The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-23
ROOSEVELT CRIES ''LIAR"
 TO PENROSE Deliberate FaIsehoOd,' Says the Colonel, "and He
 Knows r Reiterates His Claim That He Wanted No Funds of the
 Standard OH Go.

New York, Aug. Charging Sena-a tor Penrose with deliberate falsehood, Colonel Roosevelt issued a statement as soon as he reached his offices in the Outlook today on his return from Wilkesbarre, as follows: M
 Senator Penrose would do we'll not to attribute to others the baseness that actuates himself. The statement that Perkins underwrote the primary fund for sS.000.000 or any other. fund remotely resembling it is a deliberate falsehood which he knows it to be when he makes it.
 The statement that the letter. and telegrams to Mir Cortelyou were writ ten for the purpose of getting into the record and were not genuine and were. not accepted by Mir Cortelyou as gen.. uine, is a wilfuH and deliberate false he makes it. Until MT. sPenrose spoke the other day I had never heard of Mir. Archbold's name in connection with any contribution
 My first letter, written as soon as I heard rumor that the Standard Oil people had contributed explicit and unequivocal in it's terms, was written on October 24. My second letter. if possible, even more emphatic, was written on October 27. Not hearing from these letters I wrote on October 29, then received from MT. Cortelyou
 
 be compiled with and that no contri- button from the Standard Oil people had been or would be received. If any contribution was received it was not only without my knowledge but against my emphatic wishes.
 II wish to add that I am certain that when Mr. Cortelyou told me that they would be thus acted upon, he was saying what he undoubtedly un- derstood to be in exact accord with the facts
 .1No man can honestly misunder- stand those letters and no man who is not dishonest man can put any in- depreciation upon them other than that upon their face
 There is nothing that I welcome more than MT. Penrose's opposition. Senator Poindexter pointed out the ex- act truth when he said that MT: Pen- rose and MT. Penrose's allies in the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, were in a conspiracy to serve the politics of corruption, preserve the cause of corruption in politics and business alike by unwayering islander and mendacity to oppose the only man and the only party which seriously en- dangers the rule of corruption in .poli- tics and finance, that is the progress sive party, and it's candidate.'
 MT. Penrose is opposing us precise ly as MT. Lorimer, whose cause he cnamplOne0, IS opposing us ana with MT. Lorimer out of the way, Mir. Pen rose is now the leading representative in political life Of the forces which MT. Lorimer symbolized.''
 Annapolis, Aug. 23-Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for President in 1904, issued the following statement here today:
 "The story that the Standard Oil contributed in the 1904 campaign through Archbold is not new. I re- peated the story of the S100000 con- tribution to Treasurer Bliss in a polit- ical speech four years ago in Ba1ti- more.
 ..Nor. is Colonel Roosevelt's self serving declaration to Cortelyou new. Tn that some speech I said in effect that it was reported that President Roosevelt worte to Chairman Cortel- you to return the money to the Stan dard Oil people and cautioned my hearers to remember, should such a letter be produced by Or through him, that the money was not returned to the Standard Oil people but was spent by the committee, that Cortelyou was not punished for keeping and spend- ing it. instead he was rewarded by be- ing made postmaster general and af- terward promoted to be secretary of the treasury. These facts ought to satisfy any mind that the letter was not written to be obeyed but written for production for public consumption in case the contribution should be some time exposed"