Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-23
COLONEL GIVES LIE
Declares Penrose's $3,-
100000 Charge False.
SENATOR is DENOUNCED
Tells of Letters to Cortelyou Refus-
ing Standard Oil Gift.
FIRST WRITTEN OCTOBER 2e
Adds That Reply Came That No
Such Contribution Had Been
Received.
SENATOR is DENOUNCED
FIRST WRITTEN OCTOBER &c

declared today that Senator Pc 1rose' S
statement that George w. Perkins under
wrote my primary expenses for $3.OOo.-
600 or any sum even remotely resembling
1t is a deliberate and a wili1ul falsehood,
which he knows to be such when he
makes It."
Mr.. Penrose," he added, would do
we'll not to attribute to others the infinite
baseness which actuates himself"
Col. Roosevelt dictated the foregoing
and the following. statement today. He
had not read Senator Penrose's statement
concerning his primary expenses. he said,
and inquired closely concerning just what
the senator had said:
THE statement that letters and tele-
grams to Mr.. Cortelyou,' the statement
continues. were written for the purpose
Of going into the record. and were not
Cortelyou as genuine. is a deliberate and
willful falsehood, and Senator Penrose
knows 1t to be such when he makes it.
Tells Of Letters.
my first letter, written as soon as I
heard a rumor that the Standard Oil peo-
pie had contributed. and explicit and un-
eQuivocal in its terms, was written Oc-
tober 26: my second letter, il possible
even more emphatic. October II. Not
hearing from these letters wired Octo-
Der %. I then received from Mr.. Cor
telyou q statement that my wishes would
be complied with. and that no contribu-
ton from the Standard Oil people had
been or would be received.
IF any such contribution was received,
it was not only without my knowledge,
but against my explicit direction.
These letters speak for themselves
fha dc nP
but they went into the records because
they were genuine and bore on their face
the proof that they were genuine, and
because I received the assurance that
they were accepted In the spirit in which
I wrote them.
mo man can honestly misunderstood
these letters. and no man who Is not a
dishonest man can put any Interpretation
other than that which they bear upon
the face Let me again ask any one who
wishes to know the truth to read my
speech OF last night as to the action Of
my administration and to read the state
ment made at the time / gave out the
copies OF my three letters the other day
The speech and the letters cover every
thing.
Explains Reasons.
The reason that Mr.. Penrose and his
political allies and his hackers and mas
ters in the world Of finance are against me
now Is because they and their kind could
not use me while I was President; be-
cause. while treated every politician and
every fnancier with justice, 1 declined
to do one act for any Of them that was
not itself both absolutely proper and ab-
solutely just. If I had been willing to
act otherwise, Mr.. Penrose and his allies
and his hackers in tbe world OF politics
and the world Of business would now be
enthusiastically supporting me instead
OF opposing me with an anger and hatred
and malevolence born OF the fact that
they were unable to use me and that they
know 1t Is hopeless ever to expect to
use me.
"Mr. Penrose's attitude in this matter
symbolizes his hahitual attitude which
has finally brought him to disaster in
Pennsylvania, for he is never able to
understand that other men are not actu-
ated by his own incurable baseness of
SOUL There is nothing that I welcome
more than Mr.. Penrose's opposition.
Senator Poindexter pointed out the
exact program when he said that Mr..
Penrose and Mr.. Penrose's allies in the
Senate, democratic and republican alike,
were In conspiracy to serve the cause
of corruption in politics and business
alike by endeavoring. through slander
and mendacity, to oppose the only men
and the only party which seriously en-
dangers the rule of corruption in politics
and business-the progressive party and
| It's CanQlQatGS.
Compared to Lorimer.
Mr.. Penrose is opposing us pre-
cisely as Mr.. Lorimer, whose cause he
championed, is opposing us, and with
Mr.. Lorimer out of the Senate Mr.. Pen
rose is now the leading representative
in political life Of the forces which
Mr.. Lorimer symbolizes. Like Mr.. Lori
mer. Mr.. Penrose began with good
reputation. and, as was the case with
Mr.. Lorimer, 1t is only within the last
two or three years that we, outside Of
Mr.. Penrose's state, have grown to un-
derstand precisely what Mr.. Penrose
is and what he stands for
Mr.. Penrose Is the embodiment and
representative of all that Is worst in
our political life and in the alliance
between business and politics which
has done so much to degrade political
life hail his opposition with genu-
inc and unfeigned joy.
1T is eminently fitting that Mr.. Pen
rose, nominal republican. should be
doing his best in alliance with the demo-
Gratis, who think as he does. to assail the
progressive party. He uses the republi-
can machine and can make terms with
| the democratic machine, but he and his
| kind can make no terms with US.
Called Evil Forces.
And our triumph will mean the definite
| driving from political life of Penrose of
Loriner and of all the evil forces that
these two men and those like them typi-
| fy a j represent. We are mortal enc.
mics Of him and his kind and of all the
| kinds OF evil which they represent in our
| public life, and Mr.. Penrose acts natural.
| ly in opposing us with every weapon in
his foul armory.
II want myself honored by his opposi.
| ton, and / count that opposition as q
! certificate Of character for the progress
siye party, for 1t shows that the pro.
gressive party. and only the progressive
party, and the leaders of the progressive
party. are the foes really dreaded by the
Penroses in our public tfe.''
When Col. Roosevelt had finished the
statement he left the reporters. but re-
| turned Immediately and said:
Please say also that until Mr.. Penros<
| spoke the other day l had never heard OF
| Mr.. Archbold's name in connection with
| making any contributions to the re-
| publican campaign fund
Republicans Displace Progressives.
| TACOMA, Wash. August 23.-The re
publican state committee yesterday reor
4 II,