Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-10-11
Standard OIL Man Identifies
Copies Of Communications
Published as Undoubtedly
Genuine,
$2,000,000 USED BY
ROOSEVELT BOOSTERS
Chairman HiIIes Asserts Cam
paign for Nomination by
ROUGH Rider Was Extraya-
gantIy Financed.

thy Morning Journar special Iea.ea Wire
Washington, oct TO- The authcn
ticitN Of the majority OF the letter
rcccnth made pubic ~ William 4
Hearst pnrporting to NAVE been pass
led between John H. Archhol of tn,
standard oil Company. and member
of the house and senate, was alnitte,
by Mr.. Archbold today. before the son
late committee invcstigatinp canpaigi
expenditures.
Those letters Of which fac-simile
photographs have been published
4 iWcrc IN almost every case identfic,
1 by Mr., Archhold with the statement
II undoubtedly wrote thlt." Thes,
included letters to and from Senators
Hanna, Foraker QUAY and Penrose,
and Former Representatives Sibley Of
PENNSYLVANIA, ana Grosvenor. ct
Ohio. Many letters Mr.. Archhold said
he did not remember, but he rccog
nlzcd handwriting and signatures, and
admitted their genuineness
The president Of the Stan1ard on
Company. recalled by the comnittce
after making his charge in August
that he had given 100000 to the rn-
publican campaign fund Of inp, adj
nlttcd today thai the receipts given
hN Cornelius ~ Bliss for the sum hal
been DESTROYED rs himself and the laic
H. Ii Rogers. lie said he had not
hcell aide 70 fina even an entrs OF the
aninunt on the books Of the Standard
OH COMPANY
"cpeat that the money was paid.
l4c said, and was not refunded. shf
It Was paid ~ me to Mr Bliss.
don want any man 10 tell me 1t MAS
nti
Charles y. Hilles. chairman Of the
republican national committee. Wit-
ness today was asked lN Chairman
Clapp If he gave out q statement in
August that the primary fight for col
onel Roosevelt had cost the ilaWcs
ter trust million of dollars
assume the responsibility for it,
he answered
Chairman Clapp questioned the Wit
ness sharply as to his information,
and Mn Hllcs said il consisted OF his
general knowledge of what the RooSe-
welt workers had been doing and his
specific knowledge of what certain
Kinds of campaign activity cost.
He gave the committee no new In
formation regarding contributions tul
hc TAFT pre-conN enton fund except
1 list Of the contributors to the fund
raised in Chicago, the total of which (
representative Mckinley had included !
n his statement earlier In the week I
Nh Archbolds Identification OF thci
various letters was followed hy litlc
lucstonina hy the committee He
iaid the money referred to ia some OF .
hem as haNing been sent Ia senator
forakcr, hild been for legal services
n ONO, thai ne wrote to senator
Hanna to watch legislative aliairs +
here bccausc Mr. Hanna had been a
ifclong friend and that Il contrihn-
ion ot 81 moo To- senator quay had
cen entirely political, as had the s25,
90 contribution 10 senator pcurosr
He did not know to whom Mr. Sib-
ey had referred IN the letter saying
hat a certain senator had requested
he loan uf $1,000. ana asking II Mr.
lrchbold wanted to make the Invest
lcnt. He said ne did not scnd tho
I 400 and did not know to whom the
tat,mcnt related.
Mr. Archhold presented four ncN
.ttetS that he had found as the re-
alt Of "A search of his files the only
mes. ne said. that had escaped The
licNes. One WAS from President
iooscycn
1T is of no value. hut / offer It as ,
1owine The friendly attitude of Mr.. A
.onsc',lt in 1904 al a prriud when he
al indicated hc considered me under I
lo hs,n said M Archibald \,
tn. lcttcr IN fun follows +
White House. Apri 20, laol.
"Als Dear Mr. Archhold am in
rcipt uf our lrttcr oi the 18th. and
iall carefully tax" ap tho name ur +,
,uf hrother-in-laN. with the hope i,
'at Dfn promote him. D.
Sincerely yours
.'rlIf.DDDRE EpDSEN tIT.'
Tho other letters and tclcgrams re-
led to one recently mad. pnhlic by q
=. Hearst. in which Congressman b
. Icy wrote Mr Archhold that E"us,- .
IN Nas anxious G." see him. and ad-
sing him to come tu Washington 4,
I'd take luncheon with the president
b. letters addressed to Mr. Sihlev cN- D.
ess,d MI Archhold's resf,t that he .
tld NOT come and expressed an" O.,
-. thsi BE- might later visit ih.
,sideui Mr.. Arrhi,nld told ~, com
iftce hr did not =" to ihr White
nuse ar that time. January. 1906. u
MI tonsevcli on The stand before
j. committee. put n. ia tn. peculiar cd
ttud. ~ having been brought tofu
nchspn With him iu 1905 at oyster NJ
ly iy senator I"urne" said Nr- =