The sun., 1905-11-03

considerably, and In the county the country
publishers nave felt the sting OF Odels =
hand.
Possibly the heaviest club Odell wields4
| here h assessments OF property. Ddell
assessors fix values aS they have for years.
Property owners might resist every other
force Odell can bring to bear, but when
| they zee their assessments skied because
| of their political sentiments they dodge
II hurts, Newburgh people know this
! fact. That Odell property owners never
have much to complain OF after the assessor
makes his rounds, and that property owners
| who are outspoken aga inst Odelllsm IND
/ somehow that their ho ltlings arr assessed
s,a@ns es0t , sE" G sySant Ssr has aes Troashs
Reed 4 Gorman and schoonmaker & Son
are among the larger business concerns
Of this town, The former h known az anti
Odell; the latter Is among odelIs sup
rorters Schoonmaker x Son carry a
| larger stock than heed y German. yet Reed
! h German are assessed 81, 600 for personal
| property and Schoonmaker d Son not a
dollar. Col Wevgant has charged publicly
and no refutaton has been made-that
while Odell il known to have considerable
personal property here there il not dollar
assessed aQainst him. Business men and
householder have found from the bitterest
experience that talking against Odell and
working AGAINST his county and city ring
the taxes that Odells rartlsans are relieved
| OF because OF their fealty.
The seventh factor In Odell's political
despotsm in this town and county 10 his
control of the machinery OF justice. Every
scamp in Newburgh, every malefactor,
| interest to support Odells candidates or
It might 20 hard with him from the moment
one Of Odell's policemen tapped him on the
back until the time that one OF Odells
Judges told him to stand up for sentence,
this hhese campaEn Ins1 re more % fearessy perhaps
| than for many years. Odell's record is be-
! ing spread out for the scrutiny OF voters
| his record from the time OF his early days
| in Water street saloon until now. Men
who aren't afraid to talS are showing there
| is nothing good and clean and decent about
| it. They tell Of the Bean and Charcoal
contest wears ago. Odell was rising then.
| He was the leader of n gang OF roughs
and toughs that bought votes and pulled
voters at the polls The decent Republicans
primaries hot for action. OdeIl, at the
head Of gang of plug uglies and strong arm
| men met them. There was something OF
| shindy. Qdeli's gang threw beans and
/ charcoal in the eyes Of the men they knew
would vote TO down them. They that
werent nut hors de combat that way were
punched In the eye or kicked on the shins.
| 1t was ty pcal of Odell's personal conduct
Of his political business in those days.
Money wasn't 80 plentiful then, cert ain
citizens Of Newburgh say. Now the boss
doesn't have to throw charc al and beans
or kick shins, nor do his underlngs. Vote
bu, ing and threats and boycotts and assess
ments and such things are quieter and lar
| more efficacio,is.
The Citizens party and the Democrats
certed fight against Odellism, are making
clean, hard, earnest attempt to better
NewburRh the only way 1t can be done
effectively, by downing 0dellsm. They
are giving figures of misgovernment in
town and county; they are pointing to
streets full OF immoral women whom the
| police never attempt TO interfere with; they
are pointing out the disorderly houses that
| are frequented by the young men OF the
town and by students from, school towns
along the Hudson; they are showing up the
saloons with bedhouse attachments and
they are hammering one fact into the heads
of voters The rottenness, in one way or
| another. is chargeable to Benjamin Is.
| Odell and the machine he directs in this
place. Put out the Oddities, they say,
and Newburgh will be able to hotd up her
head instead OF being byword and mock.
Perhaps there ia no better indication OF
! the state Of mind the Oddities are in here
at present than this incident: Yesterday
a stranger came to town, He didn't look
like drlmmer or buyer or visitor from
| tne country ntai Wy. -soootJ nhv" i't
| Within Ave minutes after he got off the train
he was being shadowed-somewh awk-
wardly, but nevertheless shadowed--by
three heelers of the Odell machine. He
was watched whenever he appeared on the
streets Attempts were made 10 find out
what he was in town for, and men to whom
he talked were questioned as to his busi-
ness.
Peorle OF this town say that O6ell 3
small fry here s y on every strange man
that comes to town. They don't want him
to find ont things about the way the town
and county have leen run, and they don't
want him to talk against Odell. If there
is ground for / elirf that visitor to New
burgh comes for the rur, ose Of ol tairing
Information as to the workings Of Odellism,
it doesn't take long for the odellites to get
busy warning loose tongues not to wag
and closing up every source OF information
possiL lie.