The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-15
N. Linn Bruce TO b Nominated
for Lieutenant. G0Yarnor.
MAYER ON THE TICKET, TOO
Erie County Man Decided Upon
for State Treasurer.

-Pufly III State 10 bFeuh away rron
Rule OF Graft-Remsrkable Plank
Inserted in Platform IN Order TO Give
Odell q Certificate Of Characterize
Wrote 1t Himself-No Governor Ever
Found 1t Necessary before to Receive
Coat OF whitewash Upon Retirement
From Ofice-Asserted That Higgins
VIII Have Nearly 500 Votes on the
First Ballot-More splints Put Into
the Governor.C hairman's Backbone
Delegates VIII Cast Their Ballots
Separately Instead OF by Counties.
SARATOGA, N. Y, Sept 1.-THE Governorv
Chairman, at his conference tonight, got
around him his father. Mr.. Lauterbaoh,
Mr.. Iittauer, Mr.. Ward, Mr.. Raines, Mr..
Goodsell, Mr.. Warren. Mr.. Hendricks,
Speaker Nixon, Mr.. Wadsworth, Mr.. Payn,
Mr.. Bracket, Mr.. Elsberg, ex-Gov. Black,
Mr.. Quigg. Mr.. Sherman and Secretary Of
State O'Brien. At this conference M. Linn
Bruce was selected to be the candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, and John Walameier
Of Tonawanda, Erie county, was selected
to be the candidate for State Treasurer,
30 that the Odell ticket to be nominated TO.
morrow is as follows:
For Governor-Frank Wayland Higgins
Of Olean, Cattaraugus county.
For nt-Governor-M. Linn Bruce
Of New York county.
For Secretary OF State, John r. 0'Brien
Of West Chazy, Clinton county.
For Coy,,,, ~ ro1lar nttn Kajxav ~ Hanoano
Livingston county.
For State Treasurer, John Walameief
Of Tonawanda, Erie county.
For Attorney General, Julius M. Mayer
OF New York county.
For State Engineer and Surveyor, Henry
A. Van Alstyne Of Chatham, Columbia
county.
For Chief Judge OF the Court Of Appeals,
For Associate Judge Of the, Court Of
Monroe county.
William Halpin, known as the Tammany
Hall Republican who is chairman Of the
executive committee Of tho New York
Republican county committee. has acted
as Governor Chairman Odells agent all
day in urging New York county Republicans
to vote for Higgins and not for Woodruff,
Mr.. Halpin met with many rebuhs on the
part OF Senator Platt's friends in New York
city. all of whom told Mr.. Halpin that they
were to stand by Plat and Woodruff because
1t was a fight for principle. Before Mr..
Bruce was selected to be the candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, Odell asked Hamilton
Fish of Garrison, to take the nomination,
but Mr. Fish positively declined. Mr.. Fish
has been spoken OF here as sturdy Guber-
material timber, and his friends did not
fancy the notion of his accepting second
place on the ticket.
GINMILL POLITICS.
Anybody in the State who needs to have
his spinal column patched up should send
for the Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, ST., Of
Eewburg. He Is the Governors father.
The old gentleman Is past 10, but SEEM
ingly is just as sturdy and vigorous as In
the days when he laid the foundations for
the Odell ring in Newburg.
Whenever the Governor Chairman gets
In hole, or rather when his spinal column
needs bracing, he sends for his father.
The Governor Chairman did this two years
ago, and he has had to draw on his fathers
supply OF nerve several times since.
The father has been with the Governor
all day long. With most fathers and .eons
in the State the situation IL transposed, tho
son in his younger and robust years giving
to the father the requisite supply OF sand
and encouragement to confront LIES battles
The elder Odell has been familiar with
every step in Newburg city and Orange
county politics for the last forty years and
has reputation not exceeded by any prac-
teal politician in the country. From his
earliest youth he brought his son UP in the
ways familiar in Newburg. 1t is not at all
q complicated history, 1t is known 10
very many.
Not that 1t Is pleasant history to record,
but 1t serves its purpose. and especially Il
1t gladstone topic for disapprova| In the
nice homes OF NeTbure. 1t /, tale Of
ginmill politics, v it'll all its atrocious trim
mlngs. You couldn't tell IL to a Sunday
school class, and neither would respectable
people desire to hear it, but the boy Of the
old Ginmill days is nov Governor Of the
greatest State in the Union and, chairman Of
the Republican State organization. Yet
for all that he was compelled to send for bis
father TO brace him up for to-morrov's
work.
The Governor Chairman hes been fur
tlNel. huSpiglOuS all Jay ne CoeSIl htluW
exactly y hat to think of this situation. He
has looted squint-eyed at Frank Wayland
Higgins on several occasions. Further
more, he does not understand how II comes
about that Senator Plat, after several
years OF distressing illness, suddenly be-
comes imbued with the vigor and nerve
which marked his leadership In the days
OF his asccndency.
LAST STAND FOR HONEST POLITICS
The Governor { hartman doesn't exactly
see what Senator Plat Ia to gain by going
into a losing fight for Timothy H. Wood
ruff for Governor. Even the warnest friends
Of Senator Plat admit that Mr.. Woodruff
cannot be nominated. They seem to think
that the senior Republican Senator for the
State has some mysterious motive for stand
ing strong for Woodruff
There isn't any mystery about the matter
at all Senator Plat in making the 6ght for
Woodruff IL making his last stand for honest
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