Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-21
PREPARES TO STUMP
La Toilette Back From West,
Laying His Plans.
OPTIMISM AT TAFT BUREAU
Roosevelt's Praise of Taft in 1908
Recalled.
REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS
OPTIMISM AT TAFT BUREAU
REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS
Roosevelt People Issue Statement
Claiming Support From Colored
Voters of Maryland.

In excellent physical condition and fresh
from his victory in North Dakota, Sen
ator La Toilette returned to Washington
today and at once took up plans for the
extension of the campaign work he is to
do in the next few weeks in states where
direct presidential primaries are to be
held
The Wisconsin senator is in good shape
for the work ahead and expects to take
the stump again within a short time.
AT the Taft bureau today optimism
over the prospects in Colorado and West
Virginia expressed. Dispatches from
both states indicate that sentiment for
the President is running strong.
In statement issued today by the
Taft bureau it is shown that to date 141
Taft delegates to the republican national
convention have been selected. For
Roosevelt fifteen have been selected; for
La Toilette, ten, and for Cummins, two
Roosevelt on Taft in 1908.
As reply to Col. Roosevelt's speech in
New York last night. when he charged
that President Taft was opposed to gov
eminent by the people, letter written
by Col Roosevelt in 1908. giving a glow
ing opinion of Taft as a possible chief
executive for the nation was made pub
lie by the bureau
me letter was written by Col. Roose-
veIt 10 Conrad kohrs of Helena Mont.
September ., 1893. while Col Roosevelt
was sun in the White House. In the let
ter Col. Roosevelt said:
Inc honest man OF means, the honest
anu law abldIng business man. can feel
SAFE IN his hands because of the very fact
thdt the dishonest man of great wealth
the man who swindles rObs his fellows
would not so much as dare to defend his
fine honest wage-worker, the honest
kaDorlnS man, the honest farmer the
}honest mechanic or small trader or
/. imam OF small means can feel that i'm
peculiar sense Mr.. Taft will be his
representative because of the very fact
thdt ne has the same scorn for the
demaSosue that he has for the corrup-
zionist. and that he would front threats
of personal violence from a mob with
the unquailing and lofty Indifference
with which he would front the bitter
anger of the wealthiest and most DOW
erlul corporations Broad though his
sympd thieS are, there is in him not the
slightest tnge of weakness No con-
slderatlons of personal interest any
more than of fear for his personal safe
\ety. could make him swerve a hairs
breadth from the cause which he re-
CARDS as right in the interest of the
whole people"
Taft Success Reported.
The Taft bureau also gives out the fol-
lowing:
H. u Weaver wires from Burlington,
Iowa. under yesterdays date, as follows:
Iaft delegates elected in first district
or Iowa, h l.. McClerkin, Morning Sun,
Iowa and Lot Abraham. Mount Pleasant,
Iowa"
Col, as follows:
"Prowers county, Col, held its pri-
maries today and President Taft carried
the county,
Taft Republican Club of Wallawalla
county. Wash. has wired as follows:
Inc statement of John t. Bass Col.
Roosevelts manager in North Dakota, to
the effect that democrats voted in and
controlled the republican preferential
primaries in that state is all the answer
needed 10 the challenge of Senator Dixon
and others for such primaries in other
states. until such time as some method
can be devised whereby voters in republic
can preferential primaries can be limited
than supporters of republican policies"
ID. n. koonce and II. Z. Mundey have
wired from Charles Town, Jefferson coun-
~, W. Va. as follows:
Republican executive committee of
Jefferson county has Endorsed President
Taft for denomination"
Canvass of Maryland Colored Vote.
From the Roosevelt headquarters.
headed by Senator Dixon. the following
statement issued this afternoon:
"A statewide canvass of the 1859
colored voters of Maryland shows Col.
Roosevelt the choice over President Taft
for the republican presidential nominal
ton by a little over % to l.
The canvass was conducted by the
Baltimore Times. a weekly publication of
wide circulation among the colored people
of Maryland -
Hugh +. Macbeth, who surcrvised the
canvass. said today:
A political revolution is at hand among
Maryland republicans: the colored people
are almost A unit for Col. Roosevelt
Their feeling AGAINST President Taft is
So bitter as the figures county by county
show that his denomination by the party
would mean party slump in the usual
Maryland colored republican vote of over
1a,bH President Taft would have to gain
elsewhere in Maryland over 20oUO votes
To carry the state-an admitted impossi-
bility 10 any one at all conversant with
Maryland political conditions. The cause
of the bitter feeling against President Taft
is very largely his policy in regard to the
Colored men. They blame the recent ra D.
I'd advances of race prejudice. the Balti-
more segregation idea. upon President
Taft official Indifference TO the principle
Of the square deal as applied to the
cOOred people. Among the more intelli-
gent Colored people of the state to the
cause Just given is added a sweeping con-
demnation OF the Taft administration with
respect to its effect upon the general
progress Of the nation