The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

New YORK city, ECan9, Democrats end
Independents, that as the municipal oam-
paign progressee any number Of mushroom
political organizations are to spring up.
Several are already In the field. In other
words. 1t is admitted that In the approach
ing struggle for control Of New York city
for the next four years these minor orgauiza-
lions for numbers are to be like ~blueberries
on O mountainside. II was so In the
G~rant-Strong campaign OF 1904. the Tracy
Iow-van Wyck campaign Of 1897, In the
Low-McClellan campaigns Of 1901 and 1903,
and In tho McClellan-Ivins-H Hearst cam
paign Of 1908.
All OF these minor organizations want .
finger In the pie. After the Strong victory
Of 1894 and the Low victory Of 1901 neither
Strong nor Low slept o. nights because Of
the Unsuitable demands Of their mushroom
followers for ONCE. Many Of these organ
izationsin years gone by have been started
for no other purpose than Office holding.
The gers Of the regular organizations.
Republicans and Democrats, speak Of these
organizations and their leaders as guer
rillas and pirates. and so on, and so forth.
But 1t has been thus In New York city poll
tics for t%hirty-five years and more. Now
York city is not alone afflicted by these
mushroom political organizations. Chi.
cago and st. Louis especially have taken
lessons from New York city In this business.
In close elections the political managers OF
the regular organizations cannot ahord to
wink at these minor organizations. at least
they haven't overlooked them In past
years. but while they are recognized to q
certain extent they are looked upon as just
30 many m~ercenaries and camp followers In
the battle.
While the leaders OF the regular organiza-
tons speak OF the managers of the minor
organizations, the numerous concerns which
spring up In almost every New York city
campaign, as villains. abandoned wretches
and Office grabbers. the latter 60 right on
cutting bread and butter. hurting back re-
joinders to the Ell ect that the bosses Of the
regular organizations are not 10 be per-
mitted to pig everything in sight.
A number OF Orange county Republicans
have been In town within the last few days
and have given further details Of the eff orts
of Senator John h. Rose and his friends to
GUST BENJAMIN B. Odell, Jr., from control
OF the Equalization in Newburgh. in Orange
county and in the Senate and the Congress
districts. These Republicans said they
were friendly to Mr.. 0dell and that he
wasn't beaten yet by any means, notwith-
standing the claims Of Senator Rose and
the Senator's friends. These Republicans
went on to say. t hough. that unless Mr..
Odell got a move on him-that was the
phrase used-he would certainly be beaten
In the fight.
Some Of these Republicans did not hesi-
tate to say that Gov. Hughes had turned
over to Senator Rose all the patronage Of
the Senate district. while William Barnes.
Jr., OF Albany. had patched up his dill err
enoes with Mr.. Odell sufficiently to give
C. l.. Waring. hitherto looked upon as Mr..
Odell's chairman OF the city committee Of
Newburgh, a plum or Two from the Comp
t~roller's office. The Odell people insist that
Senator Rose is either taking Gov. Hughes's
name In vain or that the Governor Is con-
versaut with what Is going on-the efforts
Of Senator Rose and other Hughes men to
capture next year the Republican State
organization so that the Governor nay
perhaps become a factor in the national
campaign OF 1912.
The main struggle. it was added. between
the Odell people and the Rose folks for
control Of Orange county and the eventual
control OF the Senate and Congress dis
tricts for the ultimate purpose OF seating
Rose in Odell's place In the Republican
State committee will come at the primaries
In NtWDuTku WIS an oNtl ti0 '
OF q Mayor Of the city and a Sheriff OF the
county.
In view OF recent events connected with
the American Sugar Refining Comp any
Democrats with memories have said within
the last day or two that they can still hear
Calvin Stewart Brice. chairman Of the
Democratic national committee in 1888.
.,r.,. 81 the anpor Cnnnany anH aapH RI
perdifion all its managers. These Demo-
Gratis insist that the attitude OF Cleveland s
first Administration as manifested through
Charles S. Fairchild. Secretary of the Treas
ury, the successor Of Daniel Manning.
toward the sugar company relieved the
managers of the company from turning in
campaign funds to their national ee
that year.
These Democrats went on to say that
Col. Brice In his profanity was picturesque.
wasn't, they add, Of the lurid % vulgar
kind; 1t was simply and to their minds de-
lightfully ornate and iowery.
Former Gov. Myron T. Herrick. Re-
publican. OF Ohio will without doubt. IL
is asserted. turn up as a candidate for
States Senator to succeed Charles
Dick of Akron. whose term expires March
3, 1911. At least this is the prophecy OF
Ohio Republicans who have been in town
the last two or three days. They
add hat there Ia no possibility that Dick
can succeed himself.
The Ohio State campaign OF 1910, when
the Republicans hope TO defeat Gov. Har-
mons reelection. promises to be as notable,
In the judgment OF these Ohio Republicans.
as the campaign OF 1890. when William A.
was nominated for Governor by the
Republicans against John r. Mclean.
In the latter campaign even the
late Marcus A. Hanna was very greatly
over the result and at one time
feared that Nash would be beaten by Nc
In hat event Mckinley. losing his
own State q year before the national con-
Of 1000. might ~ been greatly
embarrassed, according to these political
historians from Buckeye land. But Nash
easily won by $4,000 majority. II was In
that campaign. shooting from one end OF the
State to the other. that the late Senator
Hanna established his record as a clear
cut. forcible. straight from the shoulder
campaign orator.
Ohio has had four Democratic Governors
10 thirty years. Hoadly. Campbell. Patter-
son and Harmon.
1t has been already mentioned In this
column that II will be a tight squeeze be-
'ween Herbert Parsons and Timothy j..
Woodruff as to who will have the master
say In the Republican city convention
is to nsme a candidate for Mayor