Show IJnrrisoii Not Happy CHICAGO March 26Mayor Carter H Harrison has again declined the Democratic nomination for mayor of Chicago and this time declares that his decision is final He sent out a notice to the Democratic City Central Committee for a special meeting this afternoon when he read a prepared letter outlining his porpose and the reasons which actuated him to this course He openly declares that he has been opposed by the representative of the Administration at Washington and has also been charged with treachery to political friends and for these reasons he can not bo a candidate The letter states that at the convention he was carried away by tho enthusiasm of the moment and decided to accept After taking tak-ing the endless abuse he has been subjected to by the press for years which ho bore with comparative equanimity because his personal honor was never attacked he says that being accused now of betraying friends the situation becomes unbearable and life too short in wnich to undertake to set himself him-self right After declaring that knowing well the consequences of the action which will be to forever bar him from future political po-litical honors he must irrevocably withdraw with-draw his name from the head of the ticket the Mayor says The confidential adviser in Chicago of the President of the United States has taken the public position that I should be defeated in the interest of the National Administration Tho three newspapers news-papers which are the organs of the President Presi-dent in Chicago have attacked me violently since my nomination and urged my defeat This convinces me that the President of the United States does not desire me to be elected I therefore respectfully suggest that you call into consultation with yon the gentlemen who are known to be advisers here Of the Federal Administration and nominate a ticket which will command their support The charge of treachery made in the letter let-ter has reference to De Witt 0 Cregier former City Superintendent of Public I Works and who was urged for the nomination nomina-tion upon the theory that Harrison would not accept another nomination What course the Democraiio party will now pursue pur-sue is not stated Some of the party men declare that Harrison cannot resign now and will run him to make the race while others intimate that a new man will be named |