Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-02
ROOSEVELT MAKES
LENGTHY REPLY
TO PENROSE CHARGES PENDING
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Reply in Form of Letter to Chairman
Senate Committee, Contains 49,
900 Words Much of it Being Cop
les of Correspondence.
ssocia ed Press.

| A SOCld, eu ITeSS.
Oyster Bay, y. ", Sept 1.-Theo
dor; Roosevelt tonight made public
a letter to Senator Clapp, chairman
Of the senate commit ee Investigate
ing the campaign contributions, in
which he charges that no attempt
has been made to probe the direc
charge that Penrose took Standard
Oil money in 1904, and that the
senate is now investigating hearsay
and indirect report that his, Roose-
velt's campaign in 1904 was fl
nanced by Standard Oil.
He says the statements Of Sena-
tor Penrose anu Archbold, that with
his consent Mr.. Bliss asked Standard
Oil to contribute is an absolute
falsehood
The letter contains $4,000 words.
a third Of it being copies Of CORES
pondence.
didate for chairman of the national
canraig1 committee in 1904. to
which he, Roosevelt, emphati ieaslv Y
objected because he did not know
much about Penrose, and he did not
want man in whose probity he did
not have entire confidence
The breach between Penrose and
Roosevelt widened according to the
lat ter, when Roosevelt removed one
Of Penrose's ''henchmen" from a po-
sition in the Philadelphia post Of
fee because, he says, the man had
been recommended on account Of his
lctivity in collecting political as
essments.
Here Roosevelt included a letter
he wrote to James s. Sherman. re-
viewing the Roosevelt-H Hartman
controversy over the $260,00O con-
tribution Of the late f. H. Hartman
in 1904.
This letter, published at the time
,haract erizes Harrimans statement
that Roosevelt requested him to
raise money as a deliberate, wilful
untruth, and by right should be
characterized by the shorter and
more ugly word -
Colonel Roosevelt mentions the
.i:its to the White House of Arch
bold and Rogers, but declared that
contributions were not received in
conversation dealing alone wi h
them. He says he referred the call
RS to Mr.. Garfield
The Colonel compliments William
Randolph Hearst on publishing some
interesting letters dealing with
Standard Oil and suggests that the
after publish any Roosevelt letters
n his possession.
He says if anybody will suggest
my of his alleged Standard Oil
correspondence he vii ltriy to dig ii
ID. and if found will publish it.
He declares that the Penrose-
lrchbold attack is against Bliss
Who is dead. and says it reflects
gainst Penrose and Archbold. He
avs in Bliss lifetime the latter
lever asked him a favor, and says
hat while ne does not say that
standard Oil did not contribute, but
il did it was without his knowl-
,dge and was all right because
rogers was a great friend Of Bliss.
He declares the Archbold testi-
nony can only mean the latter made
contribution in the hopes of get
ing some return TO which he wa
lot entitled, and that talk OF further
contribution must have been on ac-
cunt that Archbold believed more
money would bring him special con-
liberation.
I1c Cudi dItCii iACS ohAo 49, =
aen that he told Archbold ii would
,e a mistake for Standard Oil not 10
ontribute on account of a possibil-
ty in certain quarters, as most ex-
raordinary testimony. and calls II
lag" such as might be used by
,Iackmailing police officer in a bic
ity advising law breaker TO con-
ribute literally or be closed ont.