The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-05
BACKED BY PERKINS.
Taft Managers Charge Roosevelt Cam
paign Is Financed by Him.

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Taft headquarters i'll Washington have
given out the following statement:
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon, of Mon
tana, the new chairman of the Roose-
welt national executive committee, today
took formal charge of the campaign
Of the former president for renomine-
ton by officially opening spacious head
quarters in the Munsey building in
Washington. This building is owned
by Frank A. Munsey, the we'll known
publisher of Munsey's magazines and
owner of a string of newspapers in
eastern cities. He is the personal and
intimate friend of George w. Perkins,
of New York, director and formerly
chairman of finance of the international
Harvester company. Mr.. Perkins is
given credit by Walter L. Houser, oil
rector of Senator LaFoIlettes cam
paign, for being the good angel of the
Roosevelt presidential boom, which
means that he is the campaign col
lector, as we'll as substantial contribu-
tor to the Roosevelt campaign fund
That the Roosevelt committee.
through the personal campaign cOntr;-
buttons CT such gentlemen as Messrs.
Perkins and Munsey and their asso-
ciates, is well heeled financially, eth
er by actual money contributions or by
the gratuitous tender of headquarters
rent free, is manifest by it's various
activities. Because of his close associ-
stion with MIR. Perkins who personally
financed, in large part, the beginning
of the Roosevelt boom for the presi-
dency, Mr.. Munsey is now part and par
eel of the Roosevelt movement and the
location Of the national Roosevelt head
quarters in his fine building in the
national capital therefore becomes es-
Iecially significant.
An OFFSET to Houser.
1.-THE enthusiasm with which The
Roosevelt boomers took possession of
n 1os1 Of
in an unguarded moment, to say that
a letter, purporting 70 have been writ
ten by head of the steel trust to its
employees ordering hem to work for
Taft was in the possession CT tie
Roosevelt managers and would be
sprung as an offset TO the undenied
charge of MI. Houser that men high il
the councils of the United States Steel
corporation and the International Har-
vester company, were openly support
ing Mr.. Roosevelt.
1.-THE remarkable fact about this al
legged letter is that the only copy in ex-
istence, if it exists at all, seems tn
be in the sole possession of Mr.. ROOSe-
velt's campaign managers. OF their
ability, by reason of their intimate con-
nection with Mr.. Perkins and others,
to know what the United States Steel
corporation is doing or contemplates do
ing to escape the charges made openly
by Mr.. Houser, representing Senator
LaFolIette, there can be no dispute. SO
far as Mr.. Taft's campaign managers
manned in total ignorance of the frame
up had not one of Mr.. Roosevelt'5
boomers let his enthusiasm get the bet
ter of his Judgment
Representative William B. Mckinley,
director of the Taft headquarters, de-
clared President Taft's nomination ana
election were certain.
II am thoroughly convinced of Mr..
Tafts success at the convention in
June and at the polls in November
he said. Our preliminary canvass Of
the country shows the president is
gaining steadily in the confidence of
the average citizen. With hardly an
exception every primary and conven- |
ton held to date has endorsed the ad- |
ministration and instructed delegates
the country commonly regarded as hos
tile to the president. He has already
won the nomination and he will win
the election
A Roosevelt Letter.
The national Taft headquarters has
ten by Mr.. Roosevelt, August Is. 1911, |
to A P. Moore, publisher of the Pitts |
burg Leader, asking him to cease ad- |
vocating the nomination Of Mr.. Roose-
welt. The letter follows:
Dear Mr.. Moore:-I very greatly APP |
preclale your KIND ana Lr1enu1y IeeiltlS /
but I am sure you will understand me /
when I say that I must ask not only |
you, but every friend / have to see to |
it that no movement whatever is made |
to bring me forward for the nominal |
ton in 1912.
81 feel that I have a right to ask |
all my friends if necessary actively 10
work to prevent any such movement :
I shall esteem it a genuine calamity If /
such movement were undertaken.
Again thanking you for what you
have said and, moreover, thanking you /
in advance for following my wishes in |
this matter. as | know you viii do, |