Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-04
ODELL WANTSCASH
And Plenty Of IL to Spend in New
York for Republican
Ticket.
SAYS S75O.OOO IS NEEDED
CorteIyou. Amazed ut Demand, Rushes
to Washington to See Roose-
welt About II.

New York, Oct Gov. Benjamin
b Odeu. Jr. in his capacity as chair
man of the New York state republican
committee. has demanded $15o,ooo of
Chairman George b. Cortelyou. of the
republican national committee.
Gov. Odell accompanied his demand
with the statement that this amount
of money. together with such sums
as he will be able to raise himself, is
absolutely essential if New York is TO
be carried by Roosevelt and Higgins.
Chairman Cortelyou was amazed at
the demand. His hurried trip TO Wash
ngton Monday was to lay the matter
before the president.
Cortelyou is inclined to be stingy
with the money he has in his cam
paign chest. Where Hanna would
spend 500 he hesitates about spend
ing $25. When Odell came at him
with this demand for three-quarters of
a million. he suggested that 100000
is a large sum. thinking 10 save $3.50
000 if possible. Odell was insistent.
and Cortelyou rushed away TO ask the
president about it.
How OdeII Went About IL.
Odell put the matter up to Cortelyou
in this manner: He said there is a
fair chance for Roosevelt to carry the
state. but that the situation for the
state ticket is precariOus. He said
he will get all the money he can, but
intimated that contributions are slow.
and then said. bluntly. that Cortelyou
must come TO the rescue or there is no
telling what may happen to Roosevelt
in view of the slump that may come to
Higgins end Of the ticket.
Cortelyou expected all along that he
would be obliged to put money into
the New York campaign. Soon after
the Chicago convention he asked the
president to notify Odell that the pres
ident and the national committee
would hold Odell responsible for New
York state. This was merely a thrifty
move on Cortelyou's part to keep
Oden's demands down to a minimum.
As soon as Odell nominated his state
ticket and discovered the kind of cam
and are making, he went at COrtelyOu
with his tremendous demand.
COrtelyou tried to plead poverty.
Odell refused to listen 10 the plea.
He had made inquiries and had discOv-
cred that the national committee is
getting relatively more money than il
did either four or eight years ago. BY
relatively" is meant that in proportion
to the number of states in which the
republicans expect to make active cam
paigns the contributions are large, for
Hanna made campaigns in many more
states than COrtelyOu will enter. As
matter of fact National Treasurer
Bliss has plenty of money, although
he may not have if he hOnors the
Odell draft for S750,000.
say COrteIyou iS StInGy.
Politicians from other states who
have been treated literally in the past
are coming in in numbers and com
planning bitterly that CortelyOu is
stingy. Some of them say that he
even cuts down from % TO 30 per cent
on their orders for documents and
Autographs.
Cortelyou is absolute in the com
mittee He o. KS. every requisition.
He has practical notions about what
should go ont and what should not.
and he never lets sentiment dictate
in anything. even in the distribution
of Autographs and buttons.
He rarely loses control of himself.
but Odell's demand made him gasp
| several times. The president will de-
eide on the amount TO be given Odell.