The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-26
ROOSEVELT CAN
NOT Be HEARD
FOR MONTH YET
80.
Impossible for s'ee e., Com
mittee to get Toge.. % +
Before that Time.
WILL PREPARE Statement TO
ANSWER ARCHB0lO'S CLAIM
Former Secretary Loeb has been Sum.
moned to Appear Before Committee
-Roosevelt's Stand Against Stand
ard Oil Same as Before Election.

Oyster Bay. Aug 26.-Colonel
Roosevelt today announced that WILL
lam Loeb, Jr., his former secretary,
had been summoned to testify before
the senate committee on campaign
expenditures regarding the fund Of
1904. Roosevelt said he told him to
"tell all.'
Roosevelt himself will not testify
before the committee till late in Sep
tember. the committee finding it inn
possible to hear him today and it will
be impossible for 1t to get together
again for a month.
"My attitude" said Colonel Roose
velt today, toward the Standard Oil
company was percisely the same be-
fore as after the election. as anyone
can see by turning to the newspaper
files at the time of the passage of the
bureau of corporations bill before I
was nominated. when the Standard
Oil company opposed the law and
got it through by making public tele-
grams of the Standard Oil opposing
the law and showing their activity.
before the committee Col. Roosevelt
plans to write the committee a letter
embodying some of the things to
which he would have testified. He
so declared last night in a statement
in which he also took the committee
to task for permitting John d. Arch
/ bold to sail for Europe without tell
tributed to the republican campaign
in Pennsylvania in 1904.
Details of his primary campaign,
however, would have been brought
out by questioning him, Colonel Roose-
velt feels, and inasmuch as he will
not be questioned, he plans at present
to conflne himself chiefly in his letter
John d. Archbold in which Mr.. Arch
bold said he was assured that Colonel
Roosevelt knew of and appreciated a
contribution of 100000 which Arch
bold testified he made in 1904 to the
republican campaign.
The letter will be long. Colonel
Roosevelt spent pretty much all day
sure it will be finished by tonight. 1t
Is possible he will touch lightly upon
his primary campaign of 1912. 1t is
reasonably sure he will devote con-
siderable space to his relations with
Senator Penrose while he was presi-
dent.
Colonel Roosevelt said that last
night he had seen George B. Cortel-
you, who was republican national
chairman in 1904.
"Mr Cortelyou tells me that he
never heard Mr.. Archbold's name
mentioned in connection with any
contribution by Mr.. Bliss" Colonel
Roosevelt said. land that as regards
himself the whole story is fabrica-
ton out of whole cloth, as of course
1t is about me-"
Colonel Roosevelt's statement reads
as follows:
s(SI feel that the committee ought
not to have gone away and let Arch
bold go to Europe without taking any
Of his testimony on the Penrose $685.
900 contribution. and then failed to
let me appear Immediately, knowing,
as the committee must know. what my
later engagements are.
"I shall, however, at once write
Senator Clapp a full statement of at
least some Of the things to which j
would have testified. incidentally 1
should like to say that they need not
bother about comforting additional
ton me about my primary campaign.
Whether they are given power or not,
shall be delighted to answer any
question in my power which the COM
mittee may put to me as to anything
of which have knowledge connected
with the primary campaign; or. for
that matter, Of anything that I have
ever done DIS Presluent, or IN lnls
campaign. I suggest, however, that
the committee take up the primary
campaigns Of all of the other candi-
dates also If they desire to go into
the matter at all.
Let me repeat as strongly as
can that do not understand why the
committee let Mr.. Archbold go to
Europe without examining him on the
real charge. and that I regret that
was not given the chance Immediately
to appear and testify.
mot to permit me to go on and
testify today amounts. as the democra-