The New York herald., 1921-01-04
MILLER REAL BOSS,
/ PARTYLEADERS IN
ALBANY DISCOVER
New : Governor Has Con-
vinced All He Will Give
Not Take Orders.
MESSAGE OWN WORK
None Has His Confidence as
to Big Problems to
Be Outlined.
OPPOSITION is CERTAIN
Will Be Felt When He Seeks
to Put His Ideas Into
State Laws.
MESSAGE OWN WORK
OPPOSITION is CERTAIN

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HEaALp.
New York Herald Bureau,
Albany Jan. 3.
New York State has a new Repub-
lican leader and there is in progress a
rev deal for the party organization.
Even before Gov Miller's first mes
sage TO the Legislature has been read
and before the new administration has
gotten into its stride, State and county
chairmen and big and little politicians
have concurred in the conclusion that
the man who has just stepped into the
front office of the State Capitol Is
going to give orders and not take
them.
The leaders who came here last week
to tell the Governor what to do and
how TO do it, have gone home without
having seen him. They know now
that the message which came out or
the Executise Chamber last week
through the State chairman that only
through the State chairman--that only
asked to serve the State-was true.
every word of it.
So far as Is known. the Governor has
not consulted with any of the big organ
ization leaders OF the State regarding
his message, completed last night and
now in the hands of the printer, in
which he will announce his programme
Of reconstruction Of the State govern
ment. The leaders. who are usually on
tie inside say they are as much in the
dark as the public regarding the big
measures which the Governor is expected
to bring forward within few hours.
New Brand OF Leader.
1t is q brand new kind OF leadership
and a brand new situation which the
county bosses are facing and which has
so confused them they have given ~
trying to do anything about it at pres
ent, and have gone away to await devel-
opments
Horace Wilkinson's announcement to
office seekers that he was not the party
boss. and that "the new State boss was
the man up In the executive mansion
Miller is going to run things in New
York State for the next two years.
The veteran leaders. who now are
bowing to the new Governor and are
awaiting developments, are skilled in
the operations Of practical politics. They
have been through other new deals in
the history ,f their party in this State
and are vet alive and doing business.
Included in the number are George w.
Aldridge, William Barnes and William
J.. Ward.
They fought through the Odell cam
paigns. when the Governor-chairn1an
made himself absolute, master of the
State machine. They recall the days
when Charles L. Hughes stepped into
office and without consulting them or
accepting eher advice dictated the
party's course from an aloofness which
marked the breach between the pMry
organization and the administration.
Their contest with Whitman who tried
TO make himself State leader is still
fresh In the minds OF office holders and
legislators.
While there are points of comparison
between the present situation and each
OF these three distinct phases OF organ
ization history in this State. conditions
now are unlike anything that even the
veteran politicians have ever faced, They
recognize In the new Governor man
of superior intellect and courage, who
is backed by popular sentiment for the
reforms which he declares the party
must support or 20 out OF business. The
state leaders do not expect the new
Governor to be as brutal as was Odell or
rs idcalistic and impractical as was
Mr. Hughes. and are confident that he
viii display much better political judg-
ment than did Mr.. Whitman.