The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-24
RE HABILITATION OF ODELL.
HARTMAN SAID TO NAVE AS
SUMED THE CONTRACT.

New York states Delegates TO the COnNen-
ton OF 1905 Are the PrIze n Clutter
OF Miscellaneous Arms Are Reaching
FOr-OdelI Coming Here to Live.
Edward II. Hartman, for half a dozen
years described as the financial hacker
and personal friend OF b. B. Odell, Jr., Of
Newburgh, formerly Republican State
chairman and Governor OF the State, is
reported to have said only a few days &
to a Republican United States Senator.
I'm spend $40, 900 900 to rehabilitate
Odell.'
Following quick upon this story land it
comes from a source entirely responsible)
was the news last night that Mr.. Odell IL
and take up his residence at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Mr.. Odell has engaged
apartments at the hotel which he will occupy
with his wife mt daughter for several
months. He IL expected at the hotel the
day after Christmas. Mr.. Odell usually
has put up at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL when
I'm town IN business or political matters,
but he has not been accustomed to make
his winter home there.
Senator Plat for twenty years had his
home at the Fifth Avenue Hotel while Re-
publican leader Of the State.
Mr.. Odell has taken a hand recently,
first, In boosting Henry A. Van Alstyne OF
North Chatham for state Superintendent
Of Public Works. and when Gov. Hughes
declined to appoint Mr.. Van Alstyne Mr..
Odell. along with others, including Fred
eri L Skene, the newly elected Demo-
cratic State Engineer and Surveyor, has
pushed forward Col. Thomas W. Symons,
a resident Of Washington, whom Gov.
Odell on April IA. 1904, made a member
Of the Advisory Board Of Consulting En-
gineers TO progress the work called for
on the canals Of the State by the SlOl .OO0,-
900 act, Col, Symons's place on the advisory
board to be filed by Mr.. Van Alstyne. with
Gov. Hughes's permission.
Mr.. Odell il not asleep. said his friends
at the Fifth Avenue last night. lie be-
lieves with MIR. Harriman's help, il was
said, that he can come back into his king
dom
Mr.. Odell, it was learned. has had frequent
consultations since election day with
nCphDiACdLAS hV NVl NOCRy Wv
in the eighteen months OF his short reign
"a Republican leader of the State, and he
has not attempted to justify his rough shod
methods, but has endeavOred to pacify
those whose political weasands he had tried
to cut. He believes that Timothy J.. Wood
ruff, as chairman Of the Republican State
committee, cannot Last; that Mr.. Hughes
cannot Guild up a Republican political
machine Of his own in the State; that Gov.
Higgins and his friends are water gone over
the dam: that William Barnes. Jr., Of Albany,
has troubles enough OF his own to keep him
busy in his own county; that George W.
Aldridge Of Monroe Is disoredited and that
the remnants Of the old Plat wing OF the
organization will flock 10 the Odell standard
at the psychological moment.
Mr.. Odell's friends say that President
Parsons Of the New York county COM
mittee cannot Withstand him in the end.
The struggle to control the Republican
organization in 1903 and 10 name the sew
enty-six delegates to the Republican
national convention has already begun,
with President Roosevelt, Gov. Hughes,
Mr.. Woodruff and Mr.. Parsons on one side
and Mr.. Odell, Louis +. Payn, ex-Gov.
Frank S. Black and others for opponents.
Republicans fresh from Washington and
consultations with President Roosevelt,
Mr.. Platt and Mr.. Depew said positively
that Mr.. Platt and Mr.. Depew will not re-
sign from the United States Senate and
that they have been advised not to resign
by intimate political friends Of President