The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-05
ROUSEVELT
 EXPLAINING
COLONEL TELLS THE DIFFER EHcE BETWEEN CANDIDACY
 AND AN ACCEPTANCE.
Taft Headquarters Give Out Some In- teresting Dope" on Probable Campaign Contributions in
 Present Battle.

Washington, March 1.-The nation al Taft headquarters in. Washington today gave out the following state. ment:
 Senator Joseph NJ. Hixon of Mon tana, the new chairman of the Roose. welt national executive committee, to- day took formal charge of the cam paign of the former president for re. nomnation by officially opening spa cious headquarters in the Munsey building in Washington. This build ing is owned by Frank A. Munsey, the well known publisher of Munsey's Magazine, and owner of a string of newspapers in eastern cities. He is the personal and intimate friend of George w. Perkins of New York, di- rector and formerly chairman of the finance committee of the Information al Harvester Company. Mir. Perkins is given credit by Walter L. Houser, director of Senator La Follette's cam paign, for being the good anger' of the Roosevelt presidential boom, which means that he is the cam paign collector. as well as substan- tial contributor to the Roosevelt cam paign fund.
 That the Roosevelt committee, through the personal campaign con tribution of such gentlemen as Messrs. Perkins and Munsey and their asso- ciates is well heeled' either by finan- cial contributions or by the gratui- tous tenders of headquarters rent free, Is manifest by it's various ac- tivities. Because of his close asso- citation with MT. Perkins, who per sonally financed, in large part, the beginning of the Roosevelt boom for the presidency Mir. Munsey is now part and parcel of the Roosevelt movement and the location of the na- tional Roosevelt headquarters in his fine building in the national capital therefore becomes especially signifi- cant.
 The enthusiasm with which the Roosevelt boomers took possession of their new headquarters today led one of them, hn an unguarded moment, to say that letter purporting to have been written by head of the steel trust to it's employees ordering them to work for Taft, was in the posses sion of the Roosevelt managers, and would be sprung as an offset to the undenied charge of Mir. Houser, that men high in the coup 'aS of the United States Steel corporation and the International Harvester Company were openly supporting Mir. Roose- welt
 "The remarkable fact about this aI- legged letter is that the only co0J in existence, if it exists at all seems to be in the sole possession of MT. Roosevet's campaign managers. Of their ability by reason of their inti- mate connection with MT. Perkins and others, to know what the United States Steel corporation is doing or contemplating doing ta escape Ire charges made openly by MT. IouSer. representing Senator La Toilette, there can be no dispute So far as MT. Taft's campaign managers are concerned. they would have remained in total ignorance of the frame up, had not one of Mir. Roosevelts boom. CTS let his enthusiasm get the better of his judgment"
 Representative William B. McKin- ley, director of the Taft headauar. ters, made an optimistic statement to newspaper men today, declaring Pres. ident Tafts examination and election were certain.