The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
Leader of Third Party Writes Letter
to Senate COmmittee-Says Arch
bold Statement is AN I'm
qualified FaIsehOOd.-

NEW YORK Special Denvin,
therein every allegation of John n
Archbold and Senator Roies po,,roe,
lhat he sought, or was copnizant ~
contributions by the Standard oil
SOHhIahy TO his campaign of 1904
branding PenroSe as unfit to hoId =
seat IN the United States Senate anC
reviewing in detail his part in al
matters connected with The contrn
Nersy raised by the accusations OF
TehroSe and Archbold, Colonel Roose-
welt Monday made public his yoIu
mlnous letter to Senator Clamp. chair
nldh OF the committees investigating
campaign contributions.
The letter, which bears the data y,
august 2Sth, was written after the
senate committee declined to have tbo
Colonel appear before il last Monday
as he requested.
The statements Of Archbold and
Penrose Mr.. Roosevelt brands as 'in-
furious gossip at third hand instea d
OF merely at second hand"
Inc charge against Mr. Pen
rose he declares, was "a direct
chargc. This charge was not
merely that he took $25, 900 from
the Standard Oil Companv. but
that at or about the time of TAX
ing IL, while n member of the
committee of the Senate which
was formed TO investigate indus
trial affairs i'm the United States
ne was in constant communion
uon with Mr.. ArchbOId on the
SUBJECT, and that he submitted 10
Mr. ArchbOld for his approval i'm
auNahcc copy of the report of
the commission.
II these statements are true" he
continues, "Of course. Mr. Penrosa &c
unit to represent the people i'm the
united states Senate, and the testi-
mony against him is direct"
Siaps at Senate Committee.
In the next sentence he takes =
yelled slap at the Senate committee
Tor not taking up the charge against
Pe0rose, as follows:
Apparently, however. the commit
tee is investigating not this charge
against Mr.. Penrose. which was sus-
talAed by direct evidence, but Mr.
Penrose's countercharge which was
sustained by no evidence at all and
only by the repetition of secondhand
gossip"
"An Unqualified FaIsehood."
The Archbold statement that with
his consent or knowledge Cornelius
Bliss, then treasurer OF the RepubIi-
can National Committee asked the
standard Oil Company for 100000
roosevelt AYERS is IAN unqualified
faIsehood." Supporting his defense.
the Colonel includes in his letter
copies of his letters to Mr.. Cortelvou.
his campaign manager in 1904. or
derlng him not To accept any money
from the Standard Oil; also a tele-
gram to Mr.. COrtelyou. asking him if
ms desires had been complied with.
In reply CortelyOu told him, the Col
onel says, that no contribution had
been received from Standard Oil or
would be received.
The Colonel recalls the candi-
dacy. I'm opposition to COrteIyou.
N G..
OF the Republican National Com
mfttec in 1904, and his selection
OF Cortelyou. He says: 81 was
nor willing TO have any men whom
ala not know personally and in
whose prObity did not have en-
tire confidence as head of The
committee" In connection with
MS relations with PenroSe the
Colonel asserts he spoke of con-
tr1Dut1onS TO the PENNSYLVANIA
senator but once and then when
he refused to retain one of Pen
roses hcnchmen. n certain Bum.
employed in the PhiIadeIDhia
pOStofiice. after the latter had
Deen recommended for removal bV
the Civil Service Commission for
collecting political contributions
from Fellow employees. a COPY of
this letter to PenrOse is included.
Alton IL. ParlIcr's Charges.
me CoIonel takes up the allusion
peIOre the Senate committee to the
charges or Alton 3. Parker, Roose- !
velts opponent for the presidency IN
1904, that the Republican NationaI
committee had blackmailed corpora |
hons INTO making campaign contri- |
buttons and promised immunity If the |
were made.
SoloheI roosevelt reproduces his /
reply 10 these charges in a statement |
lated November 4. 1904, in which he |
described them as false" ana mon
'trous In this statement is q sen |
-ence or pertinent interest in view of |
ne nature of the recent fight between |
roosevelt and Taft for the regular
republican nomination:
cannot understand how any
honorable man. u candidate for
tile highest office i'm the Gift of
the people, can take refuge not
merely In personalities. but i'm
SUCH base and unworthy DerSon-
alitieS"
colonel Roosevelt reviews at great |
ehSth the Hartman controversy. in
reducing 1t with q letter which he !
wrote 10 Vice President Sherman in
$40 TINS letter including a copy of !
Governor ODelPs letter to ROoseveIt
lated December 10, 1904.
All the other now famous Hartman
etters are reproduced, including the
you and / are practical men" mis-
ne, the motive being to prove that
'o 1o never asked Hartman for
campaign contribution, as Hartman
vas SAID to have alleged. and to show
nat Hartman was never consulted
~ the colonel on the subject of pros
cutlon Of the railroads. and that
roosevelt refused to comply with the
equest of New York in financial in
erests, voiced by Hartman. that
,hauncey Depew or James Hazen
iyde be designated as America am
assador to France. The Colonel re-
,erates that his message as regarded
he Interstate Commerce. Comoissio,,
2 1904 was not changed despite the
mportunings of Hartman.
DIDN'T Know of Standard OIL Gift.