The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-20
.uTTLETON COMES
 OUT FOR SENATOR IN NEW YORK STATE
Says He Believes Neither Shepard Nor Sheehan
 Can Be Elected
ISSUES A STATEMENT
 ON WHERE HE STANDS
4ens yust What His Policies Are and sss, ydeas on Present Federal
 Problems-Strongly Fa- vors Reciprocity

I
 < New York February 19-Martin w. <. Littleton, newly elected democratic 4 representative from Theodore Roose-
 velt's district. announced tonight his
 candidacy for the United States Sem
 ate to succeed chauncev M. Depew and
 supplemented his formal statement
 with verbal declaration that he will
 take his cause before the people. He
 will speak in Brooklyn Tuesday night,
 in Manhattan Wednesday night, and
 perhaps. thereafter upstate. He chose to make known his candidacy through [ a letter to Lieutenant Governor Con- way
 In addition of one more name to the { list of candidates already In the field caused no great excitement among the
 leaders here. though 1t stirred some ! curiosity among them as to MT. Lit tletons motives in coming forward at
 this time; why he should write to s lieutenant Governor Conway and what counsels had aided him in reaching < . decision. ~..
 Littleton Explains l MT Littleton himself was, explicit.
 
 z had become convinced neither MT. Shee- han nor MT. Shepard could be elected. They had been the leading candidates until the legislature convened and < hitherto he had hesitated to dispute E their pre-eminence
 He chose to write to Lieutenant Gov
 ernor Conway because the latter pre-
 sides over the election of United States
 senators and therefore communication
 addressed to him would come before
 the joint assembly In manner befit- ting the proprieties and the legalites { demanded. William F. Sheehan and Charles F. Murphy were perhaps the two persons
 most interested in the news of Mir 2 Littletons candidacy.
 z This is the first I'd heard of it., 8 said MT. Sheehan. No. I didn't know a The intended to come out as a candi- date, thoughs of course, his name has N been megitiened. I haven't seen his let k ter ai,d don't want So see it. There Is nothing for me to say" f Murphy Is Silent Charles F. Murphy was at Good f Ground, l.. l.. and would make no com F ment until he had read the letter. Mir. Conway was doubtful why he \ had been chosen as the recipient of the announcement. Senator Franklin D. \ Roosevelt. the insurgent leader was & interested but rather noncommittal. T hardly think I shall have any opinions on the worth of MT. Little tons candidacy he said, until have consulted with my colleagues of the minority, Personally. of course, every body likes Martin Littleton and all f democrats recognize that he has done
 "a urrr fnr h >orfx,
 'The vote tomorrow at Albany prob ably will not show the sentiment of Il the minority toward MT. Littleton, nor perhaps will that of Tuesday," J. Montgomery Hare, campaign man. ager for Edward M. Shepard, did not care to speak in the absence of his chief.
 MT. Littieton himself spoke with re- S 1uctance of his candidacy
 "I am candidate" he said, "of no interests but those of the people and of my own. My friends have suggested
 that declare myself for some time, but I held back for the reasons have \ written. Now. that I am before the peo- pie wish to give them an opportu- nity to judge for themselves if my i talents merit their votes" Mir. Littleton was emphatic that he had not. consulted with Mr. Murphy about his candidacy.
 By way of introduction Mir Littleton says he has received a letter in which he was asked ito state whether I am d
 candidate for United States senator" Before the legislature assembled,'' he
 continued, T was asked by some of
 the members to declare myself a can didate. At that time MT. Shepard and Mir. Sheehan were the executive and
 leading candidates and I really expected < the choice would fall upon one or ths other of these gentlemen and hence de-
 clined to do so We are now nearing 3 the end of the fifth week of balloting and < 1t does not seem at all likely that either \ MT. Shepard or MT. Sheehan will be
 chosen. have made up my mind to
 submit my name as candidate to the
 legislature, from the state. and in doing 2 % I wish the members and the people who sent them there to know where I I stand and for what I stand.
 Where He Stands
 "As democrat realize that the po-
 sition of the democratic party in the ! country calls for the election of some I one who will not only insure peace In
 the party councils, but whose election 4 would be in accord with the popular will E of the state.'
 t The situation, he says. calls for such < . high order of ability and fitness that ne has serious misgivinss as to his own fitness"
 MT. Littleton then outlines the prob
 lens before the federal government as
 he sees them. emphasizing at the out
 set that with but one exception he has
 supported the services of the democratic
 party and that he has a high belief In
 the party so long as 1t has for its cen
 tral purpose the upbuilding of the coun-
 try and not its spoils of office. He
 refers to the problems of supervising
 corporations and railroads. which he says
 must be regulated by the government \ when they become national In character "I believe that by sound statesman 7 ship that we can carefully preserve the < centralized form of industry. with its < multiplied capacity for, production and < distribution, and that we make this cen t tralixed industry serve the purpose oi ' . great civilization by that rigid reg t ulation which will take out of the heart N of 1t its corruption and strip from 1t itl power of oppression and extortion. A ''The fact that 1t will. in this view, be. E come necessary from time to time for tho f federal government to increase its powers & ard enlarge It's supervision over these great concerns. makes 1t more and mora
 necessary that United States senators \ should. be elected directly by the people V In the end that such senators will spring VI iron; the very will and desire of the peo'
 rle, and to the further end that no con
 
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