The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-27
Mr.. Hearst or Anyone Else,
Col. Roosevelt States, Can
Have Any Letter He Has
in His Records.
LETTER TO CLAPP
NEARLY FINISHED
Roosevelt Says This Commu-
nication Will Thoroughly
Show His Position in the
Oil Trust Case.
(NationaI News Association

OYSTER BAY, Aug. 27-Col Roose-
welt again today declared not only his
willingness, but his eagerness to make
public every scrap of evidence in his
possession in regard to any action con-
corning the campaign fund of 1904.
"If Mr.. Hearst will let me know
within a year or a year and half of
the time / wrote any letter pertaining
to the Standard Oil company, such as
he refers to in his cabled message
from London, / will be glad to go
through my files and produce the copy
of it, if it is there" Col Roosevelt
stated
Mr.. Roosevelt wanted to make plain
that he is sincere in his purpose to
produce any possible Standard Oil
correspondence if it is indicated what
letters are desired. The ex-president
is working on the letter he is to send
10 Senator Clapp defining his acts re-
lating to the Standard Oil contribution
in 1904. He said he would finish the
letter in time to give it out for publ
cation before leaving tomorrow for
Vermont
Outlines The Letter.
"In the letter." he said, 81 am going
to reproduce the letter I wrote to
Judge Parker in the last days of the
buttons 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Parker charged that the Standard Oil
had given 100000 to my campaign.
After having satisfied myself through
the statement of Cortelyou that no
such contribution had been made re-
1lied to Judge Parker. Another letter
shall embody in my letter to Mr..
Clapp is one I wrote to Jim Sherman,
the vice president about the Hartman
of Mr.. Harriman's visit to the white
house
Il am looking further into my Ales
for other letters that will show con-
c!usively what my stand was in the
Standard Oil matter
Col. Roosevelt corrected a statement
attributed to Collector Loeb in which
the collector was made to say that he
called up Mr. Corelyou at Roosevelt 9
request after the publication of Harri-
mans letter to Sidney Webster. Loeb.
d
that Col. Roosevelt desired to know
/ from Cortelyou if he recalled what
transpired at the Hartman visit. The
report made it appear that Loeb had
spoken of Hartman calling in refer
ence to the Standard Oil contribution.
THAT is all wrong" remarked Col.
Roosevelt. "Mr. Harriman's call was
not in connection with Standard Oil
hut referred to aid he wanted from
the national committee for the New
| York state campaign. Loeb did not ask
Mr.. Cortelyou about Mr.. Hartman.
When he called Cortelyou on the
phone it was to ask him about the re-
port that the Standard Oil had make a
contribution to my campaign. Cortel-
I you's reply as conveyed to me by Loeb
and in this he bears me out, was that
none had been received from the Stan
dard Oil company"
Corrects False Report.
| Col. Roosevelt also wanted a. false
| impression, which he said had crept
into D rint, concerning the visit of
John D. Archibold and Henry H. Rog-
ers to the white house, Strengthened
out" Loeb was quoted as saying" the
Colonel exclaimed, that Archibold and
Rogers had made midnight call the
night after the election. They made no
such visit to me. They did call at the
white house one afternoon a year after
the election. They wanted me to stop
the department of justice from going
on with the Standard Oil investigation.
! I declined to interfere"
| The ex-president went back at Phil
ander Knox today for the latter's dec
| laration that he heard Roosevelt say
that the letters of Roosevelt of Octo-
ber 26 and 81, 1904, and the telegram
of October 90, all to Cortelyou were
written for the record.
THAT is false" insisted the Colonel
| 81 may have remarked. this will set
the record straight or something OF
the kind, indicating that / intended
having an official record Of the affair
exactly as 1t happened. l do not recall
that / made any comment whatever
but If / did its import has certainly
been misconstrued."
/ Col Roosevelt leaves for his Yer
mont trip at midnight Wednesday. He
will make a strenuous campaign for
three days.