New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
TREND TO WHITMAN
ADDS TO PLURALITY
Duchess County Chair
man Increases Estimate
from $50 to 1000.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
TALKS WITH TANNER
Candidate Confident Of Election
Outcome After Tour
Upstate.

Growth in the sentiment for District
Attorney whitman in less than week
has caused Willett Hoysradt, chairman
of the Republican County Committee IN
Duchess County, to increase his estl-
mate of the plurality the Republican
candidate for Governor will get there
from $50 to 1000.
When the county chairmen So"
Chairman Tanner of the state commit
tee. at headquarters here last week.
they gave him their estimates. tie
asked them to send him revised estl-
mates this week. The one from MI
Hoysradt is the first to come IN. IL
was received last night. His original
estimate WAS made on October Il.
Chairman Tanner, who had not seen
the candidate for ten days, had long
talk with Mr.. Whitman yesterday. they
went over the campaign from all angles
MIR Whitman expressed confidence IN
the outcome of the election, based on
conditions as he had found them up
state.
Commenting on the message OF Am
bassador James W. Gerard, the ram
MANY candidate for United States SEN
etor, to John NJ. Bowers, his campaign
manager, John w. Hutchinson, Jr, man III
ager of the campaign OF James !"
Wadsworth, jr., Republican opponent
of Mr.. Gerard, said last night;
~ see that Mr.. Gerard states: AS
YOU know | did not seek the nomihac
ton, which ! believe came oeGauSe VI
INV independence in politics. Mr. BOW
ers NAV not have known that Mt Ger-
ard was seeking the Tammany nonliha-
ton for United States Senator, out !o's
of other people knew 1t; o.o
"Mv information IS that there were
a number of candidates for the ram
MANY nomination for Senator, puI "heh
the word went out from Fourteent.n
Street that Mr.. Gerard was to nave ~
thew all laid down. The contest at Me
primaries was fought between NJ vi
Gerard and Mr.. Roosevelt the A"''
Tammany candidate. IL ,,Dor.
of President wilson's other policies, MS
ototaynant that one has to live IN Eu-
-one 10 obtain a true perspective OF the
greatness of President Wilson mas
necuIiar significance, because one can
reaGilv understand that the manu1act-
urers of Europe, whose factories up 70
HE time of the war were running over
time TO make goods to send 10 TINS
country. must have united IN the
chorus: Thank God for Wilson. =
Representative william NJ. Calder, Oh
Rrooklyn. who was defeated by MI
. Wadsworth for the Republican nomlha'
ton for the United States senate
promptly nailed a story from Demo
ratio sources yesterday that many re
Iublicans in Brooklyn would vote TOT
Gerard because of their DISAPPOINTMENT nt
over the failure of Mr.. Calder TO t geV
The nomination. He said that Repuoh-
cans in Brooklyn were never more
united. and would support Mr.. WadS-
worth Loyalty. u, oo.L -
who was the original Progressive
smong the negroes in this county; ahq
has since been leader of the Soioredi
Proeressives, has deserted, Col3niel
/ Roosevelt and is going to work Tor us
trict Attorney Whitman ana 0ther o""-
Gidates on the Republican ticket
Among the former Progressive elec-
J .ion district captains in the 10Th AS,
sembly District who have resigned. ana
ere working for Whitman are FRANK
Imhof. Thomas Marion, George lmnol'
Dennis f. Flattery and Abe KatnDart'