The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-31

Chairman From the Day He Began
Openly His Campaign to Make "Pooi
Tom" Eat Out OF His Hand-A Re.
markable Chapter on "IIow We All
The eliminating act in a long series OF hui
Mutations which Governor-Chairman Odell
has put upon his political creator and
benefactor, Senator Plat. was perpetrated
on Oct. IS, when Senator Plat, accompanied
by Senator Depew called on Governor
Chairman Odell at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
to urge Odell to give some sort Of an assur-
anoe that he would favor the reelection Of
Senator Depew, to the United States Sem
ate in January. The meeting between
Governor-C Chairman Odell and Senator
Plat and Senator Depew was by arrange
nent, and because it had become known that
Governor-C Chairman Odell, on Sept ~. at
Saratoga, had promised Mr.. Depews place
In the United States Senate to ex-Gov.
Black in return for support in the oonven-
ton Of Governor Chairman Odell's oandi-
date for Governor. Frank Wayland Higgins,
Governor Chairman Odell would give
Senator Platt no assurancesYof any kind
that he would throw his influence in favor
of Senator Depews reelection, provided
the Legislature were Republican on joint
ballot. Governor Chairman Odell refused
to give any assurances whatever to Senator
Depew himself He had already promised
the Senatorship to Mr.. Black.
Governor Chairman Odell's personal fol-
lowing say that the man who will succeed
Senator Depew will be Benjamin B. Odell,
Jr., and that this has been the programme
for nearly three years, or, at least. from
the time when it was made known that
Edward H. Hartman, Governor Chairman
Odell's personal friend and financial hacker,
intended to have two United States Sena-
tors of his own at Washington. Governor
Chairman Odell, along with his three in
surgent Senator's Mr.. Bracket Of Sara
toga, Mr.. Brown OF jefferson, and Mr.
klsberg Of New York city. arranged a
programme in the winter OF l902-03 by
which Senator Plat was to be defeated for
the United States Senatorship to succeed
himself. But the publicity given to the
plot brought about its failure.
Mr.. Hartman, as the personal friend and
financial hacker OF Governor-C Chairman
Odell has been a persistent seeker after
special legislation since Gov. Odell first
entered the Executive Chamber at Albany
in 1901. The Illinois Central Bond bill,
the Los Angeles Bond bin, the effort to in
crease the Railroad Commission from three
to five members. the Furnaceville Iron
claim, and q dozen other measures, all Of
personal and financial interest to Mr. Harri-
man, have been pushed through at Albany
by Governor-C Chairman Odell.
Governor Chairman Odell has a personal
newspaper organ on the banks OF the Hud-
son at Newburgh known as the Nenburph
Ne,rs, and for three years and more the
Odell satellites have looked to his news
paper organ for political guidance and in
struction
THE Sun this morning gives few ex-
cerpts from the columns Of the Governor
Chairmans personal organ which portray
the Governor-Chairman' attitude toward
his political creator and benefactor, Senator
Plat, as we'll as toward Elihu Root, who
was the universal candidate OF the Repub-
lican party for Governor this fall. and
who, at the last moment, sent letters to
Governor Chairman Odell and to Senator
Plat declining to be the candidate.
oDELL BEGINS TO CLIMB.
Governor Chairman Odell was made
chairman of the executive committee Of |
the Republican State committee by Senator
Plat eight years ago. Charles W. Hackett |
Of Utica was chairman Of the State COM
mittee at the time. The first plot that |
Senator Plat discovered Mr.. Odell to be |
up to was one to unseat Mr.. Hackett as |
chairman Of the State committee. Mr..
Hackett had been loyal follower Of Warner
hut NJ
matters required that he should devote his
whole time to them, his followers naturally.
harmoniously and cordially became asso-
ciated with Senator Platt in the victories
of the Republican party for the last ten
years. MIR. Odell wanted to supplant Mr..
Hackett as State chairman, but Mr.. PIatt
would not have it, and Senator Platt's.
friends said at the time that Mr.. Hackett,
who was suffering from Bright's disease.
should not be moested by the Vaccinations
OF Mr.. Odell, but should he permitted to
end his days in peace, as he did under Senator
Platt early in 1885,
Senator Platt nominated Mr. Odell for
Governor the first time in 1900 and Mr..
Odell had not been in Albany thirty DAYS
before he began his ma china tons to unhorse
Senator Plat as Republican State leader.
senator flat' %Oulu not DelleVe the reports |
made to him by his friends. He told many
Republicans at the time thet Odell was his |
political son. In 1902 Senator Platt again |
nominated Mr.. Odell for Governor The |
Republican party Of the State was not |
friendly to Mr.. Odell, and 10000 voters who |
registered in New York city did not vote
on election day in that year. Ten days
before election day Of 1872 Mr.. Ode II was a
beaten man, and no told his friends. Senator |
Plat rushed TO the rescue. and by his sup |
port brought about Gov. Odell's reelection.
A GRATEFUL HEART.
r Gov. Odell, after election day, called on
Senate, Platt at the Fifth Avenue Hotel |
and SAID that he would never forget the |
Senator's assistance as long as he lived. |
He returned to Albany and renewed the |
Vaccinations for Senator Plau's over
throw. He got together his insurgent SEN
ators, whose principal motive was the de-
feat Of Mr.. Plat for reelection to the United
States Senate, and within ten months after
his reelection, by the use OF the patronage OF
the Office to which Senator Plat had nomi-
i'm, tttn he -