The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
HIGGINS VISITS ROOSEVELT.
COMES AWAY GLUM AND WITH
MS Lips SEALED.

All He WOOll Say Was That He and the
President We're ia Perfect Accord
Belief He Pleaded for q last Cause
No statement FrsNs Sycamore HIn.
OYSTER Bar. Sept. IO.-Gov. Frank W.
Higgins was the Presidents political lunch
con guest to-day. The New York State
political situation receivoda thorough going
over In a three hours conference. and the
Governor returned from the Hill looking
anything but happy.
Gov. Higgins arrived on the 1920 p. NJ.
train, immersed In deep thought and wear
ing never the trace Of a smile. He said
that the statement which he had given out
in the morning covered everything on
politics that he had to say. When it was
suggested to Gov. Higgins that his state
rnent contained nothing regarding his views
on a renomination he looked thoughtful
and finally replied
u said in my statement all that l intended
to say"
With this tterance the Governor stepped
into the Presidents carriage and was driven
away.
Gov. higgins returned from Sycamore
Hill looking more sorrowful than ever hut
smiling as though il hurt him.
Il have had a long talk with the President
and we are In perfect accord " he announced
and then he became silent.
The Governor was asked II he agreed with
the statement Of Chairman Parsons that
0dell would be put on the shelf on September
rs, but after announcing modestly that he
idn't believe in self advertisement, he re-
fused 70 say anything more.
When a statement in q morning news
paper was shown 20 him, declaring that he
would control a majority Of the votes in the
convention, Gov. Higgins remarked:
Some Of my friends are confident that I
shall do 30, but l leave statements on such
matters to those who think they are wiser
than I politically"
The Governor sidestepped all questions
"a TO the probable nominee for Governor and
IA TO his own aspirations. IL was expected
that after the conference with Gov. Higgins
President Roosevelt would give out some
statement. The fact that no such state
ment came from Sycamore Hill Is taken by
many to indicate that the Governor pleaded
for a lost cause and received little encour-
aGement from tho President. In his pub
lished %utterances Gov. Higgins has init
mated that he had the full support Of the
President. 1t IL regarded IA significant by
the wise ones that neither In his remarks
published this morning nor in the inter-
view after his talk with the President did
Gov. Higgins give any hint OF his own de-
sire for a denomination
1t il the belief here that the President docs
not regard Gov. Higgins as strong enough
TO make Roadway against william Travers
Jerome in the coming campaign. II Is
we'll known, too, tina every statement COM
ing from the President has shown his deter
minatiOn TO bring about the defeat OF Boss
Odell at the coming State convention.
Congressman Littauer's statement, after a
long talk with the President, to the effect
that the Republican party IN New York
must have a candidate strong enough to
override the bosses" il assumed to be a
direct quotation OF the Presidents views
and that he desires a candidate entirely
free from fractional faint. Charles +.
Hughes might fill the bill, but IL his name
was dwelt upon in the conference to-day
neither Gov. Higgins nor the Executive
offices rave sign OF it.
Paul Morton, pr Jsident OF the Equitable
Life and ex-Secretary Of the Navy, came
to Oyster Bay on the same train az Gov.
Higgins. IL was announced at the Execu-
tive Offices tha there was no significance in
the men coming together. Mr.. Morton
accompanied the Governor back to New
York. He said hat hiN visit was purely
social and had no political or other signih-
snce. On leaving, Gov. Higgins said that
he would probably return at once to Albany
John G.. Eversman, assistant treasurer OF
the Republican Congress committee, came
down to see Secretary loeb to-day. He
reported that the dollar contribution scheme
Of Chairman Sherman, which President
Roosevelt indorsed, was now under full
swing and that the money was pouring in.