New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
M TOWN TOO SMALL
TO ATTRACT SULZER
DemoCratiC Candidate for Gov
ernor InvadeS HamIetS Over
looked by Opponents.
SIRE He FIGHTS BOSSES"
Also Certain He Didn't Call
Richard Croker Great States
man, but Did Pay Him a
Little Tribute"

From q STAFF Correspondent Of The Tribune ]
syracuse. oct. 26.-The strongest Re
publican county in the state, as Onon-
daga is generally called, received Will
lam Sulzer and Martin IT. Glynn, heads
Of the Democratic state ticket, with
interest II not with enthusiasm at
the Alhambra here tonight The audi
ence failed TO fiji several hundred seats
in the rear of the orchestra and in the
balcony
John ]. Cummins, of Syracuse, intro
duced Mr.. Sulzer, who reviewed the good
points Of Democratic rule and told of
his own share in that process.
do you think" he asked. after l have
served the people faithfully for five years
IN the Legislature and for eighteen years
in Congress that will go back on them
during the next two years when I am
Governor"
When asked by The Tribune corre-
spondent to-day whether he had any
reply to make to the editorial in this
mornings Tribune. recalling an occasion
when Mr.. Sulzer was reported to have
called Richard Croker a great statesman,
he replied:
1T is absurd to say that I called him
that Why, he himself would have looked
upon It as fulsome fattery. Neither did
| say he dictated the legislation at that
session Of the Assembly, because he
didn't
"All my life I have spent fighting the
bosses. have always been independent.
] had to. because l have always repre-
sented a Republican district"
Mr. Sulzer said he still had the scarf
pin which The Tribune mentioned, and
that he remembered the occasion of his
Homecoming from Albany very well. He
had paid Croker little. tribute, he said,
as was natural under the circumstances,
but beyond that he did not 80.
First Fatality Of Trip.
The first fatality Of the trip occurred
at Cortland this afternoon when J. c.
Edwards. of Cincinnatus, a farmer. in the
audience, expired Of heart failure while
the candidate was speaking. He was car
Iied out so quietly that Mr.. Sulzer and
the greater part of his listeners remained
III ISIbl tlltt o. the dCtlNtUls
Cortland welcomed Sulzer at the sta
ton with the once popular tune known as
"Tammany," played by the local band
with all the vigor it possessed. In the
midst of the candidates talk TO eight
hundred persons in the Opera House a
man in the balcony called out: What
the matter with Teddy?"
-. 4
of his" retorted Mr.. Sulzer. and II you
knew him as well as l do you wouldn't
interrupt this meeting"
Two minutes later came a yell: eve like
you, and we're going TO send you to the
Capitol"
To which the candidate replied: Thank
you I wish everybody in the state felt
as you do"
The latter part Of the afternoon was
spent in a hastily planned side trip by
trolley and automobile from Auburn 10
Syracuse, by way Of Skaneateles, Marcel
lus and Camillus. These small towns,
with an enrolment Of 700 or 800 voters
each, have rarely been honored by the
presence Of a candidate for Governor, and
neither Hedges nor Straus has visited
them in this campaign. They generally
90 Republican on state and national is
sues and the local Democrats persuaded
Mr. Sulzer that his presence would be a
strong influence for Democracy. Between
20 and 800 persons greeted him at each
place.
Thomas Mott Osborne introduced Mr..
suzer to an audience Of nearly one thou
sand in Cornell Hail. in Auburn, where
he wac met also by Charles Rattigan, Of
the Democratic State Committee. The
candidate assured his hearers that he
was not two-faced, because he wouldn't
be wearing the face he did If he possessed