New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-30
Barnes May Call Coz. Whitman

department presided over by an elected
officer.
Wants q Selected Ticket.
81 am sure you understand my feel
ing with regard TO the whole matter.
am in favor of making up ticket COM
posed of men, every one Of whom has
been carefully selected with view TO
his individual qualifications and fitness
10 discharge the duties of the govern
ment Office for which he is a candidate.
and all these state Offices are great
and powerful Offices.
"The method by which such Sc
lection can be presented 10 the people,
Of course. is provided by the direct
nomination law.
az such ticket, so carefully Sc
lected, is 20 win At the primaries there
must be united and concerted action
snd careful preparation on the part Of
those honestly interested, and | need
not tell you that l am heartily and I'M
qualhedly in favor Of the Inaugural
ton Of such q movement"
Justice Andrews allowed TO be read
IN court only the first paragraph of
This letter
Did you believe the statements in
that letter to be true?" asked Mr.
Bowers Of the Colonel.
Il did" the witness replied, emphat-
ically.
Did you rely upon the matter in
that letter in writing the article that
IS the basis Of this suit, and also in
making the speeches last fall that have
been read before the jur, ?"
The Colonel replied that he did
7, seems that this letter was received
while the Colonel was still in South
America and while MIR. Duell was pre-
pairing TO Try and swing the Prcgrcs-
sives TO the support of MIR. Whitman.
Il was shown TO the Colonel imme-
diately on his return TO this country, in
May, when the young campaign man
ager went down the Bay 10 meet him.
Not the Letter of Doubt"
This is not the famous letter of
doubt made public by Colonel Roose-
Welt, at Oyster Bay, in July. and which
Mr.. Whitman denied having written.
The story about that was that Mr..
DUEL had written il for Mr.. Whitman
and that in some way the initials Of
the District Attorney were placed upon
il. The letter offered in evidence to-
day has the full name, Charles 5.
Whitman" signed 10 it.
William Barnes smiled grimly as he
heard the extract from the letter read,
but he refused TO comment on Il.
Mr.. Duell, who brought the letter to
tify as TO the conditions he heard had
been imposed by Mr.. Barnes as the
price of the nomination of Mr.. Whit
man by the Republicans.
There was fifteen minutes left Of the
morning session, when Colonel Eoose-
welt stepped down from the stand. I'm
mediately the defence put on the stand
Philip V. Il. Schuyler, who Tor six
teen years has been in the law de-
partment Of the Mutual Life Insurance
company He had a mysterious port
folio of papers. which had been pre-
pared under subpoena. Mr.. Schuyler
had TO 90 back to New York, and he
was called simply 10 identify the pa
pers. which will be placed in evidence
later, as needed.
No Political Contributions.
"Were you able to find any record of
political contributions by the COM
pany?" was the only leading question
ssked Of the witness, who replied in
the negative and was excused.
While he was on his way to take
train Mr.. SCHUYLER was stopped and
went on the witness stand for three
minutes the first thing in the after
room TO testify that the company de-
stroyod all its correspondence and
vouchers after a period Of ten years
This out of the way, william II. Van
Rerschoten, for the defence, started TO
take up the anti-race track bill. TX
Senator George B. Agnew testified that
he had introduced the measure and two
companion acts in the Legislature in
1905. the day after the Governors
message bearing on the subject.
The allegations of the defence are
that Mr.. Barnes showed himself to be
wicked boss by forcing Senator
Henry J. Grattan. who represented his
district. to vote against the bill after
promising 10 support it. If Mr.. Graf
tan had cast an affirmative vote on
April 8, when the measure came up
the bill would have passed by one vote.
Counsel brought out from the wit
ness that Senator Grattan prior 70
April s had promised to vote for the
bin and then had changed his mind.
Odd YOU talk TO Mr.. Barnes about
il? Al did.
A Question of Loyalty.
O-Please state your conversation.
Al the noon hour on the day the
vote came up I went TO the home OF
Mr. Barnes. | told him that his Sen
a,or nd come to me in the morning
and desired TO take back his pledge.
He said Mr. Barnes had told him the
nrevious day that he could not vote Tor
Inc racetrack lie glslatlon. l had come
70 Mr.. Barnes's house TO ask him II
he realized the seriousness OF the SIT
nation which ade II necessary Tor
Grattan 70 vote against the bill. SAID
l. woui ,@-iAge Grattan's reputation
both as a Senator and citizen. ne
said he did not agree with me. He said
the changing Of his mind would be the
making Of him. | asked him why he
changed his mind. He said IL was good
notifies. / told him the Senator said
70 me he was sorry TO break his word,
tut Mr.. Barnes made so much OF it and
had done so much for him that it was
q question of loyalty. Mr.. GTattan
said his district favored the Dill ana
he was anxious TO vote for them.
Evidence was then put in to snow
that the vote taken later in the after
noon was 25 TO %, and that Mr. Grat-
tau's vote was recorded in the negative
Next Mr.. Van Benschoten took up
with the witness the election OF
lothian p. Aids as President pro TEN.
Of the Senate in January, 1917. ne
testified that seven Senators -Agnew'
Rrackett. Cordts, Conger, Davenport,
Newcomb and Rose-had stayed out OF
the Republican caucus, and on the
foor Of the Senate had voted Tor sen
stor Harvey d. Human. The vote was
20 "a. When it came to erecting
Aids. six of the seven voted against
lin and twenty-four Republicans ana
ten Democrats voted for him;
"Our idea is 70 show" said MI van