The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-13
WATCHERS CUT TO So A DAY.
REPUBLICAN, DISTRICT LEADERS
RESENT 1T. o..
No Cash for Most OF the Leaders Until
After Registration - FavOrites Ex.
cepted-24 Hours for Canvass-Elec.
ton District Captains sketch Club.

After Registration - FavOrites EX.
cepted--24 Hours for Canvass -Elec.
tion District Captains sketch Club.
Governor Chairman Odell by inject
ing his deputy leaders, or "chowder-
pot warmers" into the New York oounty
Republican situation has @demoralized'
the vast majority Of the Assembly district
leaders and the captains Of election dis
trcts. He did the job through William
Hapin, the Tammany Hall Republican
chairman Of the executive committee,
and Armitage Mathews, the Tammany
Hall Republican secretary Of the committee,
at the meeting Of the executive committee
on Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Halpin, Abe
| Gruber and Tammany Tax Commissioner
Strasbourger were the principal speakers.
Most of the leaders at the meeting were
taken aback by the announcement which
Mr.. Halpin made for Governor-Chairman
| Odell and which was strenuously sup
ported by Mathews, Gruber end Stras-
bourger. But there was another announce
ment of which nothing has been said.
With a typewriter document in his
hand Che cannot speak two lines offhand),
Mr.. Halpin announced that the Republican
national committee had directed Gov.
| Odell to make the usual canvass Of voters
as they appeared in the registry booths on
the four registration days and that the
national committee would, as heretofore
pay the expenses. Mr.. Halpin then an
nounced that the thirty-five Assembly
district leaders "were authorized to EN-
ploy four men for each election district
at s. a day for the four days of registra-
tion."
The Assembly district leaders were also
authorized to provide the captains Of cleo.
ton districts with canvass books in which,
brief outlines Of a description of the would
be voter we're to be kept-hair, dark; nose.
l pug: eyes. brown. &C.. 80. .-,.
| While the leaders remained silent on
| Tuesday night according to instructions
they let loose their wrath yesterday. They
hold. what all know, that in all national cam
paigns for years back the four canvassers
at each registry booth have been paid IS
a day. Mr. Haipin in making his announce
ment that the Republican national COM
mittee would meet the expenses Of the
registry canvass fixed for himself and
Governor Chairman Odell the reduced rate
Of s. day and the wall went up at county
headquarters yesterday: -Is the Repub-
lican national committee cutting wages,
and IL not who is TO get the rakeof between
the IS and the 50 day rate'"
Then some of the mathematicians got
out their pencils. With 300 election dis
tricts in the county and saving of 1872
in each district (s2 a day for four days for
each of four mem there is s2ssOO saved.
The wrath of the discontented ones broke
out with the ouestions "Who is to get this
s2s. 1902 Where is this rakeofr to go to?"
Furthermore, it was learned that the
vast majority Of the leaders and the dis
trict captains are not to get a cent until
after the registry canvass is finished, while
according to those familiar with the facts,
money has already been supplied to the
following Tammany Hall Republican dis
trict leaders: Fourth, Joseph Levenson;
Ninth, William Halpin; Twenty first Abe
Gruber Thirty-frst, Samuel Strasbourger
Thirty third, Frank Raymond; Thirty
fourth, William H. Ten Eyck, and Thirty
ffth Edward H. Healy
Halpin s one of Governor Chairman
Odell's State Tax Commissioners and
boasts of his easy access to the inner circles
of Tammany Hall Levenson is an Odel
tax appraiser and was nominated for Con-
gress in the Ninth district last night as the
result of plant" or deal Goldfogle,
the Tammany Hall candidate, was nomi-
mated two weeks ago, and Governor Chair
man Odell in attempting to force, first,
the Republicans of the district to indorse
Goldfogle and next, not TO nominate
candidate against Goldfogle has so delayed
the contest in the district that the nominal
ton of Ievenson is looked upon as a farce
Besides he is an Odel officeholder and
that kills him dead as a mackerel in the
district. The county leaders who spoke of
Tho az, ;pt a
lation of POI ,OOo and things have been so
delayed that Levenson wouldn't have time
to get around among the voters of the dis
trict even il his nomination we're made in
earnest.
Gruber's Affiliations with Tammany Hall
leaders are the topic OF daily discussion
in his district and elsewhere, Strasbourger
and Raymond are Tammany Hall Tax
Commissioners, Hcaly is Governor Chair
man Odels Excise Commissioner and
Ten Eyck is Tammany Hall Aqueduct
Commissioner.
-Falpin" said one OF the irate leaders,
was punching fireworks and wrapping up
flags for us four year ago, but now Gov.
Odel puts him over us as our boss Halpin
is ratified On Saturday we all received
the usual canvass cards for our districts
and on Monday he sent us notices TO return
our canvass cards %. X
These canvass cards call for the names
Of all voters in the districts. The oonten-
ton of the discontented ones was that
Mr.. Halpin had not given the leaders suf-
ficient time in which to do their work be-
fore he demanded that the cards be turned
in.
with the canvass books for register
days. said another leader, why doesn't
Halpin supply us with cameras7 The whole
scheme is too ridiculous to talk about
The most competent leaders in the county
organization are chagrined because the
, -chowder pot warmers" have been put
| over them, and some Of them bubbled over
! In their anger. The patient ones said that
! they saw nothing in this new sohene OF