Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-17
IS TOLD
OF PERIL TO PARTY
Warned That New York Pa
tronage Fight Needs to
Be Adjusted.

President Wilson is being frankly
told by many New York democrats that
victory for the party in that state two
years from now will be absolutely i'm
possible unless the ill feeling that has
been aroused over patronage matters is
ironed out, and the President is said to
be seriously considering the situation.
Representative Charles B. Smith of
Buffalo, who sympathizes with Senator
O'Gorman as to New York patronage,
saw the President today and is under
stood to have been candid in telling
Mr. Wilson that there is strong antag
onism to the control of patronage in
that state by Secretary McAdoo. Mr..
Smith and other democrats do not wish
to see the party split on these matters,
but at the same time they do not see
why the patronage should pass to Mr..
McAdoo and why Senator OGorman
should be deprived of his privileges as
a senator and representatives of the
party in the House be ignored as to
post offices and other matters.
Word of McAdoo Awaited,
1t is asserted by friends of Senator
OGorman that the situation has gone
so far that all post office appointments
| recommended by him have been held
up in the Post Office department await
ing word from Secretary McAdoo or
his represent ntative. Postmaster GEN
eral Burieson. it is charged. does not
act upon his own judgment, but defers
to the wishes of Secretary McAdoo.
The assertion is made that Stewart L.
Gibboney, former law partner of Sec
retary McAdoo and said to hold some
sort of a special>position under Con-
troller Williams of the currency bu-
York state passing upon post Office
vacancies and that democratic repre-
sentatives are compelled to see" him
if they get anything.
Organization democrats in New York
have told the President. it is said. that
if Secretary McAdoo were using the
patronage in New York to build up
another organization that would be eff
fective for the party in the future they
would not criticise his work so severe
iy but they declare that he is not doing
anything either for organization demo-
Gratis or for other elements that really
cut any figure in New York politics.
Gibboney'S recommendations to Mr.
McAdoo, which it is said are accepted
by the Secretary, are of haphazard
nature, and mean nothing to the party's
future welfare.
Not administration Senator"
1t is frankly admitted by those who
are criticising Mr.. McAdoo that Sen
ator O'Gorman has done little to de-
serve patronage from lHc
tion but, on the other hand, it is
said that Senator O'Gorman's failure
to work in harmony with the admins
tration at the start was due to his
knowledge that he would be ignored
and New York patronage placed at
the disposal of Mr.. McAdoo.
Regarding the nomination of John H.
Lynn for United States attorney of
he western district of New York,
unanimously rejected by the Senate.
it was said today that the President
has not fully determined his course.
Lynn's nomination was the choice of
Secretary McAdoo. Senator O'Gorman
is said to recognize that Rochester
should be given consideration in the
Selection of the attorney in view of the
distribution of patronage elsewhere
in the district, but he insists on the
right to recommend the proper man,
and not Mr.. McAdoo.
Faction Is Declared Weak.
Efforts are being made to impress
upon the President the alleged weak
ness of the McAdoo- Roosevelt -Hennes-
sey element of the New YORK demo-
Gratis as shown in theh recent pri-
maries in the the state and the neces-
sity and fairness of giving more at
tention to the p. ion of the party