The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-13
TO GUST ODELL IN ORANGE
HIS OPPONENTS MEET HERE
AND IN NEWBCRGH.
Senator Roses Friends Insist That the
EX.GO,ernor's Power Must End
Both Sides n eady TO Cry Traitor and
10 Point 10 Democratic Successes.

as Republican leader Of Orange county
and to retire him as State committeeman
for the Twentieth Congress district were
completed on Friday at the
Club in the Hotel Man
when State Senator John Is.
Rose Of Newburgh met members OF the
Republican city committee
and the county committee OF Or-
ange. There have been a number OF
these meetings. some Of them IN New
York city and others in Newburgh and
in Orange county. Most OF
them have been held with an effort Tor
and complete secrecy.
The most notable meeting was held
in this city at the Hotel Marlborough
on May 10 and this conference lasted
over that day into the next. There
were two versions Of this Hotel Mari
borough meeting yesterday. one to the
effect that Senator Rose invited the con-
ference. while another was that the con-
ferees requested Senator Rose to be-
come the new Richmond Of Dram &c county
in the effort to depose Mr.. Odell. There
we're at this Hotel Marlborough con-
ference fourteen Of the twenty members
OF the Newburgh Republican city com
mittee; later there was another meet
ing at which sixteen of the twenty mem-
bers participated, and still later there
was another meeting Of the entire COM
mittee in Newburgh. at which c. l..
Waring, chairman, presided. Members
of the Newburgh Republican city COM
mittee as we'll as members of the Orange
county committee asserted yesterday
that at all these gatherings there was a
practically unanimous demand for the
reorganization OF the Republican organ
ization in the city of Newburgh and in
the county of Orange. While several
of these committeeman and Senator
Rose himself declared that a factional
warfare in the city and county was far
from their wishes. they also added that
the Newburgh Republican city COM
mittee had officially decided that in the
nominations for city officers as well
as for county officers there must be no
further dictation on the part OF MIR. Odell,
but that all nominations must be made
by the city and county committees.
Senator Rose was directed to travel
through Orange county and see to It that
Mr.. Odell's influence should be reduced
to its maximum minimum.
While Senator Rose and several OF his
friends said yesterday that a factional
warfare in Newburgh city and in Orange
county was to he d%eplored. there were
members Of the city and county
committees who insisted that the war
fare to dethrone MIR. Odell was on fiercely;
that there had been efforts on the part
Mr.. Odell and his friends to bring about
a compromise. but that the day for com
promise had gone by and that the present
struggle would not end until Mr.. Odell
was the victor or the loser. In the contest
the denomination OF Senator Rose a year
from this fall is involved. Senate Roses
harked back yesterday to the time
he was a candidate for the Senate
nomination for the district. now the
which includes h counties
OF Orange and Sullivan, and was defeated
in the convention by ex-senator Louis F.
Goodsell Of Highland Falls by one vote.
Mr.. OdelI, it was declared, said at the time
that he did not believe Mr.. Goodsell could
be reelected if renominated, and sure
enough Mr.. Goodsell was soundly drubbed
by his Democratic adversary, John c. r.
Taylor OF Middletown.
Last fall Senator Rose was nominated
as the Republican adversary OF Senator
Taylor and won by 1913, although Orange
county Republicans have invariably in
sisted that the normal Republican ma
iority in the Senate district, both in the
old Twenty-fourth. which was made up of
Rockland and Orange. and in the new
Twenty. fifth. which is made up of Orange
and Sullivan. is 5000.
Some Orange county Republicans have
questioned the loyalty OF MIR. Odell's
organization to Mr.. Rose, and others have
said that Mr.. Taylor was a mighty strong
man, the strongest Democrat that could
been named, and that Rose and his
friends should congratulate themselves
that he got any majority at all. M that
his chances for election over Mr.. Taylor
would have been slender indeed had it
been a Presidential year. However
that may be, it was learned on indubitable
authority yesterday that the course OF
Senator Rose at Albany last winter l
not please Mr.. Odell nor Mr.. Odell's friends
in control Of the Orange county organiza-
ton.
Senator Rose supported Gov. Hughes's
measures, and the Senator would not take
orders from MIR. Odell. Senator Rose
told his friends yesterday that he was
willing to confer with any and all Repub-
licans in Orange county on party matters.
but that he would not take orders from
Mr.. Odell or ally party boss in the county.
The feeling against Senator Rose ran so
high over his course at Albany that the
Senator's friends were very free IN say
ing Yesterday that Mr.. t'dell wrote a
number Of editorials in the Newburgh
.ju,irnal which bitterly attacked Senator
Rose and that Mr.. Odell announced sew
eral months ago in the City Club Of New.
burph that Rose cannot he renominated
in 1910 for Senator, and IL he is renomi-
mated he will be defeated.
From the time that these editorials in
the Newhnrgh journal alleged tn have
been written by Mr.. Odell were printed,
and from the hoir that Mr.. Odell is as
serted to have made that remark in the
City Club OF Newburgh concerning Sena.
tor Roses denomination and reelection,
the fight 10 dethrone Mr.. Odell MS Repub-
lican leader OF Orange county and to
retire him as state committeeman for the
Congress district has been waged In the
heroest fashion. There is no other rnr-
pose to this struggle. according to Repuh.
leans Of Orange county yesterday, but
the ultimate s%upplanting OF Mr.. Odefl
by Senator Rose both as leader OF the
county and as State committeeman for
the Congress district.
Senator Rose declined yesterday ia
speak specifically OF what occurred at the