The sun., 1905-11-19
CALL HIM BLUNDERING BOSS.
REPIBI \ ANS REFLE(TTNG on
ODFIi'S DEAL WITH HEARST.
Far NGrc Damage Than Advantage to the
prly Is What They Ftnd-PrOgress OF
Movement TO Get New York County
Committee Away From New burgh.

committee away FROM NeNDur6n
More Republicans than appear at this
time, it was stated yesterday by those
thoroughly conversant with the facts, are
determined that the party organization in
this county shall be purged of Odellism
Not only are they to defeat Halpin for presi-
dent Of the committee at the annual meet =
ing on December 81, should Odell stick to
Halpin (which he won't, say Odell's fol-
lowers), but they declare that they will
defeat any candidate to be presented by
Odell.
Odell, through his counsel. Edward
Lauterbach, has called a meeting OF the
Republican Assembly district leaders in
New York county for Monday, at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel Certain leaders on whom
he is relying, it was said yesterday, will not
attend his meeting.
Yesterday Senator Platt the spokesman
for the Republicans who are determined
to be rid of Odells power and influence
in the New York county committee, talked
with another contingent of leaders, includ-
ing James E. March Of the Sixth district,
Theodore P. Gilman of the Nineteenth,
John H. Gunner of the Twenty eighth Ed
ward H. Healey of the Thirty-fifth and
Nllnam -. teTludlu Vi tle hitltAeu Sls"
trict Senator Platt also had talks with
John Reisenweber, William Barnes, Jr.,
Robert C. Morris, ex-president Of the county
committee, and second chat with Herman
Joveshof, leader Of the Thirteenth district.
Tomorrow Senator Platt is to have still
further conferences, and from now on to
December FL the work is to go forward,
Halpin put in circulation yesterday a
story to the effect that the real opposition
to him and to Odell is headed by Thomas F.
Ryan and other f1nanoia uminaries, who
hope to send to the rear Edward II. Harri-
man and Odell as factors in the Republican
organization Of the State. 9Mr. Ryan hap
pens to be Democrat and was a delegate
from his native State, Virginia, to the
Democratic national convention last year.
The Halpin yarn is here repeated as speci-
men of his political intelligence:
The announcement that Repre- sentative
j. Van Vechten 0lcott had become the
candidate Of the eminent Republicans
who are to shunt 0del and Halpin to the
rear in the county was received with great
qualification. Mr.. Olcott is known as no
man 8 man. He is just as much Roose-
velt's man. it was said yesterday, az he is
Higgins's man or Blacks man, He was
spoken of as the Republican party's man.
Odell and Halpin say they should not be
removed. They declare to their follow
ers that the Odell- rst deal was a good
thing, that it split Tammany Hall wide
Open and 30 forth. They have taken to
this defence of the deal because eminent
Republicans say that 1t was a dastardly
act to array the New York Republican
organization of the toroughs in the big
city with Mr.. Hearst and his doctrines.
These influential Republicans since election
day have made an investigation, and they
find that Odell and Halpn workers were
open and active partsans Of Hearst at the
polls.
The eminent Republicans who have
made this investigation combated yester-
day Odells and Halpn's sentiments con-
cerning the effect of the Odell-Hearst
deal on Tammany's vote. They wen on
TO point out that under Ode and Halpin
the great prestige Of the Roosevelt and
Higgins vote of 1904 in the boroughs of
Manhattan and The Bronx had been swept
away. Roosevelt's vote a year ago in
Manhattan and The Bronx was 1874, 7l0 and
Hggins's l3e, 500, while Nobody y-cheated-
for-Ivins, as some Republicans now speak
Of William NJ. Wins, Odell's candidate
for Mayor, received IN the same territory
only "a, 1854 votes. lvins's total vote in all
the boroughs Of the city was 1878, so
that Roosevelt's vote Of year ago in
Manhattan and The Bronx was ie 592
larger than 1vins got in al the big city,
while Higgins's vote in Manhattan and
The Bronx was only 1850 smaller than
WINS got in the, entire city Many Repub-
licans did not look upon Mr. WINS as a
Republican. They admitted that he had
the zeal Of a convert. but his lifelong oppo-
sition to Republican policies and candidates
operated against him. Then, again, the
fact that he was Odell's candidate and was
by his silence thought to be party to the
Odell-Hearst deal on Asserlblymen and
Aldermen estranged many who might
otherwise have voted for him, Mcclellan re-
| ceived in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs
l4o 97s, while WINS received only "a, S54.
Measuring 1vins's vote by that received
year ago by Mr.. Roosevelt and Higgins,
Republicans say it was not Tammany but
the New York Republican county organi-