Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-07
POLITICS DAY BY DAY

I'D like to spank them BOTH" said
Andrew Carnegie yesterday, speaking of
Taft and Roosevelt. Imagine Damon
and Pythias quarreling. They ought to
get together, have an old-fashioned,
heart-to-heart talk and quit this fuss
ing
II do not see any crisis In this coun-
try" said Mayor Gaynofspf New York
in an interview yesterday.
Roosevelt and La Toilette use many
violen gestures and adjectives, but I do
not see that they stop long enough to
put their finger on anything, or their
tongue, for that matter.
TRUSTS are being loosely denounced by
people who do not know what the word
trust means. as they use it.
interfering with business. either in the
way of passing statutes to curb or ex-
pand 1t, is a false principle. The. law
should leave all business free, and the
government should keep its hands off. 1
would just as lief they recall judges as
any other officials
Mayor Gaynor has announced positively
that he is not a candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination-for President. A pre-
vious less formal declaration to this eff
withstanding which the mayors name
had still been mentioned Il am willing
he said, Ito leave the field to all who are
candidates. / am not a candidate"
Senator Gronna of North Dakota left
Washington last night to take the stump
in his state for the election of La Fol
lette delegates to the republican national
convention. The primaries are to be
held April ~ and from now on the cam
no ieyva ID, To ho hat fI,A all r.
men not yielding to the Roosevelt boom.
Senator Kenyon will leave in day or
two for Iowa to get into the campaign
out there and look over his own political
fences. He will come up for reelection
next winter.
At Greensborough, n c., last night, a
Roosevelt club was organized with a
charter membership of 100. The member
ship includes leading republicans of the
county and all except two members of
the county republican executive commit
tee. A significant feature of the meet
ing was the appointment of a committee
Of three in each county precinct Ito re-
port any pernicious activity of officehold-
ers regarding the selection Of delegates
to The county and state conventions and
report same to the president of the club
that he may take the same up with the
proper authorities"
welt at Oyster Bay yesterday.
The colonel would say nothing in re-
gard to Mr.. Perkins visit other than
that he had come from New York with
a message from Senator Dixon, and after
visit of few minutes had started back
for New York. Later in the evening. the
colonel said, he might receive another
message from Senator Dixon, but he de-
clared in advance that il such mes
sage came he would have nothing to say
oh - 0fa IL t. Tho
evening, presumably some time before
Senator Dixon reached New York, that
Mr.. Perkins arrived at Sycamore Hill.
March 2 dispatches from the west APP
peared in the newspapers alleging that
La Toilette supporters in North Dakota
were turning from Roosevelt and sup
porting Taft because of the connection
of Mr.. Perkins and Medill Mccormick
of Chicago with the International Har-
vester Company.
Mr.. Mccormick has been one OF the
leaders in the Roosevelt movement. and
managed the Roosevelt bureau at Wash
ington before Senator Dixon took charge.
Mr.. Perkins is chairman of the finance
committee of the International Harvester
Company, and is regarded as one of the
most important factors in the affairs of
that organization. He is also a director
of the United States Steel Corporation.
When Col Roosevelt was shown the
western dispatches he merely laughed. as
though he thought the matter not worthy
of comment. Not word would he say
on the subject. The colonel has been
quoted in the past as having said that
whatever Mr.. Perkins did in his behalf
was done for no other reason than be-
cause of Mr. Perkins personal friendship
for him.
Friends Of Medill Mccormick declared
last night that there was no basis for any
intimation such as had appeared in the
dispatches from the west that Mr. Nc
Cormick was connected in any way with
the International Harvester Company. He
belongs to a branch OF the family in no