Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-10-18
LIFE OF 7. R.
ASSERTS REPUBLICAN LEADER is
AN ASSASSIN OF cHARAc.
TIERS
STORM OF PROTEST ARISES
ASSEMBLED soLoNs DEcRY
SUCH UTTERANcEs BY THE
cHlcAGoAN

| Washington, Oct. 1S-Medill Nc.
Cormick of Chicago stirred up a sen
sation before the Clapp committee to-
day when he read prepared state
ment touching upon the attempted as
sassination of Colonel Roosevelt, de,
] claring 1t had been melted by the
"falsehood of character assassins and
liars like Charles D. Hilles."
! 1T is difficult for an ordinary man
in the compass of ordinary language
to compete with the testimony of
character assassins and liars like Mr..
Hilles-men, who because of their
falsehoods incite weak-minded men to
actual assassination" was the pass
age which brought out storm of pro.
tests from the committee, in which
Chairman Clapp joined.
The reference to the attempt on
Colonel Roosevelt's life was incidental
to Mr.. McCormick's general statement
of campaign expenses of the progress
sive party in Illinois. Substantially
it was as follows:
$50 far as / know, the cost of the
campaign in Illinois was betrayed nv!
Colonel Chauncey Dewey and myself
/ gave Colonel Dewey $4,000. In ad,
dition gave not to exceed $4,000 to-
ward the maintenance of the Chicago
general headquarters, inclusive of ev-
verything which was given me by
friends, butof which ! kept no record.
"In the Ninth congressional dis
trict, in which | live, | spent about
$2,5OO in addition to the amount I
gave Colonel Dewey. Throughout the
campaign | was not actively concern
ed with the collection or expenditures
of money During the whole conven-
ton the Taft people assiduously cir
clated the lie that am connected with
the Harvester trust. have never
owned and do not own share of Har
vester stock and do not expect to
own share
Elmer e. Dover, secretary of the
republican national committee in
1904, placed in evidence before the
Clapp committee today what he said
was a list of contributions to the
committee, given HIM by the late Cor
nelus N. Bliss. it itemized contri- |
buttons by E. H. Hartman, 100000;
III. H. r. 100000; ]. P. Morgan
& Company, S15O,OOO George J.
Gould, 100000 and many others.
Dover said he had made his list
shortly after the close of the 1904
campaign from a book which Mr..
Bliss let him see. bower said his list
undoubtedly contained errors made in
copying and that he never had COM
pared it with the original. The larg.
est contributors shown on the list
were Andrew Carnegie, $4,000; |
George ]. Gould, 100000; Roswell
Miller, $4,000; S. D. Wainwright,
$4,000; e. f. Hartman, 100000;
Cs S. Mellen. $4,000; e. 7. Stotes-
burys Philadelphia, $4,000; S. F.
Wainwright $4,000; S J. VAIN
wright, $4,000 Q. AZ. B, for ?. r.,
$25,OOO; e. V. L. Meyer, $4,000; II.
H. R. and ]. b. W., S1OO,00O r. S.
Howes international Harvester com
pany, $4,000; q. T. Stotesbury $2O,-
600; G.. w P. committee, 100000;
]. P. Morgan & Company, 100000;
II. w. Kendall, $4,000; Chancey NJ
Depew, 100000; ]. P. Morgan 4
Company (additionaD, $4,000; J.
H. Hyde, $25,OOO; J. f. Dryden, $685. /
900; Adolph Lewiston, $4,000; G.
". L. Meyer, $4,000; G. and NJ w.
Hughlin, Illinois, $4,000; F. B. VIII
liams, New Orleans, $4,000; Hawa-
iian Sugar Planters association, $1O,-
OO9; G. ". L. Miller, $4,000; clar
enee H. MacKay, $4,000; Isaac N.
seligman, $4,000; J. H. schiff, s25,
000. u Iulliard $4,000. White