The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-24
PENROSE
BELONGS SINTHE:
ANNANIAS
ROOSEVELT IS BITTER IN HIS
DENUNcIATIoN OF SENATOR
SAYS HE IS THE EMBODIMENT
OF EVERYTHING THAT IS
WORST IN POLITICAL LIFE,
AND He GLADLY WELCOMES
HIS OPPOSITION.
BY Associated Press.

New York, Aug. 23.-Col. Roosevelt
declared today that Senator Penrose's
statement that Mr.. George w. Per-
kins underworld my primary ex-
penses for 100000 or any sum even
remotely resembling it. is a deliberate
and wilful falsehood which he knows
to be such when he makes It.
fMr. Penrose," he added, would do
well not to attribute 10 others the in
finite baseness which actuates him
self"
THE statement that the letters and
kilograms to Hr. Cortelyou," Col.
Roosevelt continued, were written for
the purpose OF going into the record
and were not genuine and were not
accepted by Mr.. Cortelyou as genuine,
is a deliberate and wiIfui falseAood
and Senator Penrose knows it to be
such when he makes it.
My first letter, written as soon as
heard a r1mor that the Standard Oil
people had contributed, which was ex-
plicit and unequivocal in it's terms.
was written on October s. my second
letter If possible even more emphatic,
on October 81. Not hearing from the
letters, I wrote on. October 29. / then
received from Mr.. Cortelyou a state
ment that my wishes would be COM
piled with and that no contribution
from the Standard Oil people had been
or would be received.
AGAINST ESFEfCTT ORDERS
'K any such subscription was re-
ceived 1T was, not only without my
knowledge, but against my explicit di-
rection. These letters speak for them
selves. They went into the records of
course, but they went into the records
because they were genuine and be-
cause they bore on the face that they
were genuine and because I received
the assurance that they were accepted
in the spirit in which I wrote them.
Il wish to add that I am certain
that when Mr.. Cortelyou told me that
they would be thus acted on, he was
saying what he understood to be in
exact accordance with the facts. No
man can honestly misunderstood these
letters and no man who is not a dis
honest man can put any interpreta-
ito other than that which they bear
upon the face. Let me again ask any
one who wishes to know the truth to
read my speech of last night as to the
read the statement made at the time
gave you the copies Of the three let
ters the other day. The speech and the
letters cover everything.
THE reason that Mr.. Penrose and
his political allies and his hackers and
masters in the world of finance are
against me now is because they and
their kind could not use me while
was president because while / treated
every politician and. every financier
with justice, I declined to do one act
for any OF them that was not itself
both absolutely proper and absolutely
just If 1 had been willing to act
otherwise Mr.. Penrose and his allies
and his hackers in the world of poll
tics and the world of business would
now be enthusiastically supporting me
instead of opposing me with an anger,
hatred and malevolence born of the
fact that they were unable to use me
and they know 1t is hopeless ever to
expect to use me.
5ARENEss OF SOUL.
mfr. Penrose's attitude in this mat
ter symbolizes his habitual attitude,
which has finally brought him to dis
aster in Pennsylvania for he is never