The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-29
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
CALLS FOR MORE LETTERS.
Perkins Wants Other Correspondence
Made Public.

New York, April 29.-George w. Per
kins, the New York capitalist, in
letter to Representative William b.
Mckinley, President Tafts campaign
manager, calls upon the president 10
make public the correspondence ex-
changed within the last IL months be-
tween the White House and officials OIL
the International Harvester company
of which Mr.. Perkins is a director.
He criticizes the publication of the
harvester correspondence of 1907, ana
charges that it was done for the pur-
pose of strengthening President Taft y
cause in the forthcoming Massachus-
etts primaries.
Mr., Perkins defends his course In
supporting Colonel Roosevelt for the
presidential nomination and denies that
]. P. Morgan is secretly behind him IN
the fight for Roosevelt.
Mr.. Perkins letter, in part, says:
You and your associates have re-
peatedly tried to place me, as citizen
before my fellow citizens in the light OIL
being a man actuated only by sordld,
Improper motives in what 1 say and
do. In every possible way attempts
have been made to convince the people
that am against your candidate ano
for Mr. Roosevelt because of my con
nection with the steel corporation and
the harvester company.
Cannot you see that it is impossi-
because of the filing of the steel suit
or the threatened suit against the har-
vester company?
For if 1 were actuated by the base
motives that you impugn to me I would
he with YOU heart and Soul, in your
efforts to renominate Mr.. Taft; for
what more could a sordid, selfish cor
noration man want than to have his
CORPORATION dissolved, on paper, in sucn
a way as to bring increased profits to
inside stockholders and increased cost
to outside consumers, as in the case
of the standard Oil and Tobacco COM
panies?
His Campaign Contributions.
s.You have persistently connected my
name with the harvester company in
particular in giving out information to
the effect that I was contributing mon
ey to the Roosevelt cause-and have
done this in such way as to try to
convey the impression that II was a
very improper and wicked thing to be
going on and that the Roosevelt COM
mittee ought 10 be ashamed to have me
or my money connected with its cause.
THE latest attempts in this direction
have been to call attention to the con-
tribution 1 made to the New York
convention prior to the recent So-called
primaries and also its publication of
the harvester correspondence. There is
a peculiar business about all these at
tacks on me in view of the following:
''First-Mr. Otto T. Brannard is recog-
nized throughout the country as Nj
Taft's warm personal friend and staunch
supporter. He is also president of a large
trust company in the very center of the
Wall street district. In 1909 he ran for
mayor of this city on the Republican
ticket. L supported him and personally
contributed more money to his campaign
than L did to the recent primary fight
here in New York.
''Second-When Mr.. Stimson, now a
member of Mr.. Tafts cabinet, recently
ran for governor of this state, I support
ed him with all my might and main.
amount to his campaign that I contribut-
ed to the recent so-called primaries in
this city.
''Third-When Mr. Taft ran for presi-
dent in 1903. I supported him in every way
that I could. During the TAFT
campaign of 1908 Senator Crane called on
me and telephoned me repeatedly about
the financial progress of that campaign,
being particularly solicitous as to what
could be done for the state of Massa-
chusettS.
Committee Owes Him Money.
when the Taft campaign was over the
treasurer found that he had some bills
he could not pay, amounting to about
$4,000.
money from anyone. 1t was evident that
the friends and relatives of the newly
elected president took interest in pay
ing left over bills after Mr.. Taft had been
elected. was asked to loan the commit
tee $4,000, which 1 did, taking the note of
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