The sun., 1904-12-13
BLACK EXPECTS ODELL' VOTES
WHICH ODELL MEN SAY WILL BE
NEAR 100 IN JOINT CACCUS.
Mr. Black Not to he Allowed to Announce
His Candidacy I'ntl Republican Sen.
timent IL Create ted'--Rank and File
Doesn't Respond-Humillatins P1att.

HIS CanOl0hcy tntu HepuDllchn Se1
timent Is Great ed'--Rank and FIJI
Doesn't Respond-Humillatins Plat
THE Sun has already announced on tn
authority Of eX-Gov, Blacks friends tha
Governor-Chairrnan Odell, IA head OF tn
Republican organization Of the State o
New York, has already enough pledge
from Republican Senators and Assembly
men to carry the joint caucus to he held ol
Jan. 1s. for Mr.. Black as United State
Senator in place of Senator Depew. Th
Governor Chairman claims that he has 8
votes of the l4o. Republican members o
the Legislature, and last night the Governor
Chairman's sdherents proclaimed that 1T
had nearer 100 votes at his command.
1t was then declared that Mr.. Odell will
not permit Mr. Black to announce his can,
didacy to succeed Mr.. Depew until MI
Odell has bee ONE satisfied that the Repub
lican sentiment of the State demand,
Black in place Of Depew, MIR. Black they
said, has been a candidate ever since las,
spring when Governor Chairman Odell made
up his mind at the same time to nomi.
nate Mr. Higgins for Governor, and al
are now aware that Governor Chairman
Odell promised at the Republican State
convention held in Saratoga last Septem-
Der. to m axe Mr.. Black United States
Senator.
While Mr.. Odell has personally denied
to Senator Platt and Senator Depew that
he made any such promise, the Governor
Chairman has not made any public dis
avowal Of the promise. With Mr.. Black
a candidate for half dozen months and
fr,A x.-,tI
Odell at the head, have been busy In an
effort to create. or rather to manufacture,
a Republican sentiment in the State that
would demand Blacks election and Depew's =
retirement.
There has been no response. say Re-
publicans conversant with the situation
from the rank and file Of the Republican
party of the State. On the contrary, for
the last few weeks. since the controversy
over the United States Senatorship be-
came known. Govenor-elect Higgins has
been swamped with letters from Rapub-
licans who tell him in very plain languag ge
that in voting for him on election day they
also voted in intent for the reelection OF
Senator Depew. Mr., Higgins's mail at
Olean and his mail at Albany. and his mail
at the Albemarle Hotel in New York city,
it is stated. has been sweled by these letters
from Republicans.
But Governor Chairman Odell is the head
of the Republican organization of the State.
and while he has not declared himself
against Depew or in favor Of Black, but
on the other hand has secured the pledges
OF the Republican legislators 20 that he
may use them for whom he pleases. ex Gov.
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proper time Mr.. Odell will Use these pledges
In favor Of Black.
The fact that Governor Chairman Odell
is head Of the Republican State orgsniza-
ton has made many Republican Senators
and AsseInblynen hesitate to express
their predictions for Depcw So strong
is the sentiment for organization discipline
that Governor-Chairman 0dtll as head Of
the organization can Use the power Of the
organization for whom he pleases. II
was remarked last night that the Governor
Chairman does not heed the fact that Platt,
the strictest organization man of his day,
favors the return Of Depew. and neither
does the Governor-C hairman regard the
fact that Depew himself Is an Organization
man from the top OF his shiny pate to the
glisten Of his patent feathers.
Governor Chairman Odell il was learned
last night. has been told by Cornelius y.
Bliss, treasurer OF the Republican national
committee that very eminent Republicans
substantial services during the
for Higgins, believing that Sen
ator Depewwss to be returned to the United
States Senate. Governor Chairman Odell,
failing public sentiment for Black, lie
said to hope that Senator Depew will
find II convenient and agreeable to retire
in favor Of Black, while Senator Depew
is on record as declaring that he win remain
in the race IL he gets but one vote In the
joint caucus.
The Governor-Chairman has little or no
personal feeling against Senator Depew,
but he is described as determined to measure
out to Senator Plat the last dregs Of hui
miliation and hopes by his attitude in the
Joint caucus in Albany so to contrive that
not a vestige Of power or influence shall be
left at Washington to the man who gave
him every political advancement he ever
had. and who, at the request Of Governor.
Cha airman Odell and Mr., Higgins and Mr.
Higgins's friends. wrote IS 900 letters in
the last campaign begging his friends to
come TO tHt Nul'p'it VI ii'Bkiub'
Senator Platt began TO write these letters
when both Odell and Higgins believed in
their hearts that the Republican State
ticket was doomed to defeat. 1t was in
the darkest hour Of the campaign that
Plat came to the rescue and Depew made
his political tours through the State.
Governor Chairman Odell's friends said
last night that Senator Plat In utterly
mistaken and that Senator Depew is alto.
gether askew when they proclaim that
seventy seven OF the Republican legis-
lators favor Depew. The Odell faction
said that according to their count Mr.. Depew
had eIactly forty-three promises, and
that these promises are not worth the
paper that they are written on.
But then, as recorded in THE SUN yeeter-
day, the information from Mr.. Higginp's
friends In that Mr.. Higgins does not care to
run up against the Odell threat that, should
he, Higgins, favor Depew. the 0leap statee-
man viii be retired toprivste life two years
from now.