The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-02
POLITICAL BOHBSHELL
oDEJ.L THROWS TT INTO THE AD-
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He Says Jeaiousy Is At the BottoSn of President RoosevcIt's tatagopism Threatens to Furnish Sosne
 New Chapters and Make
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Albany tN. Y.) Special to New York
 American

Albany cN. Y.) Special to New York
 American
 Advance. sheets of What kuow About Rooscvel, and Higgins by for- mer Governor Benjamin E. odeii. Jr.. which are now understood to be in prs-. vate circulation, promise a nation.l .so- iitical bomshell They lay bdIu foI Il q first time tho inside history of the Odcll- Roosevelt row, and these herety- fore secret details disclose story Of political Jealousy, duplicity and dicya- ton from Washington and Albany ug{- paralleled since the days ct Arthur and Conkling,
 Most amazing of ail these revela ions is the explicit eharge by Mr. odeII th.t .Hs whoie roosevelt war has. is genesis in the Presidonts personal jeai- ousy of himself 201
 It shows him shortly after he became President, bitterly ealing Odell to ae- count because. as he ana aned Cdell had not eontrihuted to Mir Roosevslt. administration al Albany ovilliant regime Nor is the re.ison for this out .:dusc iess iats rcsting than tho accusa- tion. Roosevelt feared that the popular ac- claim which greeted the first two years of the odell administration would bring forward the then Governor as formid- nble. candidate for the presidential nom- ination :n 1904.
 From the date of thar rather heated talk in tho White House until danger threatened Roesevsit's ambition his stt..a was stv2aiIy against the ex- Gov ernor. And here we have another chap ter Of secret rolticai history of ni- tional imoottahce II relates to the late Senator, Marcus A. Hanna and his ambition to enter the White House.
 rrom fife Odell cfelltions II appears that President Roosevelt early in 1904 discovered that a Hanna-Platt move was on foot to make tho Senator from Ohio tho presidential nominee. Roose- welt at once sent for O1cli, arranged to oGgy the hatchet' and promised him, odell did his part, and 1t was after Roosevelt's nominal lion that there be- Ftn' .ae lonS series of acts which Odeli describes as unErateful and which lee up to the present situation.
 50 mcsc ciless is the exvoriat'on of the President and the Governor in the rrs' draught of the document which tho for mer Governor has been framing t,.e past fortnight, that, not only Roosevelt and Higgins adherents, but his most intimate political associates, have besought him to suppress 1t, for fear that 1t will reproduce the party wrCck of 1882, when the State was surrender ed to Grover Cleveland by 100000 ptu- rality.
 MT. odeiI was today undecided just when. if at all. he would officially pro mulgate the story of the causes of the war, in which Roosevelt and Higs!i s have sought to extermfnate him.
 He explained that since he beg m the preparation of his book he has been bombarded by letters and telegran,s from leaders the country over, beseech- ing him to sacrifice himself rather than the party, and warning him that if he really tells the unyarnished truth dis- asters in the State. next fall and m the nation two years hence that will put the Republicans. out of powtr for per haps a decade will certainly eisue. - "Yes, jealousy was the genesis of my trouble with the President ," was Mir. odelrs admission today. f"Iie accused me soon after he became President of concealing from hin, ideas as to tax and other reform legislation which became operative under my adniinistratfon as Governor He complained that wHiie he was Governor 1t was my duty to iur- nish him with every suggestion I could conceive to aid in making lis regime brilliant, I replied that I had most cordially co.operated with him. IS I ever have. and that if he had any fau!t to find with, my originating popular ideas he ought to remember tha as Governor 1t was up to nin t. cCnceivs them. The President and he'd several rather warm controversies about this I now recall them as the real Degiai.iny of the differences which were foliow- ed. by the present attempt to drive me out of politics"
 MT Odell modesty declined to give in detail the list of measures enacted dur ing his administration which provoked the envy of the President.