The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-29
TAFT MEN ONCE GLAD Of .
MY COIN. SAYS PERKINS
Recalls Also a $4,000 Note
Signed sheldon and Not
Yet Paid.
HARVESTER FACTS HIDDEN
Accuses the Administration Of
Giving Out Only One Side
Of the Controversy.


day n letter to Congressman william
H. Mckinley. director Of the Taft cam
paign. In It he says that the attack on
MIR. Perkins for spending money on
the Roosevelt candidacy seemed to him
out Of place. inasmuch as he had SIM
jlarly supported Mr.. Taft and the can
didates backed by Mr.. Taft when his
Affiliations with the Harvester COM
pany and the Steel Corporation were
just what they are at present.
For instance. says Mr.. Perkins. the
lent $4,000 to the Taft campaign COM
mittee In 1908. and the note that he
holds for that amount. signed by
George II. Sheldon. has not yet been
paid" The money was loaned. Mr..
Perkins adds. when. after Mr.. Taft had
been elected. Mr.. Sheldon. finding that
he had some bills ne could not pay.
told me ne was unable to raise the
money from any one"
According to Mr.. Perkins. Wall Street
10 laughing In its sleeve At the FAR
cical results Of the trust busting pro-
eramme Of the Taft Administration. 4"
He accuses Mr.. Taft Of deliberately
causing to be given out only one years
correspondence relating to President
Roosevelt and tth Harvester company.
He says the Taft Administration appar-
emily is afraid to make public the Har-
vester company correspondence Of tn"
past year. He would not be surprised.
he says. n in order to keep the facts
OF the correspondence concealed the
Administration should start a dissolu-
tion suit.
This II Mr.. Perkinss letter:
MY DEAR SIR You and your associates
have repeatedly tried TO place me. a. q
citizen. before my fellow citizens, in tho
light OF being man act uated only by sordid.
improper motives in what I say and do
In every poesible way attempts have been
made to convince the people that I am
against your candidate and for MIR Roose-
welt because of my connection with the
Steel Corporation and the Harvester COM
pany. cannot YOU ace that II Ia i'm poss ible
for me TO he opposing Mr.. TAFT because Of
the fiins Of the steel suit or the threatened
suit against the Harveeter company?
For II ! were actnated by the base motives
that you impugn TO me ! would be with you
heart and soul in your efforts to renomina Q
Mr.. Tart: for what more could a sordd.
selhsh corporation man want than TO have
his corporation dissolved. on paper, In
such way a. 20 bring increased profts
TO inside stock holders and increased cost
70 outside consumers. as in the case Of the
Standard oil and Tobacco companies'
Because OF the farcical results Of the trust
busting programme OF the Taft admins
tration. Wall Street knows that II has moth =
ing further TO fear from Washington. II
IL laughing In tte sleeve at what has been
going on. II 10 behind MIR. Taft almost 10
man. and no ons knows this better than
you. Senator Crane and MIR. 1aft's other
prominent supporters.
You have persistently connected my name
with the Harvester company In particular
In giving out Information 10 the effect tha,
was contributing money to the Roosev welt
cause-and have done this in such a way a.
10 try to convey the impression that 1t was
very improper and wicked thing to be
going on-a thing most abhorrent to YOU
and your associates, and which should be
So regarded by every decent American
! citizen. and that the Roosevelt committee
ought to be ashamed 10 have ma or my
money connect'd with its cause. The latest
attempts in this directio have heen TO call
attention TO the contribution I made TO
| the New York campaign prior TO the recent
so-called primaries. and also the publica-
ton OF the Harvester correspondence
There IL a peculiar baseness about all these
attacks on me in Wow of tho follouino
Firs,-Nr otto r Rsnnard is recogr,, ed
throughou, the country a.Nr Tsft.s warm
personal friend and s,anch sunportsr
Hc ia n,so presiden, ~ n large ,ru.t cow
pany In tho very centre Of the Wall Street
dis,ric, In ,ooo h. ran fo, Wavor y, hi.
city on the RenubI;c,n ,;ckc, sunnor, .d
him and personally contributed more
money N his campaicn thon I'D 70 ,ho
recent urinary nybt bers in Hsw Vol
In addition to ,hot I per.ora,,v ,oansd a
numbcr ~ tbousands of do,,ar. ,o h,s ,,,,.
paIvn commlttee a, i,s ,en,os, md tnr
some time aftcr the camnnign uo, ov.r
held tho note NJ Nr Ronn,rd aud NJ u.,.
bcr, psrsons for ,h;s latter ann, ,,h;oh
they repaid Those Two mon are now CON.
spicnous ,nembers Of vour ovosniza,ion
Jhev know peyfec,lv VOL how much Il
bclped Them and how eager ,hor uc,. ,or
that he in How much fairness how much
Of rho .souore deaI" 10 ,bero in ,hs,r .,,i.
,ude toward mo today because 7 nm nor
doine for the Roosevelt, ,aus. p,.c,..,,.
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