The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
REPUBLICANS AT SARATOGA,
o,rrL ARRIVES ACCOMPANIED
nv HIS TWO WARDMEN.
q, Is opposed to woodruff for Governor
and Fa,ors the Nomination OF Higgins
other Candidates Named Are Hsmil-
IN, Fish and Francis Hendricks.

q,
odsll arrived here at o'clock tonight on
the same train which brought Senator Platt.
The Governor Chairman left New York at
MON, accompanied by his two principal
warlmen. Representative Lucius N. Lit
,ausr and Representative William L..
wsrd The Governor Chairman, however,
dronped of at Albany for the purpose OF
owaiting the train which bore Senator
plstt and coming on from Albany to Sara
,ooa with the Senator, but Senator Platts
rain was late and Oden came on ahead.
one Of the Governor Chairman's satellites
said Of this performances:
THE Governor is to hypnotic the Senator
again.
Senator Platt has spoken pretty strongly
for Timothy L. Woodruff for Governor.
and vet Mr.. Woodruff's friends for nearly
a week have been doubtful If Senator
Plat would stick to him, especially after
Covernor-C hartman Odell tackled the SEN
ator. II is the Governor Chairman's boast
Il have more influence with Senator Plat
and can do more with him than any man
in the party The Governor-C Chairman
is opposed to Woodruff for Governor and
fayors the nomination of Lieut., Gov Frank
". Higgins of Clean.
II Mr.. Higgins. a man of the strictest
probity, doesn't watch out the Odel blight
will be put upon him. 1t is violating no
confidence to say that Mr.. Higgins was
fearful. indeed that this was the situation
when he issued his statement in Syracuse
the other day to the effect that he was not
and would not he the candidate for Governor
Of faction of the Republican party
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Of particular import tonight. He only
reiterated that in his opinion Mr.. Woodruff
would make splendid candidate for Gov
ernor. The Governor-Chairman was i'm
mediately in conference with his two ward
men. Mr.. Lttauer and Mr.. Ward, who
themselves had spent the early evening
comforting with John j. Brown Of White
Plains, who paid his fare to Saratoga, and
William Barnes, Jr., chairman OF the execu-
tive committee of the State committee.
Mr. Brown was formerly a reside mt OF New
burg and he and the Governor Chairman
have been on the closest terms Of intimacy
for many years. Many Republicans OF
discernment declare that Brown is the real
b1ss of Westchester county and that Ward
is merely his chief henchman.
ANYWAY, there is closer bond between
the Governor Chairman and Brown than
some folks imagine, Odell, Ward and
Iittauer all talked Of the strength OF Mr..
Higgins as a candidate, Barnes was rather
non-committal. although known to be
utterly friendly to Mr. Higgins. and John T.
Mott, Republican leader Of Oswego, and
James s. Whipple Of Cattaraugus, the home
county Of Higgins, said that Mr.. Higgins ia
the man who should be nominated for
Governor.
, Mr.. whipple, few days ago, had long
talk with President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay concerning Mr.. Higgins, and while
not essaying to dictate the candidate OF the
Republican State Convention which Is to
assemble here on Wednesday. the President,
it is known, spoke in admiring terms OF
MIR. Higgins. The Govemor-C Chairman, 1t
was learned tonight, was to have visited
the President this week, but was unavoid-
ably deferred from doing So
Some Of the Republicans here tonight
are Of the opinion that the contest between
the Governor Chairman and his satellites
and the Woodruff forces will become so
fierce that neither Higgins nor Woodruff
will be nominated, and in that event Hamil-
ton Fish may be nominated. Some others
spoke up in firm tones tonight concerning
Francis Hendricks of Syracuse, who is
considered to be one Of the brainiest and
most upright Republicans in the State, and
one who, it has been often declared. should
have been nominated for Governor long
ago.
Mr.. Hendricks it was very generally as
serted, stands in his own shoe leather every
moment he is awake. Mr. Fish has had many
talks with Governor-C Chairman Odell Of late
at Monmouth Beach, but it is a. matter OF
fact that the Governor Chairman distrusts
Mr. Fish Jest as much as he distrusts Mr..
Woodruff. He is fearful that either Fish or
Woodruff would dethrone him as State
leader and turn out to be as treacherous
to him as he was to Platt
One Of Mr.. Fish's friends said tonight:
"Odell's first act Of disloyalty to Plat
WIS discovered by Fish when he was Speaker
ci the Assembly. Odell was chairman of
the executive committee of the State COM
mittee, put there by Plat, and he knew
that Platt was bound up heart and soul
in the passage at Albany Of the Greater
New York charter. Odell turned up at the
Kenmore at Albany one morning for break
fast and at the table were some of Fish's
friends Odell denounced the Greater New
lorR charter, declared that IL ougnt not 10
pass, and somehow all this got into the New
York city newspapers.
Plat sent for Odell to come Of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and demanded an explana-
ton, Odell humbly explained that he
bad only given voice to few pers onal
opinions. that he was surprised to see them
printed and since then Odell has always
believed that Fish's friends gave out the
talk at that Kenmore breakfast table to
the newspapers,
Ex-Gov Frank S. Black, Louis F. Payn,
George W. Aldridge, Senator George r.
halby and others close to the Governor
Chairman will oppose. it is asserted. any
compromise looking to Mr. Fish's nominal
ton, and it is the free opinion expressed
by the Oddities that a situation will arise
bywhich Mr. Higgins will not believe that he
Is the candidate OF faction Of the party
and that he will be nominated. The great
Republican party of the State, it was fur
thermore said tonight, Is under the control
OF the Tapeworm Club ma jority Of whose
members are resourceful and remorseless
IN thetpursuit of public and private graft.
;, The party in the State" said brainy
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