New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-17
SAYS DEMOCRATS
COST STATE HIGH
Whitman Shows Heavy
Tax Levy Imposed Dur
ing Glynn's Rule.
BENSEL QUESTION
ASKED AGAIN
Candidate Receives Enthusiastic
Welcome on Start of Up
state Campaign.

nv Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Amsterdam, N. Y, Oct. 16.-District
Attorney Whitman's campaign upstate
opened propitiously. Despite the hard
rain and the fact that the first meeting
Mt Catskill was held nj noon, five hun
dred citizens Of that town crowded the
Nclida Theatre to hear the Republican
nominee.
Mr.. Whitman also spoke TO large
audiences here and at Gloyersville at
the night meetings.
Governor Glynn visited Catskill two
hours before Mr.. Whitman. He did
not hire a hall, but there were only a
few citizens besides the reception
committee at the train TO listen to his
speech from the rear platform.
Arriving at Catskill at noon, the Re-
/ publican candidate was met at the sta
/ tion by w. T.. Thorpe and band. The
manager Of the town opera house
had large posters in front of the en-
trance announcing "siX reel feature
entitled Smashing the Vice Trust
with District Attorney Whitman
picture attached.
Mr.. Thorpe presided at the MONDAY
meeting. William D. Cunningham, Dis
trict Attorney of Ulster County, and
+. X. Shoemaker, the Pennsylvania
tariff expert, preceded the candidate IT
speaking.
Mr.. Whitman made it point in all
three of his speeches to-day to refute
the claim Of Governor Glynn that the
taxes OF the state had decreased and
there was no more direct state tax. He
pointed out 10 the voters in Greene
Montgomery and Fulton counties just
how much direct tax they have paid in
the last three years under Democratic
administration.
ave are told that the taxes OF the
state have decreased" he said, "and
that there is not any more direct state
tax under the benefcent administra-
tion OF Martin II. Glynn. The direct
state tax has practically all been levied
under the Democratic administration.
You have had to pay more OF it during
| the last three years than in the ten
years preceding of Republican admin
/ istration.
"In 1911 Governor Dix levied the di-
rect tax and it cost you S9,736 in
Greene County in that year. In 1912,
under the same Governor, you paid
/ $4,000, and in 1918, although the di-
rect tax was vetoed by Governor Sui
ger, the bill was repassed and signed
by Governor Glynn in September of
that year, which he has forgotten TO
tell you. and it cost you $4,000 tina;
year So it cost you total of $4,000
for the last three years.
Have you seen improvements in
state works and roads, any institutions,
in anything, as the result of the $4,000
which you paid during the last four
years, not one cent of which you were
compelled to pay during the four years
that preceded that? That is a question
for YOU to decide"
Mr.. Whitman said the direct tax for
the last three years had cost Mont
gomery County s7O,sOO and Fulton
County SAL 500
Mr.. Whitman pursued vigorous at
tack on State Engineer Bensel, Con-
troller Sohmer and other department
officials under Governor Glynn. He
challenged the Governor to answer the
questions, "Do you approve of Bensel,
Sohmer and 'Packy' McCabe?" Refer
ring TO Governor Glynn's alleged" an
swer as Mr.. Whitman termed il, in re-
garc 10 Bensel, he said:
81 did not ask him il he had the
power TO remove Bensel. | asked him
II he approved of Bensel and he ought
to answer that because Bensel is a part
of his administration and is offered to
the voters for reelection.
"He tells me if have anything on
| Bensel / ought to indict him. Bensel
himself is the best answer to that. |
don't know that Bensel has anything
| in his breast that would incriminate
himself, but do know that he refused
| TO tell the truth on the ground that he
might incriminate himself. | should
| like to hear from the Governor about
Sohmer and McCabe."
A thousand persons crowded the
opera house here in the evening, and
when the Rev. c. II. Murdoch, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, introduced
Mr.. Whitman as the one man who
could put the states house in order
again and purge it of the grafters, the
audience cheered.
I Referring to his political attitude
and what he might be expected to do il
he was elected Governor, he said:
"No, | am not going to make any
promises as TO what ! am going to dc
I =
and am going to be elected Governor
of New York. | do not believe an!
public official is telling you the trutl
when he says here is a specific thinl
that he is going TO accomplish ant
something else he is going to do"
Mr.. Whitman will leave tomorrow oil
trip through Wayne. Orleans ant
Niagara counties, speaking at Lyons
Newark and Palmyra during the da!
and at Medina and Lockport in tn,
evening He expects to spend Sunda.