The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
Fears 0delrS Ticket May
Lose the State.
TELLS THE UNION LEAGUE.
Then Gives Higgins a Certificate
and a EuIogy.

Bumb for the Oden Camp Dropped by the
Ex-secretary OF War at Club Mest-
ing to Hear Senator Knox Speak
Hint That There Are Other Doubters
Besides MI. Root-He Says the Fur
nacevine Claim Papers Have Been
Submitted TO Him for an Opiniun
Finds Hhat Hfggins Couldn't Hazp
His Vste 70 Pay the $4,000 70
Harriman's Concern-stranges Silence,
Though, About 0deIl-Senatsr Knsx
Defends the Presidents Course IN
beating Wfth the Big Corporations.
4 think thsTe L. SERIOUS question about
the election Of Governor. I think tho
ticket IL n grave danger'eEhhu Root.
Mr. Re0t exploded this bomb from tho
| camp Of Governor Chairman Odsl and hfs
| nominees, when called upon for few re-
marks last night at the meeting Of the Undnn
+ League Club assembled to hear an address
| by United States Senator Philander G.
| Knox Of Pennsylvania ON the acts OF Presi-
/ dent Roosevelt in relation to corporations.
/ Il was at the close of Senator Knox's adj
dress.
MIR. Root also told Of the anxiety Of SONS
others about that bill Of the Furnaceville
| Iron Company. He said that few days
! ago an the papers which could throw light
on the facts concerning the payment to
| the company Of Sls,lO0 for work which, as
alleged, it had not done, were submitted
to him for examination, and that, hav-
! ing examined them he could give Lieut.
Gov. Higgins O clean bill Of health. MIR.
Root was very careful however, not to say
q word, good, bad or Indifferent. about
! Governor Chairman Odell.
While Senator Knox was speaking. word
Of Mr.. Roots presence IN the club was
carried TO President Cornelius N. Bliss,
and when the Senator finiahed his address
Mr.. BHw wanted Mr.. Root to speak Here
10 what he s&id:
| Rest Expresses His Dsuhts.
K hsve Q fealing a. II il Was not very
necessary to talk to the Union League
Club. The only cloud that can see in the
aky now, so far as national matters 60, Is
! the fear that we may be overconfldent
| Universal confidence tends to q relaxation
Of effort, and the mare I contemplate the
J character of the Democratic party, its
record, the consequences which would
/ follow if by any Intervention Of events
/ it should come into power, the more feel
( the stake is so great that no effort should
be spared, no matter how confident we
7 feel, to make q victory at the next election
secure. Every vote counts. Every day and
every man we meet afford opportunity
to get more votes.
think there is serious question
about the election of Governor
think the ticket is in grave danger.
l think it Is an outrage that so good man
! as Lieut.. Gov. Higgins should be deprived
of the support Of many Republicans because
Of the attacks that are made upon him.
| The other day took pains to look over the
papers, which were furnished to me, re-
| latine to the one specific thing that Is
made the basis Of special attacks upon
| him; that is, the $4,000 payment to the
Furnaceville Company; and when l read
| the papers was amazed to see how thought
/ less and baseless the attack upon him was
LRoAL OPINION ON HIGGINS.
Thousands Of Republicans, thousands
| of good thinking people believe that Lieut..
Gov. Higgins voted to pay this company
| eighteen thousand and odd dollars for ex-
| cavation Of rock when there was no rock
excavated.
I found the fact TO be that the contract
of the Furnaceville Company provided
| that rock should include hard pan. and that
the engineers certified that there were
1s,ooO and odd cubic yards Of hard pan
| excavated, and, accordingly. the payment
was made for the hard pan, according 10
| the contract, Us rock.
That payment was made in 1898, years
| before Gov. higgins became a member OF
| the Canal Board, and the question before
the board Of which he was a member was
whether that which had been paid to the
company should be taken out of the re-
tanned percentage to which they had be-
come entitled by the closing up of the
work. The production of the contract
and the proof that the excavation of hard
pan had been made, that they were en-
titled to be paid for it as long as it had been
paid for according to the contract-that
settled the question.
The board could not have justly and
lawfully voted in any other way. But
that false attack il being spread throughout
! the State as an evidence that the Lieutenant
| Governor is not fit to be Governor. Now,
| think anybody who knows or who has
known about affairs at Albany for the last
| ten or eleven years, VIII zen you enat oe ilAe
| tor Higgins, Lieutenant-Governor Higgins,
| has been universally recognized as abb
solitely upright, incoruptlbie, Arm with
quiet intense frmness that could not be
swerved from the right, always tobe counted
upon as in favor of every good cause, and
and always to be counted upon as against
everything wrong, and every job every
suspicion of corruption. Applause
CERTIFICATE THAT HES uNTAGGEp.
He is no mans man. He is his own man.
| The nomination came to him from the
people Of the district he 50 long repre-
| aantad who desired him to be- nominated.
The majority OF the members of the State
| convention wanted him for Governor, and
il is very hard and very cruel thing
that he should be borne down oy UNJUST
asnersions after the record that be has
made. after his honorable career and the
indisputable evidencelof his fitness and
strength, and hope the members OF the
| Burnett's Extract Of Vanilla