The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-06
FLAT DENIALS FROM TILSON
 AND BULKELEY
Congressman Claims Never Said Things Accredited to Him in Interview-SenatOr Says Never Made Pact With
 AnybOdy-Ex-GOv.
 M'Lean Surprised

Hartford. May 6.-The special dis patch published on Tuesday, May 5, | in which Congressman Tilson was 1 quoted as referring to the general understanding that Senator Bulkeley was not to be a candidate for a sec l ond term, has created more excite
 ment in Washington that 1t did at 1 home where number of well known Republicans have talked freely for 1 several years of the same under
 standing. The senator and the con 1 gressman met Wednesday, night and i prepared the following two messa ges 1 which were sent out as their joint statement:
 1 From Major Tilson.
 1 The following special to '"rhe i Courant under date, Washington, 1 May 2, and published in that paper ! May 5, and accredited to me- He (Governor McLean) supported | Bulke!ey for the senate some years ago with tho understanding that l Bulkeley would not stand in his way ! deny this. He says he has changed | his mind because he likes life in 1 Washington
 1 I feel obliged to say is an incorrect l statement. I made no statement that 1 could be fairly construed to mean l what The COurant'' correspondent | would make me say. I have no knOwl- l edge of any agreement or understand | ing and certainly never stated that | there was such.
 i From Senator Bulzeley.
 1 To my constituents I desire to say | once and for all time, that the spe-
 cial from Washington as above quot l ed is an absolute fabrication I have l never at any time had any under standing with eX-Governor Mclean,
 or any friend of his, that I would not be a candidate to succeed myself 1 in the Senate as a consideration for | his support in 1905 or for any other 1 reason.
 A reporter was dispatched at once I to see what Governor Mclean had to 1 say about the statements.
 What ne said was as follows: | 1T am greatly surprised as others ! will be. at Senator Bulkeley's state 1 ment. I cannot understand it or ac- l count for it. I do not care to say l more at present. I have felt, and still i feel, that the people of Connecticut l should decide the coming senatorial ] contest without regard to any as- l surances Senator Bulkeley may have given me-
 It will be noted that MT. Mclean | expresses surprise as he says others l will ana, it may be added. do) at | the announcement and says he cannot understand 1t. 1 Washington. May 6.-There has been 1 considerable interest manifested here l in the denial of Represents tive Tilson l Of the statement contained in an in terview with him published in the 'tCourant' on May 3. On that day fn11 Fin Connecticut. quoting the substance 1 of Tilson's published statement. Bulk eley hurried over to the House and | had talk with Tilson, after which I Tilson was seen by the "Courant' cor l resopndent.
 t.I acquit you of intentionally mis- | understanding me- said Tilson. .The 1 published language attributed to me | was so nearly what I said, or meant 1 to say, that the mistake was probably natural. although the meaning was | different from what I intended to con | vey. I was unfortunate, perhaps, Tn l my choice of words. l may have us | ed the word understanding. I mere | ly referred to the general understand l ing which was had by many people In 1 Connecticut at the time of Bulkeley' s 1 election. and not to a specific agree | ment between Bulkeley and Mclean. l Ut has been said for years that | there was an agreement between Mo | Lean and Bulkeley under which the ] latter was to make way for the for l mer. I know nothing personally about l the matter. T did not mean sto charge | Bulkeley with bad faith
 | Bulkeley is very much ruffled in | temper and language.
 | Among members of the Connecticut l delegation there seems to be an inn
 l pression that one important effect of | the Tilson interview has been to
 | smoke out Bulkeley on a question that
 | has interested Connecticut politicians,
 1 namely, the alleged understanding be-
 1 tween Mclean and Bulkeley. Other
 1 members of the delegation besides Til
 | son have heard the report of an rn-
 1 derstanding One member said today
 that a prominent man in Hartford
 1 knew all about it.