New Britain herald., 1924-05-09
SPEAKER GIkLETT
 ID SEEK ELECTION Wants to Become Candidate for Senator From Massachusetts WILL CONTEST SEN. WALSH
Announcement of Ills Decision Is Made Following Conference With Leaders and With President Cool idge This Morning.

Washington, May s.-speaker Fred erick H. Gillett of the house has de- cided to become a candidate for the republican nomination for senator from Massachusetts.
 The speaker reached his decision after number of conferences with Massachusetts political leaders here including those in charge of the na- tional campaign of President Coolidge.
 A formal statement announcing his candidacy was prepared at Mir. Gill let's office after he had visited the White House this morning. He will seek election to the place now held by Senator Walsh, democrat.
 Confirming his intention to seek the senatorship, the speaker said, as he left the White House, that he would not hereafter permit himself to ba considered for reelection this year to the house.
 Holds Many Conferences
 During the past week the speaker has been an almost daily visitor at the executive offices and also has con- ferred frequently with William NJ. Butler. republican national commit teeman for Massachusetts and man. ager of Mir. Coolidge's campaign for the presidency. He also has talked over the Massachusetts situation with Frank Stearns. a close friend and poli- tical adviser of the president.
 A decision is understood to have been hastened by the announcement last night by Governor Charming Cox that he would not be a candidate for the senatorship. Previously there had been indications tlrat some of those high in the Coolidge councils here, hoped the governor would enter the race.
 Coincidentally with Mir. Cox's an- nouncement Representative Dallinger issued statement saying he was "irroyocably" in the running for sen- ator. Louis A. Coolidge. former as- sistant secretary of the treasury, al- ready was candidate and several others had been mentioned promin- ontly.
 First Elected in 1893
 Speaker Gillett has been menu Der of the house from the second Massachusetts district since March {, 1893, his sixteen continuous terms constituting record of unbroken service not equalled by another rep. resontatiye now in office. He has been speaker since 1919, but was rec elected to that post last fall only after a long deadlock forced by the fight Of the insurgent republicans against the party organization.
 His withdrawal from the house, af- ter March {, next, regarded as a cer- tainty no matter how the senatorial situation develops, means a realign- ment Of the party organization there and probably a renewed effort by the Lafollette followers to secure addition al recognition should they retain voting strength after this years election. Tn point Of seniority the republican ranking next to Mir. Gillett is Representative Cooper of Wisconsin, a member Of the Lafollette group, but it Is doubtful whether a serious effort will be made because Of his insurgency. to place him in the speakers chair.
 Ranking next to Mir. Cooper arc Representative Greene of Massachu- setts, chairman of the merchant ma rine committee, and Representative Butler of Pennsylvania, chairman Of the naval committee, each of whom has served in fourteen consecutive Speakership booms. fin the event Of a republican majority in the next house already are develop Ing also for Representative Longworth i, of Ohio. the present republican floor leader, and others.
 GIlletts Statement.
 Mir. Giliett announced his eandi- dacy in the following statement:
 1T have been urged for some time to permit the use Of my name as a candidate for the senatorship. l felt. however. that Governor Cox should receive the support of the party if he ! desired the nomination and refused , 10 become a candidate. While deep I y conscious of the high honor which 1 has been accorded to me by the 1 of the house, I believe | hat there is a broad field for service 1 in the senate in sustaining the poli- ties Of President Coolidge. and therefore announce my candidacy for I he senate"
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