Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-09-02

tcrS ana lclrSftlnS bl Ctlpbfl -v't
| 27lh and 29th, 1904. to George u
! Cortelyou, the republican national
! chairman. These letters. which we're
made public recently, called Mr., Cor
| telNou's attention to a report that the
Standard oil interests had contribut-
| cd 100000 to the Roosevelt campaign
and directed that the money be re-
| turned il the reports were true. Ihe
| telegram was one asking If this haG
been done, and adding that there
| should be no delay in SO doing.
Subsequent to this telegram. Mr..
Loeb, my private secretary. called Mr..
Cortelyou on the telephone, the let
ter continues ''and later | did so ini-
self He notified me first through MI
Loeb and then directly that no Such
contributions had been received or
would be received. He tells me he saw
Mr. Bliss, showed him the letters and
telegram and that Mr.. Bliss then told
him that no standard Oil money had
been received and that none would
be accepted.
mi. Penrose was Il candidate for
chairman Of the republican national
committee in 1904, and it was re-
ported to me that the members wish
ed to choose him. This | emphatical-
ly refused to allow. | knew little OF
him then, but | was not willing to
have any man whom | d.d not per-
sonally know, as head of the commit
tee.
Mr.. Cortelyou was put on at my
personal request. He ran the cam
paign almost without suggestion from
me. | communicated with him occa-
sionally by telephone and generally I'M
writing"
Several matters irrelevant to the
Committcc's inquiry are mentioned py
Colonel Roosevelt as the topics of
- L.. tf.st tad al
with Senator Penrose, Colonel Roose-
Welt added.
one letter from Colonel Roosevelt
to Senator Penrose, dated the day
after The 1904 election read:
Upon my word of all phenomenal
returns, the Pcnnsylyania figures are
most phcnomcnal-I congratulate YOU
and heartily thank You, Colonel
Roosevelt continues;
In all my communications with |
him before or after elections, spoke
OF contributions but once. This was
in letter to him of August s, 1904, /
in response to a letter of his that /
should retain the services of one OF
his henchmen named Bum. of the |
Philadelphia postoffice who had been
for removal by the ciNil
service commission because Of the col
lection of political assessment among |
his SubordinatcS in the pOstOfflce. MY /
letter ended as follows:
81 have no alternative but to direct
his removal. suppose you won't Ike
this, and | am awfully sorry, but
beg you to believe that if it were pos
siLle for me to act in any other Way
! would do SO. and it is only because
have no other alternative tha'
must remove Eunn
"A couple of years later, when the
department of justice was taking the
preliminary steps for bringing suit to
dissolve the standard Oil Company,
senator Jonathan Bourne, on three
or four occasions, brought Mr. Arch-
bold in to see me. TWO letters 10
Senator Bourne we're written by me
ana explain themselves"
These letters in part follow:
'Saeamore Hill. Feb. ., 1908. My
Dear senator: As to what you told
the other evening about the stan
iard people. do remember that
while any proposals they make Will
be considered in an entirely frank
md honorable spirit. yet these pro-
losals must be conditioned upon ABB
,olute obedience to the law ana must
be- laid in detail before the attorney
general and Frank Il. kellogg before
i would be possible to express any
I
ierstand this but | want YOU To he I
sure that the Standard oil people do
lot misunderstood and get The inn ,
preston that it is my desire or my j
initiative that negotiations have been J
.ntered into with them by you OF hy !
lnyoue.
sincerely yours. /,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT d
oyster Bay. y. Y, July 3. 1908. /
Ny Dear senator. In my judgement
/ is not only waste of time. but in
advisable to- carry on the negotia- !
ions through you as Intermediary. Let
he standard oil lawyers. or
IS many of them as Mr.. Archbold or !
.Ir. Rockefeller or any one else may 7
.hoose. decide as to the course they a
wish to follow and then communicate
Win Mr.. Kellogg or the attorney
'cncr1i.
sincerely yours,
THEODORE EoOSENELT- D.
Mr. Hearst has published much in
erest.ne and important corresp"n-
enc. 81 IN. Standard oil people andI