Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-08-15
BAILEY UNLIKELY
TO MAKE RACE
FOR SENATE
Veteran Campaigner Indicates to Close
Friends That Ne May Not be a Candi-
date IN I9i6-H0wever. Ne Will Make
No Statement for Press.
SEEMS TO Be RENEGGlNG
FROM HIS ANNOUNCEMENT
Former Senator Will Make No Statement
and Refuses TO Affirm CT Deny Rumors
That Ne viii Not Make Race-PIatform
Is Said to Be POpuIistic.

BY Clarence I'm Bose iYGalveston News.
III PaSn, Texas. August lI.-Within
twenty four hours Of his definite state
mcnt that he would b. n candidate for
the United States senate in 1916. For
mcr senator y. w. Bailey has indicated
% cloSc friends that he may consider II
proper 10 r%enounce that determination.
The general acceptance of the annoumc~-
mcnt ~ his candidacy becomes mantled
with doubt tonight. although Mr.. Bailey
declines 10 make any expression upon
The question whatever. and will not an
Swcr the direct question: as il true
that YOU have changed your mind with
regard 10 the statement that Won will be
\ senatorial candidate two wears henceg~
senator Bailey j. thoroughly chagrin.
ed ~ the developments AT III Pas0. To
friends today he H. reported "a have
said that after hc fuIfills al engage.
ment already made 10 deliver an ad.
dress III the opening Of the Hill County
Fair. he never expects to make another
political speech ID Texas.
Mr.. Bailey has been about the Def
Norte hotel very little today and left 10.
night for Houston. II II understood
that h. told close friends today that be-.
cause If the populi~tic platform adopt
eel by this convention and the type Of
some Of those dominant therein. ne did
not care % contest for office in this
state. and il j. further said that Mr.. Bal.
Icy expressed a. these friends nm express
Intention not "a run for the senate. dcs-
pite his previous declaration.
HAS no STATEMENT TO MAKE.
~ have absolutely no statement 10
make" is Mr.. Bailey's only reSponsc
when asked for publication whether
there i any truth la the that he
has decided not 10 become "a candidate.
Ia view. however. Of the sources from
which came the story Of Mr.
Bailct'S change Of program aft
of Mr.. Bailcy'S change of program. aft
or sleeping over the question. consider.
able crcdcncc i given the report that NJ
VIII not run. Colonel Jacob WolferS i
expressing regret that H. could find
mo takers when he offered 10 bet 81. q
last night that Mr.. Bailey would not BE- 4
candidate when tie vote was east in
1916.
As the scene Of political conflict
clears tonight with most of the demo
Gratis who gathered for the stac cnnven
ton speeding eastward tn their homes
and q select few counSclling Al Cloud
croft. high in the mountains 81 New
Mexico. the impression dominant with
all remaining delegates il that the con
~Nention just closed affords an accurate
Indication Of the policy Of the Fercn
son administrator 20 come. That il
that Jim Ferguson will be Governor
first last and an the time: that politi.
cal precedent will sway him moi IN the
slightest; that. 90 use his own language
~ referring to his passage with Scnat
or Bailey. he will 20 "a the mat with no
holds barred" with any and All corners
WI" oppose the program that Ferguson
decides upon. lie will listen to the al.
vice ~ his fricndS-hut in the final al
aiA>iS the man who decides will he the
man VIII" determined the plan IL action
herc-.Jim Ferguson.