The Detroit times., 1910-04-25
LEADERS insist
BURROWS RETIRE
Michigan Senator, Defiant, Wants To
Fight, But Political Advisers Re.
gard His Defeat as Certain.

CHICAGO, April 25-The Record
Herald prints the following from
Washington:
Senator Burrows of Michigan re
fuses to be put in the down-and-out
class just yet. Those who under
stand the Michigan situation. how
ever thing he may find IL wise to
seek retirement rather than race the
primary which will be held 10 name
4 Republican candidate for the senate
next september.
Senator Burrows himself realizes
that Ne has the hardest night or his
life en- hand if he runs for the nom
nation. but he is known TO be stub
bonn OF disposition. and his first de-
termination was TO fight II out. But
some OF Mr.. Burrows's friends, irclud-
ing one CT TWO from whom he has
taken orders politically in the past,
seem 10 feel that he cannot win, ana
they therefore are not inclined to
fight lost cause in his behalf That
ley may make him come 10 their
way OF thinking is a Well-founded be-
lief
Conferences are Planned,
The matter is likely To be settled
one way or the other by conferences
that will be held here within the neXt
few days. Senator Burrows has char
aCtorized the latest reports from De
troit relative to his intention Ia retire
as ridiculous. He may change his
mind after talking with his old-time
hackers
Burrows retirement, voluntary on
forced. will cause a greater alake-rp
in the senate organization and mean
more to the surviving old guard than
the casual observer may imagine. lie
isn't the important figure. OF course.
that either Aldrich or Hale is. Dut he
sands second in rank TO Aldrich on
the powerful committee on finance.
rnc if he survived the Rhode ISLAND
senator he would. by precedent, sue
coed 10 the chairmanship.
Precedent Faces Shake.Up.
But with Burrows also I'm he dis
card precedent would be thre tened
with chaos. Next In line on tha
finance committee is Boies PeGrose or
ennsylvania and To think of PCnros2
as head thereof is sublimely funny TO
those who do not view with alarm.
There would be snake-up demand
Ell and with precedent once broken
I'm one particular there - no telling
the end The shakc-up might be gen
erai Hence 1t will be seen how much
there is at stake in the status OF the
Burrows case and how important the
Michigan senator looms In the eyes
on the old regime, despite his relative
~ small prominence. compared 10 IN p
mighty Aldrich and the scarcely less
mighty Hale.
The reports of ans attempted deal
with Senator william Alden Smith. on
the part of the Burrows managers in
Michigan. looking To the aid OF the
irnior senator. would command more
attention were IL not for the fact tina,
Burrows did nothing in the SmitE
campaign for election except ~ WORK
against the latter.
Smiths Aid in Doubt.
senator smith il is understood az
present. is inclined 10 turn a hand for
burrows. and II his support fails OF
enlistment. or his actual tOstilitv
should not be stayed by big atronag
deals. as is said TO be contemplated.
the last chance OF Burrows Won
seem TO fade
1T looks more and more as though
the Old Guard was tO be worse sha'
tered than indicated by the retire
ments already announced Hale an ]
Aldrich have set fashion that may De
almost an epidemic ~ The outlook
o. the primaries. conventions ana
state legislatures OF the near future is
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