The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-26
iil Write Letter


 Oysst B4F B. aE ugust 25-Having failed fo eaEaf lring before the Sena eesa# t4r Investigating cam paigr eouFfg ras aaaause of the n- abilft 1f iha gHa tsa to get together Colo Haa{aetlt alaas to write the conn tfe estec odying some of the Ha EtfH would have tes- r9iei fi. .ssz sI 4 is night in state K5eni sie took the coni- nfttt fsHs for hitting John D. Afcl fa Haif III 1pe without tell ing NHFz# HH 4Ha N he contributed to ff HHzaa iign in Pennsyl- van r
 Co Haoa ar received no word froR. .s....-- .eu n the correspOn- dents visited him at sagamore Hlll to- night. He had heard, he said. indirectly, of the committees inability to have him appear before il tomorrow. He was greatly chagrined, he said Also. he added. the Senate need not bother about conferring additional powers on the com mttee if they wanted to find out about hil primary campaign his relations with George W. Perkins and William Film. the Pittsburgh leader, or any other mat ters connected with his primary cam pagn; or for that matter. anything that he had ever done as President.
 Details of his primary campaign, how ever would. have been brought out by
 
 and inasmuch as he will not be ques- toned, he plans at present to conflne himself chiefly in his letter to refuting the testimony Of John D. Arehbold in which Mir Archbold said he was assured that Colonel Roosevelt knew of and ap- precated a contribution of $100000 which Archbold testified he made in 1904 to the republican campaign
 Letter Will Be Long
 The letter will be long. Colonel Roose- welt expects to spend pretty much all day tomorrow working on 1t. and he is not sure 1t will not be finished by to- rorrow night. It Is possible he will touch lightly upon his primary campaign of 1912. 1t is reasonably sure he will devote considerable space to his relations with Senator Penrose while he was President.
 Colonel Roosevelt said that last night he had seen George B. Cortelyou, who was republican national chairman in 1904.
 MT. Cortelyou tells me that he never heard Mir Archbold's name mentioned in connection with any contribution by Mir Bliss" Colonel Roosevelt said. and that as regards himself the whole story is fabrication out of whole cloth, as of course it Is about me"
 Colonel Rooseyelts statement reads as follows:
 T feel that the committee ought not to have gone away and let Archbold go to Europe without taking any of his testimony on the really grave charge. and then failed to let me ap- pear Immediately, knowing. AS the com mittee must know, what my latter en- agreements are.
 T shall, however at onrre write Sem ator Clapp a full statement of at least some of the things to which l would like to have testified
 Will Answer All Questions
 ''Incidentally I should like to say that they need not bother about conferrinE additional powers upon the committee to question me about my primary cam paign Whether they are given power or not I shall be deligb ted to answer any question in my power which the committee may put to me as to any thing of which l have Knowledge con nected with the primary campaign; or, for that matter. of anything that I have ever done as President or in this campaign. I suggest. however, that the committee take up the primary cam paigns of all of the other candidates also if they desire to go into the mat ter at all.
 Let me repeat as strongly as I can that 1 do not understand why the com mittee let Mir. Achbold go to Europe without examining him on the real charge.
 Not to permit me to go on and tes- tify tomorrow amounts, as the demo- cratic friends of Mr. Penrose and MT. Lorimer and Mir. Archibold in the Senate of cc urse know, to rendering 1t almost impossible for me to appear later with- out causing the most serious disloca- ton of my announced plans. The incl dent Is especially significant as showing the way that the interests for which Mi. Penrose and Mir. Archbold and their like speak. have joined in their assault on the progressives and on me, They are entirely willing to see either of the
 
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