The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-13

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! Collector sStranahan of the port OF New
York arrived here. to-day, and he Is one OF
the strongest friends Of Mr.. Higgins. L
know Mr.. Higgins said the Collector.
.4and know that he Is not only most
exemplary Republican and man OF the
highest repute In the State. but know
also that he would give the people OF the
State of New York splendid admins
tration."
Mr.. Hendricks and Mr. Franchot, as well
as Collector Stranahan, said that they did
not believe Mr.. Higgins had any intention
of coming here much Def ore tomorrow,
if then. Governor Chairman Odell said
tonight TO his adherents that he would
have at the lowest estimate 500 out OF the
pl legates, giving him forty-five more
than majority to name the candidate
Goyernor-C Chairman Odell did not hold
the conference to-day or tonight which
he announced yesterday he would call
together TO suit the convenience Of Sepa-
tor Platt." Instead, he called around him
'ex-Gov. Black, Mr.. Ward. Mr.. Littauer,
Representative vreeland of Mr.. Higgnss
Congress district and Edward Lauterbach.
All the talk was of Higgins, with word
here and there for Francis Hendricks
opTavOT fLitJ ~ IND >oN"eN
waiting until 10 O'Clock tonight word
from Governor Chairman Odell about the
promised conference. Il guess Ill go
to bed said Senator Patt, Il don't think
there is going to be any conference to-
night" Sure enough, there was none.
Most Of the Republicans heard good
deal of talk to-day about Francis Hendricks
of Syracuse The Governor Chairman's
AZ. II I,I
entered with Odell against the nomination
of Mr.. Higgins, on the ground that as chair
man of the Senate Committee on Taxation
,in 1896 he was pronounced advocate OF
1.-The Isaines liquor license law, and one
of the Governor-Chairman's adherents said
I've might as we'll nominate John Raines
himself for Governor al to nominate Hig-
gins; because Higgins. as chairman Of that
committee, was just as positive In support
of the Raines bill as Raines himself, :"
1t was ascertained that the talk against
Higgins, because of his advocacy OF the
iRaines law, originated with Simon Sibert
of Buffalo, who as a Senator at the time
violently opposed the Raines liquor law,
along with a number of New York city
Republicans. Mr.. Sibert is connected with
a brewing establishment in Buffalo, and
It is well known that the brewers Of the
State, located principally in the cities,
have been the sternest opponents of the
Raines Liquor law. This Is especially true
in New York city, Albany, Troyand Buffalo
The Go~ernor-C hairman's adherents who
spoke up 30 loudly to-day for Mr.. Hem
bricks failed to recall, 30 the Higgins men
said, that Senator White OF Syracuse, the
right bower of Mr.. Hendricks In Onondaga
county Republican politics, was just as
strong for the Raines Liquor law as Mr..
Higgins, and the assumption was that
Mr.. Hendricks, because OF his personal and
political relations with Mr.. White, was quite
az much an advocate Of the Raines liquor
law as was Mr.. White. The Higgins men
also recalled that Mr.. Hendricks, on his
arrival here last night, made the formal an
nouncement In THE SUN that Mr.. Hig
gins would be. the best Republican to
nominate for Governor.
While Mr.. Hendricks is very friendly
to Governor Chairman Odell, and was, in
fact, one OF the first Republican leaders
Of great county to recognize that Odell
had wrested the leadership Of the State
from Senator Platt, he Is spoken of as a
thoroughly Independent man. Mr.. Hem
bricks has deprecated the fractional feud
between the Plat men and the Odell men
Of the State; but, concerning this matter,
Mr. Hendricks, 1t is added, In an attempt to
settle this feud would be equally as impotent
as Mrs. Partington was in her endeavofs to
sweep back the Atlantic with a broom. That
feud, according to competent testimony
here has come TO stay, and 10 will
remain as one OF the political heritages
for SnSnyyears to come. =, y. 800
4sepHbicans who were never iff-sympathy
yifh,Sshtftor Platt4 leadecshi III have de-
45lrW withIa the last year. and, they ieiter-
af9d atheif statements here to-day, that
Qoyern6r- ehairmsn odell was, the last
siiaan Ia the world who should have humili-
H{ttH sick man as Odell Inundated Platt.
Tfisss Republican critics went on. to say
that politics should; be no. different from
human standpoint than that Of the do
1nestic family. They pointed out that
Platt had made Oden his political son and
that when Plat became enfeebled by age,
after a strenuous political career in sup
port Of Republican principles, II was Odell
who should have been the first man to
have stood by his political father. In
domestic life, it was added. a son who
deliberately and wilfully strikes down
his father, the man who gave him birth
and who provided sustenance for him
during his toddling years, is a son un
worthy the name and contemplate in the
eyes Of mankind.
Recurring to the talk against Mr. Higgins
because OF his attitude on the Raines liquor
law, Mr. Higgins's friends recalled that the
Raines law passed with the support Of most
Of the Republicans at Albany and that for
the last half dozen years it had been held
up to public e1altation in platforms OF
Republican State conventions. Any mum.
Der OF Republicans here say that the opera.
lions OF the Rainee liquor law has led to
all sorts Of hypocritical humbug. In
the country districts Of the State for in.
q, stance, the thirsty Republicans can ge,
all they want to drink, and more too, pay.
ing half rate taxes, while the thirsty Re.
apublicans in the city districts have to pay
full tax rates.
A Republican high up in the State gov.
eminent in Albany who lives in the coun.
try, in explaining the operations Of the
Raines liquor law said to-day:
Il am constrained to say that the city
Republicans in their attitude on the whiskey
= question, rs compared with the attitude