The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02
ECHOES OF PRESS CLUB DINNER
POLITIC4L aspect or THE AZ
FAIR At BINGHAHTON.
Republicans Believe hat OdelI Has Under.
taken TO Make Rogers Leader OF
BroOme County and to Force Green's
Nomination as senator Next Fall.

NeUuDiichHs beltNe Inht O0elI has nueT.
taken TO Make Rogers Leader OF
BroOme County and to Force Green's
Nomination as senator Next Fall.
B~INGHAMToN, April 1.-Echoes Of the
Press Cut dinner. where Chairman B B
OdelI, Jr., of the Republican State Com
mittee and Assemblyman James T, Rogers
of the First District Of Broome county
were the central figures, which was not
att ended by Col. George w, Dunn, and
where former Senator George F.. Green
made a few remarks and heard the speech
of Col. Boothby Of Maine, which nominated
Green for Governor next fall. are now
heard. All kinds of Republicans have
put but one Interpretation on the political
aspect of the dinner and that is that OdeIl
has undertaken to make Rogers Republican
leader Of Broom county and TO force
Green's nomination for Senator next fall
10 succeed Harvey d. Human.
Under the new apportionment the county
Is to have but one Assemblyman instead of
two. Rogers is the Assemblyman for the
First and Frederic F.. Allen represents the
Second district at Albany. Allen is a mer-
chant living at Whitney's Point. Green's
lawyers, in his recent dist ressing troubles
with the post Office authorities at Washing
ton nave suggested to him that he keep out
Of politics and Green has Informed them
and his Republican friends in the county
that his name is being used without his
sanction. The report of a reconciliation
bet ween Odell and Col. Dunn at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. New York, Is not accepted
by those familiar with the unconventional
conversation bet ween the two men on that
occasion.
Rogers. it was learned to-day, is attempt
ing to make himself the only Assemblyman
for the county, inc to that end he has, il
il asserted, been busy recently at Albany
and elsewhere looking into Aliens rec
ord" hoping to dig up a morsel or two
which he could present to the Republicans
of the county to Aliens discredit.
Rogers, it is claimed, has failed signally
In these efforts, and the statement was
made to-day with vehemence that Allen
will be the one Republican Assemblyman
for the county next fall.
The claim is put forth that Odell, through
Rogers, has unfurled the banner of Odellism
in Broome county. 1nasmuch as Rogers
has been prying unsuccessfully, it is as
serted, into Aliens career, it has not been
thought improper for prominent Republi-
| cans to hunt up Rogers's record. Rogers
entered political life in Broome county as
a protege of George f. Green.
It was through Green that Col. Dunn
| took up Rogers and sent him to represent
| Broome county in the Assembly at Albany.
! All his life Rogers has been feeding at the
public trough, and certainly, il personal
appearances go for anything, he has been
well fed. Rogers started out as assistant
postmaster of Owego, as a Plattite, and
| he held that place for six years. Then he
was clerk of the Tioga county Surrogate's
Court for a number of years, next clerk of
the village of Owego and eventually he
came to Binghamton. where he soon turned
up as attorney for the city police depart
ment. He graduated from that job to the
Assembly at Albany, where he has served
continuously as a member since the session
Of 1899.
Rogers's frequent quotations from the
Bible are the wonder Of certain, people in
B~inghamton, Albany and New York.
Rogers's legislative career, it is claimed,
could be best outlined by a review of the
legislation enacted in favor Of the cor
porations or the killing of legislation aimed
in the interest of the people and against
the corporations. Rogers, it is further
insisted, has been the leader of the pro-
corporation members of the Legislature
since he has been a member of the lower
house at Albany and owed his position as
the leader of the Republicans in the Assem-
bly, TO that fact.
Col. Dunn's friends are grinning at the
efforts of Odell and Rogers to unhorse him
as Republican leader of Broome county.