The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-30

ed say that this statement is incor-
rect. Charles P. Taft has presumably
aided. but some of his business friends
| in this city are inclined to think thai
! Mr. Taft has found use for much of his
ready money and a good deal of his
| credit.
/ He is one of the syndicate which has
raised Is million dollars to be invested
| in hotel properties in several cities
| One of these properties is the recently
Another is the gigantic hotel building
at the corner of Thirty-fourth street
and Broadway, which will be compile
ted some time in the fall. Another o
these propositions is the construction
of a new, modern and luxurious hotel
on the site of the Arlington hotel al
Washington. Two Or three other hotel
propositions are under consideration by
this syndicate. Charles P. Taft is a
leading member of the syndicate and
this proposition itself is sufficiently
large to occupy much of his time and
to call for important and great fnanc-
ing.
The Roosevelt Campaign Fund.
The evidences are plentiful that
friends of Colonel Roosevelt do not
have to be urged in order to secure
subscriptions for him. Some of the
largest of the subscriptions have come
from men who formerly were identifie ed
with wall Street, but those who are
included in the generic term Wall
Street have, a class, contributed
little, if anything, to the Roosevelt
campaign fund. Much the greater part
OF this fund has been secured in other
parts of the country. Some parts of
the west have given literally to it.
One of the reasons given for the ne
cessity of raising a large preconven-
ton campaign fund in the interest of
CiloneI Roosevelt is that it has been
necessary to create and build up for
him an organization. Until the early
part of last winter one of the most
plausible of the arguments made by
those who said that the denomination
of President Taft was inevitable was
based upon the fact that his friends
for the most part controlled the Repub-
lean organization or machine through
out the United States. With but a
single exception precedent shows that
the candidate who controls the party
organization has been able to secure
the presidential nomination. 1t is true
that Mr.. Cleveland was nominated, in
1892, in spite of the fact that the party
organization as a whole was opposed
to his nomination and in New York
state was absolutely controlled by
David B. Hill and by those who were
anxious to see Mr.. Fill nominated for
president Yet for two years-from
1890 to 1S92-the friends of Mr.. Cleve-
land had been secretly perfecting or
CARNATIONS throughout the entire
country. This was one of the best kept
secrets of our entire political life.
Not until the early winter of 1892 were
the strength and good discipline of the
secretly perfected organization reveal
ed. It was sufficient to compass the
nomination of Mr.. Cleveland. Presi-
To- Tt1 h.
ton in 1892 solely because his friends
controlled the Republican organization,
the country. President
Arthur did not succeed at the Republi-
can convention in 1884 because he had
his friends did not completely control
tho Republican organization. The
friends of Mr. Blaine had not the
ma stery of that in many of the states.
So it was said until 1nidwinter of this
year that it would be impossible to
perfect any kind of an organization
which would justify the naming Of
Theodore Roosevelt by the delegates at
the Republican national convention
this year.
1t was for the purpose of creating IN
orga nization that large subscriptions
were secured in the fall of last year.
Without this money it would have
been a hopeless task to bring into lire
the various forces in the Republican
party which were opposed to the re-
of President Taft and were
to accept either Colonel
or, possibly, LaFollette.
In midwinter of this year the DEM
onstration was made of the ability of
some new forces in our political life
to bring something like order out of
the chaotic conditions which prevailed
among those who opposed Taft's re-
nomination. When the history of the
in which the Roosevelt organi-
cation was created and then very high
y developed is written, it will be found
To be as truly a sensational record, in
the best meaning of the term, as any
in our political annals. Men who were
presumed to be amateurs IN politics
have built up this organization, but It
required a great deal of money to do
it. Large amounts of money have also
been essential for the work of the or
ganization in various states. What
ever may be the result of the conVe.,-
ton at Chicago, it will not be possible
tc report that it has been
in any way by Wall Street
This will be the first conven-
ton for many years of which it cannot
trUthfully be sad that Wall Street
money was used to influence the ac-
ton of the convention. HOLLAND
Rurlingame Glass Large.
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