Show New Yorks Governor Is Iss IsI I Platts s Confidential n I iNe I New ew York Journal Journ I it t f ih lb I h dust kicked up by the i aj HSU I It t I iti emerges with startling J tn Iu ss the figure of Benjamin B Ft BI I I I T To r nfl all men he is the governor i t I t I this thi stole state to the lew f w who ki ui him he is more than this Int i the th III shadows shadow Senator Platt is isi i i 11 I I t worn out by years y ars in 1111 I l I and ami in his lite place as aa 1 i of If the Republican or nl u 1 n 1 t a deli Udell I H 14 lk win will ill to be the master manter i i r II li eases ates S to be governor His Hib Hibi l i i 1 i i is upon the throttle of the Re ReI I I and Republican ins m all till over the state are loudly aring allegiance e to him w tt uh th his hi coming will come a new newT T r hf f things There is about him himM himI J M fa of tit I the feebleness of Morton J th arrogance arro gance ance or OC independence e of ofT T r I of if if the inconsistencies of oft l Ill t dell Odell is a practical pelt poli nuan Irian 1 ai Hf Hi JS is as cold as u ice and ADd as ast t h as man can tan be and stay alive stud tu f his features tells some C f 1 his nature raft Craft lies In his nib yOs H i in his bulging im n lameness r 8 in his straight II L ith tenacity in his thick k 11 1 I mentality in his high broad rit li 1 Where here he j gets ts his disregard 1 l I ihn pinion is not so clear But Buti i ura vt i stands out most moat 1 ns ni uusi J wy ly That is s his slyness s shat it hat hai 1111 4 thinks he does not say any y 1 1 t is I his hi that a mans t k his love loe letters should i 1 MI 11 and sealed H ii li I nits at itt every question He Hev v 1 i thinks think it over oer and then he be hey hei S1 i y an au an nv r that may be Ix twisted H In 4 sh demanded demand by future m n For example T Th I M hants association asked I 1 h i fa favored ored the repeal of the theater ater act Instead of ol direct t tI I ns to t the question as Stanch Stanchil il n I ii ll wrote a long ong letter in inh h 1 h 11 sud tid u H t i t tie tion this tide remedial i 1 n h h take Lake must depend of ofIr 1 Ir 1111 the obstacles to be over overl v l i 1111 i Mocks bIO s of r f ten letter came camet 1 1 I if I t 1 1 i aid I I it u was a forgery fo ry because J f ed his signature ture with t 11 1 I of the State Com Corn h hn n he was wms nu charged with Uh h r IK Ii Governor Roose Roo e eh I h Mayor Major Van I Ul m I the I he ire ice e trust case he said j the telegram and for forto I I IUM to the fact fat that thal the tRe sI I n n f a barren of the Jr 1 x of M 1 ll 1 h b multiplied indefinitely iT n h H I walking talking along the street i Ib K body v lately along alon close to the then I y n is if desiring to avoid at atM I I 1 M I lu last to two legislative s see seedS s sv st v t l as dS in m Albany He was wu 11 T 11 l h an any legislator or vial In I thin the th of f the tM capitol al 1 Ii h was as always there I rb nril u Ii hiding biding place was as in the i 1 nf f Speaker S Nixon Nhon or of Hernor Woodruff He lie Hee j I I hf h e secluded places which 1 hd 1 b th t the back staircases II ih irh he was un n his hand band 2 HI b i t very I person interested In Ini f Is n I i i If jf Odell Oden I objected to a bill I I h favored it votes enough ith l I y found to pass it iL I 11 1 had d aId a the word wont wo the tb k i VI tIld I have ve been ben r repealed P but Ul 1 the company from as asi l l n Ih iV th the employers Ha lIa Hae I i hili i T h e Passed paNed th the bill biu to i system of ot railroad IlI t t the of th the bUt bill I t I Ia I a u 0 ont of th the things he thi st at g t 1 tort too tt lon long for tot reproduction H lii wa r t baneful one oneas pJ him i ry I tor habitually referred I III dI as aa a 1 a Io i A atc He itt Hint him In this The Its LU 0 f p a rw et i gain jain and for this reason a moderately mod I decent de enl person occasionally pursues it itI I for short periods to tide him hint over the I stress of misfortune But it is rare to a man mati who 00 is rich and well look looking lOt lag take to w this trade and ding cling to it I Ifor for or the sake of money Odell Od is one of I these the rare birds OdeUs rise lise to the highest place plate w with in the gift tt of the voters v of the state and to absolute control of the Republican Republican lican machine has been rapid A few fw r w years ago he was Odell Odeil of New burg a provincial politician of purely local influence He had entangled himself in the ice business and andin andin in the electric business of his own town and nd had bad prospered through the entanglement ement I Platt Piatt picked him up as a member of the state committee and twice sent I him to the house of representatives As Asa Asi i a member of or congress he was never I heard herd of He remained in the ruck 1 and his biB head bead never appeared above the I i heads beads of the mob I In ISH lS he lie went to Saratoga as a candidate for the for gov governor gO I Aldridge of canal infamy was wasa a rival candidate Platt put them both aside for tor he be feared reared that the naming of such lIuch men as Odell or r Aldridge would bring defeat to the pc p part Again in 1898 1 Odell Oden sought Ku ht to get the nomination but he withdrew when it was made near dear to him that he could not win 1 His weakness as a candidate candid te was recognized by all lill Republican certainty that state is issues issues sues and nd candidates s would wo ld be lost sight of in the national fight this year y r resulted in nomination His apparent reluctance to accept the nomination was a farce Every ma machine machine chine politician in the state wanted him nominated for they had grown weary of oC governors gov who balked at practical political schemes or 01 who were always yelling reform and anti talking about put civic honesty So Odell was wa nominated and on New Years day he will become the governor I Platt PiaU has s watched the course cOUn e of Ocell Oell O en with many signs of admiration He sees in his successor qualities which he himself lacked Odell Otten is huh bold 1 where Platt is iM timid Odell caret care nothing about public opinion opinIon ion while Platt is sensitive about it Odell is smooth and quiet under all ail circumstances while Plat Fiat is liable to grow crusty and savage under adverse pressure A little while ago Piatt Platt said of ot Odell Odeli He has as been one of my faithful leaders for many years He has had my confidence he has kept faith With me he has ha disclosed great ability as asan asan an organizer he be has helped bring to together together gether ther conflicting interests and he has bas achieved results resu 1 tJI It is not surprising therefore that he h has my unbounded confident c and esteem Platt is still watching Odell with un unabated una unabated abated a ted interest and Platt chuckles every eer eyed time h he thinks of th the enthusiasm sm tot that frills fills the Republican ma machinists when they think of the things Odd Odeli Od may do doThe doThe doThe The old practical politicians see near at hand the dawn of a day when reformers will be cast out of public and when wIlen the casting out will benefit the Faithful That Odell intends to do away with the methods practiced by Roosevelt in distributing patronage patron ge is believed to tobe tobe tobe be certain t I tAs As a politician of the most practical type Odell OdelI it is said wit will not tolerate the holding of a lucrative elliot by any man who cannot pay the party well for top it In cash or votes vote or Influence Already a list of those who profited by Roo friendship has been prepared and the cheerful l intelligence teas has ben bren br en gleaned that Udell will be bea beable able a to drive nearly all aJl of them out of the f public service before belore the u of his bIg term as governor Old Republican machinists like Louis BV F Pyne of Columbia George Gorge W V Ald Aid oC Thomas Wheeler of t t 1 Q J 0 Oneida Jin n of Ontario and Jacob ot Kings gs see a a nev ne era crt of prosperity opening before them Daily they flutter the leaves of or the ther red r d book to learn what w at vacancies in inthe int inthe the t public service will take place dur during durIng ing lag th the tb next two years ears Joy filled their hearts when they learned that there are 1 more mere than a score of them with patronage amounting to nearly a million dollars annually Here are a few of the places that Odell will be called upon to 1111 Superintendent of public works Superintendent of public buildings state architect Three tax commissioners ioner Commissioner of labor statistics Factory Inspector Superintendent of banks railroad commissioners Commissioner of excise Commissioner er of agriculture Commissioner ner of mediation and arbi arbitration arbItration arbitration T Three ble lunacy commissioners loners friends mends say that he will yield to the demands of his friends to turn these jobs over to new men in order that certain plans he h has already 3 1 rett laid for a f t ie chine may ma be carried out i v Among these plans pW fe lb f it 1 scheme to build over the machine in this county General Greene who was made chairman of the here through the insistence of Governor j Roosevelt is 15 it is said asId to t de tie capitation at the December nesting of o othe the county committee f 1 t 1 There Is also a scheme to get rid of I some of the old district leaders Odell I has been quoted as having said that a Republican mayor can be elected here I next year if the usual method of oJ dick dickering dickering ick ering with the enemy can n be avoided I This alleged method if It ft really ex cx exists I has been winked at by PIaU in past campaigns and und that the he leaders will fight to retain their places Is fa certain er I tain tam Odell Odeil may not go so far as to Invite an open combat with any ny of or the theold theold theold I old leaders but he is Ia surely anxious to inject some new blood into int the organ organization I if It he be can i iOdell Odell i is 46 48 years old The promise i is that when the last page of Ids His life fife 1 is turned his history will be as tillS inter interesting eatIng esting as the story of the life of Platt Piatt I |