The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-03

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PEhROSE STATEMENT
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personal request. He ran the cam
paign almost without suggestions from
me. I communicated with him occa-
sionally by telephone. and generally in
writing"
Several matters irrelevant to the
committees inquiry are mentioned by
Colonel Roosevelt as the topics Of
these letters. He communicated also
with Senator Penrose. Colonel Roose-
welt added. One letter from Colonel
Roosevelt to Senator Penrose. dated
the day after the 1904 election, read:
Upon my word! OF all phenome-
nal returns the Pennsylvania figures
are o phenomenal. I congratulate
YOU and heartily thank YOU"
Colonel Roosevelt continues:
In all my communications with
him before or after election. l spoke
of contributions but once. This was in
a letter to him of October 2s. 1904. in
response to a request OF his that l
should retain the services of one Of
his henchmen named Bum Of the
Philadelphia p%ostofice. who had been
recommended for removal by the civil
service commission because of the coll
lection of political assessments from
among his subordinates in the postof-
fee. My letters ended as follows: I
have no alternative but to direct his
removal. l suppose you won't like
this. and ] am awfully sorry, but beg
YOU to believe that if it were feasible
for me to act in any other way l would
no other alternative that l must re-
move Bum"
Here Colonel Roosevelt replies to an
allusion in the ecent Washington tes-
t!mony to Alton B. Parker's charges
in 1904 by introducing the statement
he issued on November 4. 1904, in re-
ply to this charge. that big corpora
tons and contributed literally to the
republican campaign fund through the
solicitation of Mr.. Cortelyou. Also
Colonel Roosevelt includes the letter
he wrote to James S. Sherman, now
vice president. on October S. 1906, in
which he reviewed at length the
MISUNDERSTANDING controversy over
the $3.50, 900 contributions of the late
E. H. Hartman In 1904.
The Hartman Episode.
This letter, which was published
shortly after it was written. contained
correspondence between Messrs.
Roosevelt and Hartman and charac-
terized Mr.. Harriman's statement that
Roosevelt requested him to raise
S250.0o0 as "a deliberate and wilful
untruth-by rights it should be char
acterized by an even shorter and more
ugly word" 1t also included the let
ter written by Colonel Roosevelt-then
president-to Mr.. Hartman on Octo-
Der IA, 1904. in which Colonel Roose-
Welt said: Now. my dear sir, you and
/ are practical men" as we'll as sever
a: other letters bearing closely on the
issue. Colonel Roosevelt's letter to
senator Clapp then continues as fol-
lows:
This letter was written in Mr.. Har-
riman's lifetime. and neither was con-
tradtcted then nor can be contradicted
now. Mr.. Loeb, my then private sec
rotary, heard my conversation with
MIR. Hartman and can testify about it.
Mr.. Hartman never even discussed
With me giving anything to the ma
tional committee. and I never spoke to
him about it or requested a dollar Of
him. He asked me to intercede with
Mr.. Bliss and Mr.. Cortelyou to get
money for him and Mr.. Odell in their
state campaign. MI. Loeb heard him
make the request, and by my direction
transmitted the request to Mr.. Bliss
and MI. Cortelyou over the telephone,
as I did myself later.
I'm my letters to MI. C%ortelyou dur
ing the campaign the only allusion
tons is one in which l tell him that 1
have heard a rumor that Senator Dick
Of Ohio has been collecting money
from of1ceholders. and that if so he
u be warned to stop OF he will get
into trouble.
Il communicated with Mr.. Bliss
very infrequently, and never made any
allusion to contributions in any letter
that I wrote him or any conversation
from Mr.. C~ortelyou. I received the ex-
plicit statement that no promise had
been made and no obligation entered
into directly or indirectly in connec-
ton with any contribution that had
been received, or would be entered in.
to in connection with any contribution
that might be received in the future.
Never Asked Perkins.
Il have never discussed the ques-
ktns save in connection with discussing
the accusations brought before your
committee. have never. directly or
indirectly, asked him for a contribu.
ton. and l did not so far as I car re-
member ask any human being for a
contribution either while / was run.
ming for president or for vice presi-
dent or during the ece primary or
since the recent primary.
mi. Archbold has alluded to his
visit made a year or SO after the cleo
ton, to me in company with Mr.. Rog-
ers. Mr.. Rogers and Mr.. Archbold
made an appointment to see me
through Mr.. Root. who was then in
my cabinet. He was not present at
the interview. The subject Of cam
patgn contributions was not alluded to.
"Messrs. Archbold and Rogers, the
former doing almost all the talking.
stated they had come down in connec.
ton with the accusations made against
the Standard Oil company regarding
rebates. informed them that Mr..
Garfield had informed me that he was
about to report very strongly against
the Standard OIL company regarding
rebates. I informed them that Mr..
Garfield had informed me that he was
about to report very strongly against
the Standard OIL company on this
matter; and l referred them to Mr..
Garfield. suggesting that they see him
or Mr.. H. X. Smith. and go over the
matter with them before cominR to
me.
"Mr. Sibley. then a congressman
from Pennsylvania. called upon me
once or twice to speak on behalf of
the Standard OIL people. and urged
upon me that they were very good
men. and that their accusersw were un-
worthy and misguided creatures; but
he did not make any specific request
about them as far as I remember. nor
arrange ar interview for them. The
only reason I remember anything