New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-29
BARNES HITS AT
HINMAN and 7. R.
Again Denies Charge That
lie Is Member of BIZ
partisan Combine.
SAYS BINGHAMTON
MAN "PAID PRICE
Republican Leader Declares 1t
Was Exploitation OF State
ment of Murphy Alliance.

William Barnes, jr., chairman OF the
ro,h,;can State Committee, gave out
a statement last night denying mar
vcv ID Humans charges that he was
marty 70 a bipartisan combine IN inc
Legislature to stifie direct prihai' '"N
other legislation. Y;or
several hours before Mr.. hinman
hsd started back TO Binghamton si.eI
q morning spent in conference WI"
".vor.l we'll known Republicans. ne
US careful. however, to sec to II tha'
,bc meeting place did not become
lnown generally, and no list OIL those
who saw him was made public. IL was
denied that he had gone 10 oyS
Bav 10 sec Colonel Roosevelt el'hei
Yesterday or Monday. =,
Former Senator John b. rose,
Orange County, who was most i"o.t
mental in getting Mr.. hlnman 10 man
the race. will he one OF the G"inpaS
managers. lie has been asked 10 t1Ne
charge of the Human campaign III
this end OF the state, Win heau4''i
ters in this district. .
Much consideration is being gwen 70
The question as TO who snail nave
charge Of the Hinman interests III New
York County. As the county has oeeh
practically conceded to District Attor-
Icv Whitman, the task here is re-
eardcd as unusually difficult. IL Is
aid 20 he not unlikely that former
senator Josiah 7. Newcomb Will DC
selected. 90,
Mir. Newcomb. who lives in the ga
Assembly District, was one OF the
stanch supporters of Governor hughes.
lie was responsible for the revelations
that led TO the expulsion OF senator
lothian z. Aids from the Senate.
Secs Robinson and Loeb.
Mr.. Human talked to Theodore
Douglas Robinson and William Loeb,
ir on the telephone before he re-
turned TO Binghamton, but neither
would discuss the conversations.
Ono of the Human supporters here
said some Whitman leaders would be
surprised within short time to learn
that some of the prominent Leaders
who have been considered Whitman
men we're really for Hinman: IL was
said that William l.. Ward. leader IN
WestchesteT. probably would announce
himself for Hinman soon.
Chairman Barnes would not discuss
the Human candidacy yesterday, but
contented himself with denying the
charges made against him By the Blng-
hamton man. He pointed out that
when the Hinman-Green direct primary
law Was defeated IN the Hughes ad-
ministration Timothy i. Woodruff was
the state chairman. 80,
He intimated that the price paid"
by Mr.. Human for the Roosevelt sup
port was the Exploitation OF the
charges that he was in league with
Charles F. Murphy, first pat forth by
the Colonel. Mr. Barnes said:
at is with great regret that, at
time when the Republicans and IN
dcpcndcnt citizens of the state are
rcadv 10 vote against the continuation
in power in the stat government OIL
the Democratic party as IT has DIS
closed itself during the last three
wears. | am compelled through SEM
OF personal honor to speak OF mysei.
"But the statement Of Mr.. Human,
made this morning. demands this. APP
pealing to the Republican and Progress.
siye primaries for the nomination OF
those two parties for Governor. he
states in effect that | am party 20
bi-uartisan combine This is abso-
lutely and unqualifiedly false
Denies Any Deal
81 have not been at any time in my
life in political combination, deal,
dicker or association. either directly or
through any representative, with Mr..
Murphy or any of the leaders of Tam
many Hall or their predecessors.
an June. 1910. before | was elected
chairman of the Republican state
Committee. and in accordance with the
last Republican platform, which called
for the frccst action at the primaries
on the part of the voters of each poll
teal party, as a citizen of this state,
in the exercise of my rights, opposed,
ms Mr. Human says, amendments to
the primary law Of the state proposed
by him as crude legislation. ineffective
20 accomplish the purpose for whicn
y thew apparently were designed.
"Thc people Of the state, regardless
of their political affiliations, are en-
titled to know whether man occupy
ing the position of chairman Of the
Republican State Committee is guilty
or innocent Of the charges made by
Mr.. Human. II he is guilty Of them,
his Office being one provided for by
law, he should resign forthwith.
Therefore, the Republican electors
Of the state, to whom Mr.. Human is
about to address himself for their SUI
frages, are justified in looking to him
20 make his case in truth and not
through The repetition of the falsehood
OF Mr. Roosevelt, the real sponsor for
his candidacy, and even whose phrase
ology he repeats, adding 20 the evil
deace already in the mind % the pub
lie that the exploitation Of this false