Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
GOVERNMENT PLANS
CRIMINAL CHARGES
AGAINST PERKINS
Small Business Man Gives Reasons
for His Support of Wilson's
Candidacy.
COLONEL PLAYS FOR 1916.
Cunningham Says Teddy, Ac-
knowledging Defeat, Schemes
to Come Back Then.
COLONEL PLAYS FOR 1916.
Ey Austin Cunningham,

| WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 4-Re-
ports highly satisfying to Democrats
are reaching Washington and the East
! from points along the route taken by
Col. Roosevelt through the West. The
Roosevelt tail has been followed close
/ ly by Democrats and Taft Republicans.
From some of these men, known to be
careful and conservative in their poll
tical estimates, it is learned that even
the insurgent Westerners feel within
a few hours after RoOsevelt's departure
when the dust has settled and the
smoke cleared away, that the Roose-
velt performance is mostly what the
atrical critics would call horse play"
and that nothing fingers in their men,
| ories other than that it was ''an ex-
citing show while it lasted" And the
hearty receptions which have been
given Governor Wilson, and those
funny Taft truth tellers," John NJ.
/ Harlan and J. Adam Bede, who have
been showing up" the runaway Bull
Moose, have indicated to observant
politicians here that the equilibrium of
the great division in the Republican
party has been kept almost perfect,
the while there have been Democratic
gains from both wings of the sadly
troubled Grand Old Party.
1t has been noted here that the Bull
Moose Special, while in the West and
Southwest. was not equipped with
| psalm singers, and that the enter
| tainments, especially staged for the
Westerners. did not open with prayer,
as they did in some New England local
tiles. Some good Methodist brothers
in the East doubtless fear that Broth
er George w. Perkins. of the Harvester
Trust, has "back-slid" in the last few
| weeks, and perhaps are apprehensive
about the religious state of mind of
Brother Bill Finn of Pennsylvania
In as much as Col Cecil A. Lyon, Bull
Moose leader in Texas, was permitted
to be manager of the Wild West fea-
lures of the Bull Moose show, however,
and probably knew that hymn-sing-
| ing choir, led by Roosevelt and Per-
! kins, would not make hit" among
Indians and cowboys. who want action,
/ that part of the services" was elimin-
mated for a time.
The report that has stirred stand
pat Republicans to a state of high
| indignation in the last few days is a
Durported statement made to friends
! by Roosevelt before he started on his
sensational vote hunt.
Il will eat the vitals out of the old
| Republican party and frame up the
| organization for myself in 1916" is the
alleged assertion of the Third Term
candidate.
! 1t is being urged, therefore, that
Roosevelt has NO idea he can be
elected in November, but wants to so
wreck the party which has honored
him in the past, and which now refuses
to recognize him, that he will be
logical independent Or ''mugwump"
candidate four years hence. Confiden-
tial reports have been received here
that Roosevelt has not met with that
support in the naturally progressive
states that he and his followers
counted on, the noise and tumult oc-
| casicned along his path notwithstand-
| ing.
! The embarrassment which Perkins,
| financial backer of the Third Termer,
has proved to be to his candidate, Is
momentarily expected to be heightened
as a result of the governments prose
cution of the Harvester Trust at Chi
cago. 1t is rumOred that Attorney
General WicKersham has discussed
| recently with President Taft the ques-
tion of placing the evidence he has
unearthed in this case in the hands of
the federal grand jury. and asking
criminal indictments. The president
is said to favor such a course. The
indictments. if returned, would con-
! NY parEinc
Mccormick, Ebert H. Gary, Charles
, attorney general is in New York and
ton until October.
| Democrats are chuckling over this
possible development, because Per-
kins has been eulogized by Roosevelt
as an "idealist," and they feel that an
idealist under criminal indictment for
violating the antitrust law would at
least be something novel to see.
Shortly before he left for the West,
Governor Wilson was greeted at Sea-
girt by Samuel Friedman, New York
merchant, who, until Wilson's nom-
| ination, had been a Republican. He
was asked by the Democratic nominee
! what induced him to abandon the Re
publican party Mr.. Friedman has
just issued statement in response to
the question, which should be of inter
est to middle-class business men
throughout the country.
THE reason is very plain and SIM
ple," says Mr.. Friedman. Il found
it to my advantage. and to the advan
tage of the middle-class business man,
to support a candidate whose plans and
views are in accord with business
principles which will enable middle
class business men to stand their
ground.
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