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Show GEORGE W. PERKINS j JUMPS INTO ARENA Calls Upon President Taft to Make Public Recent Harvester Har-vester Correspondence. WRITES SHARP LETTER Upbraids Manager McKinley for Calling Attention to Money Campaign. NEW YORK April 28 George W. Perkins, the Vew York capitalist, in a. letter tonight to Representative William B. McKinley. President Taft's campaign manager, calls upon the president to make public all correspondence exchanged within the last twelve months tietween the White house and the officials of the International Harvester company . of which Mr. Perkins Is a director. di-rector. He criticises the publication of han ester correspondence of 1309 and Charges that it was done for the purposes of strengthening President Taft's caue In the forthcoming Massachusetts primaries. pri-maries. Mr Perkins defends his course in supporting sup-porting Colonel Roosevelt for the presidential presi-dential nomination and denies that J. P. Morgan Is secretly behind him In the fight for Roosevelt. Perkin's Letter. Mr Perkins's letter In part says: You and your association have repeatedly re-peatedly tried to place me, as a citizen citi-zen before mv fellow citizens In the light of being a man actuated only by sordid, Improper motives In what I say and do In every possible way attempts have been made to convince the people that 1 am against your candidate and for Mr. Roosevelt because be-cause of my connection with the steel corporation and the harvester com-pan. com-pan. Cannot you see that It Is Impossible Impos-sible for me to be opposing Mr. Taft because of the filing of the steel suit or the threatened suit against the ha rvester company? Sneers at Taft. For If I were actuated by the base motives that you impugn to me I would be with you heart and soul, in vaur efforts to renominate Mr. Taft; for what more could a sordid, selfish corporation man want than to have his corporation dissolved: on paper, in SUOh a way as to bring increased profits to Inside stockholders and Increased In-creased coat to the outside consumers, as in the case of the Standard Oil and Tobacco companies? You have persistently connected my name With the harvester company In particular in giving out Information to the effect that I was contributing money to tho Roosevelt cause and have dono this In such a way as to try to convey the impression that it was a very improper and wicked thing to be going on and that the Roosevelt Roose-velt committee ought to be ashamed to have me or my money connected With Its cause. Thinks it Peculiar. The latest attempts In this direction direc-tion have been to call attention to the contribution I made to the N'ew York campaign prior to the recent so-callcl primary and also the publication of the harvester correspondence There is a. peculiar business about all these attacks on me In view of the following. follow-ing. First Otto T Ban nan is recognized throughout the country as Mr. Taft s wanil personal friend and staunch supporter. He M also president of a large trust company In the very center cen-ter of the Wall street district. In 1909 he ran for mayor of this city on the Republican ticket. I supported him and personally contributed more money lo his campaign than I did to the recent prlmarv fight here in New York. Second When Mr, Bttmson( now a member of Mr. Taft's cabinet, recently re-cently ran for governor of this state. I supported him with all my might and main I personally contributed exactly the same amount to hie campaign cam-paign that I contributed to the recent BO -called primary in this city. Tells of Contributions. Third When Mr. Taft ran for president pres-ident in 1 90S. I supported him In every way that I could. During the Tafl campaign of 190S Senator Crane called on me and telephoned me repeatedly about the financial progress of that campaign, being particularly solicitous as what could be done for the state of Massachusetts. When the Taft campaign was over the treasurer found that he had some bills he could not pay, amounting to about $lo,00n. He told me he was unable to raise this money from anyone. It was evident evi-dent that the friends and relatives of of the newly elet led president took no interest In paying left-over bills after Mr. Taft had been elected I was asked to loan the committee $l'..onri, which I did. taking the note ,,f Mr. fieorgo R Shelton, treasurer, which as yet haa not been paid. All the above activities on my part covered a period when t was not only connected with the steed corporation corpor-ation nnd the Internationa Harvester Harves-ter company, as I am now, but when T was also a member of the firm of J. P, Morgan & Co.. a director In the National City hank and other prominent promi-nent Wall street financial Institutions, from which I have since retired; and if, according to your view of thlncs. It Is heinous crime lor a great political politi-cal cause to accept from me now, it must have been far more heinous to accept It In the above named three Instances. Charges Falsehood. The rumor is even being circulated-that circulated-that Mr Morgan and others are secretly behind me In the present fisht and. In some roundabout Way, arc- furnishing the money that is being used Thlh is a rluwnrlght falsehood. There Is not a hi Intllla of truth In It. The recent publication of the harvester har-vester correspondence was clearly done, first to make a scurlllous attack at-tack upon Mr Roosevelt; second to oonne( I me through the harvester company, vvlth the Roosevelt campaign; cam-paign; third, to affect tho Massachusetts Massachu-setts primaries. In spite of the fact that the senate, several days before, had called for the correspondence from if04 to date, your candidate deliberately caused to be given out onlv one years correspondence. correspond-ence. The letter challenges the administration administra-tion to publish a.11 Its correspondence with the hnrveMtinp company during the last twelve months. |