New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-13
The Elimination Process
May Force Him to Run
for Governor.
MOOSE ASSERT HE
MUST BE CANDIDATE
Whitman and Human Fail to
Win COlOnel's Favor and
Progressive Aid.

Leading Progressives asserted last
light that events were shaping them
selves in such fashion that Colonel
Roosevelt would be obliged to become
a candidate for Governor on his own
ticket. even in the face of his many
refusals to let his name 90 before the
primaries.
The elimination Of District Attorney
Charles s. Whitman and former
Speaker Harvey d. Human from in
dorsement by the Progressivcs, it was
asserted by the Moose leaders, was
practically assured. They said that let
tiers written by Mr.. Whitman and Mr..
Human in reply to Colonel Roosevelt's
Barnes. jr., were not satisfactory to
the Colonel. and that neither would be
indorsed By the Progressives on that
account.
With Whitman and Human eliminat-
ed as Moose possibilities. the leaders
declared they could see no way out but
for Colonel Roosevelt to permit the
use OF his name. They were careful
10 say, however. that the Colonel still
persisted in his refusal and that no
word had come from Oyster Bay to in
dictate he had wiped the names of the
District Attorney or the former Speak
er from the slate of Progressive pos
sibilities.
Colonel Roosevelt refused to be in
terviewed at Oyster Bay last even
ing. but the leaders seen in New York
said that the Colonel had drawn fro
by his attack some two weeks ago
upon the candidacy Of the District At
torney when he referred TO the latter
as "a creature of Barnes" and refused
in emphatic terms to countenance an
Endorsement Of Whitman by the Pro-
gressivc party.
According TO the local Progressives
the attack made upon Mr. Whitman
aroused the resentment or Charles II
Duell. jr.. his chief supporter among
the ProgressIves. who had been seek
ING 20 obtain the Colonies o. X. for
the Whitman boom. Accordingly. il IL
said. Mr. Duell. through the Whitman
Non Partisan League, OF which he IS
president. called upon the District At.
torney TO reply.
A reply was soon afterward drafted
by Mr. Whitman in the form Of let
ter. which was TO have been made pub
lie last Monday, but which was tenn
porarily suppressed by Mr.. Ducll for
political reasons.
In the letter Mr.. Whitman is re-
ported 10 have gone on record as abb
solutelv independent Of machine poll
tics. He is said TO have regulated
Barnes and to have announced that he
is "no more creature OF Barnes than
Of Murphy" Mr.. Whitman also took
occasion to attack the bipartisan ring
which has been in power at Albany Cor
the last four years and condemned inc
graft in the Highways Department. lie
is said to have urged these scandals as
conclusive proof OF the iced for al
honest and independent Governor II
Albany.
Mr.. Whitman. il was said last night,
went even further and avowed his Sin
ceIe sympathy with the PROGRESSIVE
principles in this state" but made no
mention Of national issues or Of his
attitude toward the Bull Moose pro
gramme Of national legislation.
This letter is said TO have been
withheld from publication By Mr.
Ducll because the latter felt that II
was too frank bid for the Bull
Moose Endorsement and might cause
disafroction in the ranks OF Whitman's
regular Republican supporters. \ copy
Of the letter did however. reach Sag
amore Hill and was submitted TO Mr..
Roosevelt for his consideration. ac-
cording to report. II is said that the
Colonel was unimpressed by the con-
tents and reiterated his declaration
that he would not support Mr.. Whit
man under any circumstances.
A letter, similar in tone 10 that OF
Mr. Whitman, is said 10 have been
laid before the Bull Moose Chieftan
by the supporters Of Mr. Human, who
was said 10 have avowed equal hos
tilitv to the bosses" and the al
banv ring" but. a. in the case of Dis
trict Attorney Whitman, his declara-
ton Of principles did not satisfy
Colonel Roosevelt. and the latter is
said to have absolutely vetoed the
proposition Of giving him Progressive
support.
Colonel Roosevclt's close friends in
terpret his actions as indicating his
willingness to run. They declare that
by a simple process Of elimination
every tentative candidate has been
knocked down as soon as re was set
IN. They declare the Colonel has been
simply looking over the field and that
he has become convinced that he must
run.
District Attorney Whitman denied
last night a. his summer home in New
port that he had written or made any
statement attacking Barnes, or anv
other individual He said he had not
written "A letter concerning Dir. Barnes
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