The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-08-28

ular Republicans and Democrats
Have Allied in Effort to Defame
Progressive Nominee.
washington, August 22.--John
ID. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Com
pany, will appear at $50 tomorrow
before the sub committee Of the SEN
ate committee Investigating campaign
contributions.
The announceme mt that he would
appear followed a day Of bitter poll
teal recrimination on the floor of the
Senate, devoted to an effort to show
that former President Roosevelt knew
that funds contributed by big corpor-
ations were used to help elect him in
1904.
The attack on former President
Roosevelt today, originated in a colo
guy between Senator Reed, of Missou-
| ri, Democrat, and Senator Penrose.
of Pennsylvania, Republican, who
presented resolution demanding an
| investigation of the circumstances set
forth in his statement to the Senate
yesterday, in which he charged that
100000 Of Standard Oil money went
into the 1904 Roosevelt campaign
fund with President Roosevelt's
knowledge.
Senators Penrose, Reed and Will
liams each attacked Col. Roosevelt.
and Senator Poindexter, Of Washing
ton, supporter of the new Progress
sive party. ca me to his defence. Sem
ator PoindeXter charged that a COM
bination Of regular Republicans" and
Democrats was at work to defame
Col. Roosevelt.
The decision to summon Mr.. Ach-
bold at once was made by Senator
| Clapp early in the day before the in
terrogation of Senator Penrose by
Senator Reed began. He got into
| communication with Mr.. Archbold in
New York by long distance telephone
| and the Standard Oil official agreed
to appear. Senator Pomerene, Of
Ohio, was designated to sit as the
Democratic member of the special
! committee until the return of either
Senator Lea or Senator Painter.
The debate between Senators Reed
and PenrOse was marked by the read
| mess with which the latter replied to
| Senator Reeds questions. Early in
| the afternoon the two Senators with
Senator Smith, of Maryland, had held
! a short conference in one of the
rooms adjoining the Senate chamber
| Senator Penrose, in answer to ques-
| tions from Senator Reed, declared
that according to his information"
Col. Roosevelt knew that 100000 of
Standard Oil money had been received
and spent in 1904 before he wrote a
letter directing that any Standard
| Oil contributions be returned. A new
element was injected into the political
imbrogilo when Senator Penrose sug-
| gested to Senator Reed:
| There has come to my notice quite
lot Of information leading to the
thought that some three million dol
lars was underwritten by George w.
Perkins and his associates to nomin-
ate Mr.. Roosevelt for President of the
regular Republican party in the pres
ent campaign for their own personal
uses. Evidences regarding this matter
will be submitted to the proper SEN
ate committee for consideration. The
ultimate object Of this enormous fund
was the control of the Republican
party in the interests Of the elements
employed by Mr.. Perkins. The larg-
est campaign fund in the United
States for an American was raised
for Mr.. Roosevelt at the primaries
last winter"
| Alleged contributions of 100000
each by the Missouri Pacific and the
Southern Pacific railroads to the cam
paign fund in 1904 were mentioned by
Senators Reed and Penrose, Senator
| Penrose declaring that President
| Roosevelt was always in close touch
| with the national committee manag-
| ing his campaign.
When the cOllOQuy between Sena-
| tors Penrose and Reed was concluded,
Senator Reed made an extended
| speech attacking Roosevelt reopening
the question of the $25O,OO0 collected
for the Republican campaign fund in
1904 by T.. H. Hartman and placing
in the Record all of SO-Cnlled "Arcn-