The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
NAY QUIT 9TH AVE. HOTEL.
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
SEEKS NEW HEADQUARTERS.

Chairman wOOdrur says That the Old
Rooms Are Not Biz or Comfortable
EnOuGh-It II Proposed 20 Hire . Firth
AVenue House Near ana street.
II Is more than likely that the last visible
and outward sign Of the Platt and Odell
government OF the Republican party in
this State will be wiped out within a
very few days. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Timothy
l.. Woodruff, who succeeded Odel on
Wednesday "a chairman OF the Republican
State committee, is planning to remove
the Republican headquarters In this city
from the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In this
intention he Is convinced that he has the
approval Of the great majority OF the pres
q, { powers in the State organization.
Mr.. Woodruff said yesterday that II
the present plans are carried out the State
committee will take possession OF some
comparatively small building that shall
be all its own. He is convinced that this
will add to the business OF the State com
mittee a dignity that it has heretofore
lacked and that its business will be more
easily and effectively despatched.
The new State chairman would not say
that the projected change was based upon
any desire to disassociate the present a
agement of the party in this State with the
memories OF the Odell regime that now
cluster about it, but this inference vas
generally made when it became known
among the rank and file OF the delegates
to Saratoga that the change was contem-
plated. Mr.. Woodruff bases his plan strictly
upon business grounds.
The objections to the present quarters.
as stated by Mr.. Woodruff and his advisers,
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Hotel are too small. that they are i'll lighted
and i'll ventilated and that II the windows
are opened the roar that enters from
Twenty-third street il not calculated to
assist the transaction OF important and often
delicate righteousness. He believes. more
over, that the large rental paid to the hotel
managers might be expended otherwise
TO much better advantage. He il doubtless
confirmed in this opinion by the fact that
Ex-Governor Odell. when he retired from
the Craftsmanship OF the State committee,
left that organization in debt to an amount
OF nearly SO 600.
In 1854, when James G., Blaine was run
ming for President, the State committee
had separate quarters OF ITS own. and 1t Is
the present plan to return to that system.
MIR. Woodruff has not gone 30 far as to
select the new headquarters, but II is likely
that some one of the brownstone houses in
Fifth avenue, near Forty-second street,
which were formerly occupied as private
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of merchants, will be the centre from which
the activities Of the campaign to elect
Charles T.. Hughes will radiate. The new
State chairman said yesterday that he had
talked with many OF the party chiefs at
Saratoga regarding the proposed change
and that without exception they had ap-
proved the idea.
:. For many years the Republican State and
national campaigns in the Empire STATE
have been mana ged from the Fifth Avenue
Hotel When Senator Platt was at the head
OF the State organization he always had
rooms Of his own at the hotel. Here, for
several years on Sunday afternoons, the
party leaders used to meet to discuss the
situation Of the moment and to lay plans
for party work. These gatherings came
to be known far and wide as -Platt's Sunday
School,
Downstairs in the famous northeastern
corner of the lobby used to assemble groups
Of the lesser party leaders. and in time this
nook of the hotel came to be known as the
-Amen Corner, Z" for very patent reasons.
Herbert Parsons went directly from
Saratoga to Lenox, where he will rest until
next Monday. On that day he will return
to town and begin the work OF arranging
for the Republican campaign in this county.
Reuben L. Fox. who has for years been
the secretary Of the Republican State COM
mittee, relinquished yesterday the desk he
has so long occupied at the headquarters in
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. For several hour
he was busy clearing out the ~pigeonholes
of his desk to make way for his successor,
Mr.. Gleason. Later in the day Mr.. Gleason
took charge.