New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
WHITMAN MAY
GUST GEN. O'RYAN
Gov.-Elect Said to Have
Settled on New Deal for
National Guard.
TO BE LEAN YEAR
FOR "OLD GUARD"
No Plums for Them on State
Tree, His Friends
Predict.

Governor-elect Whitman returned
from Amherst yesterday morning and
spent the day quietly at his nome ne
had no political callers.
Politicians believe Judge Whitman
will announce some OF his appoint
ments perhaps this week. While there
were many rumors as 10 who was after
this or that job, and what this or that
candidates chances were, only one
stood out as being practically settled.
That was the office of Adjutant Cen
eral While there are several candl-
dates for the place. Colonel Louis w.
Stotesbury at present leads the held
so 'tis said.
The rivals, according TO some, OF
Colonel Stotesbury are Colonel John ii.
Foote, of Brooklyn; Colonel Harrison
X. Bird, formerly military secretary to
Governor Odell, and Colonel Sam
Welch, of Buffalo.
Officers of the National Guard, who
are disgusted with the politics that
has been injected into the organiza-
tion Of late in this state, are watching
this appointment with anxiety. OF the
candidates for the Office to date all
are acceptable to the members Of the
guard. But many of these officers are
hopeful for some change in the office
of major general, now filled by Major
General John +. Organ.
Major General Organ, it will be re-
membered, was a candidate for the
office OF adjutsnt general when John
A. Dix was elected. He had the back
ing of Charles F. Murphy, j. Sergeant
Cram and other members of Tammany
Hall. But Governor Dix reappointed
Adjutant General Verbeck.
Organs friends were not idle, how
ever, and with the aid of the Tammany
Legislature forced out Major General
Roe, who had been serving the state
without pay. and created a salary of
$4,000 a year to go with the job. This
Major General Organ is now drawing,
and will continue TO do so for score
of years or more 10 come, or until he
is sixty-four years old, unless ripper
legislation forces him out in the mean
time.
Some members Of the guard believe
the office, which, with other salaries,
rent, etc, costs the state about $4,000
year, could be abolished by an order
from the Governor as commander in
chief Of the national guard of this
state.
Young men are to be put in the i'm
portant places that Mr.. Whitman has
TO fill, he has told his friends. That
does not mean necessarily that they
will be young in years, but that they
will not be men who have been asso-
ciated with the oficeholdng class In
the past. Fresh blood is what the Gov
ernor-elect wishes TO bring into the
service Of the state.
Those familiar with the ideals of Mr..
Whitman have been much displeased
with the insinuations, more or less
broadly made in certain quarters, that
his election means the return 20 power
in the state government OF William
Barnes, Of Albany. They assert that
such statements are absolutely without
warrant. and that their falsity Will be
proved by future events.
Bv the "Old Guard" friends of the
Governor-elect say, they mean the men
who have guided the destinies Of the
Republican organization in this state
since the administration of Governor
Black. Among these men are william
L. Ward. of Westchester; Francis Hem
dricks, of Onondaga; Charles II. Belts,
of Wayne; John +. O'Brien, of Clinton;
former Senator Edgar Truman Brack-
EFT. of Saratoga; George W. Aldridge,
of Monroe; former Governor B. B.
Odell. jr.. Of Orange; n. V. V. Fran
chot. of Cattaraugus; Cornelius V. Col
Inns. of Rensselaer,; James W. Emer-
son. and his brother Lew" OF War
ren; Daniel f. Strobel. of Herkimer'
and Representative Z. A. Merritt, of st.
Lawrence.
Lou I. Payn. of Columbia, is in
this class, although he has reached the
age where he takes little active in
terest in political affairs or spoils.