The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1912-09-13
THE COLONEL
and HIS METHODS
The Colonel Used the Same Tao
tics to Nominate Mr.. Taft in
1903, AS Mr.. Taft Used to Nom
mate Himself in 1912.

The following extract from an ed-
toriai in recent issue of the Sioux
City Journal, gives vivid uen pic.u! e
of the ex presidents method of look,
iny after his political interest that is
pertinent at this time:
How does the colonel run things
when he is running thingsy Every.
body knows that he personally con-
ducts them. Take the republican ma
tional convention in 1908. when Frank
Hitchcock, of the postoffice depart
ment, was the handy man for the colo
mel, sent out for the colonel to breath
upon and through, In the suite of
rooms used for headquarters at the
convention was one equipped with
telephone connections with direct cop
per wire to the room where Col. Roose-
welt sat at Washington, set apart to
the colonel, with Frank Hitchcock at
the other end. There sat Hitchcock,
for hours at time, a large part of
each day and far into the night. Prac.
tically the co onel sat right there be-
side him, giving directions as to every
conceivable detail of the convention
aud receiving information on every
possible point as the contest went on:
discussing everything done or to be
done in all its relations: permitting
nothing to escape Kim. "PersonalIy
conducting" is a weak phrase to de-
scribe the colonel's way of doing things
the way he actually did things there. "
Now, in 1908, was not a time when
the colonel was a candidate. II was
when he was putting through the no,ni-
nation of Mr.. Taft. Those familiar
with his methods in politics know that
he Is none the less thorough when his
own personal interests are at stake.
1t is those who are the most familiar
with his methods who resognize the
absolute impossibility of his being
ignorant of a single material point
in connection with his election in 1904,
including the raising of every material
amount for his campaign fund.
One thing has always been true of
the Roosevelt campaigns. He has al
ways had an abundance of money.
And another point, he has never been
required to go to the common people
for popular subscriptions, which
means the small amounts from many
people-the funds that everyone knows
all about. And he has never dared
tell where he got his money.
That the colonel has been vitality
stricken by the exposure of Senator
Penrose Is absolutely certain. for he
has been caught With the goods on.
Neither denials or vitu3eration will
avail.
To say that tine Standard Oil com
pany is now against him means moth
ing. He has been with and against
Taft, with and against Root, with and
against Penrose, with and against
Ballinger, with and against Cannon.
Aldrich, Lodge, and at one time or
other every man -almost-wi whom
he has been associated politically
Th" glaring exception is George W
Perkins and associates. During all
the conspicuous public lite Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt there has never been
time when the political agent of the
Morgan interests has not been on
terms of intimacy with the colonel.
Their relations come as near ap-
preaching the Damon and Pythias
type as we are ever likely to witness
in political channels. At the present
great crisis in the career of the COLO +
mel it is, as usual, Mr.. Perkins of the I
Morgan interests, the steel, harvester
and kindred trusts, who stands vail I.
antly at the right hand of the colonel,
guiding his ship Of state and provid- /.
ing with lavish hand the only kind
of wind that appears potent To
move effectively his craft, skinming
the political seas.
But Penrose the one time intimate
OF the colonel--has punched hole ,
the colonel's sail that is en-
larging every day.