The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24
Why Roosevelt Campaign Has
Plenty of Cracking"
Steel Trust and Other COmbi-
nations EspOuse His Cause.
ONE OFFICER GIVES BIG SUM
Geo. w. Perkins Contributes
100000 to the Cause.
Correspondent at Washington
Gives Names of Supporters.

! lOLs L. -, April G7.--4NOW
that President Taft has decided upon
a modification. of the policy hitherto
pun sued by him by enduring the abuse
and insults of Theodore Roosevelt
the national campaign is warming up
! The president, it is said, has stood
| more than any man would have stood,
| because he has held the dignity of
| the office of president above his po-
| litical ambitions for another term. lie
will continue to preserve this dignity,
| but from now on he will come back
and send swing for swing, blow for
blow. Under repeated personal as
saults from Roosevelt he has re-
manned silent.
| These assaults, however, have gone
| to the point where actual falsehoods
have been uttered a number of times
and are repeated with such emphasis
as to cause them to be accepted as
the truth unless material facts are
presented showing the contrary.
The step the president is about to
take has been urged upon him by
friends for a week, but until Colonel
Roosevelt rubbed in his abuse in
speeches in Nebraska, the president
resolutely held to a determination not
to permit the campaign to become
personal by reason of any outgivings
of his own. He now feels free to step
in and give the country some impor-
tant information.
Assertions made that the president
has shown fear of Roosevelt will not
hold after the expected chapter that
is understood to be on the way and
imminent in a very short time.
Steel Trust for Roosevelt.
The White House has information
from many sources that important Of
ficials Of the steel trust have come
out for Roosevelt and are influence
ing their men to work against Taft.
a striking illustration of this is in
the tin plate mill at Morgantown,
w. Va, where the superintendent is
charged with having bent every en-
ergy to compel 700 men to support
Roosevelt.
The Taft people assert that there is
little doubt that the steel trust has
is to support him actively wherever
it can do so. George W. Perkins,
the harvester and steel trust magnate,
has contributed 100000 to the
Roosevelt campaign so far, it is
charged, $4,000 of this having been
He has secured contributions of enor-
nous sums from others connected
with these two trusts, it is said, and
the Taft people now believe that this
accounts for the big funds in use
throughout the country by the Roose-
Welt managers generally.
Why There's Plenty of Money
The Taft people now claim that
more than 100000, most of it con-
tributed by stockholders in the steel
and harvester trusts, has been spent |
in behalf of Roosevelt to this time.
There has been some surprise for |
months at the plentiful supply of
Roosevelt money in sight in every |
made, resulting in the charge that
not only is the steel trust officially |
Influencing it's officers in every state |
in behalf of Roosevelt but that its
leading stockholders are coming |
across with the biggest campaign |
fund ever known in the United |
States.
That the United States Steel cor
poration is supporting the candidacy |
of Theodore Roosevelt, not only by |
it's money, but by it's votes, is evil |
denced by the returns to date. Pitts
burg, the center of its activities, tells
the tale better than any other one in
stance, but there are others. Only in |
one state has the United States Steel /
corporation, the successor of Stand
ard Oil as the greatest money power i
in this country, and the especial pet
of Theodore Roosevelt, been brought
to terms in the matter OF elections,
primary and final. That state is In
diana, where the governor of the |
state a Democrat, has kept an eye |
on it for violations of law for four
J ears.
In Pittsburg, where the final prod
poration goes to market; in the coal
regions where its mines are located;
in northern Ohio ports, including
Cleveland, where it's ores are unload
ed; in South Chicago and Joliet, Illi-
nois. and in New York, where it's main
offices are located, the United States
Steel corporation, through the avowed
and open work of George w. Perkins
and his associates for Theodore
Roosevelt United States Steel has
poured its money and its votes for
Roosevelt.
The laaest manifestation of the steel
corporation activity for Roosevelt has
appeared in West Virginia. At Nor
gantown the greatest money corpora
ton of the world operates tin plate
mill employing 700 men. Superintend-
ent Lloyd of that mill is now actively
working for Roosevelt, and the Roose-
predict that Mr.. Roosevelt will have
the entire votes controlled by the Uni
ted States Steel corporation.
Thus do THE People Rule
Who has the most to gain and who
would most appreciate the renomi-
nation and reelection of Theodore
Roosevelt to third term in the White
House? Here IS the answer:
The United States corporation now
being sued by the Taft administration
for violation of the Sherman anu
trust law exactly as Theodore Roose-
welt sued the Standard Oil company
for the same reason.
The International Harvester COM
pany, suit against which was suppress
ed by Theodore Roosevelt but which Is
being forced to disintegrate voluntarily
or face a lawsuit by the Taft admin
istration-
Dan r. Hanna of Cleveland, O., news
paper publisher, who has been indicted
by the Taft administration for rebat-
ing.
Perkins am the Rest.
George w. Perkins, director of the
United States Steel corporation and