New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-16
WHITMAN QUIzzES
CLYNN ON M'CABE
Asks if. Governor APP
proves of Commits
sioner and Sohmer.
AWAITS ANSWER TO
QUERY ON BENSEL
Says DebaucherS of State Are
Hiding Behind Mask of
President Wilson.

District Attorney Whitman spoke to
big crowds at five meetings on the
West Side last night. This second
nights campaign tour in the city was
under the auspices Of the Republican
County Committee and took him into
two normally Republican districts. the
18th and 18th Assembly districts; two
close districts. the 18th and 3lst. and
the 9th Assembly District, which IS
strongly Democratic.
The Republican candidate renewed
his attack on the Canal and Highways
departments under Governor Gl\n
and opened fire on the Controllers
Office and the Conservation Depart
ment. He denounced the. Glynn APP
pointees in these departments as IN
efficient and purely political, and put
two more questions up TO Governor
Glynn 10 answer besides the one: DO
YOU approve of Bensel. the State En-
gineer, who refused to testify before
the New York grand jury unless he
was granted immunity"
81 have not yet had an answer from
the Governor TO my first question,
said the District Attorney, land |
hardly expected he could answer II;
and now ] will ask him two more: DO
Won approve Of Controller Sohmer"
and 90 you approve of "Packey" Nc.
Cabe as conservation commissioner
II I cannot get the answer from the
Governor of the state ] will get the
answer from the people of the state at
the polls"
Office Left TO Tiger.
Mr.. Whitman pointed out that Con-
troller Sohmer had been absent from
his Office most of the time he had held
il for the last four years perhaps un-
avoidably, because of physical disabll-
ity. However. the management had
been turned over to Tammsny Hail,
which had controlled the Office for four
wears. He read the long list Of Tam
many district leaders appointed as tax
transfer appraisers in the Controllers
Office and the other conspicuous Tam
manyites in the departments under the
Controller. He had something to say
about the inefficiency Of them all
"What particular qualifications dld
'Packey' McCabe have for the oihce OF
Conservation COMMISSIONS? asked
Mr. Whitman. "Did he ever conserve
ANYTHING but mis- own pocketbook? Did
he ever. represent anything except
Democratic organization IN Albany so
vile that the members OF ms own
party repudiated il?
81 venture 20 say that We have never
heard so much condemnation Of an al
ministration at Albany as within the
last few months, and yet the same
men are again up for office. Ihey
are the same crowd, with the excep-
ton of Sulzer. whom they got rid OF,
who have debauched the state, and yet
some good people are telling us they
src the very men who will reform the
state. They are trying to moe pehlhu
tbe mask Of President Wilson in or
der that the national administration
may not be embarrassed in situation
Growing out Of the war IN Europe.
President Wilson IS not concerned IN
this situation"
The District Attorney spoke first at
Colonial Hall, at 101st st. and Columbus
av. where Abraham Gruber, leader OF
The district, presided He went from
the nth Assembly District to Leslie
Hall at SD ST. and Broadway, where
Albert J. Berwin presided. He spoke
in Fmpire Hall, in 10th St, near
broadway, in the 10Th Assembly Dis
trict. DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler,
nresident of Columbia University, IN
troduced the District Attorney as the
next Governor Of the state" The
other two meetings were in LenoX
Hall. at 18th st. and Lenox av., and
in the auditorium Of the Polish Catho-
lie Church, at 4OS West 40th ST.
Mr. Whitman Exposed" the un-
sound Glynn economy, saying in that
respect:
Glynn Economy Exposed.
Governor Glynn's claims of economy
are easily shown 10 be unsound.
"The place TO save is not on needed
buildings and necessary state instltu-
tions and improvements. This practice
AZ false economy is simply the post
ponement of necessary payments to
later date-borrowing from to-morro"
for to-day. The place to save is or
the useless payroll. The increase IN