Morris tribune., 1912-05-10
Said Roosevelt VIII Get After
Smith and His Crowd.
CAPITOL CoTER|E INCLUDED
Eberhart and Other Candidates fol-
State Offices to Be IncIud-
ed in Denunciation.
Especial Correspondence

st. Paul, May THE discordant
note which has been a feature of the
struggle for national delegate control
in a number of the states, and in which
President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt
have been the offending parties, has
SO far been absent in the Minnesota
campaign, but it comes on good au-
thority that the North Star state is
not to escape BY discordant do not
mean the word in it's literal meaning
but rather the opening of a few walls,
the vapor from which will be more or
less penetrating and which will have a
tendency to irritate. The word as
passed around in the Twin Cities,
where the Taft and Roosevelt forces
have their headquarters, is that the
big Stick" has bomb in the making
and that it's explosion will be state
wide. He is going to "Penrose and
Lorimerize" what is known as the Re-
publican machine and it will be done
in a manner characteristic of the colo
mel. If Governor Eberhart or any of
the others now candidates for state
Office get in the way that will be their
funeral. The chief aim is the smash
ing of the alleged Republican combina-
ton which l. A. Caswell, the Roose-
welt boomer, and his followers charge
is Chairman Ed Smith, ct al Wheth-
er the smashing process will be done
by the colonel in contemplated visit
to Minnesota prior to the holding of
the caucuses or by a statement to be
sent out by headquarters is not known
at this date. All that those who claim
to know will say is that it is coming.
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Ralph w. Wheelock, who is private
secretary to his excellency Governor
Eberhart, received the news of the
contemplated bomb with some heat
and he was pronounced in his decla-
ration that it bore out what he had
contended right along, and that as far
as Caswell and his close friends were
concerned the entire Roosevelt move
ment as handled by them was blind
to reach his chief. Their course of
action, he pointed out, was an open
book in that respect. He believed,
though, that the scheme would fall of
its own weight as many who were for
Governor Eberhart and yet stood for
the Roosevelt cause would rebel. Gov
ernor. Eberhart is for President Taft;
he has never tried to evade his SYM
pathies as far as the president is con-
cerned, but there is nothing to show
that he has been active in swinging
lis friends in line for the Ohio candi-
date. He gave it out cold some time
ago that he could not see his way
clear to use his high Office for that
purpose, and as far as known he has
stuck to his declaration. Chairman
Smith and others close to his admins
tration have not been able to see it
in the same light and they have been
as active in President Taft's interest
as they have been loyal to the gov
ernor. Caswell, however, refuses to
differentiate and if the bomb explodes
it will take in Governor Eberhart as
we'll as the others. The talk about the
attack on the Republican machine
came about as the result of a visit to
st. Paul of Frank Knox, one of the
Roosevelt national leaders. Mr.. Knox
gave out nothing that would indicate
what his chief had in mind regarding
Minnesota, but it is of note that he
did not make any effort to deny the
talk.