The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-23
CALLS HIM A cuTTLEFISH Wuo soulRTs INK IN ORDER TO
 MAKE His ESCAPE.
REFUSED STANDARD OIL CASH
Says Truat Newspapers Have Framed up to Beat Him in His Race for Presldent-Was Friend of
 Penrose Once.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. 22-A se- were attack on Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania was made tonight by Colonel Roosevelt The senator, he said, was like a cuttlefish which. lack ing the courage to fight it's enemy,
 squirts ink in the hope that it may escape In denouncing the senator, Colonel Roosevelt repeated his denial that he had known of any Stan dard Oil contribution to the presiden : tian campaign of 1904.
 Colonel Roosevelt's speech was made in the armory at a meeting held in connection with the jubilee of the Rev. Father Curran. After Colonel Roosevelt had paid a tribute to Father Curfan, he said:
 And now a word about honesty We can't have any reform unless we have honesty in both business and politics. By a natural sequence of thought l now come to Senator Pen- rose of Pennsylvania.
 Recently certain definite and spe- cific charges were made against Sen ator Penrose. I personally knew noth- Ing of them and had not even looked into the charges until Mr. Penrosa succeeded in riveting my attention upon them. Yesterday he got up in the senate to deny those charges and brought in hearsay charges against me.
 call your attention to an ana logue to Senator Penrose among the inferior forms of animal Iife-the cut tIeiish When the cuttlefish is at lacked by an enemy which it lacks the courage to oppose it squirts ink and tries to escape. trusting that the enemy will attack the ink instead of the cuttlefish l now propose to clear away the ink and attack the cutie fish.
 The statement of Mir Penrose was that he had heard that by my direc- tion $100000 was asked for from the Standard oil Company for my cam paign, and contributed, and that fur ther sum was asked for Mir. Penrose gave this evidence on hearsay It is a thoroughly base and contemptibe thing for MT. Penrose to repeat such evidence of hearsay."
 Colonel Roosevelt then referred to the letters which he gave out last night which he sent to Geo. B. Cor telyou. chairman of the republican national committee in 1904. directing tnat no campaign contributions he re- ceiyed from the Standard oil Com pany
 Any man who reads these let ters.' he continued, is bound. if he IS an honest man, to state that I act ed in absolute good faith and that if any contribution was made by the Standard Oil Company it was without my knowledge and in spite of my ab- solute prohibition.
 The proof of the pudding in Is the eating. Every trust controlled news paper in, the land is doing everything in it's power to beat me. Do you think that those trust papers would be try ing to beat me if had been satisfac- tory to the Standard Oil Company and that crowd? They are against me, because not one trust, not one indi- vidual was able to use or influence me while l was president. That's why they hate me.
 So much for the ink Now for the cuttletish. MT. Penrose states that he received $25000 for use in Penn sylvania and that he used it to help ny election. By running l helped Mir. Penrose. He did not help me. If he doubts that. ask him to compare his experiences in 1904 when he was helping me. and in 1912, when he went it alone. It was Penrose hang ing on to Roosevelt in 1904 and the ticket went through with 500,000 ma jority. It was Penrose without Roose- welt in 1912 and he got just about six Or eight delegates-I forgot the num- Der now"