New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-29
Candidates Raise Issue in
State by Letter and
Interview.
DEpOSED GOVERNOR
CENSURES OSBORN
Asserts His Belief Angered the
"BosSeS"-Tells of Split
with Tammany.

Governor Glynn and his deposed pre-
decessor, william Sulaer, personally in
jected tho religious issue into their
campaigns yesterday.
Dir. Sulzer, In an open letter to VIII
lam Church Osborn, tho Democratic
state chairman. said:
you know. ana so do lots Of decent
Democrats around you, that if | had
not been 4 32d degree Mason; that If
] had not been Protestant; that If
my name had not been Sulzer; that II
! had connived at corruption; that II
had taken orders, the bosses and the
grafters and the forces of invisible gov
eminent would never have removed
me"
Governor Glynn, talking to reporters
said:
81 have no doubt whence II (the re-
ligious issuo) started. Mr.. Whitman
in Syracuse speech said he would APP
point none but patriotic Americans to
Office. That is significant. However,
tho distribution of sample ballots, on
which were marked the names OF
people whose affiliations we're in doubt
was significant 70 tho people in Buff
falo.'
Just what the Governor meant. he
left 10 conjecture. When the attention
Of Frederick G.. Tanner. chairman OF
the Republican State Committee, was
called 70 what Governor Glynn said, he
issued the following statement
"My attention has been called TO the
fact that efforts are being made to raise
a religious issue in this campaign. The
fact that Mr.. Whitman IS of one re-
ligious belief and Mr.. Glynn of another
ought not to be considered by voter
for one moment in this election. l do
not knew whether these efforts orig
mated with the supporters or oppo-
uents Of Governor Glynn, but in either
event the Republican State Committee
does not c0untenance them, and de
nounces as unfair any attempt to OBJ
tain votes either for or against any
candidate on religious grounds"
Sulzer, in his letter to Chairman
Osborn, dragging in the religious issue
like Governor Glynn, denounces Mr..
Osborn in vigorous terms. In part, Mr..
Sulzer said:
you turned a deaf ear TO my APP
peals for help. and finally went over
body, boots and breeches, TO the cor
iupt machine Of Tammany. Tell us
what you got for 1t, or what you ex-
pected 20 get.
"No one knows better than yourself
the real reasons for my removal from
Office. You remember our converse
ton In my law Office Tho latter part OF
December, 1912. whom | offered you the
position Of counsel 80 the Governor.
You said then that you did not want
10 take il because when you we're coun-
sci 10 the Governor who preceded me
in office you mad TO resign on account
Of Tammany's interference with the
work you were doing TO uncover graft
and send grafters 20 prison. You gave
me an outline of the frauds on the tax
payers, and said you did not believe
that / would have the courage to eX-
pose these great frauds; prosecute The
criminals; clean mp the state, and that
you had concluded 30 have nothing
more TO do with the Democratic organi-
cation In this state while Murphy con-
tinued in the leadership.
THAT conversation, OF which / am
giving 8 brief outline, is fixed in my
memory and no doubt you recall IT,
unless your memory has gone back on
you like you have gone back on your
prin iples since you have become a
respectable fgurehead for Tammany.