The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-06
ODELL His OWN CANDIDATE,
WITH ELSBERG FOR LIEUTENANT.
GOVERNOR ON THE TICKET.

Anything to Beat Woodruff and Save the
Canal MachIne-Higsins Would DO
but His County's Against Canal Graf,
5000, OOO,OOO Mustn't Go Wrong
Governor-C Chairman Odell's candidate for
Governor is Benjamin B. Odell, DR., OF
Newburg. The Governor Chairman's per-
sonal cronies at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
made this announcement last night, and
they added that the Tapewormers, includ-
ing Representative George n. Southwicl,
OF Albany, Representative Lucius n. Lit
tauer Of Gloversville, William l.. Ward of
Westchester and several outsiders, includ-
ing Senator Edgar T. Bracket of Sara
toga Springs, are wholly favorable to the
idea that Gov. Odell should try it again.
1t was recalled that within the last week
the Governor-Chairmen's personal agents.
sent by him through the State to ascertain
If it would be wise for him to run again,
have returned and told the Governor
Chairman that he was the only man for
the Saratoga convention to nominate
III the Governor-C Chairman continues in
his present frame Of mind, it was added,
and forces the Saratoga convention to give
him third nomination, Senator Nathaniel
A. Elsberg Of New York city will be the cam
didate for Lieutenant Governor.
Senator Elsberg has a high reputation
for probty, but he is a strong Odell machine
man. AS Observation-Disclosures he would
be one of the commissioners OF the canal
fund.
The Governor-Chairman is mighty anx-
ious to get Governor who will not destroy
the opportunities for canal graft which
will go through the office of the State Super
intendent of Public Works. Governor
Chairman Odell has made it a condition
with all possible candidates for Governor
that they shall not remove Charles Spencer
Boyd, his own Superintendent of Public
Works, who has charge Of the SOL 900, 900
canal scheme. The best engineers say that
this job will cost the State $500, 600 900 before
it Is ended, and one great civil engineer
said yesterday: 1.-The man to do this work
will have more difficult problems in en-
gineering to confront than will the engineers
who are to do the work for the Panama
Canal"
Governor-Chairman Odell, second to him
self, wants to nominate Frank Wayland
Higgins for Governor. 1t is known that
the Governor-C Chairman is stubbornly OPP
posed to the nomination Of Timothy l..
Woodruff. If at the last moment he de-
cides not to take the nomination himself,
Odell will be more
favorable to the nomination of Mr.. Higgins
than anybody else. Mr.. Higgins's friends
recalled, however, that Cattaraugus county,
the home of Mr.. Higgins, which gave Odell
~, - n
last year and gave majority Of 5,l52
against the Odell canal machine, as repre-
sented by the SOL .ooO, 900 scheme: that is, a
change OF o,s9o votes within twelve months.
Governor-Chairman Odall, all Of his in
Inmates said. Ia thinking far more deeply
Of his canal machine than any candidates
for Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, or
any Of the minor problems which confront
him at the present moment. This canal
machine and the Governor Chairman's
anxiety to perpetuate it, it was asserted,
have led him to devote much OF his time
to the selection of candidates for the Senate
and Assembly, that he may have Legis-
lature, and especially Senate, which will
refuse to confirm Boyd's successor, should
the Governor-Chairman provided always |
that he doesn't take the nomination him
self have on his hands by any hocus po-
Gus a Governor who is not tractable. The |
Elsberg nomination for Lieutenant Gov !
ernor. in case Of election. would give the |
an 0dell machine man |
Tor presiding officer Of the Senate.
Governor-C Chairman Odell continued yes
terday his task Of looking into Timothy |
l.. Woodruff's business connections. As |
already announced in The Sun the Gov
,rnor- Chairman proposes to use MIR Wood
'uff's connection with the typewriter and
ALT companies against Mr.. Woodruff at |
saratoga, just as Mr.. Odell and Mr.. Wood
'uf used the Distillers' company against
George r. Sheldon at Saratoga two years
go. This situation. some said yesterday,
vas becoming ludicrous, when the Gov
in attempting to break into
he United States Shipbuilding Trust had
,ot his own fingers badly burned. As one
republican financier pat it last night
THE only chap who is ahead of the game,
O far as l know, is Sheldon. who through
n attorney bought on the Real Estate Ex-
hange the 1888 bonds which Odell had to
rop at le or IS, for which he subscribed to
ay anywhere from 20 to sO. Sheldon has
hose bonds well locked up now
piiunicNi bIe oIu n Sidte, 'Iith I
ir. Woodruff in the United States Hotel
t Saratoga the morning after he and Odell
nd used the Distillers' Trust t. latter
heldon out OF the nomination for Lieu
But then, according to
II accounts, Senator Patt and Mr.. Wood
uff have since patched up an eternal peace.
ir. Sheldon and Mr.. Woodruff have shaken
ands and last spring at the Fifth Avenue
Iotel Mr.. Woodruff brought Mr.. Sheldon
p to Gov. Odell and Sheldon and Odell
hook hands.
Mr.. Woodruff, it was made known last
light, has kept the compact with Senator
latt and Governor-C Chairman Odell not to
eek delegates to support him for the nomi-
alton for Governor. or course, the Kings
ounty men are standing solid behind
'oodruff. Mr.. Higgins has also kept the
ompact OF course, now, however, Mr.
friends are annoyed, not to say
ngry, that Governor-Chairman Odell has
tempted, through the typewriter company
nd the salt company, to injure Woodruffs
indidacy before they all meet at Saratoga.
ELL DEAD on TENNIS Court.