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oDELL ROPES ON CANDIDATES.
PLEDGE TO LET HIS CANAL JOB
ALONE NJ ST BE GIVEN By EACH.
Declaration Against Resubmitting the
Canal Scheme to the Voters Demanded
or All Aspirants 10 the Legislature
Canal boss Boyd and His Powers


or All Aspirants 10 the Legislature
Canal Boss Boyd and His Powers.
Every candidate for the Legislature
is being asked to declare himself on resup-
mission" said one of Governor-Chairman
Odells adherents at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday afternoon. The speaker
went on to say that no Republican aspirant
for q nomination as State Senator or As
semblyman either below or above the
Bronx line can hope to be nominated-if
Governor-C Chairman Odell can prevent 1t
unless he declares to the Governor-Chair-
man that he is unequivocally opposed to
resubmitting to the voters the referendum
by which Odell secured from the voters IN
the Democratic districts Of the State au.
thority to go ahead and build his canal
machine.
The original cost Of the Governor Chair
mans canal machine is to be SOL 0oO, ,OOO.
Engineers of the first rank have declared
over their signature, however. that the
job. ere il is finished, will cost nearer s3oo,
900 900, and that the taxes upon the people
city and country will be perpetuated FOR
Atty years and more.
Governor Chairman Odell is well aware
that the Republicans in forty-three counties
gave smashing majorities In 1908 against
his SlOl 600, 900 canal scheme, which was
originally designed, according to eminent
Republicans, to aid him in dethroning Platt
as State leader and in fastening himself
upon the Republican party as it's leader.
These Republicans say that the Governor
Chairman has now machine and no follow
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the canal machine to keep control OF the
Republican State organization.
For this reason 1t is known that Governor
Chairman Odell will not give the nomination
for Governor to any candidate who VIII not
first promise not to remove his Super1n'
tendent Of Public Works at Albany, Charles
Spencer Boyd 1t is Boyd's office that it
to handle all OF the SOL 900 900 canal graft.
When Col Partridge was appointed
Police Commissioner by Mayor Low on
Nov. 20, 1901, Gov. Odel appointed Boyd
TO succeed Partridge as State Superin-
tendent OF Public Works within two days
and before the Republican leaders could ad-
vance the claims Of any other candidate
for the appointment. Mr.. Boyd is son OF
Samuel L. Boyd, at one time merchant IN
New Orleans. He was grad uated from
Columbia University in 1877 in the same
class with Gov. Odell, and the two were close
friends. in college. Later, Boyd took ok,
the Columbia Stymitn Company.
At the time of his appointment as state
Superintendent of Public Works Mr. Boyd
was the uptown manager in Manhattan OF
Joseph Walker 4 Sons, bankers and brokers.
He as member OF the Madison square
Republican Club and of the Eastlake Club,
and it Was said that he made his home.
at the Calumet Club. He was interviewed ed
at his mothers home. 29i Decatur street,
Brooklyn.
The barge canal improvement law pro-
videf that tho cost of the YORK shall be met
by the issue Of sl0l 900 900 in bonds and
that the State Comptroller, under he super,
vision OF the commissioners of the canal
fund, is to ISSUE and sell the bonds after ad-
yeriring them for period Of ,hcy tNehty GAYS, ya
Improvement shall be begun within three
months after issuing the said bonds or some
part thereof
It is plain from this that work on the
canal should not be begun until the bonds
are issued, and yet more than s2o0,OOO has
been expended in preparing plans Tor some
of the work, for engineering and for salaries
Of the expert engineers advisory comnis-
sion, headed 10y former State Engineer Bond,
and OF the commission appointed to appraIse
lands taken for large canal purposes Ih's
5000 900 has been borrowed hy the state
Bank Of Albany upon the understanding
that the money will be paid aftcr the bonds
are issued. The bonds are oil ready to be
Issued, hut Gov Odell will not permit this
before election. as he fears the effect OF q
canal bond issue in the rural counties Of
the State. The commissioners OF the cana
fund comprise the Lieutenant-t iovcrnor
the Secretary Of State, the Comptroller
the State Treasurer and the Attorney
General.
The extraordinary powers Of Coy arnor-
Chairman Odell's Superintendent Of Public
Works are shown in section OF the law
He has the authority TO award canal con-
tracts without the approval OF any other
State official or State board. Comptroller
Kelsey has said thai there WAS no Use ir
issuing bonds and letting the interest min
up as the work was not ready to go on. b,'
II would seem that it would he Just as easy
for him and Just as cheap to issue 5000 0ot
Of the canal bonds to pay the expenses OF
the preliminary work as il is Tor him To
borrow the money from hank and pay in
terest thereon.
appointed by the Governor by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, and
holds his Office until the end OF the tern
Of the Governor by whom he is nominated
and until his successor has qualified. ,,
The question is frequently asked: Is
Supt. Boyd sufficiently competent as g
civil engineer to be. endowed with sucl
extraordinary powers3 As for the politica
end of the game and Governor Chairman
Odell's frantic efforts to retain control o
his canal machine in order to perpetuatt
his own power as Republican State leader
that is a matter of daily comment and criti
cisn,, in view Of his own acknowledged
unpopularity with the Republican voter
OF the State.
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