The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-14
Guthrie Attacks Gerard
as "UnMf4'' for IT, S. Senate
Chairman of Bar Association Grievance Committee in
Union League Club Charges That Ambassador, When
On Bench Committed Abuses Favorng Tammany.
ALLEGES sUBsERvIENCY TO HEARST AND MURPHY

praised the acts Of District Attorney
whitman as proof Of his fitness to per-
form the work at Albany. He asserted
that Gov. Glynn had failed to perform
his duty and had sought to utilize his
office for partisan politics ano for the
advancement OF his own ambition.
He refused to give Gov. Glynn credit
for the workmen's compensation law. say
ing that law was first framed under
Gov. Hughes. He asserted that Gov.
Glynn had obtained harmony in the DEM
ocratic party at price which Sulzsr
had refused to pay.
Elihu Root, the next speaker, spoke
in behalf OF Whitman and Wadsworth
and attacked Democratic control In New
York.
we all know" said the Senator, that
the government of the State of New
York for the past four years has been
inefficient, corrupt and scandalous. Zap
plause. Go back twenty years and call
the roll of the Republican Governors.
! Remember the administration OF great
affairs and the vast revenues OF the
State under Republican control Was
here anything at which an American
citizen should blush? Look at The cond-
ton after four years OF Democratic con-
troll. 1t Is because the malign and evasive
influence OF the Democratic party con-
trolls the course OF Democratic admin
istration In the State OF New York al
WAYS"
The Senator said that the question at
issue now was whether the people OF New
York ARE to be diverted from the duty
| which lies before them TO make tho adj
| ministration Of our State sound and hon
| est. - punish corruption. to make such
an example OF the thieves and scoundrels
that have inundated us In the eyes OF
| the whole country"
The Senator. speaking OF Mr.. Whitman.
Da,,, ti1o, kav crfV IN IA
| people candidate we'll worthy OF their
| confidence We have a nominee who said
that II he was elected Governor he would
| be the chief prosecutor, which shocked
Gov Glynn very much but am ready
| to Join in shocking Gov. Glynn. Gov.
| Glynn has proved false to his duty"
| Root next praised Mr. Wadsworth In
words that aroused many cheers. He
| spoke Of the determination of the Re-
! publicans to reinstate honor and fidel-
itv in the government In place OF shifty
cunning. cleverness. graft and fraud I'M
der Democratic auspices, to make II clear
to all the scoundrels who would wreck
Republican government for their selfish
ends that the people of the Empire
State have the will and the power TO keep
their government. clean and wholesome
Mr.. whitman, the next speaker intro
duced by Samuel w Fairchild. chair
man OF the meeting. received many cheers.
He attacked extravaganza. as ne termed
IL, OF the Glynn administration
simple and absolute chaos" he said
latter four years OF Democratic rule.
Democratic extravaganza and Democratic
waste What do you members or the
Union League, representing as you do all
that Is best In the professional life and
In the great financial activities or the
city and the State. think OF the men and
the method and the party responsible for
~ m
issue can be obscured by trifles. that per-
sonal ambitions and personal disappoint-
monts, that petty grievances and petty
spite can succeed In so dividing those
who want good things in public life, that
the men who have made the Government
OF our State what It Is and what II has
been for four years shall be retained In
power and In opportunity
| Wadsworth. the next speaker, was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause. He
assailed she national Administration for
It's tendency 10 Government ownership
and attacked Government owned merchant
marine. lie said that II elected he would
oppose such programme. He referred
to the lack OF funds in the national treas
ury and the necessity OF new legislation
for raising additional revenues. He az.
serted that while every aid should be
given to the Administration In the stress
caused by the European war yet the fact
should not be forsotten that the dehci'
was due to legislation enacted by ;hs
Democratic party before the war broke
out.
Mr.. Wadsworth charged that the atti
tude and work Of the national Admins.
trauuu had been such that the "Ameri
can business man IL an object OF sus
picion, who should be watched, restrained
and punished" He spoke also OF tn,
necessity of making preparations to wei
, come to this country the hundreds O.
: thousands of immigrants who will com'
here after the European war.
Chauncey NJ. Depew and Gen. Horac,
Porter also made speeches.