The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
THAT 1904 FUND
Elmer Dover Submits a List of
the Contributions
To the Republican Committee
to Elect Col. Roosevelt.

! Washington, Oct. 19.-For the first
! lime since its investigation began, the
senate campaign fund committee has
secured a copy of a list of contributors
/ to the much disputed 1901 Republican
campaign fund. Elmer Dover. who
committee. put the list in evidence,
saying it had been copied from the
private memorandum book of the late
Corn elius N. Bliss, treasurer of the
committee He told the Investigators
ne believed that in many instances the
list was inaccurate and ambiguous
owing to typographical errors.
1t totalled $2,2SO,01S and showed
the 1904 fund which have been men
toned in the committees investiga-
ton. The list credited J. P. Morgan
& Company with two contributions
contribution of 100000 appeared on
the list from III. H. r." and ~. D.
w" Mr.. Dover told the committee he
supposed the III H. r." stood for H
pany, and that the u. D. W." was an
error ard should have been the initials
Of either John D. Archbold or John
d. Rockefeller. f. H. Hartman was
buttons. George w. Perkins appear
ed as giving $4,000 in two contribu-
TONS and the following entries were
on the list: &c. w. p $4,000; &c
mittee," 100000. There was still
another entry, &c. w. P. committee
100000. Two contributions of $685.
600 each, credited to &C. n. Bliss for
Gould appeared as giving 100000.
The Big Contributors.
The largest contributors down on
the list were:
Andrew Carnegie, $4,000; George
Not -fer17f
E. H. Hartman. 100000; c. S. Mel
len, $4,000: E. T. Stotesbury, Phila-
delphia. $4,000; S. F. Wainwright,
$4,000; s. ]. Wainwright. $4,000;
Etemyer, $4,000; H. H. R. and J. D.
w, 100000; R. S. Howes, Internal
tional Harvester. 100000; E. T. Stotes-
bury, $4,000; G. w. P. committee,
100000; J. P. Morgan & Co. $780,
900; H W. Kendall, $4,000; Chaun-
& Company (additionaD, $4,000; J.
H Hyde, $4,000; ]. F. Dryden, s25,-
900; AdOlph Lewisohn, &c. 900; G. V.
L. Meyer, $4,000; G. and n. W. Hug
New Orleans, $40, 900; Hawaiian Sugar
Planters association, $4,000; G. V. L.
Meyer, 10000; Clarence H. Mackey,
$4,000; Isaac n. SeIgman, $4,000;
J. H. Schiff, $4,000; A. D. Julliard.
$4,000; Whitelaw Reid, $4,000;
James Speyer, $4,000: NJ. A. Hanna
(family), $4,000: G. w. P, 100000;
J. F. Dreyden, $4,000; John Jacob
Aston, $4,000; Senator Platt, $4,000;
G. V. L. Meyer, $4,000; E. T. Stotes-
bury, $4,000; NJ. c. D. Borden, $10,-
900: James Stillman. $4,000; A. G.
Smith, for Cuba Mail S. S. company, |
$4,000; S. J. Wainwright, $25, 900; E.
T. Stotesbury, $4,000; H. H Rogers,
100000; Bethlehem Steel company
$1,000; E. I. Stotesbury, $4,000; G.
w. P. (committee), 100000; Ameri-
can Can company, $4,000; Robert
Mathers, $4,000; E. T. Stotesbury,
$4,000; Union League club, Philadel-
phia, $4,000; Robert Bacon, $4,000;
]. P. Morgan & Company $4,000; ].
H. Hyde, SIS 900; l. n. Seligman, $10,-
600; James Stillman, 10000; E. H.
Hartman, $4,000; H. C. Frick, $50
900; D. Q. Mills. $1,000; H. NICK.
Twombly, $4,000; E; T Stotesbury'
H. Schiff. $4,000; J. F. Dryden, $25.-
900; whitelaw Reid. $4,000; Geo. w.
Perkins, 5000; Nicholas Murray But |
Ter. $1,000.
Several of these contributors have |
been mentioned before the committee
as contributing to the so-called Har-
riman fund of about s250,0o0.
other contributors on the list were:
Charles P. Taft, 5000; Clifford Pinchot.
$4,000; Joseph H. Choate, $4,000;
Kountze company, $4,000; John Hay,
5 900; Chariemagne rover, $1,000; {.
W. Post, 81, 500; Seth Low, 81, 900: Theo-
lore Roosevelt, $1,000; c. w. Fairbanks,
IS, coo; William n. Cromwell $1,000; s.
$500; c. A Coffin, for
the General Electric. $4,000; American
Locomotive company. $1,000.
AS accounting for several repetitions
If names in the list, Mr.. Dover eX-
planned TO the committee that they
we're collectors for the fund in various
titles. He mentioned G. V. L. Meyer,
n Boston; E. T. Stotesbury, in Phil
ldelphia; ]. F. Dryden, in New Jersey
md w. G. Wainwright. in Pittsburg.