Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-09


Director Mckinley of the Taft bureau
and Director Dixon of the Roosevelt pu-
reau continue a cross-fire over the Ques-
ton of countrywide presidential primaries
Director Mckinley said his last Woro
Thursday night, but last night director
Dixon came back with a letter In Wnlcn
he assumes that Mr.. Mckinley's refusai
to agree to primaries is with the ap-
prevail of President Taft. Director Dixon
says in his letter:
Il now ask you specifically:
'FJrst-Are you willing to join me IN an
appeal to the republican state committees
to provide for an expression OF the re-
publican voters of the several states on
the choice Of the republican presidential
candidate?
"Second-Will you Immediately join with
me In a telegram to the republican Ihenl-
bers of the legislatures in MASSACHUSETTS,,
MARYLAND and Michigan, which are now
in session, where presidential preference
bills are now pending, and Where IL Is
reported that your friends are trying 10
defeat their passage, urging THEM " sup
port these measures?
Il await your immediate answer 10
these two propositions, because regard
action favorable to the view l take az az
solutely essential to party success IN NO
vember. Trust the republican voters now.
Director Mckinley of the Taft bureau
last night gave out the following state
ment:
ITO Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon of Mon
tana, campaign manager or the HooseVeit
third term boom. acting in accordance
with the views of his candidate, Theodore
Roosevelt is due the major portion OF the
credit for the emasculatlon OF the ar
bitration treaties between the United
day. Despite the general understanding
in the Senate that Senator Dixon was III
favor of these treaties, it was evident on
the roll call yesterday that the senator
was influenced more by pohtlcal eApe-
diency than by the great pr1nclpal IN
yolyed when he cast his vote for war
and against peace.
.sThe utter hollowness of the claim OF
the Roosevelt managers to republican
support in the Senate or elsewhere was
vote on the treaties yesterday Inlrty-
six votes which went to make up tne
fOrty-twO necessary to emascuiate tno
treaties and make them ineffective were
furnished by the democrauc paaS, 1917, un,y
three members of which voted to support
the treaties. Thus President Ta1t won
double victory over the RoOsevelt-demo-
cratic combination by forcing tneni 70 ~
on record I'm opposition to one OF Ins
greatest achievements ever accoHpnsnsu
by President of the United States.the
negotiation Of peace between three OF the
leading powers of the world. Inc more
effect upon the peace of the entire Mo.iu,
as well as the practical eHect upJn taS
military expenditures of the Unlteo
states. which are paid by an indirect tax
upon the people, amounting to more .na I,
S2o5. 900, 600 annually, would nave peen
most beneficial. a., aaoa
aside from the re1ectlon Oh w. eense
treaties. which violates the moral sense
of all neace-loying Americans, the sis-
nificant fact indicated by the vote IN the
Senate Yesterday Is that q small Ini"ol I.S
in the republican party is Intent on .Uau
ing the whole party to accept its dlctuih
The vote of Senator Dixon alone yester-
dav would have saved clause $ or article
III of the treaties. the vital point, ny
making the vote a tie, Al TO A. '"efeos
rejecting the amenoment' denomination Of
Theodore Roosevelt for thru term
comes primarily from small minority OF
the republican party, combined WIN al
immense democratic demand LOT MS re-
Welt is the easiest republican candidate
for President to defeat, was mace evil
dent by the lineup in the senate yesteI.
day, 1t also affords positive proof OF what
many days, that the so-called newspaper
polls favoring Mr.. Roosevelt are Pols
padded by democrats interested In assist
ing the republican party to nominate lts
weakest candidate at the ShiCo6O Soi-
vention in June.
.This was further illustrated Yesterday
at the primaries at Kansas City, MO,
where, after having made 1t Impossible
for Taft, Cummins and La Toilette dele
gates to compete on a fair basis, thereby
driving them from the field, the ROose-
Welt supporters were able to muster only
% per cent of the republican vote TOT
their candidate. Whatever satisfaction
the Roosevelt managers can get out OF
this situation. so plainly exposed TO the
public gaze. they are welcome to.
The Woodrow Wilson bureau claims that
twenty of the twenty-one democratic
county committees in New Jersey favor
the nomination of Gov. Wilson, and con-
trOverts the claims of State Chairman
Nugent that Gov. Wilson cannot carry
his own state, 1t was also claimed that
yania in favor of the nomination OF Gov
Wilson for the presidency. that of the
forty Eight democrats who have announc-
ed themselves from various congressional
districts as delegate candidates to the
Baltimore convention, not one has ad-
yocated the nomination of any candidate
other than Woodrow Wilson. Forty of
the rty-eight democrats who have come
out as delegate candidates have put
themselves on record as favoring the
nomination of the New Jersey executive.
The other eight ar non-committal.'
The politicians are expecting the La
Toilette headquarters to make at
tack upon Roosevelt in few days. The
La Toilette managers in the west have
been hitting at Roosevelt all along the
line, and it is whispered in political