The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-22
Bryan Received Financial Aid
From Tammany in 1904
BAY STATE SENATORIAL RACE
Both Guild and Gardner Have Now An
nounced Their Withdrawal
Weeks Considered
~ Strong. i!lgl

Washington, July 22.--The Senate
| committee inquiring into the receipts and
expenditures of the presidential cam.
paign committees of 1904 and 1908
brought out yesterday that Col. Bryan
was glad to accept for his campaign
in 1908 $4,000 as a Tammany hall con-
tribution. The colonel stormed furious
ly against Tammany hall and its boss
at Baltimore. However, these things
do not much matter. All this informa-
ton is really stale, as also other in
formation that has been placed before
the committee. This was created chiefly
to find out who contributed to the Roose
welt funds in 1904 and how the money
was spent. On this the committee is
as uniformed as ever, and there does
not seem to be any special effort to
get at the facts bearing on that Roose-
welt campaign fund Mr.. Cortelyou was
not able to recall much. The sugges-
tion is that Senator Clapp of Minnesota,
who is chairman of the committee, has
been able to take good care of his
friend, the ex-president. And it is he
lieved that he was put on this com
mittee for this express purpose. And as
a consequence the committee is going
TO fail in accomplishing what it was
created for.
The field in the race for the United
States senatorship from Massachusetts,
is narrowing, at one blow Saturday two
candidates being taken out Of the field,
ambassador Guild and Representative
Gardner. In a statement issued by Mr..
Gardner. he says he is authorized to an.
nounce for the ambassador that he can
not return from Russia to contest with
other Republicans for the Massachusetts
senatorship and conditions in Russia alb
solutely prevent his resignation at this
time, and that the ambassador also feels
that his entrance into such campaign.
rather than uniting the party. would
merely increase existing complications
And Representative Gardner for himself
announces that he will not be a cam
didate for the senatorship, despite that
when Senator Crane announced his re-
tirement he said that if ambassador
Guild were not candidate he world
become one. In announcing this TACT
the representative uses some Roosevelt
phrasing and wisely, it is felt, reads a
situation respecting himself: with re-
gard to my own views regarding the
senatorship | have this to add: The
wise custom which forbids an aspirant
to be candidate for any Office to which
he cannot possibly be elected regards
the substance and not the form" As
Mr. Mccall is now expected to run for
governor of Massachusetts,, it would
seem that the field is narrowed to Rep
resentative Weeks and former Gov. Drap-
er in so far as the Republicans are con-
cerned, and good judges are now already |
calling him Senator Weeks
The latest name to be added to those !
President Taft is considering for the |
post of district judge for Massachusetts,
in succession to Judge Dodge is that of
Judge Robert F. Raymond of the SUI
perior court of Massachusetts,. the Judge |
being resident OF Newton Center, Presi-
lent Taft yesterday accepted an invita-
tion Representative Weeks extended 10
him to address on September 26 the con-
vention of international chambers of
commerce and boards of trade to be held
in Boston.