The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-27
REVOLT IN ONEIDA COUNTY.
REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO SUP
PORT ODELDS TICKET
And Intend to Administer Lasting Re.
buke to the rnor-Chairman-Th
County, II Is Confidently Predicted,
VIII Give the Herrlck Ticket n Majority

VIII Give the Herrlck Ticket n Majority
UTICA, Sept 28.-It is confidently pre-
dicted that Oneida county, for generations
astronghold of Republcanism. will give the
Democratic State ticket, headed by Judge
D. Cady Herrick for Governor, majority
ove, Governor Chairman Odell's ticket,
headed by Lieut. Gov. Higgins, at the COM
ing election. Republican leaders in the
county have been thrown into a state OF
panic at the evidence of hostility toward
Cs- Odells ticket openly exhibited by
the old warhorses of the Republican Or
ganization. Two years ago Gov. 0dell re-
ceived a plurality OF only 1e1 over Bird g.
Coler in Oneida county, while other candi-
dates on the ticket polled nearly the usual
Republican majority
his year the Republicans Of Oneida
county. eXasperated beyond measure by
what III " term the "reprehensible political
trickery and self-assumption OF Odell, are
willing to make heroic sacrifices in supreme
effort to efface the Governor Chairman.
They openly boast their purpose to make
mincemeat Of his ticket. A representative
Republican Of this city, In an interview to-
day, described the situation hereabouts as
follows:
At the outset let it be understood that
the members OF the Republican party in
Oneida county who will vote against Hig-
gins for Governor and against the other
candidates on the ticket, do 40 not so
much because of any hostility against the
individuals named thereon, as because
they intend to administer lasting rebuke
to Gov. Odell, whose highhanded direction
pf affairs at tho
effectually shut out all elements of fairness
He made himself the absolute dictator of
the party nominees, platform &C. as
against the wisdom and best jud grnent
of able party leaders. He nominated Mr.
Higgins for the Governorship in the hope
Of accomplishing his own selfish aims,
turning down Woodruff, thousand times
stronger, politically, than Higgins, merely
because he happened to be honored with
the friendship and bore the Endorsement
Of Senator Plat
We thought we taught Mr.. Odell a lesson
two years ago that would rouse him from
his dream of selfshness, but it appears he
did not profit thereby. l cannot conceive
how any self-respecting citizen of this COM
monwealth can conscientiously support the
ticket selected by Odell, who, it must be
individual purposes, without regard to the
interests OF our citizens. Oneida county
Republicans ordinarily are loyal, but in this
case the worm has turned. Roosevelt for
President and Herrick for Governor is
a pretty good combination.
1t Is this sentiment which has thrown
the Oneida county Republican organization
into Mysteries. Roosevelt is safe enough
hereabouts, but with the Republican State
ticket it is different story.
The Democrats have girded their loins
and will make great fight for their State
ticket. They will feature the plank in their
platform which declares against the cen
tralization of power at Albany, psrticu-
larly in reference to the administration OF
the affairs Of State charitable institutions.
This is specially pertinent subject In
Oneida county, where the State maintains
a hospital for the insane and custodlal
asylum, the former in Utica and the latter
In Rome.
The anti-Odell sentiment has permeated
the Adirondack region, according to the
Northwood correspondent OF the Utica
Press, who. after describing the political
stu ation there, writes az follows,
with the independent vote OF this region.
Higgins The local leaders are sad to learn
this year. They had hoped to be able to
get the boys out, at IS per. Probably the
at the polls. OF course the chances 1' Of a
and and sy1d Is Of voters are hoping some.
voters can get $50. IL they stand together,
but only $l2 II they go separate. This is as
u should be-there is strength in unity a
1act that shrewd voters are beginning to
understand.
The venerable Samuel NJ. Shaw, for fiftv
years editor OF the Cooperstown Freemdn's
journal, but now retired, was the first to
suggest that Judge d. Cady Herricl1 be
nominated for Governor. 1t appears that
three weeks ago Mr. Shaw wrote to Judge
Parker, former Senator Hill and Judge
HcrTick on the subject. Hill replied that
the suggestion was an ex cellent one, and
would be considered by the Democratic
leaders. The acquaintance Of Mr.. Shaw
and Judge Herrick dates back to the time
when the Judge was a student in the old
CooperstoMn Seminary