New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-14
WHITMAN BOOM
SOON TO SOUND,
SAYS ALBANY
Supporters Ready for An
nounCement at Amherst
Commencement.
ONLY FEAR is SPLIT
IN n. Y. DELEGATION
Backers Report That in AL
FaVorite Son States Governor
Is Second Choice.

! 1t is the plan of those grooming Gov
crnor Whitman for the Presidency to
have him announce his candidacy on
/ Wednesday, June 80, at Amherst Col
/ lege.
Whether the Governor will openly
/ declare himself in the race or content
( himself with a declaration Of princi-
pies is a detail that will be settled be-
tween his return from the Coast, next
/ Sunday, and the following Wednesday
week.
/ His friends and hackers realize that
he is an unknown quantity to the coun-
! try at large on national issues. To off,
set this handicap they purpose that he
make a profession Of faith. And the
classic surroundings Of q New England
college commencement, they feel, would
be an ideal setting.
The Governors trip TO the Panama
Exposition has been a source Of JOY to
his supporters. What has pleased them,
as one Of them put it last night, was
that in every place he stopped the
newspaper men asked him these two
Questions;
What about Becker" and How
about the Presidency"
New York Attacks in Background.
Commenting on this, one Of Governor
Whitman's closest advisers said: This
shows that the people throughout the
country still have a warm spot in their
hearts for the man who cleaned up the
New York City graft ring and that they
regard him Of Presidential size"
The Governors friend also called at
tention to the absence of any questions
concerning the attacks made on him
ynd his administration by the New
York City fusion administration. This
he regarded as signifying that outside
of New York State there was no
credence placed in the charges OF eX-
travagance hurled at him by Mayor
Mitchell and Mr. McAneny.
The fact is that with certain ele-
ment upstate the Governors stock has
increased through his signing OF ap-
propriation bills giving the farmers
money for their horses and cattle
slaughtered because of disease, and IN
granting larger appropriations TO state
institutions for carrying on their work;
EMPLOYEES in these places are all gocd
machine workers
Whitman Agents Busy.
For several weeks agents Of Governor
whitman have been in Washington and
otber places where national leaders
congregate boosting his stock for the
head Of the 1916 ticket. The results OF
This missionary work, according to re-
ports that have been sent to the Gov
1rnor. have shown him to be the second
choice in every state which has put
forth a favoritc son.
If this were true Whitman wouId
stand an excellent chance OF running
first in the Republican National CON
yention. provided he had the New YORK
Gelegafion solidly behind him. Politi-
cal sharps are inclined 10 doubt that
the Governor is second choice, and IN
recent talks with Republican state
leaders the writer has been Informed
that the Governor Will not have the
united support Of New York's dele
gates.
There are several Republican leaders
who arc antagonistic to the Governor
Some of them base their unfrlendllress
on the charge that he has made prom,
ises with respect to jobs that he failed
70 keep. These men declare he would
run a bad second 10 Charles Evans
Hughes. The justice has forbidden the
use Of his name as Presidential pos
sibilitv. but his friends persist in using
il saving he would leave the United
States Supreme Court bench If called
upon TO do so by his party.
EIhu Root, whose boom was formally
launched at Il dinner given in his honor
in Albany on April 13 by the Republi-
can majority Of the Senate, has also
declared he won't run, but his friends
insist that he would make an excellent
candidate.
Roosevelt Called Formidable.
Then there is Il third and a very for
uidable rival of Mr. Whitman in the
person of Colonel Roosevelt. His
friends in the Progressive party as far
back as fifteen months ago in these
columns told how they were then plan
ming TO capture the Republican nomina-
tion for President for him in 1916.
At the time Republicans who had re-
| fused 10 bolt with him in 1912 declared
| that such talk was absurd. But since
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