New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-24
Ex-Speaker Added to List
of Those Seeking Seat
in Senate.
ALL WILLING TO
YIELD TO ROOT
Senator Says He Wants to Retire
-Stimson, Calder and Hill
Look for Place.

Friends of lanes W. Wadsworth, IT.
former Speaker OF the Assembly salo
Yesterday ne might be a candidate az ths
primaries for the Republican nomination
for the United States Senate. This adds
10 an already long list of men VINO nav
been mentioned as candidates TO succeed
Senator EIihu Root.
The candidates. are based on the ne
lief that in spite Of the strong pressure
that is being brought 20 bear on Seha,oi
Foot to run for reelection ne VIII SUCK
TO his determination 10 quit puoiic hiV
uhen his present term expires. IT ne
ebouid give The slightest intimation that
bo would take the nomination tne'o
would not be- candidate against MIN at
the primaries. ar,
II Is said the possibility that MI
Vsdsworth will be in the race ~ ""e
not so much TO his own bellei thdt "e
should be a candidate for this lmpoftdh
Office at so young en- age as to the argu-
m.nts OF his friends that he would MAKE
. pood compromise candidate IN "A iarse
field.
Roth MIR Wadsworth and his wite are
f. nd of society. and that part OF WASH
incton life appeals. Of course To them
They are spending part OF the prese"'
season At the ma tional capitai.
General Wadsworth. Mr.. Nads"oi Ut
father was in Washington many year
&c . member Of Congress. Politics came
naturally 70 the son.
Although he was personally popuid'
with the reform Republicans. ne was
onnosed as a candidate for Governor t"o
,.ear, ago because of his alleged reac-
,ionarv tendencies He ran for Lieuteh-
ont Governor and vas defeated. Sihce
that tine ne has kept cut or poliucs' II
had been supposed that William barnes
Z, chairman or the state committee
eti,l entertained the idea that Wads-
worth. who is his close personal irlenu'
might have chance for the "uperhd-
torial nomination this year.
For some time Henry l.. Stimson hao
been prominently mentioned for the noi"-
ination for Senator in case Senator hoo'
should retire. Mr.. Stimson, who was oe-
fested for Governor four years ago sun
asnires. IL is said 10 hold public once
Nr Stimson WAS once law partner OF
Senator Root. and il is not at all I'M
likely that the present Senator Wouiu
throw his influence toward Mr.. StlrlSon /.
From upstate has come report una
friends of Harvey ID. Hinman are groom
ing him for the Senatorshlp nomlnatio.I.
The story ls that they nave promlseu 10
aid District Attorney Whitman TO geI
the nomination for Governor IN return
for the support Of the friends or the Ia
for for Mr.. Humans Senatorial arnpl-
Eepresentative William NJ. Salder
vouId like to run either for the Senate
ar Tor Governor. preferably the former.
David Javne Hill. former Ambassador 10
GERMANY. is also being mentioned as
dark horse ,.,o,.. TO-, the
So Car the crop Of candidates Tor ne
Democratic nomination for the Sena 2
has heen small William T. McComos;
chairman of the Democratic Natlondi
Committee. has been the one most Spoken
of He refuses to say, however, Wnetn-
or ne Is q candidate or rot. When W III
lam T. Sheenan was defeated by senator
lanes \. OC;orman his friends said ne
would be a candidate TO succeed senator
Foot That, however. was before the
massage of the constitutional amenu-
mont for direct election OF United STATS
Senators and the passage or the STATE
wide direct primary law here
In the course OF few weeks a mum
Der of booms are likely to come out lh'o
the omen.