The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
BRINGS IN OTHERS
Col. Roosevelt Wants Parker
and Sherman Called
To Testify i'm the Campaign
Fund Investigation.

Oyster Bay. Aug 27.-Col. Roosevelt
desires to bring the names of Alton
b. Parker, Democratic nominee for the
presidency in 1904, end James Sherman.
vice president of the United States, into
the inquiry into campaign contributions
authorized yesterday by the senate by
the adoption of the Penrose reSolu-
ton. He said today that he would
place their names before the senate
committee in his letter to Senator
Clapp.
II shall include in my letter to Sen
ator CIapp," the colonel said, the let
ter hich I wrote to Judge Parker IN
1904 and my letter to Jim Sherman on
the Hartman contribution. THINK
they are pertinent to the inquiry and
! want to get them on the record"
The letter to Judge Parker was in
reply to Judge Parker's charge that
Roosevelt's 1904 campaign fund had
been enriched 100000 by a Standard
Oil contribution The letter to Sher-
man gave the Roosevelt version of the
Harriman-Roose controversy over a
contribution by the late E H. Harrl-
man of $260.00e to the 1903 campaign
fund.
Nor will Col. Roosevelt allow to go
unchallenged the alleged assertion Of
Philander c. Knox, that Col. Roose-
velt's letters of october 26 and p, 1904
and his telegram of October 20, 1904,
to George b Cortelyou were WIIll0h
for the record
Mr.. Knox may have heard me say
These letters will put the record
straight Or this will establish rec
ord of my attitudc;' but it is certain
" not TO he inferred from this remark
Il don't say that 1 did make II, out
/ may have) that they We're written
solely for the record. They were gen
lime letters and expressed just what
/ wanted to express when | first heard
of the report that the Standard Oh
had contributed or wanted to contrib
ute to my campaign"
In Regard to Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst's state
ment in London Sunday finds Colonel
Roosevelt still wondering, he said, what
letters Mr.. Hearst has to make public
ON the alleged Standard Oil campaign
contributions. If Mr.. Hearst will let
me know within a year or a year and
half of the date these letters were writ
ten and to whom they were written,
Colonel Roosevelt said today, Il VIII
make them public myself. Any ons
can readily appreciate how difficult 1t
tire correspondents for a number OF |
years to ind letter in which / re- |
ferred to this matter. 1t would be a |
tremendous undertaking. 1 do not |
think 1 ever wrote Mr.. Sibley on this |
matter, although 1 may have done so /
1 can't find any letter to him.
Col. Roosevelt said he hoped to fin |
ish his letter to. Senator Clapp before |
ne. departed at midnight tomorrow on
his three day campaign trip through /
Vermont. He had been delayed ne said, |
by his failure to receive copy OF
John D. ArchboId,s testimony before
the senate committee. This testimony /
he added had been mailed him and
should reach him today. The letter /
will be made public by Col. Roosevelt
probably at an hour shortly after 1t
should be received by Senator Clapp.
Judge Lindsey, of Denver, who con-
ferred last night with Col. Roosevelt.
George w. Perkins and William H.
Hotchkiss at Sycamore Hill, lett for
New York today. Col. Roosevelt said
hey had discussed proposed planks of
the Progressive platform in New York
state. Il