Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-05
LOCATED IN MUNsEY BUILDING
Owner Intimate Friend Of Perkins,
Good Angel of Colonels Boom.
TALK OF STEEL TRUST LETTER
Roosevelt Managers Said to Have
Missive Favoring Taft.
REVEALED BY INDISCRETI0N
Alleged Order to Employees TO work
for President Told of by Enthu-
siustic Roosevelt Boomer
at Capital.

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Tne naiional
Taft headquarters in Washington To-Day
gave out the following statement:
senator Joseph NJ. Dixon Of Montana,
the new chairman Of the Roosevelt ma
tional executive committee, today TOOK
,orlnal charge Of the campaign OF the
former president for denomination oy OF
ficially opening spacious headquarters III
the Munsey building in Washington. This
building is owned by Frank A. Munsey'
the well known publisher of Munsey :
magazine and owner of a string OF news
papers in eastern cities. He is the personai
and intimate friend Of George W. Per-
kins Of New York, director and formerly
chairman OF finance Of the international
Harvester company. Mr.. Perkins is given
credit by Walter l.. Houser, director OF
senator La Follette's campaign. for being
the good angel of the Roosevelt presi-
dental boom, which means that he Ia
the campaign collector. as well as a sub
stantiaI contributor TO the Roosevelt
campaign fund.
That the Roosevelt committee, through
the personal campaign contributions
Of such gentlemen as Messrs. Per-
klns and Munsey and their asso-
ciates. is well heeled' financially,
either By actual money contributions
or by the gratuitous tender OF head
quarters rent free is manifest by its
various activities. Because of his close
association with Mr.. Perkins, who per-
sonally financed. In large part, the be-
ginning OF the Roosevelt boom for the
presidency, Mr.. Munsey is now part and
parcel Of the Roosevelt movement and the
location OF the national Roosevelt head
quarters In his fine building In the na-
tional capital therefops~ becomes espe-
oially significant.
Letter from steel Trust Head.
THE enthusiasm with which the Roose-
Welt boomers took possession Of their new
headquarters today led one Of them In an
unguarded moment to say that letter
purporting TO have been written by a head
OF the steel trust 10 It's employees order
ing them 10 work for Taft Was iHA the
possession Of the Roosevelt managers
and would be sprung as an offset TO the
undeniedI charge OF Mr.. Houser that men
high in the councils Of the United States
Steel corporation and the International
Harvester company we're openly support
ing Mr. Roosevelt.
The remarkable fact about this al
legged letter is the fact that the only
copy in existence, IL II exists at all, seems
TO be In the sole possession OF Mr.. Roose-
velts campaign managers. OF their abil-
ity. by reason Of their intimate connec-
nj nth n
know what the United states Steel cor
poration is doing or contemplates doing
TO escape the charges made openly by Mr..
IIouser. representing Senator La Toilette,
there can be no dispute. So far as Mr..
Tafts campaign managers are concerned
they would have remained In total ignor-
ance Of the 'frame-up had not one OF Mr.
Roosevelt's boomers let his enthusiasm
set the better Of his judgment"
Mckinley Optimistic.
Representative William p. Mckinley.
director Of the Taft headquarters, made
an optimistic statement to newspaper
men today, declaring President Tafts
nomination and election were certain.
Il am thoroughly convinced OF Mr.
Taft's success at the convention In June
and ut the polls in November" he said.
our preliminary canvass OF the country
shows that the president Is gaining stead
lily In the confidence Of the average citi-
zen. With har lily an exception every
primary and convention held to date has
endorsed the administration and in
structed delegates for Mr.. Taft. This
Is true In parts OF the country commonly