New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-01
Chairman Decides Not to
Let Own Personality Be-
come False ISSUE"
MILLS FAVORS UP
STATE MAN FOR POST
Would Have Voters Guided by
Choice of Their Candidates
for Committee.


laration late yesterday afternoon thai
he would not accept a reelection 81
chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee. An hour before Ogden L. Mile
had announced his candidacy for the
state Craftsmanship. 1t was reported
that Frederick c. Tanner, manager Of
the Whitman campaign, would be the
candidate of the District Attorney fol
the Craftsmanship if Mr. Whitman is thu
candidate for Governor at the prima
ries. Mr.. Tanner would not discus:
the report. He told his friends hi
would prefer an upstate man.
Republicans last night held that the
retirement of Barnes had cut the
ground from under the Progressive
campaign, at least so far as the Re
publicans were concerned, for the
Roosevelt followers had based their
entire plan of campaign on the Barnes
Murphy boss issue.
Mr.. Mills, who announced his candi.
dscy only after upstate members OF
the party had urged him to do so be-
cause they believed the good of the
party demanded change of leadership
would not comment last night on the
Barnes retirement.
Believe Mills Will Win.
Neither would Mr.. Mills go into de-
tail as to his strength in the con-
test for the leadership of the party
His friends say, however, they are con-
WINGED that he can win. He, in COM
mon with many of the other leaders
believes the head of the committee
should be an upstate man, but none
has been developed for the place.
! 1t is known that Mr.. Barnes has been
keenly interested of late in the atti-
tude of the candidates for the state
! committee. The anti-Barnes leaders
| say he did not announce his retirement
until he had become convinced il would
/ be impossible for him to secure a re-
/ election.
The Barnes announcement was made
/ in the form of letter addressed by
him to each Of the $50 candidates for
I the state committee, which this year
for the first time, is to be made up of
representatives from each Assembly
/ district, instead of one from each Con-
gress district, as in the past.
Mr.. Bsrnes's letter reads:
! Since you have declared your candidacy for
membership IN the Republican state Com
you Will be called upon. II elected 10 par
ticlpate In the Organization Of the new COM
I mitte4.
It becomes my duty. therefore. to make
clear TO you my attitude regarding the
Craftsmanship OF the new committee.
] cannot and will not accept the chair
manship. because 1t Will be impossible for
me to render such service after September
g as ] have given since my election in
January 1911.
This inhibition would rot necessarily be
controlll2E for the fall campaign of about
month. were It not that the effort TO de-
| feat the Democratic party this year should
| be clearly defined without the Introduction
OF any Irrelevant matter.
The issues raised BY the Progressive party
IN 1917 were publicly abandoned at the meet
ing OF the state committee held at Utica
August q last. Therefore. the false theories
advanced by II. and. primarily a constitu-
tional amendment providing for the recall
of judicial decisions which. II adopted, would
| In effect vitiate the American principle Of
individual liberty. are no longer matters OF
Accepting the sincerity Of purpose of the
Progressive party in Its anita gonism to the
| miseovernment Of the state. that 0Rrty hav-
| ing abandoned its non Republican principle
| | propose 10 remove from the campaign the
| only reason which II now asserts for its con-
| tinued existence. namely. it's personal opposi-
| ton TO me.
| The -e-establlshment at Albany OF efficient
and honest administration is the sole Issue,
| This line should be definitely drawn between
! the Republican and Democratic parties The
| Republican nominations will he MADE through
! the action Of 522 $40 enrolled Republicans OF
the state. and have 10 doubt the candi-
dates selected by them will be able. con.
| scientious men. assume that their voicr
| will be influential in the selection OF the
person who is officially to conduct their cam
paign.
Ny dominating purpose is to zee the party
successful upon the principles for which II
stands. and to permit no one to interject my
own personality as a false issue into thii
great struggle.
am thus early advising you OF my pur
pose not again to be a member Of the com.
90 r. k.Nrv -
II offered. that you will have ample op
portunity to address yourself 20 the selection
of nv successor. upoD whose shoulders mus
rest a large part OF the burdens of the com
ing campaign.
Knew of Mills Candidacy.
Chairman Barnes waved aside m,
attempts to discuss his attitude.
have written all ! care to say" h,
said, "and think know how to US,
the English language"
He would make no comment on III,
Mills candidacy, but it was Learned
that he was aware of it before he mad
his letter public. His friends say h,
will take no part in the selection o
; his successor.
Back of the Mills candidacy arc tn
men who for more than a year hav,
been seeking to remove the Barnc
leadership. They sought an up-stat
candidate, but failed to find a mai
who would stand for the place.
In Saratoga it was generally under
stood that Mr.. Mills would be an anti
Barnes candidate for State Chairman
He and his friends said the vote oil
the Barnes resolution TO overthrow tn
report of the committee on the selec
ton of constitutional delegates, il
which Barnes was overwhelmingly dc
feated, was a clear indication that III
: State Chairman had lost his grip oil
the organization.
, The State Craftsmanship vas dis
cussed in a general way at the specia
meeting of the executive committee o
tire New York County Committee yes
terday afternoon. Samuel S. Koenig
: chairman, said that Mr.. Mills was
candidate and was his personal choice
but he hoped that no one would intro
dIce a resolution on the subject, as j
vas something that the Commits
should not take up.
While New York County will proba
bly, be for Mr.. Mills, the situation i
somewhat embarrassing, the leader
say, because the county is for Whit
man by a large majority, and Nh
Mills, although he has made 70 forma
statement, is understood to be in sym
PATTY with the candidacy of Harve,
d. Hinman for the nomination TO
Governor.
Holds Whitman Man Needed.
Abraham Gruber said last night tha,
with Barnes out of the fight, the fac
that Whitra an had shown his over
whclminr strength in the New Yorl
County organization meant that no on
who was not absolutely for Whitman
would have any chance in the race 70
leadership of the organization. Nj