New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-07
ODELL SAYS STATES SAFE
HALPIN'S ESTIJIATES.
He Thinks Parker's Plurality in
County VII Be OnIg 1900.

Governor oden viii speak az 8 O'clock thl.
morning TO The employees # the r. r. Claim
Company at the store at Worth and church
SITS This speech viii be the last of 4 series ~
fourteen that the Governor has made in New
York since last TUESDAY
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel last nizlit Covering
Oden refused n give out any figures ON the
State ticket. but said that nc felt assured ri.as
New-forR City could not roil Ut a big enough
majority 70 overcome the vote chat Higgins
would receive north u the Harlem River
Mr.. Halpin chairman of the cxecutivs com
mittee of the Republican COUNTY Committee.
last night gave out TIE following statement IS
10 what he considers VIII be the result Of the
election:
There are about 39l.oO0 votes registered In
about 3JOO00 OF these divided between Parker
and Roosevelt The balance will be made up
or those not voting. Watson votes. Socialist
Labor and Socialist Democratic votes. PrOhioi-
ton votes and those that are defective and scat
tered OF these 3JO,OOO votes there are 6G,OOO it
has been possible TO canvass. Assuming that.
SLY, ohe-third OF these 6OOUD viii vote the Re-
publican ticket. which is u conservative esti-
ate, and from the canvassSs which have been
hlade In the different Assembly districts OF the
electors who known TO intend voting raa
republican ticket, Roosevelt and Fairbanks
VIII receive $4,000 votes leaving Parker 1885,
UD votes, or a plurality for Parker in New
iorK county or 42OpO votes In arriving at
.thls hgure l made estimates as 10 half OF the
assembly districts which would be considered
conservative BY those who are intimate with the
districts
The general satisfaction with the Rannhr,c,r
aCnlln nlStraton of the last eight years has Great
ed a feeling that there should be no Change
AND the achievements OF the Republican party
curing those years by President Mckinley and
President Roosevelt in the prosperity and honor
which the country has enjoyed are the bases for
the disposition that the Republican adninistra-
uon shouId be continued In the last two cam
paignS we saw the Democratic party demOrai-
ICED, and in this campaign it is equally so on
dluerent lines, which are perhaps even more
equivocal than those OF the preceding campaign.
The State campaign began with the violent
vituperation of the Democratic platform adopted
at Saratoga, which the campaign managers have
endeavOred to aCCentuate throughout the cam
paign, although they have failed 10 prove a
single instance of their charges. inferences or
suspicious as expressed in that platform This
has not been without effect UPON the campaign
during the last two weeks The American peo-
| pie demand fair play and condemn politics which
/ does not practise it, The consequence OF the
Democratic State campaign having failed to
prove the charges in the platform has been a.
I within the last two weeks. which has found sig
nifCant expression in the reception which Gov
I ernOr Oden has received at places where he has
! spoken. Ihere VIII be dlnerence between the
/ vote received by Roosevelt and by Higgins IN
! votes Of Mckinley and Black in 1896 and
/ Mckinley and Odel in 1900. I look for
an even greater difference this year. as there are
| many Democratic admirers of Roosevelt and his
| administration who will vote for the Republi-
| can electors and the Democratic State ticket.
/ do not estimate that the difference between
/ the vote Of Roosevelt and Higgins In New-Yorht
| County will exceed 1000: so that Higgins
| should receive $4,000 as against 207OCS for
| Herrick. a plurality of 81 600 for HerrF& In
/ New-York County II one did not have 10 keep
| in mind the considerable Democratic maiorities
| cast in New-Hork County in the years gone by
II would be possible, IN view OF the Character OF
| the campaign and these significant indication
| which Cone 10 the surface, TO estimate that the
! majority against Roosevelt in New-York Coun-
I El f1- G40f
| gins less than $1,000; but in any event can
! not see how these figures VIII be exceeded