The sun., 1905-11-03
TO DOWN NEWBURGH'S DESPOT
THE PARTY or DECENCY IN
ODELLS TOWN IN REVOLT.
The story OF His ShamelessnesS Proclaimed
Again and UncOntradicted-HOw He
Has Ruled Through Commercial
Power ard by Alliance with Vice.

Power aRd by Alliance With Vice.
NEwBUHuH. N. Y, Now AIN Ave days
the question will be answered here "Is
odel ism stronger than decency In New
burgh2' 1t. has been for twenty years,
as clean hearted, clean-handed people admit
with shame Tor themselves and the town.
3 The grafteta. the little ward heelers and
retty election district bossea that the Hon,
Fen amin B. 1Odell manipuates With beauti-
fu accuracy; the small Oddities that beat
his drum in churches, lodges, Grand Army
posts, business life and the minutest eooial
afrairs. admit 1t, too, though without shame,
They may phrase 1t little differently,
brt the fact that NowburGh land at the
t. ame time Orange. county,, under 0deT.
il siven over to the prostitution, of women
and the dishonoriny OF men they do not
OF enly deny '-'
twenty years Of shining odeH's shoes
and brushing his hats have given them a
moral stoop The situation in the minds
d. OF Odell's worst kuoEn. leaders here Is one
to smile at. Why, they say, should any
body be indignant? Newburgh is no worse
than any other town, Nobody can prove
tie Organization" ever stole anything.
IN protests thsy sayJ come from cranky
IHtHCHtTS unO "Ouiu-po "hV
don't know what they want, and anyway
What are you gong TO do about it?"'
there are signs that Newburgh is about
to answer that defiant query by kicking the
gentlemen who wear Odell's brand (here it
is called III +S") out OF office and prevent
/ others of the herd from swarming into
the fat pastures The movement against
the Republican party here has gathered
q 4 nnI il n n
toward the polls with sweep and swing
that have got the Oddities more anxious
and worried than they have been in years.
Time after tim, the decent people Of
Newburgh have been up against Odelllsm
snd all that it implies, but they have been
crushed at every election by the power
OF organized graft and corruption. This
time there is chance Of success. The re-
volt may fail, as it has in years past, but
Newburgh believes the beginning OF the
end is in sight. II the town isn't delivered
from the saloon lawbreakers, the disorderly
house keepers, the street walkers, the place
hunters, the job holders and all that bear
The mark Of the beast next Tuesday, a blow
will have been struck that will mean deliv-
rance before many new born babies cut
their permanent teeth,
DnJll hlIDlu lWO dBO 'iio CNVh
leaders smiled contemptuously as usual,
The boss had troubles of his own in New
York town. Why bother himS A little
thing like carrying the old towns election
they could look after Themselves Then
things began to happen. Business men who
never dared to open their mouths before
for fear that Odells assessors would boost
their property values to a ruinous height,
II i u Il. 49,
boycott against their business, or that they
would come downtown from breakfast
some morning and meet lie in the street
a lie they couldn't trace and one that hurt
to the bone e-began te talk openly about
breaking away and voting for Col Charles
Fl. Weygant, who is running for Mayor on
the Citizens and Labor ticket, or for Cy
Hoag, the Democratic candidate.
Laboring men, some Of them employed
by the numerous concerns here that Odell
has an interest in or dominates in one way
or another, began to talk ont on the street,
at the risk Of losing their jobs for their
temerity. A big wind started up in Wash
ington street, where the colored folk centre.
The negroes who had been bought year
after year for 81 head and half pint OF
gin didn't start up when the little bosses
whistled. The little bosses met and talked
it over. Something had gone wrong.
One day last week the Hon. B. b. Odell
got off the Fishkill ferry in a hurry and
hustled around TO IA Water street, the
Auohattoes Ice Companys Office. New
burgh's real city hall. The little bosses
came a-running. The Hon. B. B. Odell,
Sr., was there, and 80 wos Brother Hi.
The next day business IMAM went to Col.
Weygant. I'm for you" said he. I'm
vote for you, but | can't do much talking.
Don't say anything about 1t. I'm too poor
q man to voice opinions in this place
COLI Neygant stopped another store
keeper on the street and asked him to attend
a rally against Odelli5m at the court house.
Cant do it," said the atorekeeper. My
assessments are as high now as l can stand,
but III vote for you" Col, Weygant found
out not long afterward that somebody, had
given the laboring men who had been
prominent in discussion tip that IL they
wanted to have enough money left to buy
Christmas presents they had better keep
their mouths shut on such nonsense as
reform and Independence at the polls,
AL out the same time word came TO the
Democratic aid Ci iIenst headquarters
that the saloon men, aricL larly those
that have attachments to'their / atk rooms
for women, had walked up and we're out
on the streets sweating for the Odell ticket,
with Charles ID. ltoL lSOn lot Mayor tne
rrinciral eXl onent OF Odelism. ak
startel~up that il saloon men didn't hustle
there wouldn't lie any more using saloons
for agencies of restitution in Newhurgh,
and that keei ing o en- on Sundays and
after hours would cost money Somel ody
gave the til to the prof fessional escorts of
Water street street walkers to hot loot it
among their own kind OF yermin or they
might have to work for a living.
The urshot OF the conference in the Ice
conn any office was that open talk gainst
Odell'5 gang die a ac som ~ hat and the
old feeling of fear sprang up az ain. But
1t won't save the gang, the honest folks
of Newburgh believe, Men NAV not talk
so openly, but thev are assuring the Citi2ens'
candidate and the Democratic candidate
that thev won't vote the Republican ticket
but please don't say ANYTHING about IT,
The forces that are arraved against the
Odeli grafters and panderers find new
influence working for them this campaign
z the certain fact that Odell Is discredited
man and II losing his grip In State politics,
Newburgh Republicans are getting the fact
rounded into their heads by the New York
CITY and other State newspapers that Odell
: h on the toboggan-that he II no longer
The all powerfui desIot whose smile en-
riched and whose irown DESTROYED. II the
Newburgh election could be held day
after the election in New York city the
overthrow OF the Odel crowd here would
be certain, II Is pretty generally believed,