The sun., 1913-11-23
WHITMAN INQUIRY
GALL TO TAMMANY
Democratic Eclipse Seen in Rise
Of His star Above Clouds
Of Highway Graft.
FEAR HE NAY BE GOVERNOR
scheme to Minimize Political
Effect Said to Have Failed
Barnes Has Plan.

The fact established at Fridays session
Of the McGuire-John Doe proceeding. that
p,strict Attorney whitman's Jurisdiction
won't have to he stretched to give him
power to carry on his examination OF up
state witnesses was a shock to those who
would have the investigation Of highway
craft directed from the Democratic side
Of the fence.
If purging must be done .et It be done
b, hands not unfriendly. Is the prayer
that rises from Democratic hearts. And
# anv man ventures to climb to the Gov
.rrors chair from this investigation put
him down at once That is the way they
we're talking yesterday about Mr.. Whit
man and the operations of James W.
osborne the newly appointed special
Deputy Attorney General.
GOV. Glynns friends say that ne IL
FAR from satisfied with the way Mr. Whit
man has reached out through the state
for evidence of highway frauds The
Governor was retcent about discussing
the work of Mr. osborne while In town
last week He felt sure that Mr.. Os-
horne would he able to carry on his in
yestigations without conflicting with Mr..
Whitman But he would not say what
specific plans he has for Mr. Osborne nor
whether carrying them out will limit
automatically the activity OF Mr.. Whit
man.
MIR. osborne was not in New York yes
,erday He came down from Albany late
on Friday afternoon for three hours and
then started back up the State. He was
IN Buffalo yesterday. At his office II
was said that his business had nothing
TO do with state work.
rcar Rise Of Whltmnu.
Plenty Of others were ready to tell yes
urday what part political generalship Is
playing in the division Of the attack OH
highway grafters. Tammany men. inde-
pendent Democrats and Progressves are
at one in the opinion that District Attor-
ney Whitinan's investigation will be the
strongest kind Of recommendation for
his selection AS the Republican candidate
for Governor in 1914.
Election whistles had hardly stopped
, blowing when william H. Hotchkiss
chairman of the executive committee OF
the Progressive State committee. picked
Up speech Of MIR. WhitmAns delivered
IN Buffalo. and to Rochester audiencs
spent an hour attacking the District At
torney. He dared him to follow the trai
of graft IL II should lead into the Republi
can camp.
Mr.. Glynn's reaction. II appears, at see
ing the spectre Of Whitman as the Repub
lican candidate for Governor WAS to ap
point James w. Osborne to carry out II
the State what MIR. Whitman was tryini
10 do from New York county. Mr.. Os
borne will have the powers of the Attor
ney-l;enerars office. and will be able to e
into every county Of the state TO indie
and prosecute eviidoers. The immediate
effect would be to build a backhre agains
Whitman, and at the same time to re
strain him from exceeding his jurisdiction
on any preteNt whatever.
Mcclure ClOgs the wheels.
II was clear yesterday that the event
W Friday moved contrary to the wishes q
those whs want to have Mr.. Whitma
kept within bounds. The admission q
MCGUIRE that he had talked to highwa
contractors i'm New York, sometimes l
person and sometimes by telephone, an
that his partner in the bonding busnes
was Charles r. Murphy, Jr.. very livel
Young New Yorker, fixes the locus OF NJ
whitman's inquiry, at least In one phas
~ the investigation. And how far tn
trail will 20 from these present leads NJ
Whitman himself does not know. At a
events, for his present purposes. the Dis
trict Attorney is perfectly free from sue
criticism as Gov Glynn's friends al
tributed to the Governor himself.
The out and out Tammany men {
course have their peculiar interest in wha
e. : w
which have come to Mr.. Whitman's after
lion thus far were done in State at
ministration which, more than any otht
in years, bore the Tammany hallmark
No Rest for Murphy.
Charles F. Murphy has not yet take
his usual post election rest He has bee
expected at Hot Springs, Va. ever sin'
the day after election. He was in Ne
York on Thursday and at Good Groun
ON Friday and yesterday. They say {
Tammany Hall that he has no immedia
plans for vacation. At the same tin
comes the assurance that there IL M
the smallest chance in the world OF u
men in Tammay Hall raising their finge
against his leadership. Charles
Murphy, according to those familiar wit
political currents on Fourteenth stree
is as safe in his seat as woodrow WI
son is in his.
TIE real reason why Murphy 10 here