The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-26
ODELL'S LAST APPEARANCE.
r,IIS TifE REPUBLICANS T0
ORDER ar SARATOGA. :

Iuir clash NTH Chairman Parsons
srd Makes HlS ENIt -COnHressman
nr,srolI EuIOgIIcs the President and
scores Hearst incidents % tire DAY.
s.v,roo, sept. 25.-The hasty pudding
-..ryt n, the fire this noon. but II II doesn't
ii faster tomorrow han IL did to-day
a.. .bance- are that II will turn out q pretty
,,v product. In other words, the nrsC
...sion Of the Republican State conven-
zion held AZ the Saratoga convention hall
to.day wd~ q tame ahair.
Tha delegates we're all there, owe 1000
=, them in sight, ready TO line up and lift
aha roof in ,he old familiar time honored
manner. but they had nothing and no
-. N shout for. They had not been told.
The little group of sub-bOsses into whose
A.,d. the direction Of the party's destiny
h.s fallen had not been able TO make up
n. mind upon whom the mantle Of Higgins
..s IN descend. Gov. Higgins himself
had hurled it with all his strength in the
A,,sction Of Lieut. Gov. M. Linn Bruce.
rns, worthy had made a vigorous clutch
=, the AyinE garment. but had succeeded
4, Oraspins only a meagre end Of 1t. Other
ambitious persons seized other ends. and
xbsn the session began. m when II ended,
a. well, the struggle for the proprietorship
was still going on.
No Republican convention in the memory
4, the present generation had been in
.nrlratei with so little uproar,. 90 little
.rtbusissm or under more uncertainty.
The tameness of the proceedings was re-
N.rted in the size Of the audience when the
session was AT its height. There we're prob
sblv 500 ~unoccupied seats on the floor
and IN the galleries. or course, all the
old marty slogans. all the magic names
and phrases which have been used by
Republican orators to c~onjure with for half
aoentury, were employed and not altogether
witbont result. But on the whole it was
a vmlees. ~zestless session. II was, ow-
svsr. enlivened by two or three incidents
out Of the common.
The frst Of these was a brief passage at
: arms between State Chairman Odell, then
snpearing for the last time on the platform
as the head If the party organization OF
the Empire State. and his young conqueror
M the primaries. Herbert +. Parsons.
ROAR FOR opELL AND THE LOS CAUSE.
The delegates we're in their places, under
their various county banners, what few
fsvorite sons there were had received their
need NJ moderate applause az they found
then seats. the spectators had also entered
the building; the bands were done playing.
the cigar smoke was arising in it's customary
clouds and all was ready for business.
Then State Chairman Odell, accompanied
nv Col. Reuben L. Fox. secretary Of the
State committee. was seen approaching the
stairs at the right Of the platform. As the
sI-boes set foot on the platform all the
fragments Of his broken following set up
a loyal roar and rose to their feet, waving
bats and handkerchief in token that they
were true to the lost cause. Gradually the
applause spread, being taken up by the
majority Of the Kings county delegates.
Then the bands in the gallery pushed it
along by playing the Star Spangled BAN
ner,' and brou ght every n present to bis
feet.
The noise soon died away, however,
and Chairman Odell brought the gavel
down with three sharp blows, declaring:
The convention will come to order"
FThyeI NdS N0SH OICTNu ny ~ NOV
Frederick T.. Decker. He prayed that
faith. courage and high min .edness might
Re the watchWo rds Of the hour and that
the convention might be lowered with
that righteousness which exalts, ennobles
and t~ransfgures.
Then said Odell;
Gentlemen of the convention, l am
directed by the State committee, unless
there should be a demand for a roll call,
to proceed at once to suggest the name
Of your temporary chairman"
At this point MFR. Parsons arose in his
place at the head of the New York dele
CATION.
PARSONS RoTEsr oUIG0
'Mr. chairman" said he, ION behalf OF
the New York delegation, l demand that
the roll Of the New York county delegates
shall he called"
Amid a murmur Of surprise which swept
over the hTIse. Chairman odeu ordered
that the roll he called by Assembly dis
tricts. While Col. Fox carried out this
order, the chairman remained standing
in bis place. When New Tork's name
was called Mr.. Parsons demanded that
the roll Of the Thirteenth district, in which
Jmuel +. Qnigg suffered defeat at the
pimaries, he called. Col. Fox began
to call the roll and Mr.. Parsons interrupted
him.
! protest, said he, against these names
being placed on the temporary roll"
The Chairman" retorted MIR. Odell
3 sharply looking At Mr.. Parsons, desires
to state that this temporary roll was SUBJ
United 70 the state committee at its meet
ing last evening and was unanimously
adoped as the temporary roll. II the
gentlemen from New York county desires
to enter a contest he may do so by giving
proper notice.
There vas a burst Of applause from tn g
Odel faction, but Mr.. Parsons came back
again.
I wish 10 protest again, " he began, but
the chairman broke in abruptly:
oh, Sir, said Mr.. Odell. -the proper
place in which 70 register that protest is
with the committee on credentials, when
II shall hn 1ppo;ptaJ y