Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-05
Batteries OF Both Cam
paign Bureaus Turned
Wide Open.
LINENS TO BE WASHED
Dixon, Manager for the Colonel,
Declares if Personalities Are
Wanted, He Has Stock.

Washington, March 5.-Senator Dix
on. chairman Of the Roosevelt execu-
tive committee. replied today to a
statement given out by the national
Taft headquarters yesterday, in which
attention is called to the location Of
Roosevelt headquarters in a building
owned by Frank A. Munsey.
RECALLS FOUR YEARS AGO.
I'VE elected Taft four years ago out
of the International Harvester COM
pany building in Chicago" said Dixon.
"Our headquarters occupied the sixth
floor Of that building. So far as I
know, no rent was paid for the rooms.
II personalities are wanted in this cam
paign," Dixon continued, Il will give
them more than they expect"
FARMERS AFTER PERKINS.
National Taft headquarters gave out
a statement today declaring the farm
ers Of the middle west" are demand
ing that George w. Perkins and Medill
Mccormick, related TO prominent Off
cials of the harvester trust, separate
themselves from Roosevelt and his
campaign"
COLONEL HOLDS HIS JOBs
'Tn this demand" the statement
says, they are only indicating their
ignorance Of the fact that Perkins
ago had # not been for his intimate
friendship with Roosevelt"
COLONEL FURTHER EXPLAINS.
New York, March 5.-Colonel Roose.
welt today made public a letter he
wrote last January TO Frank A. Nun
sey. the publisher. Roosevelts object
in giving out the communication, he
said, was 10 refute a charge that he is
breaking a promise in agreeing to &C
cept the nomination If offered him He
called particular attention TO a pas
sage in the letter in which, while stat
ing he would not be a candidate. he
declared he would not go on record as
being unwilling TO accept a nomina
ton. ITO every man | talked TO,
said Roosevelt, Il made in substance
that same statement and made it in q
hundred letters"
ROOSEVELT HAS COMMITTEE.
Fort Worth, Texas. March 5.-B!
n vote of 27 to l the candidacy o
Roosevelt was endorsed today by th'
Texas state republican executive com
mittee. Supporters of Taft decide,
20 carry the fight before the voters.
WOMEN FOR ROOSEVELT.
Sunny Side, Wash, March 9Th,
first Roosevelt club of women voters
so far as known here. in the Unite,
States has been formed here.
TAFT's LATEST LETTER.
Washington. March 5.-Nationa
Roosevelt headquarters gave out tn
following statement:
Further evidence of the name
in which the administration cam
paign managers are conducting tn
fight for delegates has come to ligh
in the form of a circular letter t
postmasters and other federal en-
ployes in the northwest. The lei
ters. delicately worded. abound 1
veiled threats and plastic praise.
is declared sentiment in favor of Tat
is rapidly growing. Hints are the
thrown out that assistance Of all goo
oflceholders Is needed"
sTIMsoN IN CHICAGO.
Chicago. March 5.-Secretary of Wa
Sumson arrived here today. Tonigh
he will make the first important speec
in the campaign for Taft He said
THE first utterance of the cry of jill
goism relative TO either China or Mel
leo is going TO be responsible for th
slaughter Of an untold number OF inn,
cent foreigners in those countries. w
are watching the situation closely"
RudolfstadL Bohemia-The landta
has been dissolved as the result OF IN
refusal Of the socialists 10 assent {
the proposed election law reforms, II