The Washington herald., 1912-08-09
PERKINS CHOSEN
EXECUTIVE HEAD
VIII Be Chairman Of Bull Moose
/, Committee and Will Direct
Coming Campaign.
'BnLp FINN INSISTS
ON REPUBLICAN TICKET
Pennsylvania Boss Refuses to Put
an Independent State Ticket
in the Field.
By JAMES ). MoNTAGuE.


Chicago. IN. Aug. s-Refusing longer
to blush unseen in q movement that has
cost him a lot Of his savings, George Wal
bridge Perkins to-day announced that he
WAS going to be chairman Of the Bull
Moose executive committee. Perkins left
az O'Clock call when he went to bed
Wednesday night so as to impart this In
formation to Col Roosevelt bright and
early IN the morning.
The colonel had hardly finished his nan-
mel cakes when Perkins came tapping at
the door with the news. The biggest Of
all the Bull Moose thought 1t over and
yielded. So Perkins, whose life ambition
has been to uplift the. downtrodden, will
in few days take charge of the Bull
Moose herd and. under the colonel, direct
the coming campaign.
The colonel was not strong for Perkins
originally He thought that George Wal
bridge ought TO be content with the style,
title, and duties of chief disbursing off,
Ger. But all the glory that has been
passed around to Roosevelt, johnson,
Dixon, Beveridge. and Mccormick has
been getting on Perkins nerves
Colonel and, Finn .Fuss.-
And. never was he more insistent, even
inthe halcyon days Of the New York Life
Insurance Company investigation, that he
get real run for the real money that
this spontaneous uprising of. the people
has cost him..
The. colonel. after elevating Perkins,
got into a. fuss with "Bill'' Finn about
the Pennsylvania ticket The colonel
wanted "Bill" to put Up an independent
I; sket in the Keystone State. "Bill,'' who
Is wide between his political eyes, al
lowed that it would be better judgment
to indorse the candidate of the regular
Republican party for everything but
PRESIDENTIAL electors. He talked it over
with the colonel for a bad half hour
and came away still allowing that he
would he regular on everything but the
Presidency. "Bill" wants to control the
cfnce in Pennsylvania and he has picked
up a few pointers from Penrose on the
best way 10 do; it
In the afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock the
colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt departed.
When they had gone This remaining fol-
lowers breathed the sweet air of liberty
q few spinutes. But it was not for long.
AT O'Clock. Senator Dixon glanced at
his right cuf,r on which was scribbled a
long list Of instructions from the colonel
and called together the National Com
mittee for reading.
1t appeared that the colonel desired the
campaign divided into five sections, the
East, New England, the South, the Mid
Gle West, and the extreme West. with a
director in charge of each. Perkins will
be the boss" under the colonel, Of all
the subdivisions, -.
Women ON Committee.
Following the coIonePs instructions, an
executive committee of nine is TO be!
named after a conference between him
self and Chairman Perkins. at oyster
Bay. There Will. be one woman on the
the executive committee. probably Miss
Jane adams, of Chicago
Also at the colonels behest, four wom-
en- members-at-large of the National
Committee were named this afternoon,
as follows:
Miss Jane Adams. Chicago: Miss
Frances Keller, New York: Miss Jean
Gordon, New Orleans, and Mrs. Charles |
Blaney, San Francisco.
There was little enthusiasm remaining |
In the committee after the big moose |
had gene. Dixon and the others dis
covered that 1t was difficult business to |
give creditahle presentation of Hamlet |
without the strenuous Dane. But they
did the best they could, and when the
telegram announcing the result of their |
deliberations was put aboard the east
bound Twentieth Century, the answer
came back that everything was satisfac-
tory.
ct. r." Departs Pleased.
The colonel departed with expressions
OF confidence. He said that everything
had. come out as he expected it would,
which nobody could deny. He further
said that. he would probably give the
East whirl when he begins the fight
August 16 and finish up in the South /
and West Johnson will start the game
pn the Pacific Coast and then come East
to help out He is sure that he will
carry California for Roosevelt. Whether
or not ne will resign his job as Gov
ernor of California is something that
he has not as yet determined. =
Practically all the delegates have gone.
Tim Woodruff returned with the New
York Bull Moose special. .Bainbridgel
Colby. the legal and literary light of
the convention, left early in the morn-t
ng- The Kansas crowd got to the sta
tion Just in time to meet Dave Mulvane,
of their State, coming in.
Dave is going to open Western head
quarters for Taft at the auditorium. He
was one of the National Committee mem-l
oers who heayed Roosevelt delegates out
u the big convention even as the colonel
threw out the colored brothers from the
South. Mulvane says Taft will carry
Illinois and every important State in the
Union. But he doesn't bet on it.
This evening there were sounds of
weeping and lamentation on South
Michigan Avenue. 1t was a convention
" rejected coiored delegates, weeping for
heir lost right to be Progressives, and {
.hey refused to he coufortad In