Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-23
JUST 4 DELIBERATE AND
W|LFUL FAL SEH0OD DECLARES
COLONEL IN A STATEMENT
WERE NOT GENUINE He LIES AND He KNOWS He LIES IS TRE WAY
IN Which ROUGH RIDER HANDS IT OUT TO PENNSYLVANIA BOSS TODAY
NO MAN WHO IS NOT DISHONEST CAN
DISCREDIT THE FACTS AS GIVEN

New York, Aug. 23.-Colonel Roose-
Welt declared that Senator Penrose's
statement that George W. Perkins un-
derwrote my primary expenses for
S5,0G0,000 or any sum even remotely
resembling it, is a deliberate and viii
ful falsehood, which he knows to be
such when he makes it.
Mr.. PenroSe would do well not to at
tribute to others the infinite baseness
which actuates himself
Colonel Roosevelt dictated the fore
day. He had read Senator Penroses
statement concerning his primary eX-
penses, he said, and inquired closely
concerning it.
The statement that the letter and
kilograms to Mr. Cortelyou,' the state
n.ent continues, were written for the
purpose Of going into the record and
were not genuine and were not ac-
cepted by Mr., Cortelyou, as genuine,
is a deliberate and Wilful falsehoOd
and Senator Penrose knows it to be
such when he makes it.
My first letter, which was written
Standard Oil people had contributed
and which was explicit and unequivoc-
al in its terms, vas written on OctO-
Der %: my second letter, if possible
even more emphatic, on October %.
Not hearing from the letters | wired
on october 80. | then received from
Mr.. CortelyOu a statement that my
wishes would be complied with and
that no contribution from the Stand
ard Oil people had been, or would be
received.
If any such contribution was re-
ceiyed, it was not only without my
knowledge but against my explicit
direction.
These letters speak for themselves.
They went into The records Of course:
hut they went into the records because
they were genuine and bore on their
face the proof that they were gen
uine and because | received the as
surance that they were accepted in the
spirit in which | wrote them.
Il wish to add that | am certain
when Mr.. Cortelyou said that they
would be thus acted on, he was saying
what he understood to be in exact ac-
cordance with the facts. No man can
honestly misunderstood these letters
and no man who is not a dishonest
man can put any Interpretation other
than that which they bear upon the
face. Let me again ask any one who
wishes to know the truth to read my
speech of last night as to the action
OF my administration and to read the
statement | made at the time | gave
out the copies of my three letters the
other day The speech and the letters
cover everything.
The reason that Mr.. Penrose and
lis political allies and his hackers and
masters in the world of finance are
against ME now is because they and
their kind could not use me while |
was president; because while | treat
ed every politician and every financier
with justice | declined TO do one act
for any of them that was not itself
beth absolutely proper and absolutely
just. If | had been willing to act
otherwise, Mr.. Penrose, and his allies
in the world of politics and the world
Of business would now be enthusias-
tically supporting me instead of op-
posing me with an anger, hatred and
malevolence born of the fact that they
were unable to use me and that they
know it is hopeless ever to expect TO
use me.
Mr.. Penrose's attitude in this mat
ter symbolizes his habitual attitude,
which has finally brought him to dis
aster in Pennsylvania for he is never
able to understand that other men are
not >actuated by his own incurable
baseness of soul. There is nothing
that 1 welcome more than Mr.. Pen
roses opposition. Senator Poindex-