The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-11-26
BURKE SAID To
Be PILES
CHOICE
SENIOR SENATOR LEAVING FOR
WASHINGTON But WILL NOT
GIVE OUT STATEMENT OF HIS
PLANS UNTIL HE DEPARTS.

Seattle, Nov. 26.-United States
Senator S. H. Piles will leave tonight
for the national capital. Final con-
ferences with close political advisers
of the senior senator were held yes
terday and today and a political pro-
gram satisfactory to Piles and his
supporters has been agreed upon.
Piles, personally, will not give out
any statement of his plans before
leaving Seattle, but it is understood
by those close to the senator that one
of his intimate friends will be au-
thorized, in a day or two, to make a
statement of Piles program.
For several days it has been known
that Piles had definitely decided that
in the event he was not a candidate
for reelection he would support Judge
Thomas Burke The probabilities, as
we'll informed politicians see them,
are that Burke will be the candidate.
Believed Burke Had Tip.
At the time it was announced that
Judge Burke would not accept an
appointment as minister to China
were the berth formally rendered to
him, it was also stated that Burke
hoped to be a candidate for senator
with the support and advice of Sen
ator Piles Friends of Judge Burke
believed then that Burke had re-
ceived a tip that Piles would not
make the race and had some assur-
ance that he could have Piles en-
| dorsement.
| Had he been willing to accept the
office it is we'll known that Piles
would have supported j. E. Chilberg.
president of the Alaska-YukonPa-
cific exposition. Probably all the
Piles organization would have done
so and the Burke candidacy might
not have developed. Chilberg had
plain intimation that he could get
this support, but he insisted that up
on his retirement from the exposi-
ton he would return to private busi-
ness life. He put aside offers of sup
port from almost every county in the
state and at the same time refused
to consider a mayorality nomination
AS understood by close friends of
Senator Piles the only consideration
that would have drawn him into a
new senatorial contest was the ad-
justment of certain business affairs.
While these matters probably will be
arranged later. Piles desire to return
to the practice of law has been grow
ing on him and is the final considera-
tion in his decision
Costly Office for Piles.
Former legal associates of Senator
Piles know that he has regretted the
dissolution of his old law firm. and
/ but for the Mitchell scandal about
the time of Piles election this action
, would not have been taken. Since
, he has been in the senate Piles has
, learned that he could easily have
kept up the practice of law and kept
his firm out of any business that af-
fected the national government
While scores of other attorneys in
, congress do this. Piles did not, ana
as a result he has depended wholly
upon private resources and his sena-
tOrial salary. That the seat has cost
him far more than a senator's salary
is we'll known fact and that Piles
, has tired of the continued drain is
also well known to his friends.
1t was declared today that a con-
= ference was held last night between
, Judge Burke. Senator Piles and sew
eral of their closest advisers. At this
, conference. it is understood. arrange
, ments were made for the forthcoming
announcement of Piles plans.