New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-28
Roosevelt Thinks 1t Will Help to
Show That He Was Not
Obligated to Trusts.
BUSY ON CLAPP MESSAGE
Colonel Says Knox Was Much
Surprised to Learn That No
Standard Oil Money
Was To Be Received.
BY Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

II
| dent Roosevelt will leave New York at
! 1925 O'Clock Thursday morning for Yer
mont 10 make a HhirlVind tour Of the
| state before the election next week. Since
| the Progressive convention at Chicago the
! word has gone forth from the third party 5
national committee that every effort will
be made 10 make showing in the Green
| Mountain state on account ~ cts early
| election.
Tho old and heretofore unfailing rule
| that a Democratic President is elected II
! the Republican nominee for Governor OF
| Vermont is not elected by majority Of
| .. 900 votes Is rendered interesting this
year on account of the peculiar situation
| In the state, where the injection OF the
! Progressive ticket gives the voters Of YER
mont five candidates for Governor.
Controller William 4. Prendergast OF
New York City, motored out TO Sycamore
| Hill to-day TO take advantage o. the last
opportunity TO discuss the New York state
situation with Colonel Roosevelt before
| he goes TO Vermont. Mr. Prendergast has
been the most talked OF candidate for
| Governor on the Progressive ticket. Now.
however, he has formidable rival In
cambridge Colby, the New York lawyer.
who is counsel for George w. Perkins's
Harvester company. The others are Will
lam n. Hotchkiss. former state Superin-
tendent of Insurance and now executive
chairman Of the Progressive State Com
mittee. and Virgil Kellogg.
II developed to-day that Bainbridge
Cclby's candidacy was having a big boom.
II was even limited that Colonel Eoose-
volt openly favored him,
Won't Interfere, Says Colonel.
81 have very high regard for oil Of
them" was the colonel's non-committsl
comment tonight. 'I hear that there
has been strong talk for all OF them. OF
course. 7 shall not Interfere, you know
That will he for the Progressive conven-
tion 10 decide"
Taking as an Illustration the local sit
uation IN oyster Bay. where Thomas
OKeefe, the Democratic candidate for
Senator. is reported 10 be making a
strong bid for fusion with the Third Term
party, one Of Mr.. Roosevelt's interview
ers ventured to inquire If the Progress
slyes would agree TO fusion wherever II
might be possible throughout the state.
mo, sir, by George" exclaimed the
Presidential candidate. There will be
no fusion. We are going to make
straight out and out third party fight"
Colonel Roosevelt was told that Sena-
tor Penrose intended 10 testify before the
Clapp Commission In the Senate that he
discussed with Colonel Roosevelt before
the 1868 convention the advisability OF
dropping william II. Taft as candidate
for the Presidency. Hhc Senator was
also reported as ready 10 testify that
Congressman sibley and John n. Arch
bold were present during the discussion
a. the White Hose. and that later tho
subject was talked over al Oystc- Bay
in the presence OF Speaker Cannon and
Senator Al6rich. Mr.. Roosevelt laughed
heartily.
Where we're Mr.. Taft. senator Lori
mer and Mr.. Rockefeller" he inquired
convusively. THE doors to the asylum
for feeble minded old women are wide
OPEN" he added.
disputes Report About Knox.
The former President appeared salts
fed this morning that he had tho night
explanation for the part that Secretary
Knox played IN the discussion over the
letter which President Roosevelt sent TO
Cortelyou prohibiting him from accept
ing STANDARD on contributions. Secretary
Knox Is reported 10 have been in the
room when the President was debating
the letter and that he was told that the
document wes intended merely 10 he put
on record" az evidence IN case OF en-
barrassing questions about tho Standard
OH contributions
The ex-President said that Secretary
Knox was in the room and did under
stand that the letter was 10 be kept as
useful record, but that he did not under
stand that the communication was bona
fide direction TO Mr.. Cortelyou 10 accept
no money from Mr.. Archbod.
The proof of this Colonel Roosevelt
says lies In the fact that Secretary Knox
was astounded when he learned that no
contribution was TO be received from the
Standard OIL.
He said" the colonel declared. that
he had never heard OF Presidential can
didate taking such a course. But he as
sured nc that Mr Frick, Of the Steel
company. would make good any loss that
was occasioned to the campaign fund by
my action"
Concerning ". L. Hearst. Colonel
Roosevelt bad this 10 say:
~ Mr.. Hearst will let me know within
a year or year and half of the date
these letters were written and to whom
they we're written I will make them puo-
lie myself. Any one can readily appre-
ciate how difficult IL would be for me %
20 through my entire correspondence FOR
a number Of years TO find a letter in
which referred to this matter. II would
be a tremendous undertaking. ! do not
think | ever wrote Congressman Sibley
! on this matter although may have done
go. / can't find any letter to him."
To BRING in Parker and Sherman.
The names OF Alton T.. Parker and
Taroes $. Sherman will figure in the let
ter which Colonel Roosevelt Is preparing
for Senator Clapp, This letter upon which
Air. Roosevelt Is now Ut work Will embody
some Of the Things To which he would
have testified Yesterday before the COM
n,ittcs had Il granted him a hearing.
II shall include in my letter to Senator
Clayp." the colonel said. ''the letter which
wrote TO Judge Parker In 1905 and my
,,,ar "a Him sherman on the Hartman