Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-26


failed to obtain a hearing before the
Senate investigating campaign contri-
buttons because OF the inability of the
committee to get together tomorrow,
Col Roosevelt plans to write the COM
| mittee . letter. embodying some of
/ the things TO which he would have
testified He So declared, tonight, in
a statement in which he also took the
| committee. to task for permitting John
y. Archbold 10 sail for Europe with
ont telling more about the $4,000 he
contributed to the Republican cam
paign in PENNSYLVANIA in 1904
Col. Roosevelt had received no di-
rect word from Senator Clapp, when
the correspondents visited him at
Sycamore Hill. tonight. He had heard.
he said, Indirectly, of the committee s
inability 10 have him appear before
it, tomorrow. He was greatly cha-
grined, he said, also. he added. the,
Senate need not bother about confer
ring additional powers upon the COM
mittee if they wanted to find out
about his primary campaign. his re-
| lations with George w. Perkins and
William Flynn, the Pittsburgh lead
or, or any other matters connected
with his primary campaign; or, for
that matter anything he had ever
done as President
Details of his primary campaign,
however. would have been brought out
| by questioning him. Col. Roosevelt
feels, and inasmueh as he will not
he questioned, he plans at present to
confne himself chiefly in his letter
to refuting the testimony of John d.
Archbold, in which Mr. Archbold,
! said he, was assured Col. Roosevelt
knew of and appreciated a eontribu-
ton of 100000, which is alleged to
| have been n1ada by Archibald In 1901
to the Republican campaign. ts'
The letter will be long. Col. Roose-
welt expects to pass nearly all day.
tomorrow, working on it, and he is
not sure it will be finished, by to-
morrow night IT is possible he will
| touch lightly upon his primary cam
paigu of 1912 1t is reasonably sure
he will devote considerable space to
| his relations with Senator Penrose,
while he was President.
Colonel Roosevelt said that, last
night, he had seen George b. Cortel-
You, who was Republican National
CHAIRMAN IN l3O4.
"Mr. Cortelyou tells me he never
heard Mr.. Arehbolds name mentioned
in connection with any contribution by
Mr. Bliss" Col. Roosevelt said. "and
that as regards himself the WHOLE story
, is a fabrication out of the whole CLOTH
as of course. it is about me-.
Colonel Roosevelt's statement reads as
follows:
Il feel that the committee ought not
, to have gone away and let Archbold go
to Europe without taking any of his tes-
timony on the really grave charge, and
then failed to let me appear Immediate
", knowing, as the committee must
know, what my latter engagements are.
Il shall. however, at once write Sem
ator Clapp a full statement of at least
some of the things to which, l would
have testified4 incidentally l. should like
! to say. they need not bother about con-
ferring additional powers upon the COM
mittee to question me about by primary
campaign Whether they are given pow
er or not, | shah be delighted to answer
any question in my power which the
committee may put to be as to anything
of which l have knowledge connected
with the primary campaign; or, for that
matter, of anything have ever done as
President or in this campaign. l sug-
gest. however, that the committee take
up the primary campaigns of all of the
other candidates also il they desire to
go into the matter at all.
Let me repeat as strongly as l can
that I do not understand why the COM
mittee let Mr. Archbold go to Europe
without examining him on the real
charge and that regret that was not
given the chance Immediately to appear
and testify.
Not to permit me to go ON and testify,
tomorrow, amounts, as the Democratic
and Republican friends of Mr.. Penrose
Mr.. Lorimer and Mr.. Archbold in the
Senate of course know, the rendering it
almost impossible for me to appear later
without causing the most serious disloca-
ton of my announced plans Ht3
The incident is especially significant
as showing the way the interests for
which Mr.. Penrose, Archzold and their,
like speak, have joined in their as
sauIt on the Progressives ard on me.
They are entirely willing to see either
of the two cid political machines tri-
umph because they control both.
Their real hostility is reserved for me
and the Progressive party.
Remember that the charge was
against Mr.. Penrose and that that has
not been investigated, although the
evidence on that charge was direct
All that has been investigated has
been the counter charge as To which
there was not and never viii be, be-
cause there cannot be. one shred of
i. -
has been produced is malicious and
injurious hearsay gossip given at sec
ond hand. As far as | can make out
the accusation by Messrs. Penrose and
Arehbold really is that a contribution
was made for the improper purpose OF