The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-23
HENNESSY UP STATE
FIGHTING GOVERNOR
Letter Reveals That He Is Beg
ging Votes for Whitman
or Sulzer.
ALSO OPPOSING GERARD

The question What is John 4 Hen
messy DOING which politicians have been
asking one another ever since the pri-
rnaries. can he answered at last lie IL up
sthe State trying 10 swing his Democratic
friends away from GOV Glynn in order
90 assure the election OF Charles s Whit
man.
He left this city last Sunday and is
travelling by automobile He will be
rone,until 2 few days before election. At
his own suggestion and by agreement with
Republican managers his mission has been
kept secret, They did not want the enemy
20 know what h, was up TO lie is In
terviewlnE friendly county chai-mer,
members of the state committee and 9TH
ere who stood with Hennessy and Frank
lin =. Roosevelt IA the primary contest
Apparently ne has asked all Of them
"a keep quiet. f5- no word Of his pro-
sramme reached New YORK until yester-
day Only a few insiders here We're ac
uuainted with u. II IL said that william
suizer Is one OK these. and that MIR Hen
messy doesn't care much whether he gets
votes for whitman o. Sulzer so Ions as
they are suhtrartcd from the nUinoer
which Gov Glynu has counted upon.
Also Fighting Gerard.
A partial Indication Of where Mr.. Hen
messy stand. - found IN a letter :. hg.s
written 10 Eugene VI. Travis REPUBLICAN
candidate for state Comptroller, which
Mr. Travis sent to the Newspapers yes
terday. In the letter Mr. HcnncEsy In
.vI oh ~.
cratic candidates for state Engineer and
for Comptrolcr. and promises to vote for
Mr.. Travis and do what ! can for you
among the genuine auti-Murpny Demo
Gratis of New York State" Hs does not
mention GOV. Glynn. but attacks CHARLES
f. Murphy because OF the nomination Of
James ". Gerard FOR Senator.
M. Hcrrcssy's especial effort, accord
inr to this letter. Is the cessat Of Bense,
and Sohuer but MS own attitude toward
the whole Glyuu ticket may be suggested
ny this sentence: The necessity for de-
featlug othe- candidates on Mr.. Murphy's
ticket 50 that We may have a h Gus. clchn-
ing for the taxpayers may be- essential
as in the cases Of Beusel and Sohmer. but
that Il something for the individual Demo
Gratis to decide
The letter to Mr. Travis contains tho
first intimation the public has nd Of Mr..
Hennessy's course since the primaries.
MOST CT the democrats WHO IbOA with
him in the primary fiEht--nen Ike Mayor
Mitchell Frank l. Polk. Dudley Field
Malone, stuart q. Gibboney. Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo and Robert Adam
son-are openly supporting Gov. Glynn.
Mr.. Hennessy. however. hos remained
silent. II was understood that he was not
reconciled and that the proposed indorse-
ment Of the Governor ~ n meeting OF
Hennessy Democrats AZ the National
Democratic club ten days ago was pre-
vented through his efforts
Some of the significant paragraphs o,
Mr.. Hennessy's letter TO Mr. Travis, which
was dated as II written In Brooklyn yes.
terday. follow:
THE reelection Of Mr. Murphy's candi.
date. Mr.. Sohmer. would oe against AL
decent public policy. II would be In every
way as bad as the election OF John a
Bensel 10 be State Engineer and Sur.
veyor Every taxpayer calling himself a
Democrat owes a duty to good government
In seeing that both Sohmcr and Bense
are defeated.
'In your case and, indeed, IN the cases
OF other Republican candidates. the effor
by certain Democrats Ia have graft anc
decency linked In a common purpose 1,
fairly sure TO meet defeat. How the for
tunes OF the national democracy are a
all concerned with the fate that may
befsll the Murpnylzed state Organization
I cannot see, unless this new harmony
doctrine means that political opportunity
in a party sense, must override tho mora
obligation Of the elector TO punish un
faithful public servants Tho nomination
Of Sohmer and n Bcnsel, not TO go an!
further. proves that you cannot get de
Cency IN the Democratic state organizs
ton until conscience Democrats hav
smashed II 10 the point where the presen
leadership will be destroyed 4 vote 70
YOU ls vote 10 take Mr.. Murphy's hol'
from the throhts OF New York Demo
Gratis"
The Jeffersonian Alliance, which sup
ported John 4. Hennessy before the pr
rnaries. Endorsed yesterday Gov. Glyni
Mr.. Gerard, Judge Seabury, and all tn
candidates ~ the Democratic State ticke
except John A. Bensel. William Sohme
and ex Coy. John A. Dix, who II runnin
Tor constitutional delegate at large. Bar
tow s. Weeks candidate for Justice OF IN
Supreme Court was indorsed. but not 7
Henry Dugro Edward r. La Fetra an
Japes A. Alien were Endorsed for I'll
city Court
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