The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-09
PERKINS WILL
RUN CAMPAIGN
FOR ROOSEVELT
Chief Financial Backer of the
Bull Moose Candidate Made
Chairman of Executive
Committee.
DEPARTS
FROM WINDY CITY
Governor Woodrow Wilson
Sits for Portrait in New
York; Is Congratulated on
Speech of Acceptance.
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

BY International News Service.
| ~ HICAGO, Aug. 8.-Refusing long
III er TO blush unseen In a move
ment that has cost him lot OF
! his savings, George Walbridge
Perkins today announced that he was
going to be chairman of the bull moose
executive committee. Perkins left a
o clock call when he went to bed
Wednesday night So as to impart this
information to Colonel Theodore Roose-
volt bright and early in the morning,
The colonel had hardly finished his
flannel cakes when Perkins came tap
ping at the door with the news. The
| biggest Of all the bull mooses thought
it over and yielded. So Perkins, whose
| life ambition has been the uplift of the
| downtrodden, will in few days take
charge Of the bull moose herd, and, un-
der the colonel, direct the coming cam
| paign.
The colonel Was not strong for Per
| klns originally. He thought that
George Walbridge ought to be content
with the style. title and duties Of chief
disbursing officer. But all the glory
that has been passed around to Roose
yelt, johnson, Dixon. Al Beveridge and
Medill Mccormick has been getting on
Perkins 8 nerves. And never was he
moro insistent even in the halcyon days
of the New York Life Insurance com"
pany investigation that he get real
run for the real money that this spon-
e h. l. L
him
Dispute With Finn.
The colonel, after elevating Perkins,
got into fuss with "Bill Finn about
the Pennsylvania ticket. Roosevelt
wanted "Bill" to put up an indepen'
dent ticket in the Keystone state.
"Bill,' who is wide between his polit- |
ical eyes, allowed that 1t would be bet |
ter Judgment to indorse the candidate |
of the regular Republican party for |
everything but presidential electors. |
He talked it over with the colonel for |
bad half hour, and came away still
allowing that he would be regular On |
everything but the presidency. "Bill"
vania and he has picked up a few
pointers from Penrose on the best way
to do it.
In the afternoon at $50 the colonel
and Mrs. Roosevelt departed. When
they had gone his remaining followers
few minutes. But it was not for long.
AT four clock Senator Dixon glanced
at his right cuff. on which was serib-
bled long list of Instructions from
the colonel, and called together the
national committee for reading.
1t appeared that the colonel desired
the country divided into five zones,
the East, the New England, Southern,
the Middle West and the extreme
West, with a. director in charge Of
each. Perkins will be "boss" under
the colonel Of all the subdivisions
Committee Of Nine.
Following the colonel 8 instructions
an executive committee OF nine is to
be named after conference between
himsolf and Chairman Perkins Mt Oys-
ter Bay. There will be one woman on
the executive committee, probably
Miss Jane Addams Of Chicago.
Also at the colonel's behest four
women members at large of the ma
tional committee were named this af-
teruoon as follows: Miss Jane Adams,
Chicago; Miss Frances Kelley, New
York; Miss Jean Gordon, New Orleans,
and Mrs. Charles Blaney, San Fran
cisco.
There was little enthusiasm remain
lug in tho committee after the bigI
moose had gone. Dixon and the
others discovered that it was difficult
business to give creditable presenta-
tion Of Hamlet without the strenuous /.
Dane. But they did the best they !,
could and when the telegram announc- {
ing the result of their deliberations +,
was put aboard the east-bound Twen- S
tieth Century, the answer came back
thut everything was satisfactory.
The colonel dcpartcd with exprcs-
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