Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-29 | Page 18 | $10,000 Offered to Have Traylor Quit Race, Claim

Offered To Have Traylor Quit Race g Claim Clai m Campaign Manager for Candidate Tells of Being Asked to Issue Statement N. N Y Governors Governor's Friends ten Deny ny Charge By Associated Press CHICAGO June 29 Frank 29 Frank Scofield the Traylor campaign campaign campaign cam cam- manager charged in a statement he dictated to newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper men today that an unidentified man whom he said Roosevelt worker had offered him described himself as a X to sl sign n a statement withdrawing Traylor's name S Scofield iI ld called a group of newspaper news paper men into his office and dictated dictated dic dic- dic- dic the following Last night about midnight a man manI before approached me I 1 never saw and said Are you I told him I 1 was and he said Can Cnn have I havea a private conference with you we went into a corner of my office He held up a statement for me to sign When I asked him to let Jet me take it he be said No just read it if The state state- mont ment bore my name as manager of the Traylor campaign and read as follows I I have just received a wire from Melvin A. A Traylor thanking me for formy formy my activities in his behalf and requesting requesting re re- re- re questing questin me to withdraw his name from Cram the race I 1 denied that the statement was true and refused to sign it He replied replied re re- re plied Dont be foolish The anti anti- Roosevelt machine is going to crack You might as well be the benefi bencH Gary iary I 1 told him I had nothing to do with the Illinois delegation and could not release them if I wanted to He said Listen Listen Im Im I'm serious This means to you and a million voles votes for Roosevelt if it he goes over in the first ballot and this state state- nent from rom you will do the job I promptly told him I 1 would not note je e a party to any such transaction He said he was sorry if he had offended of tended fended me I told him to take it any my way he wanted to He got up and said Think it over Ill I'll be back I told him in forceful language not notto notto notto to come back because I would not se see him He said he was doin doing publicity publicity pub pub- work for the Roosevelt organ- organ I had never seen him any- any before said he did not ask the thelan thenan tan nan his name CHICAGO June 29 Roosevelt JP-Roosevelt Roosevelt P-Roosevelt promptly disavowed any connection today with an attempt attempt at nt tempt empt attributed by Frank Scofield Scofield field manager for Melvin Traylor by y Roosevelt supporters to have Tray Tray- or lor or withdraw from the campaign Scofield had said that a man who ie said described himself as a Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt supporter had offered him 10 00 to withdraw the candidacy of he Illinois man Immediately after Scofield had dic dic- atod his statement to newspaper men I. I B B. B Dunlap Governor Roosevelt's personal representative issued the following statement No fro one has any authority in any manner shape or form to make any such un suggestion That Thatis is not the Roosevelt way of or doing business Mr Melvin Traylor would not accept an insult such as sug sug- James A A. Farley Roosevelt campaign campaign cam cam- manager called it a ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous lous story He said no one doing publicity work for the governor has any Rny authority to do anything like this and no one connected with the thes Roosevelt s staff at has done any such thing