New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-14
NEW TREASURER NAMED
Clarence Whitman to Handle Re-
publican Campaign Fund.
HEAD OF DRYGo0DS FIRM
Prentice Denies Roosevelt Die
tated Names for the Elk
ecutive Committee.

Chairman Prentice of the Republican
State Committee announced last evening
that he had appointed Clarence Whitman
treasurer of that body. Mr. Whitman will
be here tomorrow TO take UP his part OF
the campaign work. which, it is conceded.
will be very important and distinctly hard
this year.
The new treasurer Is head Of the big dry
goods firm of Clarence Whitman & Co. Of
Leonard street He has done considerable
political work on business mems commit
tees and the like though he never has
sought 4 prominent part in politics and
never has held public Office. He is a good
Republican and a member Of the Union
League Club.
.'W lich doesn't Indicate said Mr.. Prem
tice, in commenting on that fact, that the
Union League Club is violently anti-Stim-
son. in spite OF the things we hear which
are supposed to be alarming"
Republicans around state headquarters
yesterday were much pleased with the
speech of Mr. Stimson at Columbia and the
fashion in which he took up the issues Of
reaction, sklfully concealed by the Demo-
Gratis. and of Rooseveltism. Haunted by
them in the face of the public Some of
them predicted that when he and Mr..
Roosevelt got out on the stump next week
they would have Dix and his colleagues
on the ticket explaining TO the people that
they did not intend to repeal the Public
Service commissions law or TO throw the
state administration over to Tammany.
Chairman Prentice expects to go upstate
for couple Of DAYS next week to meet
the state committeeman, who find it hard
to get to New York in the height of a cam
paign. and to get some frst-hand impress
sions of the way things are going.
Timothy L. Woodruff, formerly state
chairman. said yesterday that the first
thing he knew of the resignation of Will
lam Barnes, jr., from the state committee
was what he read in the papers.
4 am not surprised" said Mr.. Woodruff.
1T was the only thing TO do after the
way he had been treated. He vii! support
the ticket though He was not the only
che badly treated at Saratoga but we VIII
all support the ticket
Chairman Prentice officially denied yes
terday the stories given out from ''oid
guard" sources, that his selection of the
members of the executive committee had
been dictated by Mr.. Roosevelt, through
Lloyd c. Griscom.
Asked if he would appoint a new state
committeeman to fill the vacancy caused
by Barnes's resignation. Mr.. Prentice said
there was no immediate necessity of doing
so, adding that Luther c. Warner, the
chairman of the Albany County committee,
was able 10 handle the situation effectively.
Senator EIihu Root and Henry L. Stimson
were in conference yesterday at the head
quarters of Mr.. Stimson in the Hotel Man
haitian. Others who talked with Mr.. Slim
son We're Chairman Wilcox of the LIST Dis
trict Public Service Commission, State En-
gineer Williams Commissioner Williams of
the State Labor Department and F. w.
Whitrfdge. Mr.. Stimson, in talking with
the various state officials. seeks informa-
ton about the state departments and
grasps the facts, his visitors say, with
readiness which shows careful study of the
state government and its duties and prob
lens.