New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-11
Say District Attorney
Seeks, in Advance, to
Trap Nomination
SHOW WORD SENT
TO COUNTY LEADERS
Report Now Circulated That
Human Has Quit Race for
Governorship.

Friends Of job Z. Hedges are COM
planning that the managers for Charles
s. Whitman are trying to foreclose
the nomination for Governor By get
ting the county leaders throughout the
tate TO circulate his petitions. They
declare the district headquarters are
flooded with them.
To this the friends of Whitman re-
ply, that while they nave sent these
petitions to county and district leaders
they have stated frankly that they are
doing it as a matter Of convenience,
and that there is no obligation to
use them.
where else would an enrolled Re-
publican go TO find such petition"
said one Of the Whitman men last
night. "if it was not at his head
quarters? He certainly would not look
in a grocery shop or drug store.
There is nothing 10 prevent the Hedges
people from having their petitions at
can take his choice"
The Whitman men are not telling
how many signatures they have al
ready, but there is a report that $4,000
names have already been secured.
Hedges said yesterday he would not
attempt to get more than 5000, 1000
more than the required number.
II is understood that the Whitman
managers are not at all pleased at the
attitude taken by some OF the New
York district leaders. A number Of
them are on the fence. As matter
of fact, Whitman has received more
assurances of support from Kings
County leaders than in his home eoun-
ty. il was asserted last night. The
Whitman people do not like the way
Representative Calder, of Kings, has
heen flirting with former Senator
Harvey ID. Hinman, whose friends have
been boosting him first for Senator
and later for Governor. Mr.. Calder,
who is an announced candidate for Sen
ator, was quoted the other day as say
ing that Mr.. Human was good guber-
Material timber.
A friend of Mr.. Human in this city
said yesterday the latter had written
that he was not a candidate for any
nomination this fall.
Another complication was added o
the situation in a report from Roehes-
ter yesterday to the effect that George
W. Aldridge believed that the proper
combination was Whitman for Govern
or and Hedges for Senator. His sup
port of Whitman was known. The
Hedges idea is brand Few.
All reports that District Attorney
Whitman will Try to capture the Pro-
gressive primaries may be disregarded,
one of his close friends said last night.
This is going TO be straight out
Republican fight" said the friend. I'VE
wifi not seek any Progressive support
by catering TO them. /, for one, would
quit the fight if the strict party line
was not kept"
Some wondered last night whether
Hedges was hitting al Whitman when
in a statement he said:
81 see by the public prints that some
Of the nominations have already been
finally determined. This may be
statement, prophecy or a statement
of fact. If it is a fact those who state
il have rare wisdom. | notice many
loudly claiming their belief in Repub@
lican success this year who did little
toward it two years ago. | have no per
sonal feeling toward any candidate, al
though constrained to believe that no
man is bigger than sill the rest.
81 have no patience with endesvors
to crystalline public sentiment this or
that way by fictitious statements as
cunning facts which in reality are hopes
and desires"
Mr.. Hedges characterized the direct
primary law as "born in iniquity, q
most remarkable breeding spot for pc.
liticsl hypocrisy, political ehicanery and
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