Evening star., 1912-08-27
PLANS TO SEND THEM
TO SENATOR CLAPP
Relate to Standard Oil Donation and
Hartman Controversy.
KNOX STATEMENT is TAKEN UP
Colonel Is Still Wondering What
Documents William r. Hearst
Referred to in His Inter-
view in London.

OYSTER BAY. n Y. August 81
Col Roosevelt desires to bring the
names of Alton r Parker. democratic
nominee for the presidency in 1904.
and James s. Sherman Vice President
of the United States, into the inquiry
into campaign contributions authorized
yesterday by the Senate by the adop-
tion of the Penrose resolution
He said today that he would place
their names before the Senate commit
tee in his letter 10 Senator Clapp. This
letter. on which Col Roosevelt is now
at work. will embody some of the
things 10 which he would have testified
Yesterday before the committee had il
granted him a hearing
Il shall include in my letter to Sen
ator Clapp" the colonel said the let
ter ] wrote to Judge Parker in 1904
and my letter to Jim Sherman on the
Hartman contribution. ] think they
are pertinent TO the inquiry and l want
10 get them on the record"
The letter TO Judge Parker. 20 which
Col. Roosevelt has made reference sew
eral times recently. was in reply to Judge
Parker's charge that Roosevelt's cam
paign fund had been enriched by con-
tribution of S1hn.0U from the Standard
Oil Company. The charge was made and
the reply written in the height of the
campaign of 1904, at the time when
Judge Parker was the standard bearer OF
his party. The letter to Mr.. Sherman
gave the Roosevelt version of the Harri
man-Roosevelt controversy over a contrf-
button by the late f. II. Hartman of
S2100 to the republican campaign fund
of 1904.
Challenge for Secretary Knox.
Nor will the alleged assertion of Phi
lander c. Knox, now Secretary of State.
that Col. Roosevelt's letters of October
26 and %. 1904. and his telegram of Oc-
tober 20. 1904, to George b. Cortelyou
were writ<eR-fer the -cesord, go unchal-
lenged. Col Roosevelt said.
Mr.. Knox may have heard me say
these letters will put the record straight
or this will establish a record of my at
titude.' but il is certainly not to be in
ferred from this remark II don't say that
/ did make IL. but | may have) that
they were written solely for the record.
They were genuine letters and expressed
just what I wanted TO express when first
heard a report that the Standard Oil had
contributed. or wanted to contribute. TO
my campaign.
Col. Roosevelt said he hoped TO finish
his letter TO Senator Clapp before he de-
three-day campaign trip through Ver-
mont. He had been delayed. he said by
his failure to receive copy or John ID.
Archbold's testimony before the Senate
committee This testimony, he added.
had been mailed and should reach him
today The letter will he made public by
eel Roosevelt. probably at an hour
shortly after IL should be received by
SENATOR Clapp.
Hearst Statement Puzzles.
William Randolph Hearsts statement in
london Sunday finds Col Roosevelt still
wondering what letters Mr.. Hearst has
10 make public on the alleged Standard
ill campaign contributions.
IF Mr.. Hearst will let me know within
a year or year and half of the date
that these letters were written and TO
whom they were written" Col Roosevelt
said TO-DAY. Il will make them public
myself Any one readily appreciates how
d fiicult il would be for me TO go through
my entire correspondence for number
Of years 10 find letter in which l re-
ferred 10 this matter 1t would he g.
tremendous undertaking. | do not think
! ever wrote Mr. Sibley on this matter
although ! may have done SO. | can't
ind any letter TO Nim
Judge Lindsey Of Denver. who confer
red last night with Col Roosevelt. George
" Perkins and William II. Hotchkiss at
SagamcTe Hill. left for New York this
morning. Col. Roosevelt said they had
discussed proposed planks of the pro-
gressive party in New York state.