The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-08
BEAT ODELL'S MAN, GOODSEIL
THE "ORANGE DISTRICT" LANDS a
BODY BLOW on THE EN-BOSS.
For Nine Years They Have Been Chums
. Politically and Socially Bills
the Ex-Governor Opposed or supported
were Always Handle by the senator

H eAAANsAS -. ~ - hhFt
the Ex-GoverDOr Opposed or supported
were Always landed ny Inc senator
Benjamin d. Odell. Jr., ex-chairman OF
the executive COMMITTEES Of h Republican
State committee ex-chairman of the State
committee and Governor Of the State for
two terms, the latter by a. fiuke, but still
Republican leader of Orange county and
member Of the Republican State committee
for his Congress district is now utterly
harmless from a political standpoint.
He has reached that unenviable stage
where he. has not even a Republican Senator
he can call his own. Louis F. Goodsell,
who has been Mr.. 0dell's man Friday at
Albany and elsewhere for a number OF years,
was overwhelmingly defeated for Senator
on Tuesday by John C. r. Taylor. Democrat.
whose plurality over Goodsell was Ssl.
lnasmuch as Goodsell two years ago beat
his Democratic opponent. Henry Kohl,
2,e47 votes, the result on Tuesday shows q
change Of votes against GoodseN Of s,s3s.
Goodsell polled only 1 ,7Ss votes in his home
county of Orange and was beaten there by
Sal. Goodsell was the Assemblyman from
Orange from 1895 to 1898. When he was
elected to the Senate from what is known
as the Orange district presided over by
Odell. 0dell and Goodsell have been chums,
politically, financially and every other way.
from the time in 1897 when Odell succeeded
Charles w. Hackett as chairman of the
Republican State committee. soon after
which Odell used to run up to Albany and
20. X and IN. G." all bills which were not
in the interest of this or that corporation.
or which were not against this or that cor
poration.
'Afer Odell became Governor he kept his
eye on all matters of importance coming
directly before him. but ON the floor Of
the Senate Goodsell represented Odell. All
Republican Senators when in doubt as to
how to vote either for or against a corpora
ton measure or any measure whatever in
which there was particular interest con-
suited with Goodsell. Goodsell was the
Alpha and the Omega of the Odell policy
in the upper chamber at Albany. He was
the sub-o. X. and the sub-n. &. on all meas
ures, and woe betide the Republican Senator
who even breathed IN independent breath.
Whenever a corporation bill was to be
killed Goodsell was the man consulted,
and whenever u corporation bill was to
be advanced Goodsell was the man to be
seen. Odell's rockety career as Republican
leader Of the State lasted exactly eighteen
months. He was the shortest lived Repub-
lean leader. in the history Of the Repub-
licau organization of the State of New York.
Now Goodsell, his man Friday, has been
overthrown and sent to the political bone
yard by his n%eighbors in the Twenty-fourth
senate district.
Goodsell's last nomination in October
was brought about by OdeIl. The Re-
publicans of the Senate convention did
not want to give Goodsell a denomination.
Most OF them were bitterly opposed to Good
sell. Yet Goodsellis renomination was
jammed through by Odell, who, learning
that tho Senat convention was against
his man, adopted the last stand taken by
u desperate political boss. Odell got upon
the floor Of the convention and demanded
every delegate should rise in his place
and vote aye or nay as to Goodscll's
denomination. and even then GoodseIl's
denomination was only brought about
by a vote of ~ to AZ.
Odell did not believe when he made that
demand for an aye and a nay vote that
forty-three delegates in the convention
would ave the temerity 10 stand up in
their places and oppose his wishes. These
ave known all along for the
last ten years nearly what il was to oppose
Odell in Orange county. or in that Senate
or Congress- district. He had rlled with a
rod Of iron. He was utterly merciless.
Scores on scores of stories are told by bust
ness men in Newburg and in the Senate
and Congress districts Of the power exer-
cised by Odell against all those who opposed
his slightest wish. Goodsell was one of
Odell's representatives in this political
Aver NUS.
For the first time in many years the dis
trict il represented by a Democratic Senator.