The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-10-09
A Single Contribution in
Year 1904.
SURPRISED At TRUSTS GIFTS
Says Charges Against Him
Infamous and Untrue"
A Sweeping Denial.
HARTMAN FUND FOR STATE

/ fore the Senate Campaign funO
Committee that his memory is just
as bad as that of the trust mag
mates who have been appearing be-
fore congressional committees dur
ing the past year or SO. He could
not remember definitely a single
contribution to his gigantic cam
paign fund of 1904, and claimed
not to know anything about the fl
nances of his primary campaign for
the Republican nomination this
| year.
! For several hours. the man who
was President of the United States
| for seven years, and who during
/ that time posed as the champion
trust buster" was forced TO de-
fend his record. They made him
even admit that ire did not know
that 70 II per cent. Of the contri-
buttons which helped him to carry
the country in 1904 were from the
very corporations that he boosted
of trying to bust" He appeared
surprised when informed by the
committee that this was the esti-
mate of George r. Sheldon, assist
ant treasurer of his campaign COM
mittee in that year.
He had the word of George B.
Cortelyou, former Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, and as such
supervision of the Bureau of Cor
poratiOns and all its trust secrets,
that the Standard Oil Company had
not contributed a cent to his cam
paign and upon that assurance he
made public announcement to
that effect. He was at loss to ex-
plain why George r. Sheldon,
judge Charles H. Duell. John d.
Archbo'd and others interested in
the campaign Of that year could re-
call distinctly the making of
100000 contribution by the
Standard Oil and it's entry upon the
books of the National Republican
Committee with never a sign of its
having been given back.
81 did hear something, l believe,
about H. H. Rogers having given
literally to the campaign" admit
ted the Colonel. but l did not con-
slider that violation of my instruc-
tions not to accept any money from
the Standard Oil Company"
Mr.. Rogers only relationship to
the Standard Oil Company lay in
the fact that he was its president.
But the Colonel was buoyant. AL
though he could not recall ]. P.
Morgan's 100000 contribution
when cornered, he managed to
wriggle out somehow and to muddy
the waters with charges of corrup-
ton against other folk. He de-
clared most emphatically that Sen
ator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
ought to be thrown out of the Sen
ate on his own admission that he
advised the Standard Oil commit
tee 20 submit to "blackmail" of the
late Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer
of the Republican committee in
1904, for fear some harm might
come to the company.
He demanded that Chairman
, Hilles, of the present Republican
National Committee, and Represen-
tative Richard Bartholdt, of Mis-
souri,. be forced to make good their
assertion that 100000 was spent
to nominate Col. Roosevelt at the
Republican convention this year. or
that they be driven out of poll
tics" on the theory that bearing
false witness is the same as steal
ing"
Col. Roosevelt arrived here early
to-day to be the star witness before
the committee. The Colonel's train
got in shortly after 7 o'clock. and
with his party he passed through
the railroad station, greeted by
few leaders of the Progressive par
ty here, and went to breakfast at
hotel within sight Of the White
House. Ng4
Mr.. Roosevelt breakfasted with
William Loeb, Jr., formerly his pri-
vate secretary and now Collector of
Customs at New York. before going
to the Senate ONCE building, where
the hearings of the committee are
held. e~' rr
Several hundred people were
lined up in the corridors of the
building two hours before the time
set for the hearing. hoping to get
into the little committee room, with
It's capacity for about 100. Hun
dreds Of others packed the door
ways and surroundings of the