New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Ten Reasons for
Defeat of Whitman
Are Given by Lewis
Attorney General Accuses
Governor of Attempt to
Pack" Convention

The Whitman campaign managers
took day off yesterday, but from the
political headquarters of Attorney
General Lewis was issued new broad
side, entitled "Ten Reasons Why Gov
ernor Whitman Should Not Be Re-
nominated" AS conceived by the Lewis
hackers, the reasons are:
81. He threatens to pack the state
convention. The history Of the call
for the state convention at Saratoga,
July 18, is fresh in public memory The
list of delegates will be closely scruti-
nized If the representative men and
women of the Republican party are ig-
nored and the convention hall is filled
with Whitman office-holders and their
subordinates, the fact will be pub
lished from Montauk Point to Lake
Erie viii the Governor and his
agents dare do it?
"2. No third term. For eighty years
the Empire State has followed this
precedent. If third term, why not a
fifth term, or life tenure"
49, Mr. Whitman repudiated the
nominee of direct primaries. Senator
Bennett was nominated for Mayor of
New York City on the Republican
ticket last fall at the regular primary
election of the party. The Governor,
in a public statement, advised Repub-
licans to ignore the result of their
party primaries and vote for Mayor
Mitchell, who was defeated in those
primaries, and then ran as an inde-
pendent. Governor Whitman bolted his
party's choice. Is it safe to nominate
a bolter?
Called Patriotic Proftcer
"a Mr.. Whitman seeks personal
profit from patriotism. He reproved
Mayor Mitchell for making patriotism
an issue in the New York Mayoralty
campaign, but now asks denomination
as war Governor even suggesting
that the Plattsburg camp was his own
original idea. The patriotism which
his personal asset belongs to the whole
state, The man who asserts greater
zeal for the cause of his country than
the millions at the front and the mill
ions of f-sacrifcing men and wom-
en- laboring at home insults the intelli-
gence Of the electorate.
"5. He has built personal machine
through patronage. Mr.. Whitman
boasts that his administration has
been without scandal. The members
of the state committee draw upward
of $l50000 a year from the payroll of
the state. That a Public Service Com
missioner at $4,000 year, a Superin-
tendent of Insurance at $4,000 a year
and the attorney for the Banking De-
partment, with fees estimated at $25,-
600 a year, should lead that committee
in The operation of a steam roller is g.
public scandal.
IS. Governor Whitman has neglected
the business Of the state Elon r..
Brown, in retiring from the Senate,
calls attention to the fact that the
Governor this year approved appropri-
ations aggregating s81 ,C00,O 900 without
single consultation with the leader
Of the Senate or the chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Senate or
the Ways and Means Committee of the
Assembly.
lnterfered in Dry Fight
81. He is committed to ratification
of the prohibition amendment. Gov
ernor Whitman was advised by the At
torney General in December, 1917. that
as Governor he had no concern with
this issue. as it was solely for the
Legislature to determine. None the
less, the Governor sent a MESSAGE 10
the Legislature demanding immediate
ratification of the Federal prohibjtion
amendment and opposing any method
of submitting the question to vote
of the people. Public condemnation
of his course has become SO emphatic
that he is now seeking TO recede from
this position. Regeneration will NOT
save him. Whether he stands on the