The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-07
HARRISON MAKING CONVERTS.
MANY REPUBLICANS CALL AND
PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT.


3 Dey III ByTHpuoo-hegepuon Slv6n
Him in His Hotei-Isob Fltzsimmons
Presents Him With an Iron Hoseshoe
I SYRACUSE, Oct. 6.-The success OF the
two speeches here yesterday OF Francis
Burton Harrison. Citizens candidate for
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, was no great that
the Democratic campaign mana gers pre-
vailed upon him to spend another day In
Syracuse before going on his way TO Glovers-
VILE. where he is TO talk tomorrow night,
Chairman Cummins Of the Onondaga
county Democratic committee got reports
from scores OF his leutenants yesterday
that great many votes had been fastened
down In the Herrick and Harrison column
a. result Of the visit OF Mr.. Harrison to
this city.
Congressman Harrison was in Syracuse
before the Saratoga convention in connec-
ton with the preliminary organiza ton
OF the Democracy. Many Of the men.
especially the young men. who met him
at that time were captured by his enga ging
and simple manners and have been talking
about him ever since. Yesterday there
was a general rush to get within hand
shaling distance OF the candidate His
engagements were 30 many that not all
succeeded.
Mr.. Cummins therefore arranged for a
reception tonight at the Yates. 1t has
developed at that reception that the revolt
OF the Republicans against the machine
rule Of the Governor Chairman is much
greater in volume and impetus than the
Republican leaders conceded IL to be- Men
turned up at the reception who had never
been seen in Democratic gathering before.
They slipped through the rooms rapidly,
grabbed Mr.. Harrison's hand and said with
brief but unmistakable Significance: I'm
Republican, but I'm with you and Judge
Herrick this year
The requests Of these men for the sup
preston Of their names will be needed by
the newspapers. The Democratic press is
glad enough to have their allegiance without
subjecting them to the fire Of the graft
machine abuse batteries The Odell papers
are only too glad to refrain from advertis-
ing the OBJECTIONS from their ranks.
But up in his Office the Hon. Francis
Hendricks, MIR. Odell's pro-consul in the
Onondaga province, received reports all
day by phone and from the lips OF his lieu
tenants. All day long Mr.. Hendricks sat
in his window and looked down into the
ripping waters Of the canal. The wavelets
tried to fash back sympathy to him from
their graft-scintillating undulations Never
theless. Mr.. Hendricks grew gloomier and
gloomier as the day wore on.
FOR mer Postmaster General Charles
Emory Smith and other prominent Re-
publicans held a great mass meeting
at the Alhambra tonight. They aroused
the greatest enthusiasm by their tributes 4
TO President Roosevelt and the glorious his
tory Of the Republican party. But never
q voice was raised in defence Of the Grocery
man. The procession passing before
Congressman Harrison In the Yates parlors,
which had begun to wane, took on a new
hustle and activity when the Alhambra
meeting was over.
Mr.. Harrison spent the day making calls.
Among the first Of his visits was that to the
Rev H. N. Hyde, rector OF Trinity parish.
Yale classmate. Among those on whom MIR.
Harrison called were bishop Patrick Lud-
den, former Charities Commissioner Dennis
Mccarthy. Charles j. Barnard and other
prominent business men. Mr.: Harrison
lunohed at the Vanderbilt Hotel and made
earnest efforts to find former Mayor Nc
CURE and State Committeeman Haven,
but was unable to find them.
Not the least Of Syracuse's pride in the
past has been based on the efficiency Of
the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble
Minded Children. Syracuse citizens shake
their heads when you ask them about the
institution to-day. Physicians. clergy
men, all men who are concerned in the
work Of the State. speak
Of present conditions at the institution
most reasons why the Odell system OF
government must be put out Of business
The giving OF the final voice in the
OF the institution to incom-
petent Odell inspectors. who walk in,
Ignorant OF the real conditions and needs, |
os,A trax, mil on nil nd lnt inn
of the experienced superintendents; the |
taking away from all the local merchants
of the trade to which they formerly had
legitimate access-all these things have
made the Odell machine unpopular, with
friends of the home for the feeble minded,
Incidentally. the BARRIERS Union In SYRIA
cuse is after Candidate Higgins, Some
time ago the BARRIERS Union undertook to
put its royal kybosh on the Yates Hotel
All the members of the State Fair board
to shun the Yates. Mr.. Higgins was the
only one who paid any attention to the
notice He moved out, bag and baggage, |
with great spectacular effect. and the
BARRIERS were effnsively grateful and fond
slipped back to the comforts
OF the Yates and was telling people that |
he hoped the BARRIERS wouldn't notice il.
But they did, and they are more vexed
with MT. higgins IMAM II ne na0n1t pre-
tended to be 80 considerable Of them in the
frat place. Mr.. Harrison. when this pleas
ing incident was brought to his attention.
con graduated himself that he is his own
barber. The circumstance is regarded
rs a serious matter by some of the business
men of Syracuse.
IF Mr.. Higgins has no more nerve than
that" thev have said in their talks with
The candidate what would he do II he ever
got to Albany?"
Congressman Harrison's room ia now
adorned with a large black iron horseshoe,
The handiwork OF the Hon. Robert Fitz-
simmons. Mr.. Fitzsimmons found Mr..
Harrison taking bite in the hotel dining
room last night and at once without artificial
lid or the advice OF a press agent, dove
Town into his coattail pocket and drew
out the shoe, which he had made during
he evening in the course Of the play OF
which he is the hero. He assured Con-
yressman Harrison that the shoe was fun
81 luck
Il gave one to a man last week. said the
1ugilist who was much more embarrassed
BY his offhand undertaking Of the pres
sntation than was Mr.. Harrison, 1and
his pay was raised to 500 900 a year next
lay"
Mr.. Fitzsmmons also formally announced
hat he would sit in the Herrick and Harri-
ION corner on election day"
Tonight the Hon. James j. Corbett
llso in town on theatrical mission. made
taste to climb aboard the HerTick and