HADLEY MUST GO TO
A DRIER CLIMATE.
ADVICE OF PHYSICIAN TO THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
May Make a Public Announcement
of His Retirement From Poli-
tics Soon -- Loss a Blow
to the Party.
Attorney General Hadley's deferring his announcement is causing some of the Republican managers here to pick up hope again. A week ago it was almost conceded that the attorney general would retire from the race for governor owing to ill health. He was examined in Kansas City on Saturday by two physicians, and on being asked the result as related to his future public movements, the attorney general said he would in a few days make a public statement. Yesterday a political and social friend of his made the prediction that when the announcement would be forthcoming it would say that Mr. Hadley has decided to quit politics.
"I know," said this informant, "that right now letters have been sent to friends in Texas, toward the end of finding a suitable place to which Mr. Hadley may go to rebuild his strength and conserve his health. I am told that under no circumstance will he be permitted to follow the bent of his own ambition or comply with the demands of his Republican friends to the extent of making the race for governor, and with that information comes the added hint that he may not even be allowed to remain in Missouri till the end of his present term of office."
Mr. Hadley's lungs were found on examination, so it is said, to be in good condition, but his physical state is such that pneumonia or other such ailment attendant upon public speaking, and the vicissitudes of a political campaign in fair and foul weather, could not be repelled, but., to the contrary, would be invited with perhaps disastrous consequences. The immediate friends of the attorney general are genuinely alarmed over his health and are anxious to get him to a drier and higher altitude, where he could be built up and put in shape to return to his home in a few years, when he would still be a young man.
