Show SENATOR PUTT PLAITS ROMANCE ENDED Aged Politician and His Young Wife Agree to Deed of Separation MAY RESIGN la lit n li Cu Cao c It Is b l Likely Former Go Frank S. S Black mm Will m Succeed Him hint Now ow York Nov Xo 14 UnIted t United States Stae Senator Thomas Collier CoUler Platt Plait ad ad- milted tonight In an au interview Inter with a a representative e of the Publishers Publishers' Press Pre s association that the differences between between between be be- tween himself and anti his wife Ife Lillian Janeway Plait PIatt were Mich as ns to pie pic- v dude clude even cen the remotest possibility po of ofa ofa a settlement The senator r referred 7 the correspondent to Marsh and Weaver eaI I attorneys at No Ill r Broadway who ho handed out typewritten H ten copies of a n statement tate ment purporting to be signed d by the senator anti and his wife which read as follows foo Owing to unhappy differences between be be- tween them th tho undersigned have hove J. J this day executed a deed of oC separation While making such announcement we r. r wl wish h to a assort t S It with all possible f emphasis tho ho falsity Cal of the scandalous articles which have lately appeared In Inthe Inthe ine e the public prints While there have ha been a series of differences and disputes which seemed to make a separation advisable there I Ihas has been no conduct upon the part o of oC either which would possibly be th the foundation of oC a divorce olce action N No question of oC the infidelity of either cither t to th the other has ever been raised State State- ments which havo have chall charged ed vIolence and disgraceful scenes between us WI o or 01 other improprieties upon the parl part o of oC I either cither of us us are arc absolutely fal false Signed SIgnee Thomas C. C Platt Lillian Llllian J J. J Platt Piatt J lId of HOllin II Thus ends the romance romonce of oC the elJ ag-elJ aged aget senator from New York who has been in III the public eye for fOl many years ears am anti and who was practically the first real Republican He- He publican boss of oC New York state As AM a D. member of ot the United States senate sen sen- nt nf ate many years veal's nn JO he hc resigned be- be ciu cause his Immediate t chief c that Jt if was wa-l loyalty to him to 0 demand sUch r e 1 r rd d ki irh tV ly tte alO v V hen l h J n n nou nee men U ot or- 11 I 1 R engagement ment to l I Mrs Janeway was printed Miss Mae la C C. Wood of Omaha and Washington announced that sho wa was about to sue suo him for COI breach of promise 1 In n an Interview Inter t he the declared de do- dared that foi fOl many months the senior had been he her senator from flom New Nw York YOlk I most devoted a admirer She alleged that the senator had written her many letters couched In terms of endear endear- endearment ment meat and declared that these had been Nt stolen oJ en from flom her hel through the machinations machina of William Loeb the present 7 r private secretary of President Roosevelt Roose Hoose- olt velt and J Martin Miller a 1 former Washington Wash I n newspaper correspondent j of a New Newark lIc N N. J J. J newspaper who t I was appointed to a position In the diplomatic service b by the President t t. Miss I Wood went so far as to bring suit against l Loeb and Miller but no particular service was secured ant an and the tho matter was practically dropped Wedding Was us The senators senator's wedding was rather I peculiar lie He announced announcer at his old f hea headquarters quarters In the Fifth Avenue hotel hotel ho ho- tel tel this city that he Intended to marry many Mrs Janeway Pressed for de details details de- de tails tall he declined to make any state state- ment and It was not until the ceremony core cere mun mony had actually been performed r that his friend and associate f h. h in New York politics Colonel Reuben r I I. I Fox of or Oneonta issued an of- of C. C tidal statement that the the wedding ceremony had taken place At tt that 1 time Senator Plait PloU was vas making what was probably the hardest hat light fight In his political career to maintain his position Josl- Josl tion ion as boss bos of the Republican state organization olg Governor Go Benjamin enjamin BOdell B B. Odell Ode Jr jl having demanded the lineup line up i of the me members nib era of the Republican j state tate committee The result was disastrous dis to Odell Odeli and aVid Plait PIatt Inasmuch as President Roosevelt Roos Interfered and f forced a new now deal all around In Republican Re Ito- publican politics In the state With fth Senator Senat r Platts Platt's tonight that his differences with ins his wife are arc Impossible of settlement it itis is al also ahm o rumored that he has prepared y ed cd his r resignation as United States Slates senator from New York which will be Submitted to lo the governor of or the he state that his successor sueI sue sue- assured ho Is t-o t o soon loon as will be a Republican I cessor Mu Iu He ign hip Asked if this was so the e senator declined to lo talk From FlOm a reasonably it learned learn reliable source however was ed that the leaders of the Republican organization have havo been told that mon many f days das 01 must ul necessarily elapse e I in tho the will take lake his hh place ploce the senator He lie national legislative body again will iiI also that 8 seat at before the fourth da day of f next Mi March huch ch unless he changes his hiM mind Is 11 If the tho circulating in political circles arc rumors true Tonight ht where Republicans regale con In the state stale It Is generally l that Frank Flank S. S Black leader iC tP- tP Republicans n nn county w- w Lit Lit- u ic LOu lit or 01 governor of or New Ne York state stale former formel of oC great Influence Republican and tho ho a Party will ill succeed to the In iii senatorial logi tosa Black Is J x L who has named arned his right to lo participate par- par can councils of the In the organization In the Republican V mighty ml state Male of or New York He lie Is ItS Isa Uon tion of the the machine man so far tar as atS a eal Is concerned but bul he heu organization party narty and assertive and a man I u is eloquent well with the who As prosecuting plo lion Ion ot at large county at the tho lIm time of of o election ll Bat hea ro the In decade ago In TrOY a troubles named 1 leader Republican which n a and killed at the polls j Ross Ho was shot prominence which lute Into Black ot of the tho 4 governor him elected of later behalf on bla state kr tr Hc He York delegates to lo the nu- nu I r NC the convention TheodOle Theodore Theo Theo- 7 president hi his In In- for dOle dore noo o and ho is err d. d u I s i-s lI lImen candidate of the Ow younger run much tile tiC of oS the men of f the Party part I state IIo JIo will have two opponents I for or the position namely Governor Gov Gor- elnor Odo Odoll and amI the present chairman of the Republican state stale organization organisation I Timothy Timoth Lm Lester ler Woodruff of ot Brook rook lyn Jn Quinces CM Im I'm lavor 01 or Black B Woodruff was slated for 01 tho vice Ico presidential nomination at the tho time the tho lamented President was nominated In Philadelphia but Platt through a a. combination with wilh western Republican leaders and the lie late laic boss of Pennsylvania l. l S S. Quay Quoy forced the nomination of or Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt simply to Co get Jet rid riel of or the latter taller who wan the prospective candidate candi candi- ean candidate l date for fOI l' l re election as governor of or orew New ew York YOlk state staid Tho The new now legislature being Republican can will wm elect a Republican United States State senator to succeed I latt but no man can enn at this hazard r a C s as uS to I who vho It Il will bo lu although the chances favor or Black |