River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-03-02
SHEPARD PULLS OUT
BELIEVES SHEEHAN is ABOUT TO
QUIT; WARNS NEW YORK
DEMOCRATS TO UNITE.
INSURGENTS ATTITUDE is SAME
LittIeton Calls Upon Chas. w. Murphy,
Leader of Tammany Hall, to Cause
Sheehan's Retirement.

New York, N. Y. - Edwin M.
Shepard in a letter TO Montgomery
Hare announced his retirement from
the fight for the United States SEN
atorship to succeed Chauncey M. De-
pew. He adds that in his opinion
William F. Sheehan's retirement is
imminent and warns the Democratic
members of the legislature that unless
the members Promptly unite, the
extra session of congress will find the
state of New York but half repre-
sented."
Earlier in the day Martin w. Lit
Teton, congressman-elect and self-an-
nounced candidate for the senatorship,
issued statement pointing, as does
Mr.. Shepard, to the Grave RESPONSE
bility" resting upon the Democratic
legislators and calling upon Charles
F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall,
to cause the retirement of Mr.. Shee-
han and break the five weeks dead
lock at Albany.
Mr.. Shepard's letter says in part:
1T was plain a month Or more ago
that Mr.. Sheehan's caucus nomination
had aroused Democratic opposition
so important and persistent as to rem
der impossible his election by Demo
Gratis. | assume, therefore, not only
that Mr.. Sheehan will not be chosen
but that at this late day that fact is
clear to himself and his supporters.
Like everybody else in the state,
be must know that, SO long as the ma
iority of the Democratic legislators
continue to vote for him in Difference
purely to the imaginary obligation Of
their caucus, no solution of this Demo
cratic difficulty will be possible. AS
Stunning, however, as we must, that
there is to be assuming,
as we surely may, that Mr.. Sheehan's
withdrawal is imminent, there rests
upon the members of the Democratic
minority a grave further responsible
ity"
Mr.. Shepard denounces Tammany
dominance of the caucus which chose
Mr.. Sheehan, and declares that the
Democratic party can never succeed in
this state when it is generally be-
lieved that Tammany controls the
nominations.
Martin w. Littleton, in his letter to
Charles F. Murphy, expressly denies
that he asks the Tammany leaders
support for his own candidacy and
writes, he says, in the interest of
party unity.
He predicts that if the deadlock
continues, the Canadian reciprocity
treaty, tariff reform and the PROPOSE
ton to elect senators by direct vote
may fail for want of a Democratic
senator from New York. The present
deadlock, he declares, will be easily
broken if Mr.. Murphy would withdraw
his influence, which he characteriZes
as an endurance test" to determine
whether Tammany Hall can extend it's
control to other sections of the state.
Albany, N. Y, Feb. 27.-That the
withdrawal of Edward M. Shepard
from the senatorial race will have no
effect on the attitude of the insurgents
in their opposition to Mr.. Sheehan was
stated most emphatically by Senator
Roosevelt, the insurgent leader. He
was not prepared to say for whom the
insurgents supporting Mr.. Shepard
would vote.
Assemblyman Terry, the only other
insurgent in the city, said he probably
would vote for Mr.. Littleton. 1t is
believed, however, that most of the