The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-21
WILL UNDERMINE WOODRUFF
DROOKLYN REPUBLICANS FEAR
WRATH OF ODELL.

Think He May Begin the Assault on Their
Leader by Trying to Force the Renomi-
nation Of Senator Marshall-A Lively
and vigorous Campaign Promised
With the return OF Timothy L. Woodruff
IN town to-day the work Of the campaign
in Brooklyn will be started In earnest, and
lust az vigorously prosecuted, according to
a, the managers, as II Mr.. Woodruff
had been the nominee for Governor
This afternoon Mr.. Woodruff viii have O
conference with Col. Miohs ell j. Dady, Jacob
Bremen, L. L. Fawcett and the other lead
ing Republican statesmen tn Kings, and
tomorrow there will be q meeting Of the
executive committee, which. as usunl with
the addition OF some eminent outside
Republicans, will act as the campaign
committee. d. Henry Ralston will hsvo
charge OF the literary bureau to be opened
in the Temple Bar Building, and Col. Lewis
Il. stegman will supervise the SPELL
binding.
In private the Brooklyn leaders admit that
In the canvass for the State ticket they will
have to carry a weighty handicap by reason
OF its direct Identification with Odelllsn,
but. through apprehension Of future retail
etion on the part OF the Governor Chairman.
they are going to boom the campaign along
In great shape, and II possible keep the
plurality for the Democratic candidate to BIS
named at Saratoga to-day below ths phe-
nomenal one scored by Coler against Odell
two years ago.
There Is firm belief on tho part Of many
of the Brooklyn leaders that Odell will
sooner or later make an effort to under
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county organization and install some one
his bidding. It Is even suspected that tho
Goyernor-Chairman may show his hand
tonight ct the Senate convention in the
Eighth district, at which q successor is
to be named to Senator Henry Marshall,
who has already served three terms In
the upper house and three as an Assem-
blyman but is still anxious &c continue
The men who really control the district as
we'll as the rank and file OF the party, are
strongly opposed to the denomination Of
Marshall, and II their hands are not tied
tonight, by the commands Of the State
boss, Charles Cooper, an active party worker
and one Of the leading business men Of
the Bedford district, Will be chosen as the
candidate by an overwhelming vote. IT
was generally admitted last night that
Odell alone can save Marshall from Official
retirement, but friends Of MIR. Cooper said
that they could not believe that the
Governor Chairman would take such an
unpolitic step. The district Is one Of the
Republican stronsholds of the State, and
even two years ago, in the great odell slump,
Marshall had over 5000 plurality, while
the six Republican Senate candidates were
showed under.
1t Is likely that the Senate conventions
In the Third, Fifth and Seventh districts,
In which tho Democrats have a virtual
walkover, will be adjourned, no one 90
far having bobbed up as an aspirant In
any one Of them. There is a sharp con-
test between Eugene n. Travis and John
Dresoher, Jr., for the nomination in the
Fourth district, with the chances in favor
Of the former. Frank j. Gardiner, deputy
Commissioner OF Jurors. and the leader Of
the Eleventh Assembly district. will bt
named without oppo sition In the Sixth
Now York Republican, will be the only
candidate presented in the Ninth district.