Evening star., 1932-06-29
ATTEMPT TO BR|bE
TRAYLOR MANAGER
Scofield Declares $4,000
Was Offered Him to With
draw Candidate.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 29-Frank Scofield,
the Traylor campaign manager, charged
in statement he dictated to newspa-
per men today that an unidentified man
whom he said described himself as a
Roosevelt worker had offered him
$4,000 to sign a statement withdraw
ing TTaylors name.
Roosevelt headquarters promptly dis
avowed any connection today with the
purported deal.
Explains Alleged Deal.
Scofield called a group of newspaper
men into his Office and dictated the
following
Last night about midnight man I
never saw before approached me and
said, Are you Scofield2' IL told him !
was and he said can ! have q private
conference with you. We went into a
corner of my Office. He held up a
statement for me to sign. When /
asked him to let me take 1t he said. No.
Just read it. The statement bore my
name as manager of the Traylor cam
paign and read as follows:
"T have Just received a wire from
Melvin A. Traylor thanking me for my
activities In his behalf and requesting
me to withdraw his name from the
race
Refuses to Sign.
"I denied that the statement was
true and refused to sign it. He replied,
Don't be foolish. The anti Roosevelt
machine is going to crack. You might
as well be the beneficiary
IT told him had nothing to do with
the Illinois delegation and could not
release them If I wanted to. He said,
Listen, I'm serious. This means Sl0,-
900 to you and a million votes for
Roosevelt If he goes over on the first
ballot and this statement from you will
do the job
II promptly told him I would not be
a party to any such transaction. He
said he was sorry If he had offended
| me. l told him to take it anyway r.,
wanted to. He got up and said think
1t over. III be back I told him in
forceful language not to come back be-
cause I would not see him. He said he
was doing publicity work for the Roose-
! velt organization l had never seen
him anywhere before"
| Scofleld said he did not ask the man
| his name.
Roosevelt Statement.
Immediately after Scofield had die
tated his statement to newspaper men
/. B. Dunlap, Gov. Roosevelt's personal
representative, issued the following
! statement:
mo one has any authority in any
rkH
such -Rooseveltian suggestion. That
is not the Roosevelt way of doing busi-
ness. Mr. Melvin Traylor would not
accept an insult such as suggested"
James A. Farley, Roosevelt cam
paign manager, called it "ridiculou:
story" He said no one doing publicity
work for the Governor has any au-
thority ito do anything like this" anC
no one connected with the Roosevelt
staff has done any such thing.
Farley said that many delegates who
! favor other candidates had been talk.
ing to Roosevelt leaders, but denied
there was any truth in the report tina
there was deal between the Roosevelt
people and any other candidate by an!
authorized person.
I'VE have not commissioned any ont
to negotiate with any of the othel
camps and no one has the authorit!
to do So" Farley said.
Asked If he was seeking to stop th'
exchanges between the camps, Earle!
replied with a question:
How can we stop them when WI
don't know who they are?"
TrayIor Not to Withdraw.
When reached at his Office at tn
First National Bank, Traylor said: :"
never knew of the thing until news
paper men called me early this morn
ing. Then I verified it from Mr.. SEQ
field. l have the highest regard 10
Mr.. Scofield and have known him 10
many years This will in no wa!
change the relationship between us Il
his effort in my behalf. l have beer
too busy in the banking business tn
last few days to pay much attention
to the campaign"
} Col r. G. Dunham, retired Chlcag
businessman and Traylor's floor man
ager," said his only information on IN
subject came from Scofleld.
The Chicago banker said he had n
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