The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02
DADY.E WOODRUFF FIGHT.
NOT IN FEARS HAS THERE BEEN
SUCH A PRIMARY SCRAP.

D&dy Denies He IL Following Instructions
From NewOurEh-9ayu He wants TO
Give Republicans Opposed TO Higgins
re-. . Chance-WOrth Cohorts with Him.
Not since the days when the late Senator
Jacob Worth was turned down and former
Lieuteuant-Govoverno Timothy L Woodruff
succeeded to the Republican leadership Of
Kings county has there been such a primary
fight in Brooklyn as is now being wsRed
between Woodruff, representing Roose-
velt and Higgins, and Field Marshal Mike
Dady, representing Chairman Odell. Each
is confident OF victory.
Il am not making a fight for the leader
ship" Dady said yesterday. Il do not
want it and wouldn't take it. The state
ment that | am the Odell mouthpiece and
am following instructions from Newburgh
or from anywhere else Is absolutely false.
This fight is not inspired by Odell, but by
the situation. Our intention is to give
the Republicans of Brooklyn, who think
it would be a great mistake to renominate
Higgins, a chance to say so. The leader
ship will take care Of ITSELF"
Dady's statement that the present fight
ia not inspired by Odell made many Re
publicans laugh yesterday.
IF it Is not inspired by Odell," asked
a Republican leader, why Is Il that neither
Dady nor his friends took any part in it
until they had consulted Odell. Why,
Jake Livingston is the man who brought
the present fight to a climax. He voted
with Woodruff at the State committee
and then when Odell called him to task
and said, If this motion to make Linn
Bruce temporary chairman Of the Repub-
liCan Gtata nOnvpnti0n pnavaila H. will ha
heralded abroad that I have suffered a
defeat. thought that l could rely upon
you Then IL was that Livingston recon-
sidered his vote, and by doing 30 turned
publican defeat. That has been the trouble
in the past. Kings county Republicans
have never been a unit and for hat reason
never presented a solid front with power
behind il at a State convention. That
is what Woodruff is fighting for. He wants
to make the Kings county Republican or
ganizatiOn strong, 80 strong in fact that
It will be a power in State politics, and Odell
does not want that power to exist, and
therefore he has lined Dady and his fol-
lowers up TO fight Woodruff. 40 that there
will be a divided delegation to the State
convention. And yet Dady has the temerity
to say that Odell has not inspired the fight"
Dady said yesterday that II Charles r.
Hughes, the man he was asked TO talk for
up to primary day, would not ACCEPT
the NOMINATION. LneTb WcTt sJ'OnR men,
such a. Linn Bruce, Joseph II. Choate,
senator Bracket and Gen. Hora u Porter,
who, would be pre- cradle TO HHgins.
jacob A. Bivir z ton was a visitor at
Dady's Office yes'e-dav. He said he was
opposed to hig1n'; but I itended to stand
by the agreement ne had mIde with mr..
Woodruff, and that his delegation to the
State convention would be unpledged and
would vote with the majority Of the Kings
county delegates.
Field Marshal Daily, aware that the old
friends OF Jacob Worth were still true to
his memory. Is tryiT & to get them to come
in under his banner and fight Woodruff.
Former Sheriff William J. ButtliDg, is one.
ButtlinR is friendly to Odell ana il now
considering the question OF again taxing
an active part in Politics. He row lives
on the Prospect Park Slope, haVinI m wed
from his old home in the Second Assembly
district.
Former Coroner Philip T. Williams re-
sents the visit Mr.. Woodruff raid to his
district on Thursday night. Mr.. Woodruff
is supporting the fight put up by Robert
johnson in that territory agar at Williams.
Williamsis sore becauFe he wasnot appointed
deputy 10 Postmaster Robe-ta. He il
now out Of a job and is fighting under the
Odell-Dady banner.