New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
HEDGES HAMMERS
AT BARNES RULE
Gives Whitman Several
DigS-FaVorS Ballots
for Women.

Job E. Hedges spoke last night in
four Assembly districts in Manhattan,
seeking to leave behind him q trail
of indignation at the conduct of Will
lam Barnes, jT., chairman of the State
Republican Committee, and the unfair
ness with which he (Hedges) was being
treated in the present ante-primary
campaign.
In only one of the districts where
Hedges spoke-the 18th, where United
States Marshal William Henkel is
leader-was his candidacy endorsed by
the meeting. At other places, however,
he was enthusiastically received and
his address given the careful attention
of an accomplished speechmaker.
District Attorney Whitman, he al
legged, was Barnes's candidate, and if
! he were nominated il would be a
! Barnes victory.
"The Republican leader Of Richmond
County" Hedges said, attacking Whit
man, was sent for this afternoon by
Barnes, who, in spite of his declara-
tion of Willingness to withdraw from
the state leadership and keep his
personality out of the campaign, has
not made good. The Richmond leader
called at the Republican headquarters
and was asked by Barnes how things
looked in his county. Told that
Hedges seemed the strongest candi-
date, he instructed the leader: Go
back and see what you can do for
Whitman"
Another rap at the District Attorney
came when Hedges said he would like
to inquire through the newspapers if
Mr. Whitman, after the second Becker
trial, did not give a dinner at the
Waldorf to some newspaper men to eX-
press to them his thanks for their
assistance.
A rise of Democratic popularity and
prestige was prophesied by the speaker
if President Wilson is named as a
member of an arbitration board to set
tie the European dispute.
This is the time to elect Repub-
lican Governor" Hedges declared. az
President Wilson is selected for pur-
poses of arbitration it will mean the
election of another Democrat to con-
tinue the Wilson policy as President
Of the United States. On the wave Of
Democratic popularity the state will
go the same way"
Turning to attack the Republican
County Committee for its management
of the. present campaign, Hedges de-
clared that while Samuel S. Koenig
was the titular head of the organiza-
ton the brains Of the local party were
supplied him by Herbert Parsons.
"Any Progressive or Democrat is
/ justified in his attacks on the local
Republican party, because its tactics
/ have sunk to the lowest level" Hedges
/ declared.
In the same vein he made the first
reference Of his campaign to his atti-
/ tude on woman suffrage.
! zone thing that persuades me in
favor Of it," be said, although have
never said much in favor of it before,
is the way the Republicans are running
/ this campaign"
He said he found it difficult to get
/ Republican district leaders to give
/ him a chance to address their voters.
| Hedges's first meeting was in the
| 18th Assembly District, the second in
/ the both, at Lexington av. and 125th
/ st., where Frank X. Bowers, the under
sheriff, Whitman adherent, is leader
/ Colin H. Woodward, an avowed Hin,
man supporter, is leader of the ed
| Assembly District, where Hedges next
spoke, but the chairman at the meet
/ ing was Sheriff Max Grifenhagen
/ loyal to Hedges. The last stopping
place was in the 31st Assembly Dis
trict, at 276 LenoX av.