The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23
PARSONS IN FULL CONTROL.
UNANIMOUS VOTE IN REPUB.
LTCAN COUNTY COMMITTEE.

he says TnaN inc Nlctury was inc FTuIt
OF Months OF ToE. Preparation and
self-saCrincc. and Men asked Their
Lives 70 win It-NO Lobby Control.
Herbert Parsons's triumph over Benjamin
B., Odell, Jr., and Lemuel e. Quigg was
made complete last nj ght when at a meeting
Of the Republican county committee for the
CONTAMINATION Of that body MIR. Parsons
was reelected president, and elected not
only followers Of his to the other ofices OF
the organization but also put or all the sub
committees men upon whom he can rely to
carry out his policy.
These were the officers elected:
President. HERBERT PARSONS.
Treasurer. OTTO T. BARNARD.
Secretary, THoMAs W. WHITTLE.
First Vice-president. AIVRED r. PACE
Second Vice President, CHARLES s. ADLER.
With the exception OF Messrs. Barnard
and Adler all are reelected officers. Mr..
Barnard succeeds George Blagden, who
recently asked to be allowed to retire as
treasurer. Mr.. Barnard is president Of the
New York Trust Company and is a resident
of the Twenty-ninth Assembly district.
Mr.. Adler succeeds in the second vice.
presidency julius G. Kreamer, who was
defeated at the primaries on Tuesday last
for the leade rship OF the Second Assembly
district by Joseph Levenson.
The meeting last night, which was held
at the Grand Central Palace, was far differ
ent from the one which took place in the
early part of Jun when Lemuel E. Quigg
and William Halpin, at the direction of Boss
Odell, had the rules OF the committee so
altered as to provide for the reorganization
Of the committee on the Saturday before
the Republican State convention instead
Of on the usual date, the third Thursday in
December. The purpose Of the change
was to give the election machinery over to
the control of the Odell-Quigg forces dur
ing the campaign.
doubt that Mr.. Odell and Mr.. Quigg would
be able to wrest the control of the commit
tee from Mr.. Parsons, n manv changes
which were made at that time in the rules
were made for the express purpose Of humili-
ating Mr.. Parsons, although at the time no
attempt was made to depOse him from the
Craftsmanship.
Mr.. Quigg and Mr.. Odell thought then
that that pushing out process could be
easily accomplished at the meeting last
night.
But last night, although there are several
district leaders who were among Mr.. Odell's
closest supporters, not one OF them, nor
any OF the delegates behind them made
even the faintest protest against the carry
ing out Of the programme which Mr.. Par
VCAo hNN OSa Va NHO
executive committee earlier in IN day
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ezra p. Prentice, the young Assembly
man from the Twenty-fifth district, who
date, for the leadership Of that district,
was nominated for temporary chairman,
and elected unanimously. And then as
If to rub IL in further Harry W. Mack, who
defeated Theodore P. Gilman, Quigg's
candidate in the Fifteenth district, was
unanimously elected temporary secretary.
Bronson winthrop OF the Twenty-ffth
Assembly district, Mr.. Parsons's old dis
trict, nominated Mr.. Parsons for president
Of the committee. He ~eulogized the work
bosses who had for so long and to it's dis
credit, controlled the local organization,
and remarked that the election OF MIR. Par
sons as the head OF the county committee
would be a mere ratification Of the will Of
Republicans Of the county as expressed at
the last primary elections. A motion that
Mr.. Parsons should be elected by the casting
Of a single ballot by the secretary was
adopted without an opposing voice.
When Mr.. Parsons was escorted to the
more members of the committee rising
in a body and cheering him for fully five
minutes. In returning thanks for his cleo
ton Mr.. Parsons said:
I'VE we're bound to win last Tuesday be-
cause We had the right side OF the issue
with us. / doubt il Republicans Of this
county have any appreciation Of the months
Of toll, of preparation, Of self-saorihce,
that preceded h a victory. l know that
men risked their lives to win It. Since that
victory was won l have received much
personal praise, but the credit Is not mine
L. is yours.
We presented an issue to the enrolled
Republicans squarely, and squarely they
have answered 1t, and squarely we must
keep our trust. We must forever keep the
Republican party in this county free from
the danger OF going back into the control
of the LOBBYISTS, and we must see to it that
we as Republicans of this great city keep
loyal to the principles of Theodore Roose-
welt. Henceforth the Republican organiza-
ton Of this county must not depend for
suoength upon promises but upon deeds"
After the election of the permanent
officers, committees we're appointed to
pass upon the contests presented by the
defeated leaders in the Second, Third,
Fourth, Thirteenth and T~wenty-ninth dis
tricts and also to report upon the advisa-
bility Of changing back the rules of the
committee to correspond to those which
existed prior to the changes made by the
Odell-Quigg forces in une last. At the
request OF Mr.. Parsons these committees
vent into session Immediately upon the adj
tournment Of the meeting.
The committee on contested elections
took up the contest in the Fourth Assembly
district, where Philip Rosenthal, the Par
SONS man, is trying to unseat Jacob New
stead. Newsstand was represented by his
Leonard Smitkin. John Henry
Hammond appeared as Rosenthal's counsel.
Evidence was given that Rosenthal watchers
we're excluded from polling places and that
committee adjourned until October 1,
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