The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-25
T.R, BACK At WORK.
Continued from Page one.)
The New York Problem

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by Colonel Roosevelt was the tangled
New York situation. Last night he
heard both sides of the question of en-
dorsing District attorney Charles 8.
| Whitman as candidate for governor of
New. York and refused absolutely to
George w. Perkips, chairman Of the
Progressive national executive commit
tee, Theodore Douglas Robinson, New
York state chairman, and most. Of the
other New York leaders already are on
record as in opposition to Mr.. Whit
man. Charles H. Duell. jr., Of New
York, organizer Of the non-partisan
Whitman league, told the colonel that
the situation was such that to refuse
to endorse Mr.. Whitman would be a
calamitous mistake. Colonel Roose-
welt acted at once to settle the matter
by summoning to Sycamore HILL for a
conference later today, a group Of New
York state leaders.
q Politics will be Mr.. Roosevelt's
chief pursuit for the next four months.
just before hes retired early today,
after reaching, his, homep ut Sycamore
Hill. ee--ifys . rres >. 81 -
my career as a geosrapher is end
ed" he declared. ...For the next four
months L suppose shall be poll
tician." =. Es
Colonel Roosevelt appears in much
| better health than before he sailed for
Europe. The colonel, following his
arrival in New York harbor, in con-
versation and in carefully prepared
statement touched on subjects of large
interests in both national and Progress
sive politics.
In his talk he spoke Of an attempt to
read George w. Perkins out of the
party.
Mr.. Perkins has been on the whole, %
] he said. the most useful member of
the Progressive party
And enumerating some of the things
| Mr.. Perkins has done the colonel said !:
AS for reading him out Of the
party. when that is done they will have
| to read me out. too"
His prepared statement denounced
payment of 100000 to Colon bia
because of the Panama canal as 1.-The
belated payment Of blackmail with an
apology to the blackmailers" and said
that the handling Of our foreign at
fairs by President Wilson and Secre-
tary Bryan has been such as to make
the United States a figure Of fun in
the international world
Finds River All Right.
New York. June 25-1n cable
got LANCE, an explorer. after an
lnouncing that he had completed ANA
ION explorations for which he went
into the Brazilian jungle in 1912, add
ed that he found the discovery of a
river by Col. Theodore Roosevelt to be
authentic. LANCE also announced in
his message that he was aboard the
steamship Denis en- route to New York.
The Objection to Perkins.
| The objection to Mr.. Perkins. az
voiced by the Pinchot brothers, Amos
and Clifford. is that at one time he was
associated with J. p. Morgan and was
identified with some of the biggest
business institutions in the country, In
GLIDING the International Harvester Co.
There is an antipathy on the part OF
many voters toward all persons who
have at any time done business in Wall
street. Mr.. Perkins has severed all his
connections with Wall street, but the
stigma still clings to him, the Ptnchots
| believe.
Several Progressive leaders in the
east, including former Governor Geo.
L. Record OF New Jersey, say that Mr..
number of Illinois Bull Moose voiced
the same sentiment. They declared
that Perkins presence in party coun-
ellis has a tendency to drive away
some voters.
Friends of Perkins say that the
number of voters who would thus be
driven away is very small; that every
party, including the Socialists, has its
millionaire hackers; that there are
more Wall street meE in either of the
old parties than there are in the Pro-
gressivo organization.
Clifford Pfnchot. Intimate friend OF
Roosevelt and Bull Moose senatorial
nominee in Pennsylvania, recently
said that in his present Office Mr.. Per-
kins was a burden which the Pro-
| gressives should not be, compelled to
| carry. He announced also that Mr..
Perkins would have nothing to do
With Mr.. Pinchot's fight for the sena-
torship in the Keystone state.
The Day I'm Congress.
II Washington, June z5.-Senate bank
ing committee favorably reported Sea-
II ator Owens bill for federal control OF
stock exchanges Senator Burton pre-
scented minority report assailing appro-
II priationS in river and harbor bill House
II debate was resumed ON the sundry civil
II bill