New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-23
WHITMAN ASSAILS
TORPEY'S RECORD
Reads Affidavit Showing
Controllers Clerk Was
Convicted of Larceny.
CANDIDATE MET BY
WIFE IN CORTLAND
Speaks to 5000 in Days Tour
Received with Enthusiasm
All Along Line.
From staff Correspondent Of The Tribune.

From staff Correspondent OF The Tribune. ]
Cortland. n. Y. Oct. 22.-District At
torney Whitman spoke in ten towns
to-day. and including the night meet
ing here he had talked TO about SIX
thousand persons.
The Republican candidate, referring
tonight to the record Of Thomas j.
Torpey. confidential clerk in the
auditing bureau of the State Control
ler's office, read an affidavit made by
Frank NJ. Buck, clerk of the Supreme
and County courts of Westchester
County, containing information taking
from the court records showing that
Torpey was indicted for grand larceny
in the first degree and forgery in the
second degree on December 10. 1910.
According TO the affidavit, Torpey WIS
tried and convicted before Justice Ar
thur S. Tompkins in the Westchester
Supreme Court in February. 1912.
The court finally suspended sentence
in Torpcy's case after he had made res
titution to the BartholOmay Brewing
Company of 1899, the amount of the
damage sustained by the brewing COM
pany by reason of the offence of which
the defendant was convicted. Mr..
Whitman called attention to the fact
that Torpey was still a confidential
clerk in the Controllers Office, despite
the suspended sentence hanging over
him.
In Cortland Mr.. Whitman was met
by his wife, who had preceded him
here from New York. They were
guests over night at the home of Ed
win Duffy. a classmate Of Mr.. Whit
man at Amherst. Mr.. Duffy is Demo
crat, but is working hard to help elect
his old classmate.
The campaign special touched the
edge of BrOome County, the home OF
Harvey p. Human, at Chenango
Forks. where Mr.. Whitman made a
speech Roger p. Clark, of Bingham
ton. law partner Of Mr.. Human. and
counsel for Governor Hughes during
his last administration, and George r.
Green, Mayor of Binghamton, joined
the Whitman party at Norwich, and
came through to Cortland.
The cand date was received with en-
thusiasm all along the line. There
were crowds at some of the stations
at the smaller towns, where the train
did not stop, but slowed down so the
candidate could show himself on the
platform. At Erieville, Madison
County. crowd Of school girls were
at the station and gave a Whitman yell
as the train went through.
Mr.. Whitman continued 10 make a
strong plea for Progressive and indie
pendent Democratic votes in several of
his speeches to-day. Speaking at Gaze
novia he said:
II realize that there are good many
people in this community, as in others,
who would prefer to support some other
candidate, even in expressing their OPP
position TO the Democratic ticket and
the Democratic candidate. l have no
quarrel with these men. can appre-
ciate their feelings, but the proposition
is very simple one. Either it is
going to be my distinguished opponent,
the present Governor, or il is going to
be the candidate of the Republican
party, and the people of the state are
called upon TO choose not as among
four or FIVE, but as between two.
The Whitman party will leave here
at S:45 o'clock tomorrow morning. The
schedule provides for speeches at sew
enteen different places in Tioga, Che
mung. Steuben, Allegany, Cattaraugus
and Chautauqua counties. There will
be big night meeting in jamestown.