The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-03
7. R. GIVES LIE
TO ARCH::BOED
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Testimony of..QF Man and Pen
rose lnipeached
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IN LETTER TO sENHtpR::G 4Ap!p:
- 1885,.
Talks of Blackmail-Calls for Penrose's
Removal From Senate on Own
Sworn Admissions-Mr.
Bliss Part in 1894.

New York, Sept. g. Yesterday Theo-
dore Roosevelt gave out the letter which
he has sent to Senator Moses E. Clapp,
chairman of the Senate committee in
vestigating campaign contributions, be-
fore which Senator Penrose and John ID.
Archbold charged that Mr.. Roosevelt
had been party TO the soliciting and ae-
cepting Of Standard Oil campaign con-
tributions in 1904.
Mr.. Rooseyets letter is written be-
cause it was not convenient for the COM
mittee to hear him at once.
Mr.. Roosevelt, almost at the opening,
gives the lie in these words;
"As regards the statement of Mr.. Pen
rose and Mr.. Arehbold that with my con-
sent of knowledge Mr.. Bliss asked the
Standard Oil people for 100000, or any
other sum, or received such sum from
them, it is an unqualified falsehood."
Further on Col Roosevelt compares
Senator Penrose to grating policeman,
and adds:
This language is precisely the Ian
guage that might be used by black
mailing police officer in big city in adj
vising the keeper of law breaking
liquor saloon or a gambling house to
contribute literally, because otherwise
he might incur hostility in certain
quarters. If this language were proved
against the policeman he would be re-
moved from the police force. and as it
is admitted by the senator he should
be removed from the Senate"
Will Show Primary Fund
Mr.. Roosevelt promises that there
shall be full publicity of contributions
in his primary campaign last spring
I'm addition TO the statement already
made by Senator Dixon, the provisional
committee" he says, will speedily make
public the statement OF the moneys that
were collected and spent in the primary
campaign last spring. Since the National
Progressive convention the New York
committee, as Judge Hotchkiss informs
me, has spent about $4,000, with which |
the entire state has been organized, and |
the expenses of the national convention |
at Chicago were some SAT ,000'
In the matter of the Standard Oil |
contribution in 1904 Col. Roosevelt for
maly shifts the defence to the late |
Loihtl1uo ~ Dues lhtIi lNtPuDllNdH ia
tional treasurer. He says;
Il wish to emphasize the fact that the
testimony of Mr.. Archbold and Mr. PEN |
rose in this matter is an attack on Mr.. ,
Bliss, who is dead, and is also inviting
ly the seyerest possible reflection ON
themselves; but it is in no sense any at
tack on me, except in so far as they as
sert that the dead man said that | knew
Of his request for money from them.
Il do not believe that Mr.. Bliss said
.his any more than / believe their ac-
cusation that Mr.. Bliss deliberately
tried to blaekmail the Standard Oil. But
please keep in mind that this is an as
sault on Mr. Bliss and not on me"
After sweeping denial of knowledge
or consent to any of the steps in the
transactions as set forth by the two
witnesses he pays a glowing tribute to
the memory of Mr.. Bliss, but adds that
of course he could not say whether Mr..
Bliss had asked for or received the
money. He dwells on the unselfsh, dis
interested interest of the merchant fin
anciai in politics, where he asked moth
ing for unremitting toll, but he adds
that again of course he could not testi-
fly before an investigating committee
whether Mr.. Bliss had said that he made
the request with the Roosevelt knowl-
edge or that he received the money
with the Roosevelt knowledge.
The letter to Senator Clapp which is
about fifteen thousand words long, gives
Col. Roosevelt's correspondence with
Chairman Cortelyou of October 20 and
n, in which it is ordered that the $780,
600 from the Standard Oil company be
returned at once, although the sum is
not mentioned, all of which was just
after the time that Alton B. Parker
had first made his charge that the Re-
publican nominee and his chairman were
obtaining money from the great corpora
lions In an effective way. 1t pays its