The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-17
ODELL DEPARTS TOMORROW
STFNOGRAPHERT TO BE IN On tRGE
IN MS ABSENCE.
Nobody Kicking. for Responsibility for
the MaSoralty Campaigns All on the
Chairman-G oidbrick Dinner Ia the
Editors Cost $1,000 Lett 5000.

Chairman Odell said yesterday that he
il to sail for Naples on the North German
LLOYD steamer Princess Irene tomorrow
morning. Things will go all right while
/ am away said Mr.. Odeil Mcknight
can look after State headquarters. He
knows how TO do il Mr. Odel referred
TO Calvin Mcknight, his stenographer.
Chairman Odell may return TO this country
within four months.
Late in the afternoon William Halpin,
president of the New York Republican
county committee by the grace OF Chair
man Odeli. met the executive committee
men Of all the boroughs for the purpose
Of punching them up 10 collect money and
mon So that the New York county committee
NAV make good show in the Inauguration
paeeant at Washington on March Mr.
Hnlpin urged the executive committeeman
10 call upon him to-day ana tomorrow,
and meantime To hustle.
Some OF the executive committeeman
left the meeting and said that while they
would do everything IN their power 10 add
sclat to President Roosevelt inauguration
ceremonies al Washington. there was some
thing Ia he told about the dinner gwen
10 the editors AZ the Maldor1-Astorla the
night before Then they SAID;
All told ~ Republican executive COM
,,i,taomen and others were assessed by
Mir Halpin $50 each for this dinner. mat
made a total fund Of 5000. and the dinner,
so all Of us have been informed, cost A,COp,
including the fountain pens <. ven 10 some
of the editors Az a matter OF TACT, one
Republican leader who can neither read nor
write and who Is the author oil the famous
saving. I'D rather have two poolrooms
thnn any lob the Republican party can give
me had three Of those fountain pens.
What he was TO do with them, except pos
siblv To write dope sheets. the Lord only
knows and without irTeverence, we re
afraid he won't tell,
Tina, dinner to the editors was gold
6sh gold bricl; affair anyway But we
only tel this story about the 50 900 aHsess
,,'e1t md the 5000 cost OF the dinner 10
Ia, il he known through the columns Of
THF SIN thnt under such circumstances
it ia quite difficult to raise money for any
purpose III,
duce Jacob II Schih to become his can
didnte for Mayor next fall. and he has now
lnced upon Louis stern number OF
the Republican county executive com
mitteemen remarked 'honRh az an ms
philanderinr would end in the original
proposition Of Chairman Odell and Mr.
Ualpin o nominate for Mayor County Clerk
Thomas Hamilton.
Severa Republicans were down from
Albany last night and heard that Chair
man Odell had announced that he had put
his -tenographer in charge Of State head
quarters during his absence or course,
in the regular order Of Things William
Barnes. il. chairman Of the executive
COMMITTEES Of the State committee. should
he the acting chairman, but the upstate
Republicans slid that there was no dis
position 10 interfere with anything that
Mr.. Odell desired TO do because he was
10 have tho full responsibility for the munich
nal campaign next fall and they said that
neither Mr Barnes nor anybody else would
bother much even II Mr. Odell mad put his
etenoerapher in charge Of headquarters
during hiz al scnce.