The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-31
NEARLY BLACEDALLS HIGGINS
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Chslgmsn U,lelt . ffisn,is spusr flsht stft
Nv meeiing ~ fhr rim Avenue Motel laat
hiahi and said fha' they eruld defest OJy
Higgins fuf denomination In the Hapubhoeh
STATE convention this fall W. Oiell, they
spid had mtde fhis purpose very plain IN
pysonsl conversations win his friends ~
M hotel IN saturday Friends ~ dov
Higgins ~ tho hotel rpcslled that VIZ Odell
did nu' cuine ~ NeW YORK rity and speak
up, p,ihioiy W. privately uhtll be- vas prr.
fec'iv aware that Oov Higgins had p%ractl.
cillv finished with tho thirty day blls and
that the effort IA Gust Odell ~ state chair.
man had baen abandoned
The Ooyernor's friends went on Ia say
thu, The Oiell people will ind u about ~
difficult 10 agree on q candidate 10 succeed
Higgins ~ the anti.Odell people have found
N 20 agree ,fDon q state chairman 20 s,Icceed
Odell SenntoT Bracket will have his
friends In the convention and Senator
Stevens will have q bunch Of delegates.
But all this talk was not half a. much
20 the point as the information elected
through Mr.. Odeli's friends and confirmed
el-ew here ae 20 the resnit Of u recent meet
ing Of the Union League Club affecting
uov Higgins. MIR Odell Is a member Of
the club, and II was through his friends
that the Information leaked out that Gov.
Higgins AZ this meeting narrowly escaped
being b~lackballed. The committee on adj
missions Of the club, II was learned, had
passed Gov. Higgins's application for
membership, and the Governor came up for
election at a meeting unusually small for
the club, about one hundred members,
at which Cornelius n. Bliss, president
presided.
As the voting proceeded on Gov. Hig-
gins's name Mr.. Bliss, 1t was learned, be-
came quite anxious over the apparent
opposition to Gov. Higgins, for the reason
that it required only the disapproval Of
one-third of those present to reject the
application of the Republican Governor
Of the State Of New York for membership
in the Union League Club, which is CON-
sidered the bulwark Republican social
organization of the country, So solicitous
did Mr.. Bliss become as the voting pro-
oeeded that he personally requested MEN,
bers present to vote for the Governor, and
even after those requests Of Mr.. Bliss Gov.
Higgins, it was learned, came perilously
near the one-third limit of disapproval.
A Republican member Of the club who
has occupied high public station in the Re-
publican party, speaking last night OF
the Gov. Higgins incident in the club, said;
Il and all my friends voted for the Gov
ernor. The objection to the Governor
on the part Of SC nan members Of the
club was that he signed the 80 cent gas
bill, which they believe to be a confscatory
NEE sure. These members and their ann.
lilies hold five, ten and fifteen share lots
of gas company stocks, and they felt
aggrieved that the Governor should have
signed a measure which they believe con
fisoated their property. Some Of these
members had a story to the effect that
Gov. Higgins recognized the havoc that
an 80 cent gas bill would make with the
small holders of the stock in these gas com-
panies, and at first had not been averse
to bill calling for en- cent gas and a scale
downward Of IN cents a year for five years,
but that he had listened to what some Of
our members called radical clamor and
had signed a most unjust measure"