The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
ALL WAITS ON The PRIMARIES
TUESDAY WILL TEST THE POW
Frs THAT SEEK CONTROL.

Murphy's Retirement Before the Year u
Out a. Tammany Leader IL Predicted
-OdcII Has Everything stAked Now
on the Results IN Create New York
You couldn't get n Republican OF a Demo-
cratic polit ician in any OF the five Dor
ouEhs OF New York city to express a serious
opinion yesterday IN 10 candidates for
Governor. Lieutenant Governor or other
aspirants for high public ONCE, State or
local. All 'fessed up that they were at sea,
in the LIQUIDS, %befogged, dist ressingly un-
certain, md would continue to be in that
state OF mind until the result OF the pri-
maries is definitely known on Wednesday
morning.
This falls elect ion in he State. being the
last before the Presidential election ~ 1908.
In considered to be momentous The pr
maries on Tuesday will determine IL Boss
Odell In to retain a foot hold in New York
city with which to menace the Republican
State cow emf ion at Saratoga on September
rs, and also IL he is TO be a power in the new
State committee. which is to be elected for
two years, running into the Presidential
year.
There can be but one result OF the Tam
many primaries-tbe retirement before the
year il out of Charles F. Murphy as leader
Of the organizat ion and the elimination OF
J. Sergeant Cram, president ofthe Tammany
county committee; Thomas +. McAvoy
chairman Of the executive committee
Charles @. F. Wahle, vice-chairman ofthe ex-
ecutive committee; Representative Bourke
Cochran, chairman of the committee on
legislatio and John Oakley. chairman OF
the committee OF rules. :
II Boss Odell ia successful at the primaries
in New York county he will elect a new
president Of the county committee in place
Of Representative Herbert Parsons, and
Mr.. Parsons will not be renominated for
Congress in the Thirteenth district. Also,
Boss Odell will have the naming in New
York county OF eleven candidates for The
House Of Representatives, ten candidates
for the Supreme Court bench. twelve State
Senators, t~hirty-hve Assemblymen, and
should Boss Odell win in Brooklyn he would
have the power to nominate in that borough
SIX candidates for the Supreme Court
bench, five Congressman. seven State
Senators and twenty-one A~ssemblymen,
In addition, should Boss Odell win in New
York and Brooklyn he would ave the
naming OF a number Of minor candidates
! for the bench and candidates for Surrogate,
and would elect seventeen Of the thirty
seven members OF the Republican State
committee.
For the Democratic side in both New York
and Brooklyn the same number Of impor-
tant nominations are at stake.
Boss Odell, it ia we'll known, is after con
troll of the Legislature. First, he wants
to pich out as Speaker James W. Wads-
worth, Jr., and in both the Assembly anC
Senate he hungers to name the COMMITTEES
on rules OF the Assembly, the committee
which in the closing days Of the session
ia all powerful. Democrats admit that only
a political revolution can take from the
Republicans the Senate. which is now
made up Of thirty-six Republicans anc
fourteen Democratic, and the same admis-
sion was made as to the Assembly. which
now comprises I07 Republicans, thirty-six
Democrats, five Municipal Leaguers anc
two independent Democrats.
Should Boss Odell be able. with the aic
Of New York and Brooklyn, to control the
Legislature he would probably be in a
position to name the SUCCESSORS in the
United States Senate OF Mr.. Plat and Mr..
Depew. for very few Republicans believe
that they will serve out their terms. Mr.
Platt's term expires March 3. 1909. and Mr.
Depew's on March 3. 1911. Then. too,
should Boss Odell be able after Tuesdays
primaries to remain as a factor in the coun
ellis OF the Republican State committee
he would be influential in naming the four
delegates at large and the seventy-four
Congress district delegates TO the Repub-
lican national convention Of 1908.
Boss Odell and Boss Murphy have. it
il declared. entered into an arrangement.
deal. decker or whatever you care to call
il. to parcel out between them the ten new
Supreme Court Justices to be nominated
in New York county at the proportion
of four for Boss Odell and six for Boss
Murphy. Boss Odell's defeat at the
primaries on Tuesday would smash this
deal 10 flinders. and it is already known
that Boss Murphy will not be competent
to carry out his end Of the deal. for the
reason that at most he will control not
more than twelve Assembly districts on
Tuesday. while the Mcclellan and the Sulli-
van forces will between them contro
twenty-three. The Sullivans hold the
balance Of power, and they will be power
full factors in determining the result OF
| Congress, Judiciary. Senate and Assembly
conventions. The S~ullivans have stood
sturdily at the back Of Mayor Mcclellan
since the beginning Of the year.
The primaries will be held Oh Tuesday
from ? TO Q p. NJ.
Every enrolled Republican should vote
at the primaries.
Every enrolled Democrat should vote
at the primaries.