Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-13
TAFT GAINS IN WEST mot WORTH READING
Resume of Perry Heaths OBJ James J. Hills Opinion of Cor
servations in Twenty States poraton Bureau Report.
ANXIETY OF BUSINESS MEN SHOWING IN VALUE OF ORES
of Confidence the Tells Steel Inquiry Committee
President Is Manifest pilaton Is Inaccurate
SPEECHES PLEASE PEOPLE ADMITS HE IS NOT AN EXPERT
State Arizona
to Union st. Mine
tines in the West
ANXIETY OF BUSINESS MEN
Restoration of Confidence in the
President Is Manifest.
SPEECHES PLEASE THE PEOPLE
State of Arizona to Be Admitted
to Union on st. Valen-
tines Day.

N'HS ~ASdtii, IHtlITdteIy connected Win
the Harrison and Mckinley administra-
uons, for many years a Washington
newspaper man. has returned here after
| a trip lasting many months through
twenty states. He went on this long
journey at the request of manufacturers
and business men who do millions of dol
lars of credit to ascertain the business
situation as it really exists through its
| various qualifications. At the White
House today Mr.. Heath told President
Taft what he learned while he was alb
s~nt.
BUSINESS men and business generally
simply await events declared Mr. Heath.
They have been in a state of doubt and
unrest for some time. Business every
where is about % per cent Off This will
not change much until there is better
understanding of the purposes of the men
who will be placed at the head of the great
political parties in the approaching presi-
Dental campaign. No matter what any
body says. the waiting attitude of busi-
ness is due to the apprehension and
doubt as to the political future
Agitation is present on all Sides The
lnsureen.S and radical progressives try to
| teach that everything is going to the devil
Under all the circumstances business has
been hoping for a change of some kind
change that will bring stability and op-
portunity to resume operations with
prospect of being undisturbed for while.
But just what business wants it does
not know.
Presidents Aims Misunderstood.
What hostility there has been to Presi-
dent Taft is due to a misunderstanding
Of his aims and purposes, but even since
1 finisred my trip 1 observe that busi-
| ness is beginning to look to him as the
| man whose attitude promises more con-
| fidence than any other man now talked
| of for President. What has been needed
has been brushing away of this mis-
| understanding as to Mr. Taft, and / think
| this is now taking place.
There have been 2,0O0,0OO dissatisfied
republicans in this country, thousands or
them business men. AS business slowly
comes to the conclusion that Mr. Tart
can be trusted to hold steady course
| this dissatisfaction will disappear. I don't
know any democrat now In the race who
will command this confidence.
$50 far as Mr.. Taft is concerned he will
| unquestionably be renominated. believe
| he can be reelected, but there must be
hard work to convince dissatisfied repub-
hcans that they have more to hope for in
| Mr.. Taft than in a democrat The Presf-
dent is proceeding toward this restoration
OIL COuUOcuCS Ny Ills SPCCShCSp WuICh Will
do good"
Mr. Heath said that there was no truth
in stories that he had been in the west
working up sentiment for Roosevelt. He
said he had been out on business trip.
and in the interest Of no candidate for
President. He did say. however, that
out of hundreds of business men he met
he had found only one for Roosevelt.
He did find. however, active organiza-
tions and men everywhere trying to work
| up the Roosevelt boom. In this respect
| they were far ahead of the Taft people.
Mckinley to Select Headquarters.
The suave. gentle Mr.. Mckinley. man
ager of the Taft nominating campaign.
said at the White House today, when he
had finished a long conference with Sec
| retary Hilles, that the campaign head
quarters will probably be selected this
afternoon.
1.-THE trouble has been,' he said, that
some Of the hotels have practically want
ed us to buy them outright, but we can't
do that with the slim fund on hand. You
| know we have got to save little money
to buy railroad tickets to Chicago to see
| that President Taft is renominated."
Mr.. Mckinley smiled sweetly when told
what Col. Roosevelt had said about a
story that he (the coloneD was gathering
delegates to turn over to President Taft.
We'll, haven't been in communication
with Col. Roosevelt and consequently do
not know all of his thoughts with an
other smile, but I'll say this. He's the
smartest man in politics in this country"
Arizona the Valentine State.
When President Taft creates the Val
entine'' state tomorrow, by signing the
proclamation that will admit Arizona to
| statehood, moving pictures of the scene
will be taken by a government employe
who is an expert in this work. The pic
lures will be turned over to President
Taft for such use as he may desire to
make of them. This will be the first time
that moving pictures have ever been
taken of an event in the executive Offices
of the White House.
Only once in history were moving pic
lures ever exhibited at the White House.
This was when Jack" Abernathy of
Oklahoma, a former Rough Rider and
noted because he kills wolves by crush
ing their jaws. exhibited pictures of his
prowess in that direction in moving pic
lures in the east room for the delecta-
ton of President Roosevelt and q number
of the coloneTs friends.
The government has gone into the NOV
ing picture business, it has become
known. 1t has number of times lately
taken important events in this manner.
The big naval review in New York last
fall was taken this way. The films are
put away in such a manner as to be pre-
served for hundreds of years so that
posterity will find 1t possible to see what
n npened about this time.