The sun., 1905-12-13
BOSS ODELL TAKES A PARTNER
PROPOSES TO run THIS STATE
WITH HEARST'S HELP.

County Committee and do Business
for OdeIl in the Same ola style.
Boss Odell made II known TO his intimates
yesterday that he intends to control the
New York Republican county committee
and the Legislature at Albany with the
aid Of William r. Hearst. According to
those who understood his condition OF
mind, he has given up all hope of sufficient
atraightout Republican support and has
further cemented his relations with Mr..
Hearst in order to maintain himself
Boss Odell, those who talked with him
said, Ia sulen in his anger against Repre-
sentative Herbert Parsons, who is slated
to become president of the New York county
committee on December 81, and has de-
clared positively that William Halpin shall
be elected chairman Of the executive com
mittee of the county committee, that Samuel
Strasbourger leader of the Thirty-tirst
district, shall be reelected first vice -presi
dent Of the committee and Ambrose o.
Neal shall be elected secretary. Bose Odell
is relying on the help Of Republican district
leaders who aided Mr.. Hearst in the recent
campaign, and who carved up William M.
WINS, the Republican candidate for Mayor.
This deal between Odell and Hearst has
been on for year, and Boss Odells friends
in the county committee say it Is to con-
tinue in operation for another year.
Representative Parsons and his friends,
who desire a reorganization Of the party
down this way, continue to insist that Sem
ator Alfred r. Page shall be elected first
vice-president of the county committee,
that Mr.. Parsons shall be both president Of
the county committee and chairman Of the
executive committee, as Halpin has been for
the last two years, and that Henry o 'Brien,
secretary of the Madison Avenue Republican
Club, snail be secretary of the county com
mittee. Mr.. Parsons's friends said last
night that as soon as it was convenient for
him he should come to New York, gather
about him his friends in the county COM
mittee and stay on the battle ground until
December 81, when he Is TO be elected presl-
dent of the committee.
Boss Odell said yesterday:
What do ! care for Roosevelt's interest
in this matter! He has only few Federal
ofceholders to rely upon, state patron
age is the thing that Will decide this fight,
and Higgins is not going to Use it against
me.
Boss Odell, in other words, ia relying
on the quiescenCe of the Federal Office
holders who are district leaders and upon
State otl!ceholders who are also district
leaders and the non-part ticipation Of Gov.
Higgins in the rehabilitation of the party.
Boss Odell accepted MIR. Parsons to be
president of the county committee because
he was perfectly aware that President
Roosevelt and Gov. Higgins were per-
sonally interested in the election OF Repre-
sentative Parsons, and now his programme
to hamstring Mr. Parsons by giving control
of the committee to Odell hanchnen has
aroused an interest in the whole matter
which may call for something positive
on the part of Gov. Higgins.
Boss Odell's alliance with Mr.. Hearst,
it was authortatvely announced, includes
the ele ton of AssembIyman Edwin A.
Merritt, Jr., Of st, Lawrence to be Speaker.
and a. one OF Boss Odell's friends last night
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel put it, -Odell
and Hearst are to control the Legislature
at Albany this winter"
The Senate alsoY
Yes replied Boss Odells friend, "the
Senate also, and don't you forget it, The
Boss is to control all Of the Republican
Assembymen below the Bronx line, includ-
ing the Hearst Assemblymen and the Re
publican Assemblymen who were elected
on a Hearst Endorsement Instead of one
boss Odell Is to give you two bosses, and
don't you forget that either. Your two
bosses are to be B. b. Odel, Jr., and W. h.
Hearst, and you can make the best Of it.
See?"
Assemblyman Merritt, like Assemblyman
James 7. Rogers Of Broome county, was
one of the strongest supporters of Justice
Warren b. Hooker, and worked and voted
for Justice Hooker's retention on the bench.
From one end of the State to the other the
Republican party has frowncd upon this
Justice Hooker business; and yet Boss
Odel, aided by Mr., .Hearst's people, is
working day and night to elect MerritttS
he cannot elect Merritt he is to turn to
Rogers, another Hooker man. The Tim
Woodruff Republicans of Brooklyn have
spoken up in faint tones for Edward c.
Dowling, Assemblyman of the Seventeenth
district, but the word has gone out that
ruff Republicans are really for Rogers.
The New York county Republican As
semblvmen are favorable to Assemblyman
George b. Agnew of the Twenty-seventh
district, who, with Ezra P Prentice OF the
Twenty fifth, are the only straight out
Rep blican Assemblymen elected in New
York city. These New York county As
semblymen, though, according to Boss
Odell, are to fling their votes at the proper
time to Merritt, There is a strong under
current favorable to Assemblyman j. May
hew Wainwright of Westchester county,
who possesses marked ability for the Speak
ership, but Mr.. Wainwright would not be
under the thumb Of Boss Odell or boss any
body else and 50 he has incurred the antag-
oniSm of the Newburgh boss.
Boss Odell, straight out Republicans
said last night, in playing his guerrilla
and bushwhacking politics TO maintain,
himself as boss has practically abandoned
the Republican organization of the State
as a whole. The Newburgh boss has a
nucleus in the New York county COMMITTEES,
in the Kings county organization and IN
the State organization, which has gathered
around him, but to push through his scheme
he is relying entirely and wholly on his
alliance with Hearst and the Hearst As
semblymen, besides the Asseembymen who