The Washington herald., 1911-02-19
WILL PRESIDENT TAFT CALL UPON SENATOR CARTER
Err TO BE MANAGER OF HIS CAMPAIGN FOR REELECTION?

sion unless he had a long beard hangin:
down his breast. II / wrote a deed TO
$50 my client would take it to the jus
tice OF the peace to see IL it was right
But l didn't go hungry, and at the ag'
of twenty-eight / had accumulated mor'
than Zoo After studying the geograph!
and resources of the several Territories
i concluded to settle at Helena. l wen
there in 1882"
Elected to Congress.
you soon obtained a profitable bust
ness said.
when I reluctantly ran for delegate ir
Congress my firm was making $4,000 2
year. William A. Clark, the copper mil
lionaire, was my opponent The Terri
tory had gone Democratic by 5000 votes
My plurality over Clark was 1900. Mon
tana became a State and l was elected
to the Fifty-frst Congress, voting fol-
Reed, who was a candidate against Nc
Kinley for Speaker. When Mckinley
good-naturedly recalled the fact after
ward, I said my support of Reed had
really made him President in that his
loss OF the Speakership caused him to be
put at the head of the Committee on
WAYS and Means and attached his name
to the new law on the tariff.
You managed President Harrison S
campaign at the Minneapolis convention
in 1892" I said.
Becomes HarrIsOn's Manager.
Gen. Harrison. then in the Senate,
often came to Helena to visit his son
Russell, and while there would stop at
my office to read the late reviews and
law Journals. That is the way our ac-
quaintance began. At his request, l &C
cepted the appointment Of Land Commits
sioner. In December. 1891. ! learned OF
a combination of Northwestern Senators,
led by Pettigrew. of South Dakota, to
defeat his nomination for President.
carried the news to Harrison. and he
asked me to take charge Of the situa-
ton. We let Pettigrew pick the South
Dakota delegates ID the national con-
vention and then We had them in
structed and pledged to vote for Harri-
son, first last. and all the time. Petit
grew threatened a Congressional inves-
tigation. but changed his mind.
My work. thought, was done.
Stephen =. Elkins, who recently died. was
Secretary of War in Harrison's Cabinet.
and manager of his campaign. Ten days
before the convention met Elkins called
predicament. Blaine Secretary of State.
was his intimate personal friend and
business partner. and was getting ready
to be a candidate himself. Elkins told
me he had worked so hard that he was
half sick. Moreover. II would be unbe-
coming. he said, for Cabinet officer to
attend TIE convention. He asked me TO
go. l started that day. I neither shaved
nor took my clothes of for the week fol-
lowing. Minneapolis was full of Blaine
boomers. The streets were full of Blaine
brass bands and marchers. When the
convention met, the galleries were full
OF Blaine shouters. We had the votes,
but were afraid the delegates would get
stampeded before the balloting began
While we had assured all OF our friends
that we should control the convention
verbal assertions are not always con-
vinCing
How They Won the Fight.
We had a committee composed OF
one man from each State and Territory.
The committee met daily at . O'Clock in
the morning. At one OF the meetings we
decided on a plan to clinch what we had
and to make our claims visibly good.
On the first day of the convention we
secretly gave each of our delegates a
slip of paper, on which was written