The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-05
TRUST CRY TOKLL WOODRUFF
AS HE USED 1T ONCE TO DEFEAT
SHELDON'S AMBITIONS.
Memories or Saratoga In 1902 Rise to
Help Odell and smite the Would-Be
Governors Chances in loO4-He's
Iufnpesteh In TINA unh Salt

Memories or Saratoga In 1902 Rise to
Help Odell and Smite the WOuld-Be
Governors Chances in l90A-He's
Interested in T,pewriters and Salt.
Political expectancy, in the estimation OF
Republicans at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday, frequently turns out to be
political brutality, and these Republicans
went on to say that political brutality to
the Odell graiters is "a pillar OF cloud by
day and pillar OF fire by night" This
was preface to an explanation by some
Of the Tapew ormers who the day before
at their clam feed on Shell Island said they
had roasted, broiled and stewed Timothy
l.. Woodruff until Tins name wouldn't
be presented to the Saratoga convention
as a candidate for Governor"
Governor-Chairman Odell. it was ex-
planned, has decided to use at Saratoga
within the next week the same methods
by which he and Mr.. Woodruff foored
George r. Sheldon at Saratoga for the
nomination OF Lieutenant Governor in 1902
Governor-Charman odell and his satel-
lites have been hunting up Mr.. Woodruff's
business connections, and to their great
glee they declare that he il one OF the big
wigs in the Typewriter trust and IN the
Salt trust. Moreover, Governor-Chairman
Odell and his satellites have been looking
up Mr.. Woodruff's labor record, and they
declared yesterday that Mr.. Woodruff, in
erecting the State Fair buildings at SYRIA
ctse, got into dreadful snarl with the labor
bosses, and later, in building his own type
writer factory at Syracuse, when the walk
ing delegates attempted to interfere with
the work Mr.. Woodruff was guilty of the
grave crime Of putting these walking dele
gates out into the street.
But the Governor Chairman and his fell
low Tapewormers, it was made known, do
not rely SO much upon Mr. Woodruff's
as they do upon his connection with the
Typewriter and Salt trusts to defeat him
for the nomination for Governor at Sara
toga.
The history Of the Republican State con-
and deliberately by the Tar ewormers.
They recalled how Senator Plat, Gov.
Odell and Col George W. Dunn, then chair
man Of the Republican State committee,
agreed that Mr.. Sheldon would make
fine candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
and in this agreement President Roosevelt
acquiesced. All this was several weeks
before the delegates assembled at Saratoga.
Mr.. Sheldon, it was recalled. explained
his business connections to the President
and to Odell, Plat and Dunn, and they did
not find anything awry.
Mr.. Woodruff, however, turned up in
Saratoga after consultation with some OF
his friends in Syracuse. and made it known
that he did not believe Mr. Sheldon would
make a strong candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Mr.. Woodruff had been Leuten-
ant Governor for three terms and did not
care for the nomination himself He main.
tanned then, however, and has insisted
ever since, that he had positive under
standing with Odell Plat and Dunn in 1902
that no candidate for Lieutenant-Governor
should be selected without consultation
with him, and this alleged agreement. he
has charged, was not carried out MT:
Woodruff, while not a candidate himself
for the nomination for Lieutenant Governor,
nevertheless believed that he and the Kings
county, delegates to the convention were
entitled to consideration.
Mr.. Woodruff and Mr.. Sheldon had been
friends from babyhood. Mr.. Woodruff,
however, along with Uncle William Berri
Of Brooklyn. recalled that Mr.. Sheldon
was very important man In the Distilers
Company, and they and their friends, in
Guiding some Of the most notable Republic
cans in the State, said at Saratoga that
Mr.. Sheldon's connection with that COM
pany would injure the ticket II he were
compact between Odell, Plat and Dunn
to nominate Sheldon was finally shattered
when Gov. Odell hurried from Albany to
Saratoga and notified Senator Platt that on
the advice OF his father he would not accept
a denomination for Governor If Mr.. Sheldon
received the nomination for lieutenant
Governor.
Gov. Odel did not give his ultimatum
to Senator Platt until he had conferred
with Mr.. Woodruff and all the others who
knew intimately of Mr.. Sheldon's connection
with the Distillers' Company, and Mr..
Sheldon's connection with that company
was the crowbar W hich Odell and Woodruff
used TO smash Sheldon.
Governor Chairman Odell and his fellow
Tapewormers, it was asserted by those
intimate with their plans, intend to use
Mr.. Woodruff's connection with the type
writer and salt companies to demonstrate
at Saratoga that in their opinion Mr. Wood
ruff would not be strong candidate for
Governor. In 1902 neither Mr.. Odell nor
Mr.. Woodruff nor any OF their friends at
make most competent Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor. Nor did any OF the Tapew ormers
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday dis
pute that Mr. Woodruff would make a first
class and honest Governor Of the State.
Two years ago at Saratoga Mr.. Sheldons
abilities az business man were highly
spoken Of and his services to the Republican
party, national and State, for many years,
1t was asserted, entitled him, moreover,
to any recognition that the party could
give him. just so, it was asserted Yesterday
BY the Tapewormers, Mr. Woodruf's abili-
ties, both as a business man and as Re
publican, are recognized by all, but just
as Mr.. Sheldon was put on the trust rack
at Saratoga two years ago by odell and
Woodruff, so now it is the intention for
Odell, Littauer, Ward and all the other
Tapeworners to put Woodruff on the trust
rack at Saratoga within the next ten days.
THE Distillers' Trust knocked out Shell
don," said one OF Governor Chairman
Odells cronies, 4and we are confidently
relying on the typewriter and salt trusts
DELEGATES TO SEE PARKER.