The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-30
oDELLFORJEROMEFoRMAYOR
REPUBLICANS WILL FOLLOW CTS
AT THURSDAYS NETTING.
Chairman Ignores the News From Many
Quarters That jerome WIN Run Only
for Hts Present Onlce--Has' Cutting
Got an Unknown Man for Place?


Got an Unknown Man for Place.
Sunlight began to penetrate yesterday
the municipal political miasma which has
enveloped the Odell- Cuttin e Hearst camp
Yesterday 1t was definitely learned from
Republican district leaders with whom
Chairman Odell Of the Republican State
committee has talked that II has been his
intention for six months and more to at
tempt to thrust the fusion nomination for
Mayor upon William Travers Jerome;
, that at no time since January has Mr..
Odell's talk as to the nomination Of q
straight Republican ticket headed by
County Clerk Hamilton or some other
equally disinterested Republican states
man been anything but idle chatter in
tended to hide his real purpose.
Some of the Republican district leaders
with whom Mr.. Odell has talked are Michael
Hines Of the Second district, James Z.
March of the Sixth, John j. Harmon of the
Seventh, Otto A. Rosalsky Of the Eighth,
Ferdinand Eidman of the Tenth, Samuel
s. koenig OF the Sixteenth. Charles X.
Lexow Of the Twenty-seoond, Moses M.
Mckee Of the Twenty-third. Smith Pine
of the Twenty-fourth, John H. Gunner Of
the Twenty eighth, Samuel Strasbourger
of the Thrty-first, Frank Raymond of the
Thirty third, William H, Ten Eyck of the
Thirty-fourth and Edward Fl. Healy Of
the Thirty-fifth.
Mr.. Odell has known all along that Mr..
Jerome desired to be renominated as Dis
trict Attorney and several of the Repub-
lican district leaders with whom Mr. Jerome
Is on friendly footing have 10 informed
No. dali n,,Int lat t.N
phasize this fact was submitted to Mr.
Odell yesterday, but he didn't blink
Not even when several of these Republic
can district leaders informed Mr.. Odell
that they had it straight from Mr. jerome
that he would not accept the fusion nomi-
nation for Mayor did he in the slightest
degree change his attitude. The word
went out from Mr.. Odell's headquarters
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel that the Re-
publican representatives ut Thursday
nights conference must follow the Citizens
Unions lead and accept Jerome for Mayor.
Several of the Republican district leaders
with whom Mr.. Odell talked remarked
hat he was unwilling to accept the re-
sponsibility for straight Republican
municipal ticket, and, furthermore, that
his reluctance in this matter was rapidly
becoming one of the unhappy features of
the situation. Mr.. Odell. Republicans said,
refused absolutely to take a single step
which would make him responsible for
the defeat of a Republican straight munich
pal ticket. 1t is known that Mr.. Odell's
hold upon the Republics machinery of
the State is very slender, and this hold has
become markedly weaker since Gov. Hig-
gins refused to heed Mr.. Odell's recon-
mendations for appointments to the Gas,
Insurance and Railroad commissions.
With Mr.. Odell's purposes known, par
ticularly we'll informed politician asked
these questions
why this frenzed determination of
Cutting to force on jerome the Mayoralty
nomination which he does not want?"
is it all predetermined arrangement
to give one of the Cts the nomination for
District Attorney in Jeromes place."
The present situation indicated to some
that some ambitious and cunning "reformer'
Is urging Cutting to push Jerome into the
Mayoralty nomination so that the unknown
can walk away with the nomination for
District Attorney, and Mr.. Cutting and Mr.
Odell refused to tell whom they had sup
the sleeve" for District Attorney OF the
fusion ticket.
Concerning Mr.. Hearst's end of the game
one of his frienc said that he was to NOM
mate for Mayor Supreme Court Just oe
William j. Gaynor of Brooklyn. Judge
Gaynor's term on the bench expires Dec. 81.
1907. One of Judge Gaynor's friends said:
.1he Judge has caused it to be made known
ton for Mayor unless Mr.. Jerome is on the
;ol,o e. ,tr;o
Republican district leaders with whom
Mr., Odell talked and influential members
of the Citizens Union candidly explained
why the municipal ownership
issue had been substituted for that Of good
for New York city which had
been the anti-Tammany slogan for quarter
81 cen fury. They frankly avowed that
Mayor McClellan's administration had been
30 excellent tina "a good government issue
would have been quite farcical.'
One of the most prominent Republican
Senator's at Albany was in town and said:
Il doubted all last winter the wisdom of
he policy Of our trying to put Mcclellan in
a hole. You can't put an honest man or an
Upright public servant like Mcclellan in a
hole and told our friends so. But l was
lverruied and am free to confess now that
don't feel quite comfortable when think
Of the Part pla yed in that game. Ispeak
Of the Water Commission for
New York city. Mcclellan came up to
Alb any ard in one of the most earnest
speeches ever heard begged us to give New
York city better water supply. He told us
o take the appointments Of the commission
srs out of his hands He said he didn't
want them. All he wanted was a better
water supply for New York city in the future.
I'VE took all the appointments on the
gas, insurance and all commissions and
gave them to our Republican brethren
ook away from Mcclellan all power OF
appointments to the New York city water
commission and amended McClellan's bill
or no other purpose than to hamper him
and don't mind owning to you
hat Gov. Higgins himself told me he felt
,retty badly at the way we had treated
Mcclellan in this and other matters. These
chickens come home to roost, you know"
Cricket.