The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11

lyn. It was Syracuse also that bore the
brunt Of the attack Of the salt industries
Of the nation made by the Salt Trust, of
which Mr.. Woodruf's father was the or
the city for which Mr.. Woodruff promised
so many things when he, in turn, became
the head Of the Typewriter Trust. and in
Syracuse also Mr.. Woodruff had his first
ENCOUNTER with the labor UNIONS.
In Syracuse was at its heighth. AS presi-
dent of the State Fair he had done much
to bring himself and the fair into promi-
hence. He was even then making promises
which, had they been redeemed, would
have made up for Syracuse In the increased
business of making typewriters what 1t
had lost by the sacrifice of its salt indus,
tries Syracuse was formerly convinced
that with no one but Mr.. Woodruff could
the State Fair be made success. Mr..
Woodruff had brought WI Ting fang
there.
"He had induced a number of his swell
friends to become exhibitors at the horse
for the fair a very great amount of adj
of which were the g'ories Of Mr. Woodruff
himself forgotten; Then Frank w. ,Hig-
gins became president Of the fair and u was
soon discovered that where Mr.. Wood
ruff secured for it tinsel and gold lace, Hig-
gins secured bread and meat, and now
Woodruff's popularity in Syracuse Is wan
ing, while that Of Mr.. Higgins is increasing.
Syracuse is great t0 %ds Tor 0rgsnlzela
all of its trades are organized and the part
played by the labor unions in politics is not
inconsiderable. Mr., Woodruff succeeded
in antagonizing union labor in a most de-
cided manner when he was president OF
the buildings on the State Fair grounds
came up. The State Fair Commission
employed non union hands to do the work.
and a delegation from the painters union,
one of the most aggressive and strongest
unions in the city, waited upon Woodruff
to protest against their treatment.
This aroused an instant storm in the
Trades Assembly. Mr.. Woodruff not only
refused to dealtwith them but madea bitter
committee, with the, result that the fair
| was boycotted by the Trades Assembly.
| and the boycott was not removed until
after Mr.. Woodruff's connection with the
| fair was severed. When Mr. Woodruff
became the president of the Typewriter
Trust he went to Syracuse with glowing
promises. Business was not only to be
| doubled but new typewriter was 10 be
| made in the city and very large number
| of hands would be employed.
THE net result Of these promises was
| that the large typew ritter works which the
| trlst,tooBJ overw as housed In a new building,
and that few, If any more men were en-
| ployed A building for the proposed new
tyDeWT1teT was eQulDltu, DuO Io W PC"
has ever been made there and no men had
been employed 2The main Office OF the
company taken over by the trust was
moved from Syracuse to- New York and
| Syracuse has gained nothing, II 1t has not
| lost, by the change.
This, in connection with the fact
| that it was the Salt Trust organized by
Mr.. Woodruff's father that succeeded in
| wrecking the Onondaga salt reservations,
| is danger for the city in the name Of Wood
ruff, and makes it extremely likely that
| in an open convention the delegation
| from Onondaga county Will not be ior
| Woodruff but forlHiggins.
aThe Republican. organization In SYRIA
cuse is a compact body, with discipline
scarcely less thorough than that of Tam
many Hall It Is swalyed entirely by
who ' Seldom drives his followers, but
rather leads them and Hendricks is fully
oonversant with the fact that the sent-
ment in Onondaga county is first for Root
and then for Higgins, These facts are
| in possession of Gov. Odell
1They are to be used here in convincing
delegates that Mr.. Woodruff's trust con-
nections are fully as dangerous as the trust
connections of George r. Sheldon were
when, through Mr.. Woodruff, he was pre-
vented from being placed on the ticket
two wears ago. Mr.. Woodruff has frequently
boasted to friends that without his efforts
| Gov Odell would never have been able to
| have induced Senator Plat to change his
mind in regard to Mr.. Sheldon's nomina
| ton and those who remember how hard he
worked at Saratoga to defeat Mr.. Sheldon
will believe that there is q poetic, II not an
| a ctual Justice, in the methods which 1t Ia
proposed to use to defeat Mr.. Woodrufs
own ambitions"
Mr.. Woodruff, accompanied by Uncle
, william Berri, arrived late tonight, and
they, with Louis F. Payn, Robert c. Morris
and Lemuel E. Quigg, talked with Senator
Platt all the way from New York on Wood
rufus chances 1t was aa!3 That Mr.. Wood
ruff besides his 1872 delegates from Kings
county, will have a goodly number from
New York county. Some even went so
| far as to say that Woodruff will have eighty
| of the 1877 delegates in the latter county.
| AS a matter of fact the Woodrrft!tes are in
| high fea ther tonight and assert that Re-
| publicans alleged to be in the Odell cam
are really in the Platt-Woodruf neck OF the
| woods.
Mr.. Woodruff had nothing to say save to
| reiterate that he was willing to take his
chances and abide by the result, provided
| always that the COMPACT for an open con-
vention Is rigidly adhered to. Mr.. Wood
ruff 1t was said, has been in consultation,
within the last few days, with the power
| full upstate Republicans who have here
| tofore been considered close to Governor
Chairman Odell, with the interesting con-
clusion that the Governor-C hartman may
learn OF a surprise. Mr.. Higgins is to arrive
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