The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-08
BRACKETT WOULD Stir Ell UP
ANNOUNCED CANDIDACY FOR Gov
ERNOR MAKES TALK.

He Has Practically Flung Down the Gage
OF Battle tO Senator Platt-"Ntxy" In
OweEo Dutch Mr.. Piatts Recent
Reply to an Overture From OdeIl.
The authoritative announcement that
Senator Edgar Truman Bracket Of Sara
toga Springs will go before the Republican
State convention in September as a candl-
date for Governor was discussed by Repub-
leans down this way yesterday. The am
nouncement was accompanied by this
statement, sent out in printed form;
No matter what the politicians may do or
say about the Bracket candidacy, there Is
no doubt that Saratoga and other counties
on the northern tier want the Senator for
Governor. and they will make their desires
manifest formally in the near future.
Since Senator Braokett's advent in Albany
the Saratoga district has been represented
well and the interests of the State at large
have not been neglected. While the Senator
from the Twent y-eighth has been classed
and ranks az a Republican, and a partisan
one at that, when he felt his party was In the
right, he never has hesitated to cut loose and
act Independently when he was convinced
his party was In the wrong.
Instances Of this sort were his refusal to
support Thomas c. Plat for reelection tothe
United States Senate and his vote for Elihu
Root, now Secretary of State, as New York's
repr sentative in the Federal Senate; his
stubborn refusal.to stand with the corpora
ton Senators" In their protection Of the life
insurance company officials as against what
he considered the rights of the policyholders
his championship of the employers liability
bill and other measures in the interests OF
organized labor and his effort to induce the
State Senate to call Upon Chaunoey NJ. Depew
to resign az Junior Senator for New York
State.
Senator Brackett's recent visits to Wash
ington, his makeup with President Roose-
welt, the two having been somewhat
~estranged since the President was Cover
nor, the fact that Senator Bracket has
been looked upon as Gov. Higgins's cham
pion in the Senate and various other matters
led Republicans hereabouts to say that
Bracket would make things lively from
this me on. Bracket, they added, a
temperamentally strong in his friendships
and almost diabolical in his enmities, but
that he had a backbone like a church steeple
and wasn't afraid of his enemies no matter
in what dark alleys he encountered them.
Alto gether, it was said, Senator Brackett's
candidacy would be viewed as an exhilarat-
ing March blast In ordinarily stiff winters,
while he has demonstrated his ability to
axe care of his own political fortunes.
He filings down the gage Of battle praeti-
cally to Senator Plat. That was a Plat tian
tactic, it was recalled, by the friends OF
both Platt and Bracket, If Bracket had
he couldn't have followed more aptly the
Tioga chieftain's methods in the past
in innumerable contests, Platt opposed
MoKinley's nomination for President at
st. Louis IL 1895. was beaten and climbed
in for McKinley's election every hour Of
the day and night. No man, save possibly
Matthew Stanley Quay himself. opposed
at first to Mckinley was stronger with the
last Ohio President than Platt; Platt's
career furnishes a score of similar Incidents.
Formerly Platt and Bracket were
friendly. Now the best that can be said
is that they don't make grimaces at each
other as much in public.
The announcement Of Senator Brackets
candidacy brought out a bit OF news which
may or may not be considered pertinent
to the general situation in the State 80 far
as Republican politics is concerned. There
was a great flourish of trumpets at the
Amen Corner inner In February because
Odell left his seat at the dinner and in the
Plat. Several days later Odeli sent a
representative to Washington with the re-
quest that bygones should be bygones
between himself and Mr.. Platt. Senator
Platt wouldn't have it for a second.
aNixy," he said in Owego Dutch. He de-
clared to 0dell's messenger:
II won't discuss Mr.. Odell with you nor
anything appertaining to him, am in
clined to regaTj II AZ a bit of impertinence
for you to come TO me with any mission or
any description from Mr.. Odell. Let him
60 his way"
Mr.. Odell has also made similarly futile
efforts TO make up with Frank Black.
When Odell and Black meet incidentally at
the Lawyers Club it is Ben and Frank
lust as in former days. Near at hand
there are pussY Willows in huge vases.