New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-20
Says Glynn Finds Tax
Man, Unfit for City, Fit
to Serve State.
ASSAILS MALONE'S
CHANGE OF FRONT
Speaks in Four Counties to 1000
Demonstration Follows Big
Rochester Meeting.

Rochester, Oct. l9.-District Attor-
ney Whitman swung into four counties
from here to-day on his upstate cam
paign, speaking in nine other towns
and cities and returning tonight for
Il mass meeting in Convention Hall, at
which he spoke TO 1900 persons. He
was received with enthusiasm and
spoke to large crowds all along the line.
The counties traversed were Living
ston. Genesee, Wyoming and Monroe.
He spoke to more than 1000 during the
day. The weather was ideal and the
people in the rural districts turned out
in large numbers. At some of the
smaller places he spoke from the rear
Of the special train. James W. Wads-
worth, jr., candidate for United States
Senator, and Senator Ralph W. Thomas,
OF Madison County. accompanied the
Whitman party and spoke at some Of
the stops. The biggest meetings along
the line were at Geneseo and Batavia.
The District Attorneys attack on
Governor Glynn and the Tammany ap-
pointees in the state departments was
plainly effective. After disposing of
Bensel in the Highways Department
and Sohmer in the Controllers Office,
he took a shot at Thomas +. Byrnes,
who was found unfit as the real estate
expert in the Department of Finance in
New York City during Mayor .McClel-
lan's administration, but whom Gov
ernor Glynn had appointed to the
craftsmanship of the State Tax Com
mission. though he was well aware of
Byrnes's past record.
Mr.. Whitman crossed the trail of
Colonel Roosevelt at several places.
The Republican County chairmen in
Genesee. Livingston and Wyoming,
when asked for a conservative estimate
Of the vote their counties would give TO
Mr.. Whitman, said he would receive a
substantial majority over Glynn. IL
was estimated he would get ZOO ma
jority in Livingston. James +. Nash
said Wyoming would give Whitman
1000 majority, and +. b. Parker, OF
Genesee, estimated the same majority
for Whitman in that county.
Addresses Big Meeting.
Mr.. Whitman made his most impor-
tant speech at the big meeting here
tonight. Mr.. Wadsworth, Senator
Thomas and f. X. Schoonmaker, the
tariff expert. were the other speakers
at the Convention Hall meeting.
81 realize that in condemning the
work performed. under the direction OF
state officials" said Mr.. Whitman, 81
am attacking Tammany rule; that the
same methods prevail and that to
very large degree the same men, re-
oil nv =
ragged public, are intrenched in place
and power with wider field for oper-
alton. If there is the name of any
/ Tammany leader, or man prominent IN
Tammany circles, or one whose name is
! identified with Tammany misrule dur
ing the last twenty years of the clty's
; life. missing from these rolls, 1t is be-
cause he is elsewhere employed, or
otherwise occupied, or it may be tenn
rorarily restrained from the field OF
public activity"
Speaking of Byrnes, of the State lax
! Commission, he said: John Purroy
Mitchell. as Commissioner of Accounts
under Mayor Mcclellan, Investigated
Mr.. Byrnes when he was real estate ex-
pert in the Department of Finance IN
New York City, and reported that on a
sale in which Byrnes appraised the
property the city was overcharged S44,-
600.
"Thcse facts were brought to the at
tention of Governor Glynn IN January
OF February of this year. Notwlth,
standing these facts. he appointed
Byrnes to the powerful Office which ne
now holds. He is not fit to be an APP
nraiser in the Department OF Finance
IN the City of New York, but he is mt,
in the opinion of Governor Glynn, 10
he the head of the Tax Commission IN
the great State of New York
Queries About Malone.
Mr. Whitman wanted to know what
tbe good Democrats of the state
tbouqht now OF the statement made
end published on March % of the ap-
nointee Of President Wilson, Collector
Malone of the Port of New York, who
now saws that he will support Mr.
GIvnn. because Glynn is a Democrat
Tho sneaker read the Malone state
mont in which the Collector SAID the
Greater number of Governor flynn
appointments were bad, and that II was
unite clear that the state administration
was dominated by Murphy influence
Mr. Whitman said that the same condi-
tions N which Mr.. Malone referred ex-
/
listed to-day. ,,,..o,
"Support for tickets or for candidates
other than those named by the TWO
great parties can mean but one thins
snnnort of the present administration
The appeal is made to-day to every CIT
ion Of this state, whatever may De
or NAV have been his political anna
tions who is sincere in his desire 70
rebuke what has been evil, 10 ehange
what has been wrong, to restore 10 the
neonle efficiency and economy and non
esty and integrity in its public life ana
r,ovarnment. to adopt the only possipie
roo,hod TO avail himself of the only
nossible fundamentally by which we
nav secure a change, a change radieai
and complete" e;aLa
when the District Attorney finished
srookinp in Convention Hall men and
,ron,on arose and cheered him, waving
,he;r hats and handkerchiefs. One COM
ont was heard over and over again IN
AZ audience-that Mr.. Whitman I'M
nressed his auditors with his absolute
senator Thomas, speaking at Mount
Morris. pointedly answered the charges
msde against Mr.. Whitman by Colo
mel Roosevelt when he SAID: :,
~ am especially authorized to teii
CON this: A picture has been drawn 10
yon of Mr.. Whitman in the role OF
sU Uu some great bogieman. You
are told that because OF has supservleh-
c az 70 this bogyman he will fail to
sgyite the Tammany Tiger squarely be
tween tr~ the eyes if elected Mr. whit
man is not subservient to any pogle-
man. and if elected he Will hSht the
Tammany Tiger to finish"
THE Whitman party leaves here az
IN 70 o'clock tomorrow morning Tor
Wing through Ontario, Yates, Seneca