New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-05
Ex-senator Spends Day
Comforting with Cam
paign Manager Here.
TO START SPEAKING
TOUR ON TUESDAY
Candidate for Governor Prom"
ises Economy and House
cleaning for Albany.

Having recovered his health in the
Adirondacks, ex-senator Harvey u.
Hinman came to the city yesterday to
confer with J. Calvin Mcknight, MS
campaign manager They spent the
day together at the Murray Hill mead
quarters going over the plans for the
Senator's speaking tour.
Nr. Hinman said he felt fit to make
the fight of his life. He will go .
Binghamton this afternoon to spend
Sunday and Labor Day with his fam
lily, but will return to open the cam
paign in Brooklyn, probably on Tues
day night. Some of the time yester-
day was taken Up in preparing STATE
ment upon which the campaign Will De
made. gu.
ar I should be sent to Albany on
January l." said Mr.. Human, there
will be thorough housekeeping
When I use that term | use it IN IT'S
full meaning, and think know "hat
it means. ;r,
"If I am the next Governor there Will
he nut in practice in Albany real ana
sound economy. will do away WIN
the commissions and departments that
perform no useful service for the state
will cut out the dead wood. Men VINO
ere drawing salaries without giving tne
state A fair return in labor will be
looking for Jobs. regardless OF who puE
them in Office. / have had eight years
experience in Albany. | think | know
what there is to do. ! have the WI!
and ! have the courage"
Asked if he had formed any alliances
for the primaries with any other can
didate, Mr.. Human said:
81 am under obligations to no one,
and shall undertake obligations to no
body except such as | undertake IN
public speeches or public statements
These obligations will be to the people
every tub should stand on its OWE
bottom, and if it has not bottom Dig
enough to stand on it has no business
to be there"
Mr.. Human was much encouraged
with the reception he got in Syracuse
on Thursday He saw several upstate
leaders there, and their reports were
most gratifying, he SAID.
II is sure that Mr.. Human Will ad-
vocate an amendment to the direct
primary law, if he should be elected
Governor He believes in the old
Hughes bill, but he thinks even that
could be simpliied. The present law
he thinks, was designed to prevent the
Progressives from ever acting with the
Republicans and to discredit the prin.
ciple in general. Mr.. Human expressed
the opinion that Sulzer would get q
big Democratic vote on Election Day
( The Whitman managers have been
roaking quiet canvass OF the state
They say they find the big counties OF
Erie and Onondaga upstate solid -oi
Whitman. They are counting on New
York solid Some Hedges sentiment
I has been discovered in Monroe ano
Kings counties.
"A majority of the captains IN the
3Ist Assembly District are for Whit
man for Governor" said Captain John
Rovle. ir., secretary of the Whitman
( committee, yesterday, speaking of the
( district in which John j. Lyons,
/ Hedges man, is leader. Zone of The
captains has reported to me that Whit
man will carry this district by foul
to one
John Kirkland Clark. an Assistant
District Attorney, is going to make
B fcht for nomination as delegate to thf
constitutional convention froT the
10Th Senate District on the Whitman
issue. lie Is going to fight former Sen
ator Josiah T. Newcomb for the noml'
nation. Newcomb is one of the Hin
man managers.
Already between 1000 and 5000 petit
tions for Whitman have been filed with
the Secretary of State. There are
scme $4,000 more that will go to Al
bany on Tuesday. .,
James ". Wadsworth, jr, spent the
day in the city yesterday conterrlns
with friends on his candidacy for the
United States Senate nomination. He
will be back again on Tuesday to open
headquarters IN the Forty-second St
Building,
Friends of Mr.. Wadsworth say he
has found The situation upstate most
gratifying. They believe he will be
able to prevent Representative Calder