Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
At THE White HOUSE
Decision Probably Against
the Tobacco Trust.
IMPORTED CIGARSTAMP
ACTING SECRETARY TAYLOR CON-
FERs WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Many Predictions Of Republican Sue
cess Received-Col. Mosby Tells
of His Famous Escape.

20 take I'm the tobacco stamp question
| and several others that have arisen dur
| ing his absence. AS Assistant Secretary
| Taylor however had worked out soiu-
| ton of the matter that was satisfactory
| to the President it has been decided TO
| announce the settlement without further
delay although it may not be mace pup
| lie until late this afternoon. Just wnat
| the decision is cannot, of course, be as
certained, but the understanding Is that
| it will probably favor the main conten-
| lions of the independent tobacco manu-
| facturers that the existing customs stamp
| is an advertisement of imported cigars
| and that the government has no rlsnt u
guarantee cigars by means OF customs
| stamps any more than 1t does any other
imported goods.
Secretary Taylor was at the White House
| TODAY and had a conference with president
| Roosevelt. He has had several other con-
| ferences this week.
Mr. Taylor took the matter up over d
week ago as acting secretary OF the treas.
ury in the absence of Secretary Shaw Inc
question had originally been handled by AS
sistant Secretary Armstrong. who rendered
a decision that the existing stamp was un-
fair to certain of the tobacco interests Oh
the country and should be changed. Mr..
Armstrong gave Instructions to the bureau
of engraving and printing to go ahead win
the printing of the new stamps, similar III
every way to the regular internal revenue
stamps of the government and not d1stlnc-
tive, as is the present stamp. Mr. Iayior
decision will undoubtedly sustain Mr.. Arm
strong's view that the present stamp IS an
unnecessary advertisement Of imported
cigars and a guarantee by the government
which it does not extend to other imported
goods but it is not thought that the de-
ctsion will carry out In detail the order 1or
a change in the stamps.
The matter has assumed a political phase.
The independent tobacco interests nave
made threats and the tobacco trust has de-
xo1o
country will not stand the taking away
from them of the guarantee OF the cigar
they buy. -
Secretary Shaw unexpectedly reached
Washington this afternoon and he and Mr.
TAYLOR had long conference In the Secre-
tarys office, going over the tobacco ques-
ton in detail. Whether the conference Will
result in any change in the program as TO
an announcement of the decision Is not
known.
Glowing Republican Reports.
President Roosevelt is daily receiving the
most encouraging reports and messages
from all parts of the country Republicans
from all sections who call at the White
House aver that the President will run
| far ahead of state and other nominees In
all parts of the country.
Representative Samuel w. Smith OF
Michigan is among the number VINO prlns
to Washington glowing reports as 70 tne
dent today. Michigan" he declared, Will
give Roosevelt from 100000 to 125,OOO ma
jority, the largest ever given TO repuph-
can nominee for President. He will run
| IS 600 ahead of any man on the state ticket.
We have some mighty popular men on the
| state ticket for various ofhces. but Hoose-
| welt will get thousands more votes than any
| of them. This is true all over the west. !!
| am convinced that the republicans Will
| elect every one of the eleven representa-
| tives to Congress from Michigan. The
| democrats are putting good deal OF
money into the second district in fight on
Representative Townsend, but we do not
| believe they will win. Representative
| Lucking, democrat Of the first district, will
| be defeated, thus giving US the entire dele
| CATION
Quakers Are for Roosevelt.
Representative Butler, who represents
| what is known as the Quaker district OF
Pennsylvania, called on the President TO-
day. Mr. Butler was asked about the re-
| port that the Quakers and Dunkards or the
country are opposed to President Roose-
| Welt because of his utterances in his Life
| of Benton relative to these classes Of citi-
| zens There is no truth in the claims OF
| the democrats, so far as the Quakers are
| concerned" said Mr.. Butler My ances-
| tors for two hundred years before me were
| Ouakers and l believe / know the senti-
| ments of these good people about as well
! as ANYBODY They are for Roosevelt in
Pennsylvania, and I am told that they are
| giving their support to him elsewhere
| The democratic national committee Is at
| work among the Quakers in various states
| calling attention to the Presidents alleged
| uncomplimentary view of them as citizens
years ago One of the representatives Of
| the committee has been sending letters
| among the Quakers and Dunkards, and
| the President has received letters 1ncloslng
| the replies the representative has received
| from some of the people to whom he has
| written. These declare for Roosevelt, re-
| CARELESS of his views as to war and similar
| subjects.
"old Boys Greet the President.
| The President had a call today from most
| of the officers of the organization of 1.-THE
| Old Boys Fremont and Lincoln Repub-
| ucan Club of this city, and he Immediate
| ly applied for Junior membership and was
admitted to the organization. The officers
who called were Murat Halstead, president;
| Dr. Robert Reyburn, vice president; Will
| liam s. Odell, secretary, and DIR. w. n.
| Hughes In speaking to the President Of
| the work of the organization and its 10y
| atty to him, Mr.. Halstead said:
| MIR. President-Your administration has
| filed the measure of our country's glory
| and expanded 1t. The cause before the
| people is whether republican policy shall
| be continued. Half a century ago that party
/ became national The question was wheth-
| er all the states should be free or slave;
| and.
| freedoms battle once begun,
| Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won
'It is won forever! All North America
! Is free and the United States a world
| power.
1--WE, as representative of former gen.
| Grafton, greet you, and respect and
| honor you; and organize to aid in confirm
ing that which has been gained and is
| gaining in worth and in fame; and going
| on that all the American people may share
| in the prosperity of their industry and the
| renown of the republic.
with such a cause and leader there is
| No such word as fail!
Col. Mosby's Famous Escape.
Col. John s. Mosby, the confederate guer-
rilla, took to the White House today the
hat which was captured from him at the
time he was shot. twenty miles from Fair
fax Court House, December n, 1864. Col.
Mosby had just received the hat from Sarah
T. Coles Halsted of Central Park, New
| York. daughter of Lieut.. Col. Coles, who
| commanded the 18th New York Cavalry. a
member of which shot Mosby. With the
hat. which is well preserved Col. Mosby
left copy of the official reports of the War
Department giving an account of the shoot
Ing of Mosby, together with a dispatch
from Gen Sheridan December 81 1874