The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30
HARRISON SPEAKS IN BATAVIA
No HALL ZIG ENOUGH TO HOLD
a. THE ANTI-ODELL VOTERS.
Large Overflow Meeting In the Open Air
Only One state Issue, He Says. and
That Is Honesty in Public Affairs
Higgins Part OF the Odell Machine.

BATAVIA. N. Y. Oct. 2s.-This city had
no hall nearly big enough to hold the anti
Odell folks who wanted to hear Congress
man Francis Burton Harrison, Citizens
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, speak
tonight. In Elicott Hall, which was only
half filed few weeks ago when NJ. Linn
Bruce, Mr.. Harrison's opponent, spoke
here. some six hundred men and women we re
packed 80 tight that they could hardly
breathe. Outside there was another meet
ing nearly twice as large, which Mr.. Har-
rison addressed briefly on his way to catch
his train for New York, where he is hurry
ing to see his new baby.
John H. Ryan, the county chairman Of the
Genessee Democrats, opened the meeting
and turned 1t over to former Mayor W. F.
HAITI. Former Fourth Assistant Post
master-General Robert A. Maxwell brough hit
Mr.. Harrison out on the platform. The
crowd went wild at once. For the last few
days those who are campaigning with Mr.,
Harrison have noticed steadily ncrea sing
intensity in the welcome which audiences
give the Citizens candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Word has gone abroad Of the
aggressiveness and brilliancy OF the fight
he has been making through the Republican
counties Of the State, and the upstate
Democrats know how to appreciate an
uphill fig liter when one comes among them,
especially when they know, as they all do
now, that he is winning his fight
Mr.. Harrison spoke on the insidious-
accompanies the plan Of indirect taxation
and OF the stimuli ton which comes out
of indirect taxation for graft and waste
fulness. In conclusion he said;
There is but one issue in this great State
Of ours. IT y not partisan issue. If
verted by members Of the present admin
istra ton should say that It was an issue
Of simple business principles. But the
word business has taken new meaning
in the Empire State since Odell promised
us plain business administration and
showed US what he meant by 1t. Laughter
and applause.] The issue Ia preeminently
one as to whether New York State shall
have public serva nts in whose conduct of the
affairs committed To their charge there
can be no grounds for suspicion OF their
This Stats to-day IL, pervaded with
grave doubts as TO the homes ty Of pur-
pose Of many of the expenditures and
meas Of the present administration.
Bear in mind thatI make no charge against
he has been part OF a machine, the compla-
cent tool of a ma chine that has carved its
way through the treasury as smoothly and
as easily as the shovels of the Furnace
vile Iron Company ploughed through the
so-oAlled rock at the bottom Of one section
Of the canal do not cha rye that members
Of the rna chine have used their offices for
the fattening Of their own pockets. A
Republican Assistant Postmaster General
has made that charge, az ! had the oppor-
tunity OF telling some OF Mr.. Justice Hooker's
and Tax Commissioner Stearns' neighbors
last night.
we will say nothing which we cannot
prove. Therefore we do not even init
mate that any member OF the Odell circle
has fattened his private purse since that
circle came into absolute power In the party
and In the State. But we do say that wrong
doers have gone unpunished, that crimes
have been blinked at, that money has been
scandalously wasted, that complaints of
impropriety and inefficiency have been
ignored whenever 1t has been necessary
to strengthen the hands OF the men who
do the bidding OF the most heartless reck-
less and selfish political organization that
ever grasped for the resources and the