New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-15
F1atlv Contradicts Roose-
velt's Testimony in
$4,000 Libel Suit.
DECLARES LOEB
ALSO MISTAKEN
.ssers Colonel Took the Lin
coin Letter from Him the
Last Time They Met.

a
syracuse. Nav 4 His counsel hav-
,-e fomo'e-cd tto Job Of spreading a
-. eost o. g..StenlDG white over the
,,i,,,csl activities Of Nl4.iam barnes
u, n Bowers. counsel for Iheodore
poo.eye,.. undertook this afternoon the
,.st NJ scrapnc 80 of or al least OF
.s5,,r & patch Of drab here and there
- A. be would, M. lowers cou d
..t Get NJ Narrcs 20 ack0oV ledge mat
!. bsd ever told Colonel Roosevelt
.s,,na,cr contributions were even ny
,1-norstors for protection. Nor GiG
,se defence ir tre S'j,oOu SUIT Tor noel
,",,eed ,r extracting any ADMISSION
g., the sN-cralrwaN o. the heplbtl-
.sr Sts'e Committee that Would lnGl-
s,ts he had an agreement with Char-eSS
: Murphy 81 regard 10 the United
States Scratofsnip-
A. these arc the only two points left
&, he case for justification OF the al
Lee Lbe.ols statement, each side has
.g1ned every energy 20 get It's conten-
,,o-s or them before the jury.
Ire defence read into the records
t.Y dozen 60 tor.als from The Al
bsrv Evening Journal. owned and d.
,se.ed bv the plaintiff, by which they
r,der.ook 10 show that Mr.. Barnes
~ freely acknowledged all response
b;Ijtv for the editorial utteranees had
,noke, kindly Of William F. Sheehan,
x, Murphy candidate; that he had
,-i.,eised any other course Of conduct
,i.n that OF sticking by party caucus
S,.is;ors on the Senatorshlp and other
nstters. that he had referred 10
TIon,as No.t Osborne. who. he declared.
\. later wanted 20 have the Kepuol-
es-s make United States Senator, N
rost Ceureca DRY terms; that only al
.sr II was apparent the Democrats were
b,ssk,-g AWAY from Sheehan he advo-
e,te5 tie combination % Republicans
with irdeueudeut Democrats Tor the
election al man who would be inde-
pende-. Of Tammauy Hall.
Wainwright Gives Barnes Blow.
Five Senator'S and four Assemblymen
who TOOK part IN the Senatorsnlp hEhI
~ 1911 were placed on the stand TINS
Naming 20 say they had never re-
ca;veS any instructions from Mt
BsrDes and had never heard Of any
tgreemcrt with Murphy. But eX-Sena-
tor Nsvtew Wainwright testified that
when he went 20 Mr.. Barnes and asked
Il II would not be possible 70 make q
corblrstton with the independents MI
Barnes replied that word had been
riyen 70 the Democrats that Il was
their fight and We would keep our
hands OF
To balance this. in q way, the de-
fence. without meaning to apparently
permitted Mr.. Barnes 70 get before the
jury an explanation Of one suspicious
looking circumstance in his printing
record. Justice Andrews has ruled out
al the printing evidence, but the cues
ton has been as 10 whether It's efec'
could be entirely oblterated from the
minds ~ the jurors.
When Ny Bowers sought 70 probe
little ir.o the letter written by the
plaintiff 10 Governor Roosevelt IN 1872
saving the establishment Of state
printing plant would embarrass HIN
financially. the editor came back wltr
the exclamation of his remarks that j
,uch a public plant were started j
would result in an increase IN wage
IN sl printing establishments IN Al
bsny.
Far from having made any agree
rent. corrupt or otherwise. viii
Charles +. Murphy. the Democrati'
boss. Nh Barnes asserted that ne ha'
net him only once in his lie, ana ina
was a. a public dinner. ASIDE IRON
that he had never seen him nor com
municated with him, directly or ihdl
rectly.
To show that he could not have ha,'
ANYTHING 20 do with any corrupt al