The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-23
PENR0SE A CUTTLEFISH
DECLARED ROOSEVELT
Severe Attack Was Made on the PENN
sylvania Man Last Evening in
Address at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
HE Lacks Courage.

Wilkes Barre, Pa, Aug ga severe
attack on Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania was made last night by Colonel
Roosevelt. The senator, he said, was
| like a cuttle fish which, lacking the
courage to fight its enemy "squirts ink
in the hope that it may escape. In de-
nouncing the senator, Colonel Roosevelt
repeated his denial of any Standard Oil
contribution to the presidential cam
pagn of 1904.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech was made
| in the armory at meeting held IN
connection with the jubilee of Rev. Ia
ther Curran. The crowd which coll
lected in front of the building was 50
great that when the doors were thrown
open the police forced back the people
to avoid a dangerous crush. The build
ing was finally filled by admitting few
hundred persons at time. After Col.
Roosevelt had paid tribute to Father
Curran, he said:
"And' now word about honesty. We
can't have any reform unless we have
honesty, in both business and politics.
BY natural sequence of thought | now
come to Senator Penrose of Pennsyf-
vania
Recently certain definite and specific
charges were made against Senator Pen
rose. ! personally knew nothing q
them, and had not even looked into the
charges until Mr.. Penrose succeeded in
riyeting my attention upon them. Yes
terday he got up in the Senate to deny
those charges and brought in heresay
charges against me-
Il call your attention to an analogue
to Senator Penrose among the inferior
forms Of animal life, the cutie fish.
When the cutie fish is attacked by an
enemy which it lacks the courage to
oppose. it squirts ink and tries to es-
cape, trusting that the enemy will at
tack the ink instead OF the cuttle fish.
| now propose to clear away the ink
and attack the cutie fish
THE statement of Mr. Penrose was
that he had heard that by my direction
100000 was asked for from the Stand
ard Oil company for my campaign and
contributed and that a further sum was
asked for. Mr.. Penrose, gave this evi-
dence on hearsay. 1t is a thoroughly
base and contemplate thing for Mr..
Penrose to repeat such evidence on hear
say"
Colonel Roosevelt then referred to the
letters which he gave out Wednesday
night, which he sent to George b. Cor
telyou, chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee in 1904, directing that
no campaign contribution be received
from the Standard Oil company.
Any man who reads those letters
he continued, SIS bound, if he is an
honest man, to state that | acted in
absolute good faith and that if any
contribution was made by the Standard
Oil company it was without my knowl-
edge and in spite Of my absolute pro-
hibition.
"The proof Of the pudding is in the
eating. Every trust controlled news.
paper in the land is doing everything
in its 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 be
cause not one trust, not one individual.
was able to use or influence me while
was president.
SO much for the ink. Now for the
cutie fish. Mr.. Penrose states that he
received S25. 900 for use in PENNSYLVANIA
and that he used it to help me in my
election. BY running | helped Mr.. PEN
rose. He didn't help me. II he doubts
that, | ask him to compare his expert
ence in 1904, when he was helping me
and in 1912, when he went it alone. 1t
was Penrose hanging on to Roosevelt in
1904 and the ticket went through with
100000 majority. II was Penrose with
out Roosevelt in 1912 and he got Just
about six or eight delegates, forget the
number now.
Men of Pennsylvania. it is your fight |
and not mine. If you like Mr.. Penrose
keep him. But / earnestly hope you
will adopt the principle of popular cleo
tion of United States senators. Let Mr.. |
Penrose come squarely before the people
IS | have done and if he wins out we'll /
md good. | should feel like the Scotch |
who after reading from the
Bible that the Lord loved David. said |
There's no accounting for tastes"