The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-12


out Consulting Other influential hepub-
ueans-senator Plat Says He L. for
woodruff Because He Believes Him to
&c Strongest Man That Can Be Named
Hamilton Fish and Francis Hendricks
Say They Are for Hissins-Wood-
run May show Surprising strength
MANY Republicans Re,tive Under
the Goyernor-C hairman's Leadership.
SARATOGA, Sept II .-Governor-C Chairman
Odell began this morning to complete tho
labors OF the last few years which are TO
make him the supreme master OF his party
in the State. It is ten years ago since
Senator Platt made Mr.. Odel chairman
Of the executive committee OF the State COM
mittee Within few months after that
Senator Platt discovered Odell In plot to
unseat Charles w. Hackett, chairman
OF the Republican State committee. MIR.
Hackett was dying man at the time, but
Senator Patt stepped to the front and
thwarted the Odell plot
From the moment that Odell became
executive chairman his ambition has been
to become Republican State leader. When
Senator Plat, in 1900, made him Governor,
the Newburg statesman saw his first real
opportunity Several years before, how
ever, Senator Platt discovered another
evidence of Mr.. Odell's perfidy when Mr..
| Odell went to Albany and attempted to
block the favorite measure Of Senator
| Platt's life, the Greater New York Charter.
When Senator Platt In 1900 talked about
| giving Mr.. Odell the nomination for Gov
ernor, many OF his friends In the Republic
can State organization attempted to
| dissuade him. They recalled to Senator
| Patt the Hackett incident and the Greater
New York Charter episode as evidences
| Of Odell's disloyalty. Senator Plett, how.
ever, gave Odel the nomination for Gov
ernor, and from the first hour at Albany
Gov. Odeil started in with the patronage
Of his Office to destroy his creator. This
was accomplished during his second admin-
istra,ion, after Odell had told Senator Plat
after election day in 1902 that he would
never forget Senator Platt's substantial
help during that campaign.
It has been often remarked that Gov.
! OdeIl did not attempt to destroy Senator
Platt until he was fully convinced that
Senator Plat was not physically strong
enough to combat him. Now Cover
nor-Chairman Odell Is in complete con-
troll OF the Republican State convention
i which Is to assemble here on Wednesday
for the purpose Of naming complete State
ticket. No Republican In the State can
be nominated for Governor without the
| Governor hairman's 20. X The Cow
ernor- Chairman knows well what 20. k
means, because when he was frsquenter
OF the lobby at Albany In former years
he 20. I'D all bills which he believed
should go through, and 10 has been fro
quently asserted that from the moment
that the Governor Chairman had the
authority to use those magic lstters %.
K" his financial fortune has materially
increased.
The Governor Chairman Is delegate
to this convention from the First Assembly
district Of Orange county. He " Governor
OF the State, chairman Of the Republican
State committee and delegate to this
convention, an unparalleled feature OF
political ethics in either party. At the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York city. as
well as here, the Governor-C Chairman 10
surrounded by corps Of State employees.
who receive their salaries from the State
Just as the Governor receives his salary
from all the people OF; the State.
The first thing that the Governor Chair
man did this morning wassto call ON Sena-
tor Platt at the cottage which Senator
Platt had occupied for so many years AZ
Republican State leader and before Odell-
ism had tainted the Republican party from
one end Of the State to the other. The
Governor-C Chairman did not disclose his
plans to Senator Plat and the Senator was
not particularly curious himself. He said
after his interview with Governor Chairman
Odell:
II am for Mr.. Woodruff for Governor
because believe that he Is tho strongest
man geographically that can be named.
am sincerely for Mr.. Woodruff's nominal
ton because In other respects I believe
him to be the strongest candidate. ! have
the highest respect for Mr.. Higgins. and
Mr.. Higgins and I have enjoyed the most
friendly relations. Yet am convinced
that Mr.. Woodruff Is the man TO nominate
here
Governor Chairman Odell said later Ia
those who surrounded him that he had
given some thought to Hamilton Fish
and to Francis Hendricks. Yet the Gov
ernor-C Chairman did not seem to cotton "a
either Mr.. Fish or Mr.. Hendricks. Al his
talk was Of Mr.. Higgins, with whom be
had long talk In Albany yesterday after.
noon before coming on here. The Cover
nor-Chairman not only fas had talks with
Mr.. Higgins in Albany and New York, but
he also has had talks with Mr.. Woodruff.
The Governor Chairman ia suspicious, dis
traught and anxious at times. He has
only one thought at heart. his satellites
say, and that is that he must exercise dill.
gence and caution in nominating candi'
date for Governor, or the leadership Of the
Republican party. which he wrested from
his creator, will be an exceedingly briei
one.
: The Governor Chairman will insist thai
the candidate OF his party to be named
here, provided always that he Is to bt
elected, shall not remove Charles Spencer
Boyd, the Governor Chairman's Stat
, Superintendent of Public Works ut Albany
and neither does the Governor Chairman
want any Governor who will remove Rob
: ert j. Hill OF Newburg as State Superinten
dent OF Public Buildings. But the Gov
.. ernor-C Chairman Is more anxious about Boye
, than any other man, for the reason tina
Boyd il the Governor ChsiITnan's repre-
sentative for all the opportunities tina