The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-08
PUTS The SCREWS ON ADLER.
BY DEVIOUS WAYS ODELL WOULD
GIVE TAMMANY 4 WALkOVER.
Ninth District Leaders Ordered 10 Name
No Candidate for Congress-They
Refuse-But Adler's job Il In Peril
80 There May he No Nominee Tonight.

Noincident which has reflected Governor
Chairman Odells policy in local matters
has attracted such widespread interest
az his effort to compel the Republican
Assembly district leaders in the Ninth
Congress district to indorse Henry M.
Goldfogle, the Tamnany Hall candidate,
for Congress- in that district
On Saturday last at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Governor Chairman Odell and Will
liam Halpin, the Tammany Hall Republican
who Is chairman Of the New York county
committee, sprang upon the Republican
Assembly district leaders proposition to
indorse Mr. Goldfoge, and it was voted
down by all of the Assembly district leaders
making up the Congress district, as fol-
lows: Fourth district, Joseph Levenson;
Eighth district, Otto A. Rosalsky; Twelfth
district, Jacob A. Newstead; Sixteenth
district. Samuel S. Koenig. Governor
Chairman Odell and Mr.. Halpin seeing that
they were beaten to standstill, announced
that they would leave the matter for fur
Their consideration, and the Governor
Chairman started that night for st. Louis.
Since then it has become known in every
Republican bailiwick in the State that
Governor Chairman Odel attempted to
coerce these four Republican Assembly
district leaders into indorsing for Congress
Il Taminany Hall candidate who had voted
in the national campaigns Of 1895 and 1900
for William j. Bryan and 10 to 1, and who
stands this year on tho Democratic ma
tional platform adopted at st. Louis
On March 20 last. at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel statement was prepared by Gov
Odell, William Barnes. Jr., chairman OF the
executive committee of the Republican
State committed and "x-State Senator
j. Sloat Fassett. and submitted to Senator
Piatt, and both Senator Plat and Gov.
Odell signed il. In that statement were
these words
1T was further agreed that wherever
there were local contests for leadership
in the party there should he no interference
in favor OF or against any one, either by
Senator Patt or by Gov. Odell."
Governor Chairman Odell returned from
ST. Louis yesterday morning and immedi-
ately after breakfast he renewed his efforts
to compel the Republican Assembly dis
trict leaders of the Ninth Congress district
to indorse Mr.. Goldfogle.
The Govcrnor-Chairnan summoned Mr..
Levenson, Mr.. Rosalsky, Mr.. Newstead and
Mr.. Koenig TO meet him at $50 o'clock in
the afternoon at the headquarters of the
New York Republican county committee,
Madison avenue. The Governor-C Chairman
also notified Edward Lauterbach, ex -presi-
dent of the county committee, and Mr..
Halpin to be on hand The president Of
the county committee, Charles II. Murray,
was present
The meeting lasted until 8 O'Clock last
evening, and something like a small riot
occurred in the meeting. MIR. Lautcrbach
has agreed all along with the Governor
Chairman and Mr. Halpin that Mr.. Gold
fogle ought to be Endorsed by the Repub-
licans of the district, Mr.. Lauterbach based
his argument for this proposed action on
the fact that Mr.. Goldfoglc had spoken up
the Kishineff massacres. The
friends of -Assemblymsn Charles s.
Adler of the Eighth Assembly district have
that Mr.. Adler has been equally
forceful in his condemnation Of the Kishineff
massacres. and, moreover Mr.. Adler was
the Republican candidate for the district
in 1902 and received 4.23S votes. Therefore
they have contended that Mr.. Adler is en-
titled to another race with Mr., Goldfogle.
Governor Hartman Odell, at the meeting
late Yesterday afternoon. made 1t known to
those present that he did not believe it
dvisable for the Republicans to nominate
a candidate against Mr. Goldfogle. Little
or nothing was said by the Governor
Chairman this time about indorsing Mr..
The action he proposed, though,
was tantamount to an indorse-
ment Of Mr.. Goldfogle.
All of the Republican Assembly district
leaders in the Ninth Congress district were
up in arms at the new proposition that they
should not nominate a candidate against
Mr.. Goldfogle. They declared that the
OF the district were nightly
stirred up over the fact that they had been
asked to indorse Mr. Goldfogle, and that
they would feel just as ugly il no Republi-
can candidate was nominated against
him. SO every one Of the Republican
Assembly district leaders voted yesterday
afternoon against Governor Chairman
Odelrs proposition not to nominate a
candidate against Mr. Goldfogle.
MIR Iauterbach favored the proposition
that no candidate should be nominated for
Congress by the Republicans in the district
No little i'll feeling was displayed in the
meeting, and it developed that Charles s.
Adler, unless drastic measures are taken
tonight in the convention OF the Repub-
cans of the Ninth Congress district, will not
be the candidate against Mr.. Goldfogle.
The convention meets at 200 Grand street.
II Governor Chairman Odell could not
have his way, either in forcing the Assem-
bly, district leaders OF the Congress- dis
trict to indorse Mr.. Goldfogle. or not to
run a candidate for Congress in the district.
he still has some sort Of authority over Mr..
Adler. whom the Governor Chairman ap-
pointed Port Warden on Dec. ~.
Yet. after great conference Of Repub-
leans at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on March
20, Governor Chairman Odell signed that
agreement that there should be no inter-
ference in favor OF or against any one either
BY Senator Plat OF Gov. 0dell"
After the meeting last evening at county
it was developed that the
Republican Assembly district leaders of
the Ninth district, having beaten Governor
E hartman Odell on his two propositions,
first to indorse Mr.. Goldfogle, and second
not to nominate candidate against Mr..
and he having put the screws