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 ble lack of interest in behalf of my confirmation. When | had definitely ascertained that l would not be con
 firmtd by the senate before March 4th. I immediately had Mir Smith iD- vited to meet me here to consult about
 the situation MT. Smith and MT.
 Young came and I laid the situation before them. I told them frankly that
 had not been an applicant for the
 office. and that l would not be unless the organization was cordially behind
 me- l said I would get out of the
 way for any candidate the organiza-
 ton would endorse and I categorically
 and in turn suggested the names of
 Judge Sloan, of Judge Wells. of Judge
 Nichols. of Isaac T. Stoddard. of Gen
 eral Sampson, of w. s. Sturges and
 probably others Smith and Young
 objected to every one of them and
 would not hear of it. then offered
 to get out of the way for Young, but Young would not consent to that
 did not tell him that in my judgment
 he could not get it. They then vol
 unteered the suggestion. and they
 agreed that the only thing to be done was to endorse me and right there and then offered to write their en- dorsement. I declined that l told them that the man who should have the appointment ought to be one who had the endorsement of the commit tee; that I would deem it of little
 value to have the perfunctory en- dorsement of the chairman and sec retary unless it were backed uD by the endorsement of a majority of the committee itself This seemed to be
 assented to and the arrangement was then made with the approval of Smith and Young that Ely should write to each of the committeeman asking for the endorsement of myself-Smith saying that he would be too busy to
 do it.
 Within two days after that meeting | Smith wired Mir. Ely that he was go ing to Washington. to personally look after the matter. and following his | telegram with a letter confirming the telegram and requesting that MT. Efy ! do not write for the endorsements oi the committeeman. Acting upon that | letter. MT. Ely did not write to the | committeeman.
 Mir. Smith professedly went to Washington to urge my reappoint-
 ment and promised to keep me ad
 viseds of the situation there. After | remaining there more than two weeks he sent me no word of what was being | done, until the day of his departure 1 from Washington, a week after the ] inauguration, when he wired that | we" had seen parties and found thai
 could not be confirmed and that in | accordance with agreement we haC
 endorsed Young. As 1 had told MT Smith that I knew I could not bt confirmed by the old senate. as the ! time was too short to bring the mat
 ter out of the committee, I could not see the relevancy of his statement | to me of fact that l myself haC | told him some three weeks before, ! did not know that there had been nc 1 agreement on my part that Young should be recommended, so that i couldn't understand the aliusion to I some mysterious agreement. And
 could not know whom he meant say | ing that we" had recommended | etc, etc I knew that he could moi
 mean that the organization bad beer parties. and having ascertained that I could not be confirmed. had rec commended Young in accordance with ar agreement.
 For the first time. then and on the 18th of March, the day after I re ceived the telegram from Smith.
 addressed a letter to the, president
 asking that I be ,reappointed. as didn't want it to be left to inference sthat there was something in my off cial or private record that would pre-
 vent my confirmation-that if any | charges were made or to be made, ! wanted an oDDortunity to know them