Show SHEPARD IS OUT Of NEW NEWYORK YORK RACE Withdraws vs as Senatorial Candidate and Exp Expects Sheehan to Do Same NEW EW YORK Feb Fob 27 Edward l Edward M M. Sh Shepard in III a n. letter to Montgomery l Hare list last night announced his hlll retirement from the fight tight for tho the United States tates senator senator- ship to succeed d Chauncey M M. H Hs HA adds that In his Ills opinion lIlI William m F. F Sh Sheehan's ehRns retirement Is IR Imminent and warns tho the Democratic members of the legislature that unless tho the members promptly unite the tho extra session 6 slon of ot congress will find the state of ot New York but half represented Earlier In the day Martin Marlin W W. Littleton Littleton Little Little- ton self announced candidate for tor the tho sen- sen Issued a statement pointing as na does Mr Shepard to tho the grave gra responsibility resting upon the Democratic legIslators legislators leg leg- and find C calling lUnK upon Charles F. F Murphy Murphy Mur 1 phy leader of ot Tammany Tammany Hall to cause the nt of ot Mr Sheehan and break the weeks five deadlock at Albany Mr Shepards Shepard's Letter Mr letter says In part The futile balloting has continued at it Alban Albany to for I more than five rive weeks after the date week prescribed b by law for or the iho choice One week from today the tho seat of or the new Democratic senator will be read ready reads for tor him at Washington Unless the Democratic members membra unite tho taio extra session which no now seems probable probable able will find tho the state of New York fork but half halt represented It was plain a month or moro more ago that Mr Sheehan's caucus nomination had aroused a Democratic opposition so Important and persistent as to rend render r impossible Im- Im possible hf s election b by Democrats I assume aa- aa Humo sume therefore not only that Mr r. Sheehan Sheehan Shee Shee- han will not nol bo chosen but that at nt this late da day the fact Is clear to himself lt and his supporters Assuming as we I may that Mr Mrs Sheehan's withdrawal is Imminent there rests upon the members of ot tho the Democratic minority a grave further responsibility Ho Hopes es for Harmony Tho The Impending end end of the candidacy of Mr Ir Sheehan seems to require some Jome change of to which In a slight degree 1 I can cnn perhaps contribute Now that the one continued obstruction obstruction tion lion to a genuinely Democratic choice is probably ended tho the votes for far myself ought to bo added to other and more effective votes I l 1 should be glad Iad If you as RS m my friend would mako make It tl clear to the tho minority who already havo have voted or who might hereafter hereafter hereafter here here- after vote for me that I am definitely and absolutely outside of ot the tho list from which candidates can be chosen I do not however hoover withdraw from political ac activity activity ac- ac tivit or from warm arm support of the Democratic party part With Ith himself lt finally eliminated an as n R candidate c i Mr Jr Sn Sh Shepard pard d n addressed some friendly words to the minority lie He denounces the Tammany dominance of tho the caucus caucus which chose ChOM Mr Sheehan and declares that tho the Democratic party can con never succeed In this tat state j when It ItIs ItIs itis Is gen generally rally believed that Tammany controls con con- trois tho the nominations Littletons Littleton's Letter Letter I Martin W tl Littleton eton has hag made mado public 1 a letter to Charl g F. F Murphy asking tho the Tammany leader to leavo leave tho the legislators legislators legis legis- of Now y York state free to register regis ter their own will and exercise th their their lr own choice In tho the election of the successor successor suc suc- cessor to S Senator M. M D Depow p w. w He lie tells Mr Ir Murphy that b by holding the Democrats Democrat In n the tho and aR assembly assembly assem assem- m- m hi bly to their caucus pl pledge for William F. F Sheehan he Is Jeopardizing the pros poets pacts of national Democratic unit unity and of ot Democratic success In tho the next presidential pres pros campaign Mr Littleton ton predicts that if th the deadlock deadlock deadlock dead dead- lock continues tho the Canadian reciprocity tr treaty aty tariff reform and the proposition to elect senators tors by direct vote oto may fall for want of a n Democratic senator from Now New ew York Tho The present deadlock ho he declares will willbo bl bo easily broken If It Mr Murphy would withdraw withdraw his Influence which ho characterizes char char- act A as an endurance t test t to de determine termine whether Tammany Hall can extend extend ex extend ex- ex tend Its control to other sections of tho the state |