The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-15
YAIE BEATS HAMILTON FISH.
THE HOTTEST KIND OF Politics
IN PUTNAM COUNTY.
.uer a Hard Fight Asscmblyman Yale is
Rcnominatcd by n Vote OF ~ 2l-h
:. Hailed by some as an odell victory
nut Yale Denies N-IISh NOLonSer Boss

Il Hailed by some as an udeh Victory
nut Yale Denies II fish NOLonSer Boss
c,evst. y. Y, April livery Odell
politician in Putnam county Is rejoicing
.i,ht because AsSemblyman John r.
yolo the county chairman and present
Pcrlhlican boss of the county, was re-
nominated for Assembly in this village THIS
arernoon. 1t was his sixth successive
domination and practically the only time
~, has had a real fight on his hands. He
",r bv a vote Of 43 to 81, and as soon as
M, vote was announced his followers broke
am, in singing The Wearing of the Green
n.b;ch has been adopted as the song of the
dom,nant faction in Republican politics in
,bs county, chiefly because it Is a tune
that nearly every one can sing
A~s.amblvman Yale has been regarded as
,,s If the machine standbys at Albany.
ue was one of the thirteen that stuck to
Mari, for tho Spoakership to the last ditch.
Io wa, n leader in the revolt against Sher-
,,,, \Ioreland when the matter Of extend
inc the Rhlnebeck trolley franchise came
nm ~rcrantlv. and the Higgins administra-
,ion was beaten il a revolt. Mr.. Yale,
however, ernphatically disclaims that his
rpnltllIliI lIll u ~ NNh'ii : 49, 'N'
i,var. also make the same assertion. They
all ~lecDare that it is simply a Yale victory
nye, Hamilton Fish, Assistant Treasurer
ri the In!toi States and the former Re-
rphlican boss Of the county.
Please make it plain as coming from
mo sal! Mr.. Yale this afternoon, that this
i. ,mrlv a victory over Hamilton Fish.
am mo-, an Odnil man or an anti-Odell
man. am not an a~nti-RoosevcIt mar
nor an anti-lIiggins man. | wanted to get
contaminated. Nj. Fish didn't want me
n 90 back t. Albany, When ! declared
for Frank $. Black for Senator, in oppo-
.tion TO Mr., Dopew, notice was served on
NE thai | could rot go back TO Albany. l
did 20 back. When | voted for Merritt for
Sneaker last January the same notice was
served an me. All / have to say is that |
have won again, or rather that the people
Of this county have had their way.
WI. Fish dii all he could to beat me. lie
used President kooSeyclt's name openly
in the work. He had the benefit or tie
Federal patronage. and the Higgins ad-
minis alton to which | am not antago-
nlslic, Used the State patronaget to beat Inc.
They failed; that is, Mr.. Fish failed. l
yention. | voted for Higgins as against
Woodruff in the last State convention. |
think MIR. Fish, whose lieutenant | used to
be in this county, went too far in dragging
N the President in this fight.
Il am not against Mr., Roosevelt, but
and my friends resented emphatically
the effort to drag the President and the
Governor into our county politics and we
have won out. 1t is not an Odell victory.
II is simply a victory of Jack Yale against
Hamilton Fish. That is all there is to it,"
For six weeks there has been the hottest
It.I g ,,1tiNa 1Dtpn on in thiE county
The Republican caucuses have been crowded
and the Democratic newspapers have
charged that the Republicans have paid as
high as $50 a vote. In one place It is charged
that there were more votes polled by the
two factions than the entire vote at the
last election, when the Democrats carried
the district in question. Mr.. Fish made two
visits in the interest of defeating Yale.
He came to Carmel and met his followers.
He went to Peekskill and sent for a lot
more Of his men from this county to meet
him there. At the first his friends made
Of the situation. The Yale men went up
there two weeks ago and after an all day
fight carried the district,
The Fish men charged that Yale was an
0dell man and that he had served the county
sufficiently long. 1t was pointed out that
he had no occupation but politics and yet
seemed prosperous. The ale men as
serted that no Assemblyman had ever
done so much for the county as Yale and
that HOlnilton Fish simply wanted to be-
q the boss of the county again. They
said they resented his use of Mr. Roose-
vet's name and they pointed to a letter
Mr.. Fish had sent to his friends IN Adams
Corners asking that certain delegates be
chosen, in which he said.
A vote for the above delegates is a vote
for men who will stand by President Roose-
welt and who will elect delegates to the
State convention in harmony with nm
and his policies"
The Yale men also made much capital
Of the fact that Mr.. Fish was rich and Mr..
Yale was poor and the sympathies OF those
in favor OF the poor we're aroused.
When the convention met in the court
house to-day it was a %foregone conclusion
that Yale would win, There was only
one contest and that was over the Cole
Spring district in PHILLIP stown. Clinton
Ryder, pres lent Of the local bank here
was elected temporary chairman anc
George b. Griffith was made secretary,
The Cold Spring contest was referred to q
committee of three. two Yale men and one
Fish man. II was declared that the Flss
delegates had held a snap caucus OF foui
minutes duration and that it ended insteac
Of having been begun at exactly : O'Clock
Inc committee was unanimous in voting
Tor the Vale men and they were seated
without a struggle.
test vote came when Yale's> name wa;
presented for denomination. The FIST
men had no leader. A. j, Miller eulogizec
Yale and then some one Of the Fish factor
called out the name of John c. Riggs, post
master Of Nelsonyille, as the candidate o.
the opposition. A vote quickly followed
r. and Yale won out by 10 to 81. There was
hg shouting and singing time by the 1al'
n men and the Fish men simply mutteret
threats, One or two said openly that they
would I've heard from at the polls.
f. Having shown their strength the lalt
lacion fni she'd the county ticket as follows
Sheriff, Darrell Kent; County Treasurer, Ed
ward ID Stanuard; hi strict Attorney, VIZ
Weeks; Coroner, Chester Smith. All thes
We're nominated by a vote of 43 to %. Reso
mtions Of the p~erfunctory kind wert
adopted indorsing the administrations o
Roosevelt and Higgins and approving tn
work OF Congressman ketcham. State Sen
s'or Smith and Assemblyman Yale.
Mr.. Fish did not attend the convention
Mr, Yale came down from Albany on Frida,
70 mend his fences and to watch Mr.. Fish
he learned promptly that Mr.. Fish woult
not be on hand and he sent despatche
70 Albany telling a legislative delegate
mat intended to come down and labo
LOT Yale that they need not be present
sehlsdelegation had PROMISE to be on hanc
~SenatoTs Bracket and Malby and Assem-
eyInen Wade, Burnett and Merritt.
MI Yale III his conversation to-day mad
II pam that he looked upon Bracket
canvass for Governor f~avorahly, The Fis
ueegates left town as soon as the CONVEX
Toh ended, in n ~disgruntled frame of minc
me Yale men STAYED, and tonight her
anu IN Brewster hilarity Of the usual Kin