The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-09
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gtete convention would back Mr.. Woodruff
Sog the state chairrnanship. "s"
An effort was made yesterday to get
SOME authoritative v~Sgafe4tioh, 81 Airport
that Edward II. HeatyS Deputy, Conmis-
eianer OF Excise for the boroughA Of Man
haitian and The Bronx. had been asked
for his resignation by Gov. Higgins be-
cause. OF Mr. -Healy!s .~soffensiye- partisan-
ship for Mr., .ode.l. Healy was st, Lake
George and Herbert Parsons, president OF
tho New York Republican coupty com
mttee. said that he! WaS unable 70 say
whether the report was true or not. The
author Of the story. 1t was learned, was Mr..
Odell himself, who circulated II at h Filth
Avenue Hotel on Tuesday, when Mr.. odell
aaid that Gov. Higgins and State Excise
Commissioner Clement had decided % ask
himself had nothing to say on the subject,
All this, though, was considered petty
politics, for the reason that .Odef when
Governor smashed right and left and 1t Is
an old story In politics that those who take
the sword shall perish by the sword.
Gov. Higgins didn't seem to know that
there was any public gambling In Albany.
and the Governor has been practically
O resident OF the City of Hills for twelve
years. The Governor never frequents
places Of this character. and. possibly, he
doesn't know what is going on. He denied
though that he had takepany action. against
the Saratoga gamblers because OF any
political or personal feeling against Senator
Edgar T. Bracket Of Saratoga Springs,
who has q half a dozen counties committed
to him for the nomination OF Governor,
Senator Brackets friends, though, said
yesterday that the fact that he had been
counsel for Richard Garfield, especially
during the troublesome days OF Canfeld's
s~scendancy at Saratoga Springs, mlgh IN
jure him Il, he were nominated for Governor.
Certainly" said a Republican. who Ia
very favorab BILE to Mr.. Bracket for Gov
ernor, we would have to weigh very seri-
ously Mr., Bradketts relations with Mr..
Canfield at that time, and we would have
Hearst would make it very lively for MT
Rrackett on the score Of his connection with
Mr.. Garfield. OF course 1t was only the re-
lation Of a lawyer to a client, but IN times
like this even that relationship might be
exaggerated by the opposition, to Mr.. Brack-
ett's detriment, 1t is a good deal like Gov.
Blocks appointment of Louis F. Payn to
be State Superintendent of Insurance. No
matter about Mr.. Payn's work for the Re-
publican party for nearly half a century,
to Mr.. Payn for Mr.. Payn's work in bring
ing about his nomination for Governor in
1889. Mr.. Payn's selection for the place very
materially injured Gov. Black .
That the Republican organization OF
the State Is cut up into many factions was
illustrated when it was made known that
Black and Payn do not like Woodruff; that
Black likes Barnes, and Payn doesn't like
Barnes; that Aldridge Is partial to Wood
ruff, and that between Aldridge and Barnes
there Ia a bitter enmity; that George w.
Dunn, a fellow Railroad COMMISSIONS
with Mr.. Aldridge, detests Aldridge, on
the ground that Plat made Aldridge score
tary of the Railroad Commission in former
days only to see Aldridge go over with
Odell, Black and Woodruff to humiliate
Senator Plat and take from the Tioga
chieftain his Republican leadership of the
State.
Mr.. Parsons doesn't like Mr.. Woodruff,
because Mr.. Woodruff election as State
chairman would result, 1t was tated, in
Mr.. Woodruff g trying to make all of the five
boroughs Of New York city into one colossal
Republican ma chine. Mr.. Quigg, it was
said, would very much prefer Mr.. Barnes
as State cha irman, and yet Mr.. Quigg at the
present time is the political friend Of Field
Marshal Daddy, who is fighting Mr.. Wood
ruff for the supremacy in Kings county.
There are Just about twoscore Of similar
stories Of factional friction now going on
among the Republicans in their State gan
ization and apparently they are becoming
more bitter and, more acute as convention
day approaches. But that the delay In
calling the Republican State committee
together for the purpose Of naming a time
and place for the State convention Is the
handiwork Of Chairman Odell, whom Gov.
Higgins has kept In his plaoe was admitted
by all classes OF Republicans yesterday.