The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-29
HTS SEN. PENROSE
coI Roosevelt Denies That he
Knew of Standard Oil
Contribution

1901 Not 10 accept SohtTiou1fohs
rror,, the standard Oil Company
Wants to Testify Before Congress
.ionaI Committee.
E-:l.esbarre, Pa, August IA
..,.ra attack on Senator Penrose, OF
r..--gvIvania, was made tonight by
r-o-cI Roosevelt The Senator, he
.-.t var Ike d cattlefish which, lack
..y he courage TO fight its enemy
-sr..rts ink" in the hope that 1t may
a--ape- In laying the Senator Col.
p.oacvet repeated his denial that he
had known Of any Standard Oil con-
.-.,u-ion to the Presidential cam
Da.1n OF 1904.
Colonel Roosevelts speech was
hold in connection with the jubilee
o. The Rev Father Curran.
Recently" said Colonel Roose-
y.It certain definite and specific
charges we're made against Senator
Pcnr0se. I personally know nothing
o. hem and had not even looked into
the charges until Mr.. Penrose sue
ceeded in riveting my attention upon
them Yesterday he got up in the
Senate TO deny those charges and
brought in hearsay charges against
ne.
Il call your attention to an an
alogue to Senator Penrose among the
inferior forms Of animal life-the
cuttlefish. When the cuttlefish is at
tackled 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. | 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 Standard Oil Company for
my campaign and contributed, and
that a further sum was asked for.
Mr.. Penrose gave this evidence
on hearsay. 1t is a thoroughly base
and contemplate thing for Mr.. Pen
rose to repeat such evidence on hear
say"
Colonel Roosevelt then referred to
letters which he gave out last night,
which he sent to George B. Cortel-
you, chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in 1904. directing
that no campaign contribution be re-
ccived from the Standard Oil Com
pany
ANY man who reads these let
ters," he continued, lis bound, if he
is an honest man, to state that | act
ed in absolute good faith and that if
any contribution was made by the
Standard Oil Company, it was with
out my knowledge and in spite of my
absolute prohibition.
THE proof of the pudding is in 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 trying to beat me if l had been
satisfactory to the Standard Oil Com
pany and that crowd? They are
against me because not one true. not
tuence me while l was President.
That is why they hate me-"
Col. Roosevelt Wants to Testify.
On Saturday night Col. Roosevelt
wired Senator Clapp in Washington,
asking if he might appear on Monday
hof
mittee to make a statement on his
own behalf on the charge of Archbold
that he understood Mr.. Roosevelt
knew of the Standards contribution.
Mr.. Roosevelt stated he would not
allow Archbold's untruthful hear
say evidence go unchallenged. SEN
atOr Clapp said he could not get his
committee together to hear Mr..
Roosevelt, but Col Roosevelt an
nounced he would issue a statement
anyway.
Nothing in the Accusation Against
Colonel Roosevelt.
The following editorial bearing on
the case is clipped from Mondays
Charlotte Observer:
In the absence Of any proof that
Mr.. Roosevelt knew Of the Archbold
contribution" comments The New
York Tribune, sit is not to be assum-
ed in the face of his denials that he
did know of it and that in 1904 he
was and ever since he has been play
Ing a part Of elaborate and Suctained
Hypocrisy" Furthermore, as The
Tribune does not overlook, Roose-
Velts letter to Treasurer Bliss now
published shows a absolute refusal
OF Standard Oil contributions by him
at the time This is how the matter
appears to a newspaper which is
strongly opposed to Roosevelt but
mindful of it's reputation for fairness.
Penrose and Archbold are not very