The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-26

! ing the contributions, bearing attes-
tations by Rothschild, Hayes, Whit
comb and Thomas r. Shipp.
do you know the source of the fund
that Perkins sent?" he was asked.
81 suppose the money was his own"
he replied.
Ibid you know that $4,000 of it
came from the national committee?"
Il knew nothing whatever about it."
Were any other funds given you
by Perkins,"
NO
"Was not a fund sent by Perkins
j through you to finance the Indiana
polls Starr"
Certainly not
my information is that $265, 900 was
furnished by Perkins, through you, for
the Star. Do you know any thing
about such a deal?"
Il do not"
Perkins Boyhood Friend.
, Senator Beverage in explaining his
relation to his contributors in the 1904
campaign referred to Mr.. Perkins as
my oldest friend and as dear to me
as brother" He stated that he and
Perkins had been together since young
manhood and that Perkins was the
godfather of his daughter. His cous-
in, Mclean, he said, had grown up
with him since early boyhood. Both
of these men, said Senator Beveridge,
would do any thing they could to aid
him and to that spirit alone he at
tributed their Willingness to contri-
butte.
Senator Pomerene asked Beverage
about his dear old man" letter to
Perkins, which has been commented
on. Beverage stated that that let
ter expressed in a measure his affec-
ton for Mr.. Perkins. Senator Clapp
asked Mr.. Beveridge whether Perkins
acknowledged the return of his contri-
button. Beveridge said that Perkins
had and that he recalled the letter
clearly. Can you repeat it," asked
Senator Clapp, and Mr.. Beverage
flushed and begged to be excused, but
upon the insistence of the committee
he finally said, ''it read, your letter
and Enclosure received. An honest
man is the noblest work of God"
Beverage said that when the Perk-
Observation-Disclosures fund was received
he wanted to return it Immediately,
but that his friends prevailed upon
him to keep it until after election, be-
cause to return it during the campaign
would look like a grandstand play.
In discussing the dear old man"
letter, which he wrote to Perkins, re-
turning the 100000, Beveridge said,
Don't misconstrue the reference to
the mutual friends 1t referred to
DR.. Shaw of the Review of Reviews,
David Graham Phillips and two Or
three other friends like that"
In discussing the campaign of 1912
he said that his cousin Mclean, who
is a Taft man, sent him $1,000 but
that he returned it. 81 am for Roose-
welt and my cousin was not in that
fight, so l could not accept the
money" he said. In concluding his tes-
timony Mr.. Beveridge pointed out that
while in the senate he had entirely
given up his lucrative law practice
and had subsisted solely on his maya
zine writing and his senatorial salary.
He declared that he had never accept
ed money as a retaining fee while a
senator and had consistently refused
to make use of his railroad passes and
telegraph franks, although at one time
1T was considered perfectly proper by
others.
Beveridge said he gave up splen-
did law practice to go to the senate
always paid his election expenses and
had otherwise endeavored to prevent
any possible criticism of his conduct
The committee then adjourned, sub
ject to call Of the chair, which prob
ably means some time after the cleo
ton.