Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-01
CONTRAST TO TAFT POLICY
Statement Believed to Indicate
Spirit of Personal Hostility.
EFFECT ON PARTY'S FUTURE
Roosevelt Accused of Using the
Methods Decried in Dixon's
Statement.


interested today in the opening statement
newly chosen national manager. Senator
Dixon, last night Its harsh and bitter
tone and the vitriolic personal attack
upon President Taft boded ominously to
them.
1t fOreshadowed to them a rough
house" campaign which does not augur
we'll for republican success in November.
1t was in vivid contrast to the policy Of
the Taft managers. which has been from
the outset. Not word of criticism
against the colonel"
According to their analysis, it betrayed
the existence of spirit of personal hos
tility among the Roosevelt managers and
by inference In the heart of Roosevelt
himself which seemed incredible to the
friends of the President. But beyond that
sentimental consideration was the more
important and practical one of the certain
effect of this line of fighting upon the
prospects of the republican party.
To some of the regular party men 1t
seemed that no other conclusion was to
be drawn from 1t than that the Roosevelt
campaign Is a policy of smashing every
thing that stands in the way Of Roose-
velt's personal ambition and to do 1t in
Accused of Inconsistency.
Cynical observations were made upon
the inconsistency of the charge that
the administration is too assidiously
courting the southern delegations when
it was realized what Roosevelt did
when he was President four years
ago and what was accomplished at Chi
H.
roller" which was Roosevelts pride
and joy. This administration has not
attempted. it is claimed, anything ap-
preaching what was done with Roose-
velt's initiative and joyful applaud.
AS a matter of fact, President Taft
as last December that federal office
holders were not to be chosen as dele
gates to Chicago in his behalf, and 1t is
notorious among we'll posted republic.
ans that ii is welinigh impossible to
get any patronage favors for the south
based upon ante-conventiOn considera-
tions.
Senator Dixon becomes a national poll
teal figure at once. the politicians said
today. By that it is not meant that he
has been inconspicuous heretofore, but as
the head and front of the Roosevelt ma
tional campaign he is henceforth the
militant leader of the radical forces.
Senator Dixon was born in North Car
olina in 1867 He went to Montana in
1892 and took I'D the law and politics.
He has been in the United States Senate
since 1907, and his term expires March 3.
1913. He served in the Montana legisla-
ture and two terms IN the United States
House of Representatives. He is re-
garded as resourceful. aggressive poll
tician.
Roosevelt's Campaign Managers.
II no. onnoran. 70 +ba yol;t;c;opc toda
that the Roosevelt campaign committee
was organized with view to taking in
both political and financial resources
Alexander H. Revell is millionaire
manufacturer of Chicago and a devoted
admirer of Roosevelt. Former Secretary
of the Navy Newberry of Detroit is a
millionaire. State Senator Finn OF
Pittsburg is q rich man. Clifford Pin
chot. who will play on the side line, is
expected to be a generous contributor
from well-stocked purse.
The political genius and experience will
be furnished by Frank Knox, chairman
CT the republican state central commit
Tee of Michigan: William L. Ward. one
Of the old guard bosses in New York
Walter Brown. chairman of the repub-
.lcnr state central committee Of Ohio;
Cecil Lyon, national committeeman from
Texas and others. 1t has been charged
that big men in the steel trust and hold.
ers of steel STOCKS are also packing tne
colonel
This is no pikers game" said a Roose.
Welt man today. We've got the chips
and the players
Attack on "Of6ce- Holding" Machine
The way things point now it is figured
out that the first line of attack by the
Roosevelt managers will be on the charge
that Roosevelt aims to smash the federal
office holding machine" a good
enough Morgan" perhaps: at any rate. 1t
has served before. and. indeed, is hoary
with the signs of long and hard usage.
The friends of the President at the
Capitol said that the object is to seek
to throw odium on the administration by
arousing the prejudices of the west
against the southern republicans for one
thing, but primarily to put Roosevelt In
the attitude of fighting the bosses and
the machine" roe he has often as
sumed in the intervals, they suggest, of
not doing the very things he decried.