New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26
Sees in Candidacy Barnes
Plan to Have Rubber
Stamp" Ticket.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
MAY THROW BOMB"
Said To Be Considering Advisa.
bility of Splitting with
Albany Leader.

Ni""oi RooseNeIt made II plain last
night that he could not see his way
clear to indorsing the candidacy of
District Attorney Whitman for Gov
ernor. He indicated in his statement
given out at Sycamore Hill after an
extended conference not only with the
principal state leaders, but also lead
ers from other parts of the country.
that the Progressive party would have
to make a clean-cut, straight fight in
New York State this fall.
The leaders hope to force the Colonel
to head the ticket in spite of his de-
termination not to run. He ignored
that point last night.
IL seemed evident that George W.
Perkins, Theodore Douglas Robinson
and the others had persuaded the
Colonel that Chairman Barnes of the
Republican State Committee was too
deeply interested in the Whitman can
didacy and might dominate him il the
District Attorney were elected.
On the other hand, Charles H. Duell.
Jr" who is working tooth and nail to
get the Progressive Endorsement for
Whitman, intimated that the Colonel
might be induced to come out for
Whitman, if the latter should cut
away from Barnes. After his talk with
the Colonel on Wednesday night, Mr.
Duell spent three hours with the Dis
trict Attorney over the luncheon table
yesterday. Neither would discuss their
conference.
What will be the attitude of the
Colonel toward Mr.. Whitman? ," Duell
was asked.
Ask Mr.. Whitman" replied Duell.
The intimation was that it depended
on how far Whitman was willing to 90
in repudiating Barnes.
Whitman May Have Bomb.
1t was stated that Mr.. Whitman had
nothing to say just yet, but might have
statement within forty-eight hours
which would be ain the nature of a
bomb He is considering, it is under
stood, just how far he can 60 in re-
pudiating Barnes and the so-called Re-
publican machine without hurting him
self with the Republican organization.
When the leaders, who had been in
close conference with the Colonel since
early in the afternoon, came out, short
ly before o'clock, they expressed the
opinion that there was not the slightest
chance that the Colonel would indorse
Whitman. They said they still hoped
the Colonel would head the Progressive
ticket and that no other name was
being considered now.
Colonel Criticises Whitman.
As some Of the Progressive leaders
stepped out to the veranda to enter
their machines, Colonel Roosevelt, in
a khaki fatigue suit, hurried over to
the edge of the piazza by which the
newspaper men were standing, and
said;
81 am too tired to say anything to
you this evening. And must 90 in and
dress. But have prepared a statement
which Mr.. McGrath will bring out to
you in few minutes"
Mr.. McGrath soon emerged and read
off the following:
1T is evident to me that the decent
citizens of the state demand that the
state fight this fall shall take the
shape of a clear-cut movement against
both the old party organizations, con-
trolled as one of them is by Mr..
Barnes and the other by Mr.. Murphy.
81 am struck by the statement in
The Tribune to-day that the Whitman
candidacy is being engineered by Mr..
Barnes and his personal lieutenants
in Albany County. | have similar in
formation from other sections of the
state. 1t is evidently the intention of
the Barnes machine to run either Mr..
Whitman or some other man on whose
real subservience they can count, in
short, to have rubber-stamp ticket
from top to bottom--a ticket of which
the personnel would be wholly unim-
portant, because the directive force
behind would be that Of Mr.. Barnes.
"ln my judgment. neither the Pro-
gressives nor the Independent citizens
will accept either Mr.. Whitman or any
one else who has failed already TO
show as a matter of principle. and not
as a matter of eXpediency, by clear
cut statements in the open, that he is
as unalterably opposed to the Barnes
machine as TO the Murphy machine.
81 shall, of course, fight for the
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