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rom any one and he never, before or after the election, said anythine to me about my conduct toward cor. porations except to say that he knew l would act fairly and justly towards all and told him that had neve, dreamed of acting any other way Neither Mir Bliss or anyone else evel suggested or hinted at in any shape or way, the idea that I should take or refrain from taking any action ir connection with any corporation be- cause of any contribution whatso ever.
 Specifically, he never said one word to me about any contributions rom the Standard Oil company and never said one word to me about proceeding or not proceeding against the Standard Oil corporation. saw MT Archibold again and again while the department of justice was con tempiating proceedings against him .al"ays at Mir. Archibold's request ol course9 listened to all he hai to say and heard him repeat the same statements over and over again when was entirely convinced that they were false, and directed the attorney general to proceed only when it had become evident that Mir Arcbibold had nothing to tell me which wonie give any warrant for directing the at : toruey general not to act.
 During all that time neither Mir ArchiOoid nor any one else ever hint ed to me that the Standard Oil peo- Die had contributed, or that there was any expectation by any human being that l should show favor to thp Standard oil company.
 Moreover, let it be remembered that long before the campaign of 1901 mad sharp run in with the Stand ard Oil people and had shown them just what they could expect from me HIS was when we were passing the bureau of corporations act. found out that the Standard Oil people were opposing the passage of the act: that TWO or their representatives had come town to Washington to oppose it. and that they had sent telegrams to vari ous senators and representatives against it. l got hold of these tele
 
 grams, published some of them and forced the bill through.
 MT Archibold shows his animus m his rather lucrious complaint that darkest Africa never saw anything like the persecution of the Standard Oll corporation by the Roosevelt ad- ministration' and he proceeds un- willingly to pay Messrs. Garfield anu smith the highest praise by his bit- terness to them for their action. dc not wonder that he feels bitterly. The action in question disclosed all kinds of improper practices on the part of the Standard Oil com oany and a collosal series of rebates. A stop was put to these rebates because of the action of the people in my ad- and through the action a fine was imposed by Judge Landis on the Standard oil company. which. if had not been reversed by the ap- pelate decision, would really have made that corporation smart; and, even as it was, it forced them to act 
 Tt seems to me that the course of MT. Penrose in this matter and the bringing in of Mir Archibold to tes- tify, bear close analogies to what, in the New York police situation at this time, would be called frame up;' and this is shown by the questions which Mir Archibold Is asked and those he is not asked. He is allowed to testify about a dead mans state ment and to make a cruelty unjust assault upon the character of that dead man who believe to have been one of the most honorable and high minded of gentlemen. but he had not testified anything about MT. Penrose In that case he would not be testify ing about what he had done and said and about what Mir. Penrose had done and said. It appears that Mir Pen rose, while a member of the indus trial commission received the check of $25,000 from MT. Archibold and sion in peculiarly confidential re- lation to Mir. Archibold; among the instances of his position as MT. Archi- bold's representative on the commit tee being that he communicated in advance to Mr Archibold the report which the industrial commission was about to make and secured his ap proval in advance of it's publication.
 ''Mr. Penrose and Mir Archibold should both be examined upon this and see if there can be any possible way in which they can explain it or in which MT. Penrose can justify himself. The transaction itself and the whole alliance between Mir. Penrose and MT. Archibold and Mir. Penroses action in connection herewith are startling example of the workings of that invisible empire to whose reign we intend to put an end.
 These documents show that Mir. Penrose, nominally the representative of the people, was secretly and in the dark acting as the representative of Mir. Archibold. Mir. Archibold's tes- timony shows that he sought to get and hoped to get from me and my ad- ministration some improper consider ation and he comes now to the de- fense of his friend and ally, MT. Pen rose-par mobile fratrem-and assail' me because he could not influence me; because under my administra- ton justice was meted out to hin and his kind as 1t should have beer meted out.
 His complaint against me is tha