The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04

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and concluding with the declaration:
Can j put It more sweeping than
that?"
Recess was then taken.
This Afternoon.
When Roosevelt resumed the stand
this afternoon Senator Oliver deciin-
ed TO question him. Senator PAINTER
thea had his turn in cross -exaiI1ina-
ton.
did you have any information re-
garding contributions by Henry C..
Frick or George j. lGould7@ he asked.
4 knew nothing whatever about
that by Mr. Gould until the other
day; but knew Mr.. Prick had given
heavily and he offered to contribute
more heavily still" the colonel
answered.
MIR. Knox told me that Mr.. Frick
was one of my strongest hackers.
You heard of Archibald's contribu-
tion?''
I doubt If heard 1t was from
Archbold, said Roosevelt. q heard
there was such a Standard Oil eontri-
button. Mr. Parker had made the
charge. believe. That was before
wrote the letter of October q. don't
recall who gave me the information /"
Paynter pressed Roosevelt closely
regarding knowledge of Standard Oil
donations before he wrote the letters
to Cortelyou and Bliss ordering the
return of any such money
Il couldn't get any decided answer
for some time from Cortelyou,r said
Roosevelt
did you fear they wouldn't return
the money!" asked Paynter.
no, / expected they would return
it" Roosevelt answered. Il wanted it
made clear that they must do it. Cor
telyou told me that none had been
made. Only the other day Cortel-
you told me that he had been in
formed by Mr.. Bis that none had
been"
The ex-president said he had learn
ed after the 1904 campaign that Bliss
had said he received no money from
the Standard Oil Company, but that
he had accepted money from one man
who had Standard Oh end other inter
ests and that he did not regard that
as. Standard Oil money.
"Coretlyou told me the contribu-
tons in 1904 were about half what
they were in 1900 and 1885, added T.
R. Either he or Mr. Bliss told me
the full amount"
Senator Paynter showed marked
politeness to the colonel
"Cortelyou told me he returned two
contributions. said T. r. "One was
large amount from man who men
toned he would like to be appointed
minister to Belgium The other was
the tobacco trust, against whom We
We're considering trust prosecution
For this reason, we thought it best
not to take any contribution from
them"
Archbold's attitude, the witness
said, made it apparent that he expect
ed something in return for the contri-
! button.
That 100000 of Mr.. Morgan's
probably meant less to him than a
dollar I might get from widow or
veteran in a soldiers home, said T.
r.
The mere act of giving by a cor
poration would not be condemned?"
asked Paynter.
1t would not said T. R.
Paynter went back to the Hartman
fund and Roosevelt's statement that
he asked Hartman for no gifts. He
brought up the letters submitted by
Tegethoff, relating to Harriman's
statement in June 1904, that he had
not been able to see Mr.. Dodge. Mr.
Cleveland or Mr.. Frisk''
4 don't remember why there should
have been any conference with Mr..
Prick, as the letter states" said the
colonel 81 talked with Mr.. Hughitt at
that time"
Frequently when railroad men OBJ
jected to my policies, l urged them to-
talk with Mr. Hughitt, as a practical
railroad man. the ex-president ex-
planned.
Il should infer you and Mr.. Harri-
man were quite good friends?" Payn-
ter suggested.
Yes" answered T. R frankly. He
and Odell We're delegates for me in
1904"
Did you ask Mr.. Hartman to come
here?'
yes. sir, several different times"
Paynter then read several of the
Hartman Roosevelt letters. The col
onel cheerfully acknowledged the
correspondence to be correct
You invited Hartman to come
and discuss the New York cam
paign?"
Yes said Roosevelt. TO discuss
the trouble over the state ticket"
so you substantially told him he
did not need TO come to Washington
unless you could give him aidF' quer-
led Paynter.
Precisely t R. responded
You regarded he was under obli-
CATION to you to come to Washington