The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-22
SEVERE REBl kE ADDED
Appointment Would BE- H.
legal and Unjust. Says
Executive.
SEES POLITICS IN MOVE
Glynn Attacks Whitman's Sin
ccrity and His Efforts to
exploit" Himself.

ALBANY. Dec. cl.-Guv. 81, nn drn,e
tonight the request that pistrict.At,oy.
nev Whitman be designated as pepu;
crror gave out the following prepare
statement:
Il will not appoint NJ. Whitman u
special Deputy Attorney General TO roam
the state with blanket powers because [
cannot The law gives me no such power
or appointment, and Mr.. Whitman. good
lawyer that he is. must know tins.
Even If had the power / would not
grant Mr.. Whtmans request for the rea-
son that while have admired Mr.. Whit.
mdhs ability, his energy and his push. I
am unwilling to assume that every other
District Attorney in TIE State is ncom-
pc;ent Or untrustworthv.
Il am not Yet ready to admit that the
reopie OF the other sixty counties have
elected District Attorneys dc,-oid or
honesty and destitute of capacity. In thi;
contention ! am uph. ld bv the conv,c-
tons secured on SATURDAY, hy the Dis-
trIct Attorney OF Eockland county ror.
conspiracy in highway contracts
What the District Attorney or Rock.
land county did ON Saturday believe
the District Attorney of .,.rv oths
under similar conditions.
Prefers the "Path Of hight"
II rcaliz, that the easy way out Of tn,
situation which Mr.. Whitman has pre-
soutcd TO me would he "a appoint hir
but do not believe tn. easy way is th-
right way. Between eApeu!cnc> amt
right prefer to follow the path OF
right
District Attorney Whtn.au's request
~ moss unusual and unprecedented His
messengers were james W Osborne ana
Henry A. Rubno. Tho thing requested
IS IN" appointment OF MI. Whitman as n
Deputy Attorn.y y-Genoral with statcwid,
power ana jurisdiction To iuaugurate.
direct and conduct Investigations and
prosecutions OF crimes in every county in
the State.
This means that | am asked to dis.
place in Mr.. Whitman's favor every up.
state District Attorney into who's. county
II shall pleas. Mr.. Whitman to extend
his activities in all such Investigations ot
crimes and prosecutions Of persons az
cus'd o: crime as Mr. Whitman may
ear TO undertake il those counties
IN other words. Nj Whitman asks me
to make him ststcw idc District Nttor-
.. l,., 4,
erection. purnose or desire to cXeicis- tins
great power wherever ana however n.
may please, wIthou, TN. least regard for
the rights of the peopl" of tn, seveia,
Couuii.s and their District Attorneys to
conduct their own business Of pros, cutting
Offenders against the law within their
counties, as those rights exist under ,he
Constitution and the laws OF this state
Il cannot think that Nj. Whitman 10
sincere IN this request, TO grant II would
be monsirous injustice To the up-Stato
District Attorneys and to the up state
counties which selected their District Al
torneys and had no voice of the selection
of M Whitman.
III Mr. Whitman's purpose is to exploit
himself politically his request should ho
believes himself the only capable and
trustworthy District Attorney in the Staia
it accounts for the afrron, which his 70.
quest levels at all the other pstric, Al
torneys in tho State.
Giynn Sees Politics In u.
~ shall not he party to Mr. whit.
mans PATRIOTISM as he may view II nor
70 10 nj toni
people OF New York county elected Mi
Whitman to perform the duties OF District
Attorney in that county. They pay him
for serving them, They did not cleo, him
and they had no power to elect hlm Dis.
trict Attorney for the state
THE people of the remaining counties
of the state have elected their own Dis
trict Attorneys, They HAY. mo- Jsked
that Mr. Whitman supcrscde or displacs
their chosen prosecuting officers
1T would be an aifront Ia them rs
we'll ns to their District Attorne's ;, II
should assume the power 10 appoint and
should appoint Mr. Whitman 10 conduct
their county criminal business or sucn
parts of IT as he may desire.
"lt would be an injustice to them were
| 10 place Mi Whitman in a position to
impose upon them the expenses of such
and prosecutions as h,
might be pleased 10 incur The conduct
of the criminal business in the up-Stutr
counties does not entail the cnormou.
expense Of the like business conducted in
New York county.
The upstate counties have the risht
10 demand that the expenditure of the
moneys In criminal proceedings in the
counties shall he made by officers chose
by them and answerablc to them at IN
polls for cxtra\agant. uniusuiiable or un
wise expenditures. This Is an cssenta,
principle of home rule
u am not convinced thai Mr. Whitma