Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-01
ACCUSE RIVAL BOSSES
OF ACTING IN HARMONY
Roosevelt's Lawyers Try to Prove
Existence of Combination Be-
tween Murphy and Barnes.
Ex-sTATE SENATORS TESTIFY
Charles Duell, Jr., Who Applauds
Statement of Witness, Forced to
Leave Room by Judge-Evidence
About Printing Gets Into Record.

SYRACUSE. y. Y, April 3o.-Counscl
for Theodore Roosevelt to-day placed
before the jury trying William Barncs's
suit alleging libel testimony designed
to Indicate the existence OF bipar-
tisan combination between Barnes, as
leader of the Republican organization.
and Charles F.. Murphy. as leader OF
the Democratic organization
To this end, former State Senator's
Harvey D. Hinman, Fred NJ. Davenport
and Joshua T. Newcombe. and II. C.
Mcmillan. a former correspondent In
Albany for a New York newspaper,
were placed on the witness stand.
Hinman. Davenport and Mcmillan
testified TO things they said happened
in the Legislature in 1910. when direct
primaries legislation was under con-
sideration. Hinman testified. to the ad-
journing of the special session.
HEARD BARNES TALKING
TO SEVERAL SENATORS
Mcmillan swore that he heard Barnes
talking to various Republican Senators.
including Senator Cirattan He said he
saw Senator Grattan talk to Senators
Grady and Frawley. whom he described
as "Tammany Democrats" and that
soon after the pair went into a room
In which Mr.. Barnes was. That eve
ming. he also said. Senator Grattan
made motion, which was passed, to
concur In a Joint resolution with the
Assembly to adjourn the special session.
Davenport. who was Progressive
candidate for Governor last fall said
he had seen Barnes during recess OF
tho Senate in the Office OF the Senate
clerk talking to Republican Senator'S.
while in an adjoining room Senator
Grady was talking to Democratic Sen.-
tors. Later the Senators all returned
TO the chamber, he said, and fourteen
Republicans and fourteen Democrats
voted for direct primary bill favored
by the organization.
Davenport testified that he told Sena-
tor Grattan, who, he said. had been
deriding Governor Hughes and Colonel
Roosevelt for insisting upon direct
primary law, that he spoke like the
mouthplece OF political Nero" who
was fiddling outside the door OF the
Senate chamber while Rome burned"
Davenport said Barnes was outside
CHARLES DUELI., JR., ASKED
TO LEAVE COURTROOM
Charles Ducll Jr., to whom Cover
nor Whitman sent the letter read in
port had mentioned political Nero"
and Judge Andrews requested him to
leave the room. He hcstatcd and an
attendant saw him out of the room
Former Senator Ncwcomb declared
that he had accused Senator Grattan,
Republican, and Senator Grady, Demo
crat, OF entering into a conspiracy to
defeat direct primaries bill favored
by the Governor. and that Senator
Grattan said. we admit it," Then l..
w. France. chairman Of committee
Of the Young Republican Club. OF
Brooklyn, quoted Mr.. Barnes as having
said he was opposed to direct pri
maries because they gave candidates
too much publicity. and that he could
vote the riffraff of the Democrats in
Albany in the Republican primaries. and
SO disgust the people that they would
demand repeal Of tho law"
The Roosevelt counsel also got into
record testimony concerning the alleged
printing situation in Albany. The one
witness who testified, Michael Dolan.
general manager OF tho Argus Company.
of Albany, swore that he had never
had any business relations with Rarnes.
and in this connection Justice Andrews
agreed III the statement of counsel tina {
Barnes was In no way responsible as q
stakeholder in the Albany Journal Com