Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-12
Declares He Had No Pri-
vate Dealings With
the Governor.
CALLED L0RIMER ALLY
Third Party Pilot Charges
'WiIlfuI Perversion of the
Truth"

CnlcASO, Oct- 1Z.-Colonel Roose-
velt, here today, accused Governor
Deneen of deliberate and wiltul per
version of the truth" and character
lied the governor as the friend and
ally Of Lorimer."
A copy of Deneen's recent speech
at Springfield was given to the colon
ell on his arrival in Chicago. He at
once began preparation of his attack
on the governor
Roosevelt will remain two days. His
principal speech will be tonight at the
Coliseum. Within two hours after his
arrival the colonel decided not to at
tend the Columbus day celebration at
Grant park, where he was scheduled
TO speak. His action was prompted by
a controversy among leaders of the
celebration, some of whom sent no
tees to the newspapers declaring they
desired to keep politics out of the
celebration.
DELEGATE RESOLUTION.
Roosevelt's statement follows: 81
have not hitherto assailed Deneen. De-
neen now sees fit to assail me by
deliberate and wilful perversion of the
truth. Deneen says l asked him to
limit his resolution concerning con-
tests to 30 of them. This is false
hood. l had no private dealings with
Deneen during the Chicago conven-
ton. During that convention 1 be-
came convinced of his shuffling and
double dealing.
81 grew to feel at heart contempt
for him and entirely to nisstrust his
sincerity and loyalty to the peoples
cause. All conversations about con-
testing delegates were held literally
with scores of leaders.
SHOULD CULTIVATE MEMORY.
"Deneen, when he utters falsehoods,
should cultivate his memory. He con-
tinues by saying that had all those 80
contests been decided in favor of me
| still would have been in the minor
ity. Taft was nominated by 2l ma
jority, and a change of 35 votes there
fore would have put him some forty
odd in the minority. My attention has
been called to testimony by Deneen
before the senate investigating COM
mittee, of which | was ignorant and
which conclusively shows Deneen was
the friend and ally of Lorimer. He
suggested to Lorimer that Lorimer
elect himself to the senate, and form
ed defensive alliance with Lorimer
in the city of Chicago.
SAYS HE URGED LORIMER.
According to Deneen's own state
ment, he suggested to Lorimer he
should elect himself. saying, If YOU
have the power to elect Shurtleff, why
do you not elect yourself9
After he was elected. about 2 in
the morning, Deneen testified. I,orimer
called on him at the mansion in Spring
field and told him about the election.
which they discussed, and then, the
governor congratulated him on his
election. Later, speaking of the rela-
tions between Lorimer and himself
Deneen said 1T was a defensive alli-
ance between them and added he and
Lorimer were always very friendly.
UNFIT FOR POSITION.
Seemingly, Deneen has changed
how TO such an extent that his al
lance with Lorimer is not only defep.
sive. but offensive. wish to call the
attention of the people of Illinois 70
the fact that Deneen made false state
ments to buttress his position. He
also made admissions about his actions
with Lorimer which show he is unfit
to occupy any position of trust in the
povarnmapt