New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-19
WOODBURY. MAKES
LEWIS FIRST AID
Rochester Man, Friend of
Barnes, Is Deputy At
tOrney General.
TANNER ENDS FEUD
IN ERIE COUNTY
Bacon, Leader of Sulzer Party,
Says He Has Something to
Surprise Whitman.

Merton Z. Lewis, of Rochester, Will
be First Deputy Attorney General
under Egburt f. Woodbury., and Louis
w. Gett, of Mount Vernon, will be sec
rotary to the Attorney General. The
First Deputy gets $1,000 a year and
the secretary $1,000.
Attorney General-elect Woodbury. has
made no announcement OF his selec-
tions, but confirmation OF the above
appointments was got from a trust
worthy source.
Mr.. Lewis was AT one time State
Senator. He ran for Controller in the
first Hughes campaign. For several
years he has been chairman of the
executive committee, and is q close
personal friend and admirer Of William
Barnes, former state chairman.
For six years Mr.. Gett was a clerk
under Colonel Lafayette B. Gleason in
the Senate, and has served as stem
ographer at state headquarters off and
on for ten years. Since election he has
been secretary TO Chairman Tanner.
For some years he was private secre-
tary to William L. Ward, leader in
Westchester. Mr.. Gett is leader in
Mount Vernon.
Chairman Tanner, Of the Republican
State Committee, succeeded yesterday
in bringing together the warning forces
in the Erie County organization. Fred
Greiner, for many years the undisputed
leader in Erie; Herbert Sisson, chair
man of the county committee there,
and the nine members elected TO the
state committee from that county this
fall, spent more than an hour with the
state chairman at headquarters.
In the last year an anti-Greiner fac
tion has sprung up in Buffalo, and
there was a fight for control of the
organization at the primaries in Au-
gust. Of the nine state committeeman
elected four are Greiner, four are anti
Greiner and one ran on both tickets.
When the two factions went into the
chairman's room they would not talk.
Before they left they shook hands.
They had agreed on three pieces of
patronage. deputy attorney general
for Buffalo, a transfer tax appraiser
and journal clerk of the Senate. The
latter place is to go to Henry Sell
heimer, secretary of the county com
mittee. No decision was reached on
the transfer tax appraisership, which
pays large fees and is eagerly sought.
The Greiner members of the commit
tee are Elmer f. Harris, John I. Claris,
Earl c. Danser and William c. Ten
jost. The anti-Greiner members are
Charles A. Wall, William o. Weimar,
Percy S. Lansdowne and Horace f.
Hunt. Charles B. Sears is the neutral.
Lieutenant Governor-elect Schoeneck
had long talk with Governor-elect
Whitman yesterday. A number Of the
IL fhaTr
spects to Mr.. Whitman.
George Foster Peabody talked about
the work Of the Saratoga Springs Com
mission, of which he is chairman. DR..
John Wesley Hill got the promise Of
honorary presidents of the Interna-
tional Peace Forum, which is planning
a gigantic peace movement.
Colonel Alexander S. Bacon, one OF
the prime movers in the Sulzer Ameri-
can party; Bella Tokaji, who ran the
Sulzer campaign, and former Senator
James +. Duhamel, of Brooklyn, waited
in the anteroom Of the Whitman head
quarters for a long time yesterday af-
ternoon, but Mr.. Whitman was eX-
tremely busy.
81 decline TO answer" replied Colonel
Bacon when asked why he wished to
see Mr.. Whitman. He intimated that
he had some serious matters that
would startle the Governor-elect. On
his knee he carried a leather bag on
which he kept tight grip.
The committee on wild life and
forest conservation of the Camp Fire
Club of America entertained the Gov
ernor-elect at luncheon at the Prince
George Hotel. Among those present
were George D. Pratt, president; Will
lam d. Hornaday, julius II. Seymour,
Daniel c. Beard, Ottoman II. Van
Norden. George W. Burleigh, Frederick
X. Vreelsnd and Augustus S. Hough-