The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-23
Says He Wrote to CorteIyou
October 26 and %
Telling Him Not to Accept Any
Standard Oil Money.
WAS JUST BEFORE ELECTION
Assured Him Their
Was No Such Contribution.
He Does Not Say Anything Re-
garding Mr.. Bliss.

New York, Aug. s23.-Colonel Roose-
Welt dictated the following statement
today He had not read Senator Pen
roses statement concerning his pri-
mary expenses, he said, and inquired
closely concerning it.
THE statement that the letters and
kilograms to Mr.. Cortelyou," the state
ment continues, were written for the
purpose of going into the record and
were not genuine and were not ac-
copied by Mr.. Cortelyou as genuine, is
Senator Penrose knows it to be such
wheE he makes it. My first letter,
written as soon as I heard a rumor
that the Standard Oil people had con-
tributed, and explicit and unequivocal
in it's terms, was written on October
%; my second letter, if possible even
more emphatic, on October 27-
mot hearing from the letters, |
wired on October 20. I then received
from Mr.. Cortelyou u statement that
my wishes would be complied with and
that no contribution from the Standard
Oil people had or would be received.
If any such contribution was received
it was not only without my knowledge
but against my explicit direction.
These letters speak for themselves
They went into the records of course;
but they.went into the records because
they were genuine and bore on their
face the proof that they were genuine
and because received assurance they
were accepted in the spirit in which 1
wrote them.
81 wish to add that L 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 ac-
cordance with the facts. No man can
honestly misunderstood these letters,
and no man who is not a dishonest
man can put any Interpretation other
than that which they bear upon the
race. Let me again ask any one who
wishes to know the truth to read my
speech of last night as to the action
of my administration and to read the
statement I made at the time 1 gave
out the copies of my three letters the
other day. The speech and the letters
cover everything.
why They Oppose Him.
1.-The reason that Penrose and his
political allies and mis- hackers and mas
tiers in the world of finance are against
me now is because they and their kind
could not use me while I was preSi-
dent; because while 1 treated every
politician and every fnancier with JUS
tice / declined to do one act for any
of them that was not itself both aD-
solutely proper and absolutely just. II
I had been willing tie act otherwise Mr..
Penrose and his allies in the world OF
politics and the world of business would
now be enthusiastically supporting me
instead of opposing me with an anger,
hatred, and maleyolence born of the
fact that they were unable to use me
and that they know it is hopeless ever
to expect to use me-
Mr.. Penrose's attitude in this mat
ter sy1nbolizes his habituaI attitude
which has finally brought him to dis
aster in Pennsylvania for he is never
able to understand that other men are
not actuated by his own incuraole
baseneSs of soul There is nothing that
l welcome more than Mr.. Penrose's OPP
position. Senator Poindexter pointed
cut the exact program when he said Mr..
Penrose and Mr.. Penrose's allies in tEll
senate, Democrat and Republican alike.
were in conspiracy to serve the cause
of corruption in politics and business
by endeavoring through SANDER and
mendacity, to oppose the only men and
the only party which seriously en-
dangered the rule of corruption in poll
ties and business-the Progressive party
and its candidates.
Compares Him With Lorimer.
Mr.. Penrose is opposing us pre-
cisely as Mr.. Lorimer, whose case he
championed. is opposing us, and with
Mr.. Lorimer out of the senate PEN
rose is now the leading representa-
tive in political life of the forces
which Lorimer symbolizes. Like Mr..
Lorimer, Mr. Penrose began life with
a good reputation and, as was the case
with Mr.. Lorirner, it is only within
the last two or three years that we
outside of Mr.. Penrose's state have
grown to understand precisely what
Mr.. Penrose is and what he stands for.
MIR. Penrose is the embodiment and
representative of all that is worst in
our political life and in the alliance
between business and politics which
has done so much to degrade politi-
cal life. I hail his opposition with
genuine and unfeigned joy.
1T is fitting that Mr. Penrose, a
nominal Republican, should be doing
his best in alliance with the Demo-
Gratis, who think as he does, to assail
the Progressive party. He uses the
Republican machine and can make
terms with the Democrat machine, but
he and his kind can make no terms
with us