Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-24
Planning War on Parsons
Woodruff Faction.
NEW YORK POT SETTLING
Lineup of State Committee Ex-
pected March z.
Question of Choosing New Members
May Arise to Test Divisions.
Battle Counted On.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK. February 24.-Chairman
Woodruff Of the republican state commit
tee is to return to headquarters tomorrow
from his camp in the Adirondacks, where
he has been resting for two weeks. AS
soon as he returns he will issue the for
NAL call for the meeting of the committee
ing the committee will issue the call for
the state convention, which will elect
the four delegates-at-larse TO the TO ma
tiOnal convention.
The fight for control of the state organi-
cation is now on in earnest. The former
governor and state chairman, B. b. Odell.
jr., who is leading the fight to overthrow
the oodruff-Parsons faction. has estab-
lished headquarters in parlor 80 of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel While no positive
statement has been made by any one in
authority. it is expected that there Will
be a lineup of factions in the meeting
of the state committee March q. A fight
may come over the form of the call for
the state convention. 1t is proposed to
include in the call provision for the selec-
convention meets in April.
Selection Of Committee.
A committee elected at that time would
hold office until the regular state conven
ton of 1910 and would be in control of the
party machinery in the state through two
important campaigns.
Both factions in the party are now
sounding the members of the state COM
mittee as to how they stand on the ques-
ton OF electing new committee i'm April.
Whichever faction is in control will be
willing to have a new committee elected
provided their control extends to the dele
gates from a majority of the congress
districts. The republican state commit
tee Is composed of one member from each
congress district and one from the state
ton can control the committee at the
meeting March they will be able to post
pone until the regular state convention in
the fall the election of new members.
That would keep them in control during
the early part of the national campaign.
Mr.: Odell has not told his friends wheth-
er or not he expects to force a lineup of
the state committee March z. but he is at
his headquarters almost daily. and the
politicians who talk with him say that he
is in the fight with all his old-time vim
and vigor. The last time that Mr.. Odell
caused a line up of the state committee he
lost by a vote of 81 to 4. That was i'm May
of last year. when he offered the original
Hughes Endorsement resolution, which was
tabled. The question Of indorsing the gov
ernor for the party nomination for Presi-
dent may again come up in the committee
at the next meeting.
AS to Indorsing Hughes.
Notwithstanding all the bulletins and
interviews put forth by the Hughes boom
ers and press agents. no Hughes delegates
to the national convention have been
elected and no party machinery in this or
any other state has been set in motion TO
elect delegates instructed to vote for the
governor. If the state committee at its
meeting in April should pass resolution
indorsing the governor it would not be
binding on the convention in any legal
way, but it would serve notice on republi-
cans throughout the country that the state
organization was behind his candidacy.
The question now agitating republican
politicians is .'Will either faction of the
party dare offer a Hughes Endorsement
resolution March 7?'' One upstate sena-
tor said at headquarters today: IF all
thirty-eight members of the committee
are present at the meeting and a Hughes
Endorsement resolution is offered there
will be sevent-six frostbitten feet in that
room in five minutes.