Show IS NOT YET BURIED Senator Platt ofNew York Is Still on Deck BELIEVES IN THE MACHINE While in tilt Recent Republican State Convention at Saratoga There Was Danger of a End Strain and at OneTime One-Time tho Machinery Became Clogged the Senator Was Not Badly Bad-ly Squeezed and Will Continue to Head the Procession Other New York Republican Lenders CORRIiHlONDliNCIS TRiBUNE New York Sept SYon will read all sorts of stories about the terrible binashup that hue occurred In the Republican Re-publican party of the State ot Now York and all about the final paailng of Thomas Collier Platt senior Senator rnd that kind of thing Take no stock In It The Senator Is I old but they have been beating and burying him for the past thirty years nikl havenot done it jet and the chances are that they havent done It now Of course Benjamin Benja-min I Odell Governor Is more a dominating domi-nating figure In New York polities than he ever tits before but he and the Keimtor uru the best of friends as they liuvc been for years and there Is I no danger that soshrewd a politician ns Oov Odell would 10 anything but cultivate cul-tivate at Uils particular time when he needs every vote that he can get the friendship of the one man In the whole population of the State who can help him the moL At best It Is going to be a hnt d light for Odeli but he will win I because he Is a Inner becauHC there are enough votes In New York State to elect him and because he and Senator Platt will get them out MATCHLESS POLITICIAN There IP I simply another opportunity now for Thomas Collier Platt to show of Just what stuff he is made and it Is the stuff out of which vlclcrv Is made In the largest proportion of csxt t all him opportunist If you like So Is Sena tor Quay likewise another almost matchless politician That IK the way with Gorman on the other side They imiko the best of everything the best that they can The llnal appeal Is I to the voter so when you hear that this faction has elected delegates at a State 1 convention or that another one bus I been able to down Councilman soand I FO In such a ward that Is all very pret ty but tho victory tTbesnt vcome until the votes arc counted and that Is why it requires a real leader wITo hardly seems to lead but always seems to be a follower rather who will coordinate the different elements of success as the campaign progresses and finally express ex-press them throughout the party machinery ma-chinery with the added Impetus of the fi per cent or 2 per cent or 1 per I cent of additional voters who make the success suc-cess of the ticket possible That Is what the past master of the art of politics poli-tics realizes better than anyone else perhaps So even though t there was considerable danger of a bad sprain ac the Saratoga convention you will llnil the lines closing up Odell leading Platt following but really leading still When they get him really burled because be-cause the breath has left his body some two or three days before thenyou can count upon his political taking off BELIEVES IN THE MACHINE Whatever may have been said against him there are great things that can be said for him He prIzes the service of the machine In politics knows thot success cannot be attained without it He also understands the Importance of correct popular sentiments senti-ments supporting a ticket for I victory cannot be had without these either lie helped to put the gold plank through at St Louis he helped to put Theodore JtooFcvelt on the ticket and Incidentally Inciden-tally to put that astonishing campaigner cam-paigner upon the circuit He scents victory from afar or If It Is defeat that lie scents he dlscounft that upon the largest possible proportion of cases WOODRUFF A BIG fAN Next to Odell and Platt the most notable no-table personality In the Saratoga convention con-vention was Timothy Lester Woodruff LleutenantGovernor VVe dont quite Know whether he wanted a fourth nomination but lie seems to have acted that way He decided sometime rum that ho didnt want It but he wanted Kings countj Brooklyn consulted in the mutter of a choice Hence he started In to beat George rt Sheldon fOI years treasurer of the city committee commit-tee here and a Wall street banker of excellent attainments clean life and business probity but they sprung tho trust Issue I on him because he participated partici-pated for a few months In one of the rnrly consolidations and dually they bowled him out This was largely I Woodruffs doings but It Is I I not Certain whether Woodruff has Improved his standing by Ills means Of course It wiped a name off tho Platt slate and that was disagreeable but It also ne prxslttited the hurried trip of Go Odell on a special train from Albany to Sam tow late at night and an all night conference so that the Licuten antGovernor Is not as popular with Mr Odell Just now as otherwise he woultl be Of course Woodruff has am Utlons to he United States Senator bvcuupe that is I about the only promotion promo-tion tliat seenn in be In Hlgbt for him Looking at It uquarely In thc face It would not 8 < em us if I his chance to he elevated to that I olllcoeUher as It successor succes-sor of Mr Plat or Dr Depew would be improved by this latest oFcapadc at a bright young politician of 13 IS A HARD WORKER Pcmurkable man la Woodruff Inherited Inher-ited l a IH flc property not much graduated gradu-ated from Yale dressed in a ay that doesnt gel at good Job for a man to start with but Jumped right Into the liurd wode pollBhi up the handle of the big front door lifted things but be Km to ochemi1 to do business made I come lucky ventures trading consolidating consoli-dating promoting This was only a few years ago His most successful Hchcmr Wtt u patent medicine which Is hardly that clthrr because lie sells apparently ap-parently to the retailer not advertising advertis-ing to the public There Is I a mint of money In this some sty us high as 1200000 a year for Woodruffs halfIn terest abut Doubtless he malus more than that In his various enterprises among them salt or wood pulp or banking or almost anything else The other day when It appeared that the Slate fair at Syracuse of which he IP I president was going lo be 11000 short he drew hln check for the amount lie has a J100000 lodge In the Adirondack a fine houec In Brooklyn carriages nnd clothes and Jewels for Mrs Woodruff galore She wos a daughter of East man the business college man at PoUghkecpsle ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD Mr Wqotlrufs PolitIcal methods are those of a business man he has a vest pocket notebook III which everything of the slightest consequence goes Clown from hour tv hour during the day he never forgets anything ho keeps his word He spends all the money thai Iii lthlll necuspary to attain his ends legitimately legitimate-ly 1 though J believe never getting hits leg pulled at least perceptibly out of plumb wflh the other He Is I bold and adroit though perhaps not brilliant in the preparation of a speech It was he who had the New York delegation with him at leant for a ballot or two at the Philadelphia convention at which Mc Klnley and Roosevelt were nominated And It wnl he who called Hon Mark Hanna the dominating nplrlt In that convention a good sharp name or two to his face But lint was because Mr Hanna made fun of the Woodruff waistcoats You cant keep a goodman good-man down and If the Hon Tim Woodruff Wood-ruff shouldnt he United States Senator from New York within the next ten years ho would still bo n young man Just as Theodore Roosevelt will be at tho end of his eccond term TURNING DOWN 01 GODDARD At the Saratoga convention a striking strik-ing result though little noticed outside the State wnn the obliteration of Capt Norton Cod ard as a member of the State committee This Is one of the Independent Republican district leaders lead-ers of New York City He was a member mem-ber of Gov Roosevelts staff IE Immensely Im-mensely wealthy runs his great silk business every day and has done more considering the materials at hand and I the dllllcultles lo be encountered to htlp Republicanism along In the slums of the JSasl Side than any other district leader this according to the testimony of the President himself Goddanl Is I a film young nervous num whose anti policy society has done an Immense amount ot good for hc poor As a lighter light-er he Is game from the drop of the hut and of course he will be heard from In New York pollllcs later bn and then againmill later on because you can11 keep a good man down lie has bought a couple of houses over on the Eatq Side has thrown them Into a clubhouse club-house and gives un excursion to IOOO or 15000 people ea h year Just as the Tammany district leaders do In short as he hits Imitated more than all of the other Republican district leaders put together have done the wellknown and popular tactics of the Tammany lenders lend-ers that la I to say he has gone among the poor mid helped them with his efforts ef-forts as well as money which last would be easy enough he has kept them out of trouble he has got Jobs for them lIe has built this clubhouse and ho makes them use It and If a matter of 510000 for a few excursions seems to be Involved why that la I nothing ABOUT THE CHENEYS > Wonderful about some of these great maiiufuclureri and Jobbers of New Y6rk I Capt Goddards father was for years the leader In the slllc and manufacturing manu-facturing business A neighbor of his In Broome street t F AV Cheney whose I mills comprise the largest purl of the town of South Manchester In Connecticut Connecti-cut Is perhaps the largest American silk manufacturer And by the way do you hac an Idea I of the magnitude of the silk manufacturing Industry In this country In Paterson the American Lyons and In other places Here arc the Cheneys the biggest and J suppose their grandfather started the business and he may have been the first to manufacture man-ufacture silks In this country Three quarters of the silks sold In this country coun-try as Mr Cheney told me once are supposed to be Imported that is supposed sup-posed by the ladles to be Imported In this respect the ladles are deceived for onco for threequarters of the silks sold In this country arc made In America Good thing because they arc better silks Perhaps not so line for aome purposes pur-poses but Just as beautiful and Just as durable This same Mr Cheney gave me a look once at some JGOOO patterns I which his house had obtained from Japan Ja-pan all Intended for the use of his mill It was several years ago that these wore obtained and of course suclKU house keeps > abreast of the times In patterns pat-terns aa In everything now as then CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY But all through the dry goods district you find these same teal captains of Industry some of them carrying on more successfully than ever the business busi-ness of their grandfathers some start ing up alone and making fortunes by themselves Take the Clallln company the biggest merchandisers In the country coun-try J60000000 a year of business John C running the business better than his father Henry B Take the Lawrences and the Busses and the Mlnots and all the big cottonmill people handling the output of forty or fifty mills easily In fact now going Into the ownership of most of the new mills partly to be able to control their output and keep up the commission business In the old way and partly because the manufacturing Itself Is now the whole thing for the road from the mill to the consumer is getting shorter and shorter and Intermediate Inter-mediate commissions of profits of all kinds are getting eliminated more and more Same way with the Jobber he goes more and more Into specialties which attract the consumer himself the man with the money to spend and hence necessitates tho use of the va rious processes of advertising Great things they arc too RAVENEL |