The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-11
REPUBLICANS NOMINATE POPS
ODELL AND BARNES CAUGHT
RUNNING SILVER TICKET.
Petitions to he Protested-Albany County
signers Are Barnes Officeholders VINO
Swear That They intend 70 Vote for
watson-Same Fraud In Other Counties.

| ALBANY, Oct. 10, - By nook or CROOK,
Governor Chairman odell Is striving to
elect his candidate for Governor, Frank
| Wayland Higgins, the Junior partner OF
the newly established grocery firm OF odell,
Higgins Co. He has paid out OF the
revenues Of the Republican State committee
the expenses OF securing In every county
OF the State signatures to petition placing
Populist ticket in nomination as an In
dependent" State ticket. Hundreds OF the
names on the petition recently filed with the
Secretary OF State are OF enroSed Repub-
licans and Republican officeholders.
The law says that signers OF such petitions
must take an oath that they intond to sup
port the nominees thus placed in the field.
but no one for moment believes that the
Republican sgners Of the Populist ticket
petition will vote that ticket on election
day. Their signatures, however, were
necessary to get the number OF signers
required by law. By this means Gov.
Odell hopes to attract several thousand
votes away from Judge Herrick, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor
The manner in which these independent,
anti Democratic State tickets have been
placed in the field during the past few
years has been public scandal, but Cover
nor Chairman Odell believes it is money
well spent, Two or three men get the
money from the Republican committee
for the expenses of procuring Ach petitions
| for independent State tickets and hand
some bonus besides, sufficient for them
| to live upon between elections.
In 1901 the elections law was amended
80 as to require signers Of indel ,vAdent
nominating certificates to swear to their
| intent to support such nominations at he
polls. In 1902 the Liberal Democracy
literally subsidized out Of the Odell cam
paign fund.- filed its certificate, containing
| over 10000 signatures, and on election day
polled only 800 votes for Governor, indi-
eating that over 5000 OF the signatures
to that petition stood for either forgery
| or perjury.
Among the United Democracy" GER
tifcate eigners in 1897 were such prominent
Republicans as Gov. Odell's "insurgent'
Senator, Elon R. Brown. and on one OF the
papers attached to that certificate was the
Mr. Hackett being at that time the chair
man of the Republican State committee.
| The same game ls being worked this year
through the aid Of certain Bryanites in
this State who pretend to control the Bryan
element, and who are in politics solely for
| the money they can get out OF it.
The Populist party ceased to exist In
New York State In 1895, at which time 1t
failed to poll the 10000 votes required to
give it column on the Official ballot;
|
Secretary OF State what purported to be
the nominating certificate Of the "Populists
OF New York State, nominating Watson and
Tibbles Presidential electors, together with
State ticket headed by Alfred j. Boulton
| OF Brooklyn for Governor.
The law requires that such independent
nominating certificates, TO be valid, shall
| he signed by 5000 voters. not less than
fifty to county. and that each county
| shall have fifty Signers.
Examination OF the Populist nominating
certificate for Albany county shows that
the signers are nearly all Republicans;
that followers Of State Executive Chairman
Barnes. employed in the State yard at
clerks and well known Republican ward
workers make up the roll of signers to the
"Popuist' certificate.
Information which has lately come from
| all parts Of the State setting forth that
| men we'll known as the agents OF Gov.
| Odell and Executive Chairman Barnes
have been procuring signatures to those
| @Popuist' certificates conclusively. proves
| that the "Populist' ticket Of 1904 Is but
repetition of the .United Democracy farce
Of 1897 and the Liberal Democracy" ticket
Of 1902, both Of which were engineered by
Odell and Barnes as an annex to the Re-
publican State machine.
The Democratic State committee gave
out yesterday a statement about this dis
covery in which 1t says that the Democratic
managers have known all along that the
Republican organization was financing
the Populist campaign, and 1t adds:
Mr.. Barnes in his mad effort to please his
political chieftain, Governor Chairman Odell,
was not as adroit as usual. For instance.
he permitted to be signed to the list as one
OF the -Populists" anxious to secure the noni-
nation of Watson and Tihbles electors the
name of no less distinguished Republican
than eN-Assemblyman Jacob d. Leversee
of Cohoes
This same fraud that is being practised in
Albany county. the Democratic State com
mttee learns, is being attempted In the other
OdelI having learned that his fraudulent
methods had been detected in Albany county,
is making an effort to have the signatures
attached to the Albany county certificate
withdrawn. but In this he will not be sue
cessful. The Democratic State committee
intends to make protest against all OF the
certificates. as in nearly every county the
same frauds have been practised. only, In
harness o'flceholders whose names are signed
to the petition are conspicuous in Repub-
lican politics and in social Affairs In Albany
county 1t Is inconceivable that they intend
actually to vote the Populist ticket. and 1t is
supposed that they were unaware OF the
changes In the law.
In connection with this brilliant piece OF
Republican politics. the fact should not be
lost sight OF that the Peoples party which the
is the only party containing silver plank In
its platform, together with gratuitous libel
upon the Supreme Court Of the United states.
LTTTAUER'S OPPONENT.