The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-14
COUTELYOU NOW TALKED or
A TIE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE
ron GOVERNOR.

uopaN "A white Tor
"a the Suggestion Of Republicans
wbo,ye Heard From Oyster Bay-OdeII
suggests That Roots tho Man.
psu,b,ioans discussed yesterday the
following ticket;
vor Governor-George b. Cortelyou OF
Hampstead.
For M~eutsnant-G Governor oraoe White
Of Syracuse.
m. Replblicans who talked about this
,,CSet were OF national and State Importance
and they said that they had heard 1T
wh,spered at Oyster Bay and elsewhere.
Mr.. Cortelyou 10 Postmaster-o eneral In
p,.s,dent Rooseveit's Cabinet and was
s.,stary OF the Department Of Com
ro.rcs and Labor under President Roose-
,a, Hs was President McKinley's as
.,stant secretary and 10 now also chair
man OF the Republican national committee
Mr.. White has represented at Albany
a. State Senator for ten years the onon-
do,. district. Both Mr.. Cortelyou and
Mr. White are young men. Both have
hser hearty supporters Of President Rooss-
welt.
Gov Hierins's friends have not given up
hons ~ his denomination. They are be-
,ween wind and water, though, IL was
noir,ed out. because the Governor has
rot let IL be known whether he IL a oandi-
dsts Tor denomination and this has proved
most embarrassing to the Governors per-
sonal friends at Albany.
rslao-oatoI RoOa0hltNanR who ara wall
informed but who nave not taken any
mart in the fractional disturbances Of the
Republican organization said yesterday
that they believed Gov. Higgins to be alb
~solutely out Of the race n that IL would
he most unwise to nominate him, and they
said that nobody was more responsible
for this state Of affairs than the Governors
friends who precipitated In the meeting
~ the Republican Stats committee that
resolution, which was contrary TO all prec-
edent. calling for the election Of Lieut.
Gov. Bruce as temporary chairman Of the
Rsu,blIcan State convention at Saratoga
IN September rs.
That resolution" said one OF The Gov
ernor's friends at the Republican Club last
night. has turned put fatally for Gov.
Higgins. Gov. Higgins lost In the COM
mittee by one vote, and the resolution thus
made the Governor on its face q minority
~factional candidate.
Mr.. Barnes has proved also that Gov.
Hirrins in his vote Of IS in the committee
represented districts which would send
manv more delegates to the State convention
than Mr.. Odell would from the districts rep
resented by the 10 votes which Mr.. odei
controlled. But Mr.. Barnes's argument is
s~pecious. That resolution made Gov. Hig-
gins a factional candidate, and the Gov
ernor's out Of it. I am quite sure. just 90
with Mr.. Hughes. He too IL out Of IL. Mr..
Odell has made Mr.. Hughes the fractional
Odel candidate, just as much as Gov.
HigRins's friends in the State committee
made the Governor a factional candidate.
Tho difference between Gov. Higgins and
Mr.. Hughes, though, il that Gov. Higgins
has a substantial following OF Republicans,
up the State especially. whereas MIR. Hughes
has no following at all. except Mr.. Odell, Mr..
Quigg and Mr.. Dady, and they a v oAly
been using Mr.. Hughes's name for purposes
Of their own.
Boss Odell was in town again yesterday,
but be did not attack the Republican Presi-
dent or the Republican Governor again. lie
had heard or read that a great many Re-
publicans would like to see Elihu Root,
Secretary Of State in President Roosevelt's
Cabinet, nominated for Governor, and Boss
Odell, knowing that Secretary Root would
not return to the United States before
October 5, ten days after the Saratoga
convention, said:
1T would afford me great pleasure to
support the Hon. Elihu Root for the nomi-
nation for Governor. He is an able man.
he is popular and can be elected. Two
years ago | favored the nomination OF Mr..
Root for Governor. He could have had
the nomination without a particle OF oppo-
sition if he would have accepted IL. /
have no intimation that he will accept this
year"
The facts are that two years ago Mr..
Root would not have accepted any Domi-
nation at the hands Of Odell any more than
he would this year. Nobody, it was en-
phatically stated last night by the friends
Of MIR. Root and Mr.. Odell, knows this to
be the situation better than Odell.
Boss Odell took a new tack with Mr..
Hughes's name yesterday when he was
asked if he had found any growing senti-
ment for Mr.. Hughes.
No he replied; Il canno say that /
have
Recurring To Elihu Root, Boss Odell said:
There would be no question about his
election. But ! shall SUPPORT any candi-
date nominated by the Republican State
convention"
Even Higgins?"
Yes, I will support Higgins IL he is nom
mated"
Republicans began TO ak yesterday
again about Boss Odell's SUCCESSOR as State
chairman. They gave il to be their opinion
that it would be either William Barnes, Jr.,
Of Albany or Timothy l.. Woodruff Of Brook
Ign. A good deal will depend. though, as
to the choice Of a State chairman upon the
results of the primaries In all Of the five
ooroughs On Tuesday
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