The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-05
lNSURGENT EDITOR
A BEVERLY VISITOR
Col. w. r. Nelson Chats with
Taft for an Hour.
OWNER OF KANSAS CITY STAR
Influential Paper Supported fhe Re-
publican Ticket i'm 1905, but De-
cIInes 20 State Policy I'm 19I2-CoI.
Roosevelt WOuId sweep the COun-
try, Declares Nelson I'm Interview.

Beverly. Aug 4-Some or the spirit or
insurgency that showed up forcibly in the
primaries in Kansas on Tuesday and the
Iowa Republican convention yesterday
motored into Beverly to-day. Col William
r. Nelson. proprietor Of the Kansas City
Star. brought it. and while he left some
Of it with the newspaper men who saw
him in town. It is pretty safe to guess that
he carried lot Of It out TO the Evans
cottage, where he talked TO President
Taft for an hour.
Col. Nelson knew just what was the
matter with Kansas. that she chose four
insurgents in preference 10 four stand
patters at the primaries and he thought
he had an idea why Iowa Republicans
indorsed President Taft only after most
strenuous night. II wasn't Ballinger. II
wasn't Aldrich, Il wasn't even Cannon
that made Kansas insurgent and Iowa
recalCitrant Ii was the failure Of the
Republican party to redeem its platforrff'
pledges. the colonel said. The colonel
did not believe Mr. Taft would be re-
elected. Don't ask me foolish questions. "
he said, when that query was put to
him.
When he walked up TO the executive Of
fees to-day the political sharps were
about as much surprised as II Senator J.
p. Dolliver himself had turned up
Breaks with the President.
The colonel had a severe break with
the President when the latter signed the
Payne tariff bill. The break had not
healed. so far as any one knew, although
in the campaign days Of 1908 the colonel
swung the Star with all it's influence in
the West 10 Mr.. Taft
What do you think OF the result in
Kansas?' some one asked.
The colonel pulled back his brown rain
coat. and inserted his hands deep in his
pockets
Well" he said. his eyes twinkling
my heart isn't broken"
And Iowa?"
Well I'm bearing up under that pretty
well"
After that the colonel answered quese /
tions right and left The next House OF
Representatives. he said. would be Demo- !
cratic or insurgent. AT any rate, It !
wiz be anti-Cannon," he said.
And you'll be supporting Judson Har-
mon, will you. colonel?"
Not against Roosevelt. IL he wants 70 |
run. But I don't think he viii run un-
less he has to-"
Would sweep the Country.
DO you think Col. Roosevelt would |
come back?" |
Come back? Huh He would sweep |
the country. just look at the way he /
went to see those miners in Pennsyl- |
vania He went to them instead of TO |
the National CITY Bank He went to see
Father Curran. and not J. p. Morgan
Kansas isn't understood in the East. /
Kansas is filed with people WIN beIned 4
to make the state, or their sons. The !
people are. active and intelligent They
are progressive. II Massachusetts were l
peopled with generation that had suc- /
ceeded the men who fought in the Revo- !
luton, she would be more like Kansas. |
progressive and actively intelligent.
VIII Follow Kansas, Lend.
Watch Kansas. and you will see what
the rest Of the country will do
I don't think that IL Balunper had
been let out by the President IL would
have affected the result in Kansas II
were Taft. and had held on to Balllnger
so long. 1 would keep MIN. The Kansas
result was brought about by the fact
that the Republican party didn't keep