The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
HARRISON SPEAKS In GENEVA.
TORCHLIGHT PARADE or DEMO
Gratis AND RBPUBLICiNS.
in His speech He Puts Some Pertinent
Questions to Odell's Candidate-He
HINTS at tho Sort Of Business Admins
tgAtion Higgins Promises 10 Give.

HINTS at the Sort Of Business Admins
tgation Higgins Promises TO Give.
GENEVA, n. Y, Oct, 19.-No stranger in
Geneva tonight could well be made to
believe that 1t Is in the midst OF one OF
the strongest Republican Congress dis
tricts In the State. A torchlight parade.
In which many Odell-sick Republicans
marched shoulder to shoulder with Demo-
Gratis with whom they never had found
common cause before. moved up and down
the principal streets behind Francis Burton
Harrison, Citizens candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Not since Theodore Roosevelt
WAS here as a candidate for Governor has
the CITY been 80 beside itself with political
excitement.
The confused condition Of State and
national politics up the State has become
familiar story to those who are following
Mr. Harrisons campaign, but no one
community seems to adjust Itself 70 It's
wonder over the thoroughness and the
determination Of the revolt against Odell-
ism. Geneva. while it fully understands
the reasons for the strange and unusual
political feelings which pervade it, cannot
restrain itself from talking about them
Therefore from the time that Congress
man Harrison's reception in the Nestor
House began at O'Clock until the Opera
House meeting began at $50 there has
been a constant din of voices about him.
out Of which have come to the ears OF the
bystanders constant isolated explanations
of this or that mans reason, though a
lifelong republican for supporting ,nh
Herrick and Harrison ticket. Pretty nurh
every explanation naturally has had the
word "Odell' in it.
Mr.. Harrison vas met on ms ARRIVAL a.
Geneva station by Mayor g. r. Licht, VINO
was elected in local citizens movement
by one lone vote. State Committeeman
Charles B. Lux p. y. Nicholas and num-
Der Of prominent Geneva Democrats. he
came from Schenectady, where he had spent
the night after the anti-Odell- Littauer,
Bracket demonstration in Saratoga. All
Clay long Mr.. Harrison had been receiving
Communications on the rafting speech ne
delivered in Saratoga, IN which ne dispiaytu
the newly collated facts about the Black
River Canal, where salaried locktenders
and bridge swingers have their peaceful
lives free from the annoying necessity OF
working because the canal has not been used
Mr.. Harrison to might devoted much Of his
time to the discussion of national issues, but
ne also considered the feelings and the APP
petite of the Republicans in his audience
by giving them chance to shout against
Odellism He said in part
a1he distinguished gentleman who leads
the Republican State ticket has made nun
self heard on the criticisms which nave
been made against himself ana against
nomination. He has said that he VIII
be no mans man if he is elected but his
own man. He thereby lays himself open
TO say the least, to the charge OF ingratitude,
Mr. Higgins has told us that if he il elected
he will give the State plain business ad-
ministration. Is it to be the sort OF busi-
ness administration which has dlstln-
guished the last two years! Is it to be the
sort OF business administration which caused
the transfer to Long Island, for purely
political reasons, of the capable and efficient
superintendent of the asylum across the
lake7 Is it the sort of business admins
tration which crowded through the Canal
Board the $4,000 gratuity to the Furnace
vile Iron Company OF which permits the
employment of lock tenders, bridge
swingers, wutchrnen and repair crews on
the Black River Canal between Carthage
and Lyons Falls, although that part OF the
canal has not been used in two years? Is
1t according TO the Higgins idea of business
that the Grannis- o Connor bill for $4,000,
mearned, was paid by the Canal Board
after the courts had ruled that the bill was
sOf some OF these things, if not OF all of
them. Mr. Higgins was a great part. Was
he his own man when he voted for them,
or was he the man of the dominant Republi-
can faction? II he was his own man, how
do the citizens Of the State of New York
regard q candidate who voluntarily as
suned the responsibility of these actions?
II these were the acts OF a man acting under
.another's compulsion, how are we to believe
he will not so act again?
1T is not my wish TO ask too many ques-
tons. But, does business admlnistra-
ton. In the sense in which Mr.. Higgins
uses il, refer TO the brand Of economy with
which the charitable institutions of the
State have become 30 sadly familiar under
which the wards Of the State are allowed
one~half of an egg day when eggs reach
fifteen cents Dozen cuts on potatoes
altogether when they exceed the price OF
ATTY cents a bushel and clothes Randall's
leland children on less than seventy cents
Q month?
let us hope, for the gentleman's own
sake that this is not what ne means.
Does he mean, perhaps the application
Of business principles TO the Judiciary?
We have only to-day seen q new example
Of such principles. A Justice Of the Su-
preme Court-never elected, but appointed,
election-was to-day designated TO serve
IN the First Department Appellate Division
at an advance of $4,000 year salary. 1t
is sinister and significant thing that his
most conspicuous appearance has been
that of week ago, when he put out a state
ment OF the Furnaceville matter designed
to confuse the minds of the voters, and
that by making that statement (afterward
Iiddled and utterly discredited by Attor-
ney-General Cunneenl he conferred a
great personal and political favor upon
the nan from whom his present increase
In prosperity comes.
I'VE do not care for business admnistra-
tons along the lines with which the present
administration has made us familiar. We
prefer TO reorganize on the Democratic
plan, and we pledge ourselves that the
first step OF that reorganization will be. as
cur great leader, Justice D-Cady Herrick,
has said, the opening of the books"
Mr. Harrison's remarks were received
with successive storms of applause. There
were outdoor meetings after the meeting
at the Opera House.
Congressman Harrison will go to Medina
tomorrow and TO Lyons, the abiding place
Of Charles Highwayman Belts on Friday.
returning to New York In time for a trip
10 Long Island City and Flushing on Friday
night.
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