New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-29
Enthusiasm at Saratoga
and Schenectady After
AlI-Day Trip.
TEN SPEECHES IN
SEVEN COUNTIES
Tells ProgreSSiveS Mr.. Daven-
port Has No Chance of
Being Elected.
tFrom a san Correspondent Of The Tribune

tFrcm a san Correspondent Of The Tribune.)
Schenectady, n. Y, Oct. 2s.-Two Of
the largest and most enthusiastic meet
ings so far held on the upstate cam
paign tour Of District Attorney Whit
man were those in this city and NJ
Saratoga tonight. It was estimated
that $500 persons listened 10 the can
didate in the big convention hall az
Saratoga, where Mr.. Whitman arrived
an hour behind his schedule at 9
o'clock. Several bands and plenty Of
red fire made the scene resemble an
oldtimc state convention.
The Whitman party reached here
soon after 10 o'clock and found $500
persons IN the Mohawk Theatre. Mr..
Whitman voice was clear to-day and
he was i'm splendid condition. His
speeches were along the same lines Of
the last few days. He pounded Gov
ernor Glynn and the Albany admins
tration hard.
Swinging across the extreme north
eastern part of the state, from OCdcns-
burg 20 Plattsburg and south 10 Sehe-
nectady, the District Attorney trav-
ersed seven counties and spoke NJ ten
places. After the first stop out or
Ogdeusburg the engine baked an at
Winthrop the locomotive OF side
tracked freight tram was substituted.
The campaigncrs reached Brushton
three-quarteTs Of an hour behind
schedule At Winthrop, during tho
long delay for repairs, a score OF farm
crs gathered around the Whitman car
and Chcercd for the next Governor"
Mr. Whitman invited them into the car
and they fled through and shook hands.
10 make up lost time an automobile
trip from Wontcalm Landing TO Ticon-
deroga was given up.
At PlsttsburC the candidate nd
dressed about 500 people in the local
opera house. A feature Of the meeting
was the speech of Edwin Uutfcy, OF
Cortland, who was said TO be the only
Democratic District Attorney elected
in Cortland County. Mr. Dudey's
father, Hugh Dufey, presided at o
Glynn meeting In Cortland last week.
- have been a Democrat for many
years" Dufey told the Plattsburg audi
encC, "but not this year. ] am for thls
ticket headed by Judge Whitman. and
want 10 lift up my voice toward say
ing New York State. ! shall never be
q Democrat again until there is rad
ical change I'M the government a. Al
bauy; nor shall / ever vote for that
ticket until those hordes who have
moved from down the river toward Al
bany are driven back home
Mr. Whitman spoke TO enthusiastic
crowds at Malone, Port Henry and
AZ some Of the smaller
places he spoke from the rear platform
OF his car and shook hands over the
railing with as many as could reach
him.
IN 81. Lawrence and other north
country counties, where there Is q
strong Progressive following, the can
didate talked straight from the
s boulder to the members of that party.
lie told them that Mr. Davenport, good
nal that he probably is" had no
chance of being elected, and asked
their support for the only ticket which
could accomplish the desired changes
in the state government.
Howard u. IIadlet, Of Plattsburg,
Progressive candidate for Congress
from the 3lst New York District,
boarded the Whitman train at Mooers
junction, and sought an Endorsement
from the Republican candidate Of his
fight against Congressman Edward A.
Merritt. He remained on the train
four hours, but did not succeed in pre-
senting his case.
Mr.. Whitman has talked to about
5000 people on his two days trip. He
leaves here early tomorrow and speaks
in several towns in Warren. Washing
ton, Saratoga and Rensselaer, counties,
with night meetings at Troy and Al
bauV