Show II ETITI1S ME Ml f Fisher S Harris Discusses This Undue f Un-due Influence + t IMPAIR GOOD JUDGMENT 4 t SEASONS WHY THY SHOULD BE DISREGARDED + t Feeling About Different Senatorial Headquarters STcCunes Answer t to Ore Producers Questions Ivers Will Vote For Cannon Why Senator Sen-ator Wright I Gay t In reply to a question as to the atti tude of the McCune forces with regard to petitioning members of the legislature f legisla-ture for the purpose of influencing their votes for special candidates Manager Harris said last evening I i We are not urging the circulation of petitions and will not urge them No effort was made before the holding of the legislative conventions to ascertain I the inclinations df candidates as to the inclnatons 1 several senatorial aspirants Mr Mc I Cune assumed that the voters of the I several legislative districts might be relied upon to select such men a would I most clearly express their political views and he not only believed i unwise I un-wise politically but against the best interests of the state for any person having senatorial aspirations to seek tot I to-t control or Inlluence their judgment in the interest of a senatorial candidate When the election was over Mr Mc I Cune became a candidate for the sena i toishlp and I assure you most earnestly earnest-ly that he still adheres to the position then taken by himthat the choice of the people has brought together in the legislature a body of men who come backed by the confidence of their constituents con-stituents I is our ardent hope that th se members may be able to see a 1 clear way to support Mr McCune but c e do not intend to go behind the legislative i legis-lative members and to the voters di t lect or to the members of the nominating nomi-nating conventions for the purpose of endeavoring to arbitrarily influence members to vote for candidates against t tb 4pproval of their judgment 11 We are doing everything we can in what p epnsider reason to brng about I the election of Mr McCune but we are not behind any proposition looking to f the creating of an influence which is I i designed to induce legislators to te in opposition to the exercise of S it I free judgment for the possession of I which thEY were the choice of the v tsrs I of tieir feral districts I Why sir we could fill the circum ambient air with telegrams and petitions peti-tions from all districts urging the several I sev-eral candidates to support Mr Mc Cune but they would not indicate any I profound wish of the voters as to the i several candidates They are as a rule given out of respect entertained for the I man asking the signatures I give you my word that I one time circulated a petition asking the governor to hang a 4 certain gentleman and because I requested re-quested it the gentleman himself signed r sign-ed the petition Now I do not contend petton I hat all signers give their names to petitions t pe-titions as in the case cited but it is f often sa As I said before we want to win but if we cannot win by the personal approval and the exercise of good judgment judg-ment on the part of members of the I legislature who are on the ground and therefore best qualified to determine what the lasting interests of the state i demand in the choice of a United States r senator then we do not hope to win at all |