The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-02
Declares Every Allegation Made By Archbold and
 PenrOse Is False
LETTER TO SENATOR
 CLAPP MADE PUBLIC
Brands Penrose as Unfit to Hold a Seat in Senate-In Letter Re- views in Detail all Matters
 in Controversy

New York, September 1.-Denying there fin every allegation of John D. Archbold and Senator Boies Penrose that he sought or was cognizant of, contributions by the Standard Oil company to his campaign of 1904; branding Penrose as unfit to hold a seat in the United States Senate, and reviewing in detail his part in all mat ters connected with the controversy raised by the accusations of Penrose and Arch bold, Colonel Roosevelt tonight made pub lie his letter to Senator Clapp, chairman Of the committee investigating campaign contributions.
 The letter. which bears the date of Au- gust 2s, was written after the Senate committee declined to have the colonel appear before it last Monday as he re- quested,
 The statements of Archbold and Pen rose MT. Roosevelt brands as injurious gossip at third hand instead of merely at second hand"
 "The charge against MT. Penrose,p he declares, was direct charge. This charge was not merely that he took $25, coo from the Standard oil company, but that at or about the time of taking 1t, 
 the Senate which was formed to nvesti- gate industrial affairs in the Uniled States, he was in constant communica- tion with MT Archbold on the subject and that he submitted to MT. Archbold for his approval in advance a copy of the report of the commission.
 Declares Penrose Unfit
 c+at fc tr,ta ba tinues, "of course MT. Penrose is unfit to represent the people in the United States Senate, and the testimony against him is direct"
 In the next sentence he takes a yelled slap at the Senate committee for not taking up the charge against Penrose. as follows:
 Apparently, however the comnitte is Investigating not this charge against Mr. Penrose, which was sustained by direct evidence, but MT. Penrose's countercharge which was sustained by no evidence at all and only by the repetition of second hand gossip
 The Archbold statement that with his consent of knowledge Cornelius Bliss, then treasurer of the republican national committees asked the Standard oil com~ pany for $l0o,00O, Roosevelt ayers is "an unqualified falsehood' Supporting his defense, the colonel includes in his let ters copies of his letters to MT. Cortel- you, his campaign manager, in 1904, or dering him not to accept any money from the Standard oil; also telegram to Mr. Cortelyou asking him if his desires had been complied with In reply Cortelyou told him, the colonel says, that no con tribution had been received from Standard oil or would be received
 rI,o 1l. El.~ opposition to Cortelyou, of Senator een- rose, Tor chairman of the republican nu- tional committee in 1904, and his selectir of Cortelyou. He says: T was not will ling to have any men whom 1 did not know personally and in whose probity did not have entire confidence as head Of the committee" In connection with his relations with Penrose the colonel as serts he spoke of contributions to the Pennsylvania senator but once and then when he refused to retain one of Per- roses henchmen, a certain Bum. em- pioyed in the Philadelphia postoffice after the latter had been recommended for re- moval by the civil service commission for collecting political contributions from fellow employees. A copy of this letter to Penrose is included.
 The colonel takes up the allusion before the Senate committee to the charges Of Alton B. Parker, Roosevelt's opponent for the presidency in 1904, that the republican national committee had blackmailed cor porations into making campaign contri- buttons and promised immunity if the con- trbutions were made. Colonel Roosevelt reproduces his reply to these charges in a statement dated November f. 1904. i9 which he described them as "fase" and 'monstrous In this statement Is a sentence of pertinent interest m view of the nature of the recent fight between Roosevelt and Taft for the regular re- publican nomination..
 "I cannot understand how any honor able man, a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people, can tate refuge not merely in personalities, but in such base and unworthy personalities"
 Hartman Controversy
 Colonel Roosevelt reviews at great length the Hartman controversy intro- ducing 1t with letter which he wrote to Vice President Sherman in 1906, this let ter including copy of Governor O'Delrs s letter to Roosevelt dated December 10. 1904. All the other now famous Hartman letters are reproducing, inclung the you and l are practical men" missile, the motive being to prove that Roosevelt never asked Hartman for campaign contribution. as Hartman was said to have alleged. and to show that Hartman was never consulted by the Colonel on the subject of prosecution of the rail- roads, and that Roosevelt refused to com ply with the request of New York f1nan- oal interests. voiced by Hartman that Chauncey Depew or James Hagen Hyde be designated as American amba ssador to France. The colonel reiterates tha his message as regarded the interstate commerce commission in 1904 was not changed, despite the import things of Hartman.
 Referring again to the subject of cam paign contributions, Colonel Roosevelt makes fiat denial of the inference of John b Archbold that he (Roosevelt, through Bliss, knew of the Standard Oil contri- button. He says.
 q communicated with Mir. Bliss very frequently, and never made any allu- sion to contributions in any letter I wrote him any conversation I had with him.
 T have never discussed the question of contributions with MT. Perkins, !" he goes on, save in connection with discussing the accusations brought be- fore your committed"
 The visit to the White House of Archbold and H. H. Rogers about a year after Roosevelts election is dealt with a length. They protested, the colonel says against the accusations made against the Standard oil in connec- tion with rebates, the prosecution then being in the hands of Attorney General Bonapart, Frank E. Kellog and James Garfield. director of bureau of corpora tions He told the oil magnates the colonel says. that he could do nothing for him. Congressman Sibley of Penn .