Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-10-11
HEARST LETTERS
DECLARED GENUINE
ARCHBOLD ADMITS GENUINE
NESS OF CORRESPONDENCE
Declares He Never Asked any Man
to Break Law, or Any Legislator
to Grant Special Privilege to
Any One.
Associa' ed Press.

ASSOtld eu GTeSS.
Washington, d. G., Oct 10.-The
authenticity of a majority Of the let
ters recently made public by William
Randolph Hearst, purporting to have
passed between John ID. Archbold, Of
the Standard Oil company, and mem
bers Of the house and senate, was
admitted by Archbold today before
the senate committee investigating
campaign expenditures.
Among the letters were ones to
and from Senators Hanna, Foraker,
Quay and Penrose, and former Rep
resentatives Sibley and Grosvenor.
Archbold said the money referred
to in some Of them as having been
sent 10 Senator Foraker was for legal
services; that he wrote Hanna to
watch Legislative affairs because he
was life long friend; and the con-
\ tributiOn Of thousand dollars to
Senator Quay was entirely a political
contribution, as had been twenty
\ five thousand dollars to Senator PEN
rose.
Archbold declared the letters made
public by Hearst were stolen from
his office. He said be believed the
letters contained nothing subject to
Y just criticism
Il never made a request OF any
man that meant infraction OF eX-
isting laws or the making of any
law, or giving Of any special privil-
" ege,'' he continued
Archbold admitted today that the
receipt for the hudred thousand dol
lars he said he contributed to the
Y 1904 had been destroyed, and that
he had not been able to find an entry
Of the amounts of the books Of the
Standard Oil company.
Y He reiterated, however. that the
I contribution was made and ii was
not refunded
\ Chairman fIilles OF the republican
national committee assumed re-
sponsibility for the statement given
out in August that in the primary
fight Theodore Roosevelt "cost the
international Harvester trust mill
lions Of dollars" He said he based
\ his statement on certain knowledge
I Of what the Roosevelt workers were
doing and what certain kinds Of
campaign activity cost.
each player has been doing to win
the worlds championship. Some
surprises have developed In the
last worlds series Red Murray failed
to furnish hit to help his team
This year he has been at bat twelve
times; has made three runs, five hits,
nine put outs and no errors. His
batting average 80 far is All, and he
Is one of the stars
HerZog is another surprise. No
one expected that he would top the
batting list Yet he Is on top by
large margin. His average at the
close of the season was .255 His
mark is 800. He has accepted
twelve chances without an error.
Meyers has Q tremendous lead
over Cady and Carrigan. Carrigan
has failed to make a safe hit in seven
times at bat Cady has made one
hit in four times up.
Larry Doyle is not hitting up to
his mark. He is playing a snappy
game at second, however. accepting
twenty chances without an error.
Fletcher is playing miserable
game. His batting average is only
O9O His average for the season
was .271. He il also fielding poorly.
Out Of IL chances he has made
errors
Gardiner has taken big drop in
4 Ills DdllluS dfcIdSc- IllS TetOTu IUf
the season i .309. He has made
only one hit in eleven times up.
The great Speaker Is well past
the 800 mark and his swats have
been very timely.
Hooper i batting away beyond
his record at the close of the season.
He leads the Boston batsmen by a
good margin. He closed the season
with an average Of PAP His per-
centage in the worlds series il 1863.
Now that Marquard has recovered
his speed and control. 1t will be
hard question to decide the winner
Tesreau has proved to be nearly a
match for Wood. He will do better
his next out. Matty can be depend
ed upon to have an equal chance
with any Of the Red Sox pitchers.