Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-27
Shepard Out
 Of Senate Fight.
LETTER TO MONTGOMERY HARE
 ANNOUNCED WITHDRAWAL.
STEPHAN SOON MUST GO
The Latter Cannot se Elected by the Democrats Tammany's One Man Vote Trust penounrsd.


 Vote Trust Denounced.
 night to his trusted friend, Montgom- | cry Hare, Edward M. Shepard of | Brooklyn announced his retirement | from the fight for the United States l se1atorship to succeed Chauneey M. l Depew. He adds that in his opinion 1 William F. Sheehan's retirement is im- minent and he warns the democratic | members of the legislature that unless l they promptly unite the extra session l of congress will find the state of New York but half represented" Earlier in | the day Martin w, Lfttleton, congress- l man-elect and self-announced candi- date for the senatorship, had issued { statement pointing, as MT. Shepard, l does. to the grave responsibility rest ing upon the democratic legislators and calling upon Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, to cause the retire ment of Mir. Sheehan and break the five weeks deadlock at Albany.
 MT. Lfttleton@ expressly denies that he asks the Tammany leaders support for his own candidacy, and writes, he says, in the interest of party unity.
 Mir. shepard's Letter.
 Mfr. Shepard's letter says in part:
 'It was plain, a month or more ago,
 
 had aroused a democratic opposition so important and persistent as to render impossible his election by democrats He could be elected only if, by some means, republican legislators should be found willing to inf1ict infinite discred- it upon their party and themselves.
 Assuming, however, as we must, that there is to be a sofution-as ssum- ing, as we surely may, that MT Snee- 1ars withdrawal is imm1nent-tnero ., <Sf cratic minority a grave further re- sponsibility. And, since you nave nad so signal a part in presenting them the sentiment of other independently minded democrats. will you not say to them what I could not say without seeniing-ajt least to the members ot the minority-to injure their cause and myself to promote MT. Sheehan's cleo tion-a result which ] should per emptorily refuse to promote, whether directly or indirectly? For today the cause of the minority is to me the fore most of all political causes within our state.
 impending End of sheehan Candidacy "The impending end of the candida cy of Mr. Sheehan seems to me to re- aiiire some change of programme to which in 8 slight degree can perhaps contribute Now z that the one long confinued obstr4Iction to a. genuinely ssss1sca.,i denocratic csroice is probabay ended the votes for myself ought to give way to other and more effective votes l should be glad if you, as my friend, would make it clear to the minority, who already have voted or who mlgnt hereafter vote for me. that am def- initeIy and absolutely outside of the list from which candidates can be l chosen I do not and shall not, how l ever. withdraw from political actrvlty or from warm support of the demo- 1 cratic party Far from IT. | MOpe q. least with entire loyalty and with some energy, long to support the underlying cause which, has for the time made 1 the minority the most distinguished | body of men in the state
 Advice to the Minority. | With himself removed as a candi- date, MT. Shepard addresses some 1 friendly words to the minority Wlln l the hope that they Twill make their 1 choice with a view to the serious and l far reaching relations which this sen- atorship bears to the democratic party I in our state and the nation He adds | that he hopes also. with the removal | of the difYiculties inseparabiy attacneo i to Mr. Sheehan's candidacy and to any candidacy. compelling democratic and popular mistrust that the major fty must wish to make it choice.
 penounces Tammany Dominancs. Hhe denounces Tammany dominance Of the caucus which chose MT. Since han and says that the democratic party can never succeed in, this state when it is generally believed that l Tammany controls the nominations He continues: "The portion of the Manhattan and Bronx vote which to- day willingly acQuiesce in this poo or trust of democratic power is only a fraction of the democratic votes IT tho county of New York The result ct .c in, an corporation cases condemned by th< 4 courts, is, in effect, to put the major. ity into the hands of a relatively smal
 minority.
 Minsrity Saved the Day.
 Every intelligent democrat of tn, state knows that, had it not been fol the skill and courage of the minority
 the present democratic legisialur' ];
 would have been, in large part, or, l is feared, in far the greater part, thu
 mere representative of this very vot
 ing trust. Inevitably one of the step'
 would have te be that the votlni
 trust would choose the democratic ael
 egation to the national convention
 And the power and prestige of tn democracy of the state throughout tn country and at the polls in the presi dential election would then be pros trated.
 Not Bound by One-Man Voting Trus
 Practically, therefore, the healtl 1 and the life of the democratic part. l require that, as long as there shal ~I continue the one man voting trust 0 1 Tammany hall and the influence
 which are behind it, there shall be tn
 power and the right of any sufhcien and respectable minority to decline t
 be bound by any caucus controlled b | that trust. In that way, and in n other can any exalted or honest pur
 poses of the democratic party of thi state be accomplished
 No Difference to lnsurgents. Albany, N. Y, Feb 28.-That tn withdrawal of Edward M. Shepar . from the senatorial race will have n , effect on the attitude of4the insurgent l opposed to MT. Sheehans candidac was stated most emphatfcally tonigh iby Senator F. D. Roosevelt, the insur gent leader, after reading the letter
 on Mr. Shepards and Representativ tLitt1eton.
 Il MT. Roosevelt teIexxaphed tonight t all the insurgents reQuoeting them { : be on hand tomorrow naorning for Iconference on the ,situation. He wa
 not prepared to say for whom the in 3 surEents who have been supportln r f MT. Shepard would votA.
 { With Mr. shepard put of the contes , 1 1t is believed most of the insurgena 7 will throw their support to John l 7 Kernan of Utica.
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