The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-22
ARCHBOLD LETTER BOGUS SAYS PENROSE
RECEIVED $25,OOO AS PART OF $125,OO OIL TRUST PAID TO
 ELECT ROOSEVELT.
Bull Moose Boss Ennity Due to Failure of $2,OOO,OOO Bribe,
 Declares Senator.


 Washington, Aug. 22-senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania has replied on the floor of the Senate to the charges made against him by Hearst's Magazine, the Munsey newspapers, and William F4inn's organ, The Pitts burgh Leader, in regard to $25,0O0 paid him by John D. Archbold of the Stan dard Oil Company. The letter said to have accompanied the deposit slip for that amount MT. Penrose branded as forgery But the amount itself he admitted receiving as a part of $125,0OO contributed by Mr.. Arch bold to the Roosevelt campaign fund of 1904.
 Of this transaction, said MT. Penrose, the late Cornelius N Bliss, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee last year told him that Col. Roose- welt both knew and approved. It was on the basis of that approval, Senator asked MT. ArcIbold for a further contribution. of s150,o00. That request pressed. according to MT. Bliss's state ment, by the urgent need in which President Roosevelt felt his party to be, MT. Archbold was ready to grant.
 
 that he had already contributed enough, and they prevented him from adding to his original contribution. The Senator from Pennsylvania de- voted but little time to his own de- fense. As these dispatches anticipated Tuesday. he caroied the war quick ly into the. enemy's country Col Roosevelt's statements on the subject he charac erized as mendacity, du- plicity, or political aphasia. His own activities in raising money and ir conducting the Pennsylvania cam paign, he said, drew from President Roosevelt warm letter of apprecia- statement he intimated that he had but scratched the surface in the reve- lationS he might make. There were documents and letters in existence, he said. which it would be good to pub fish to prevent the public being gull ed by irresponsible denials.
 Far more bitter than the Senators attack on Col. Roosevelt were his re- marks concerning the Coloners pres ent 1ieutenants in Pennsylvania, Will liam Finn and Editor Van Valken- burg. Their attack on him today, he said, was but a continuation of ar old feud. and was chiefly the out growth of his failure to accept the bribe Of from $1 100000 to $2,000, ,o0t from Finn for the Senatorial nonina- tion That bribe, said MT. Penrose was offered to him jointly with Israel W. Durham, a Republican leader oi Philadelphia, and was we'll known tc others at the time.
 Tn 1904 the very year in which the alleged letter was written to Senator Penrose by Mir Arclfbold, inclosing 8 deposit certificate for s25,000. Mr. Pen
 rose declared, William Finn was con
 ducting an animated and friendly sele- graphic correspondence with the Stan
 dard Oil magnate, urging him to use his influence with Mir. Penrose and
 MT. Durham to obtain for him the nomination to the Senate Of the Uni ted States. MT. Penrose read a tele- gram from MT F'1inn to Mfr. Archbold
 making this request, and he read Mr Archbold's reply in cipher, declaring rose he, (Mr. Archbold,l J could have nt definite view on the subject.
 aThis te1egram,'' interpolated MT Penroee twas addressed to William Flinn, the great reformer of Pennsyl. vania''
 The telegrams read. were as fol lows:
 Pittsburgh, June T, 1904 | tried to talk to you over ths | phone last night, but could not heal you. I am making an effort to go te the United States Senate as M. s Quay's successor As it now stands ! the appointment will go to Alleghen. County, and expect to get it. Int
 Republican organization of Alleghen, l County is desirous of my appointmen and is working in. Also the Republi can organization of the surrounding counties. The decision of the ques | tion is up to Senator Boies PenroSe State Chairman, and Israel w. Dur
 ham. The efforts of few of my in | kS@I Gv3 An a l with Penrose and Durham will settle l the question. If you will use your in 1 fluence with them in my behalf will greatly appreciate it. The deci sion will probably be reached Wed nesday. Can you help me? WILLIAM FLYNN. 1 The following reply. MT. Penros' | said, was sent in cipher to MT. Finn from Mr. Arcfbold:
 New York, June T.. 1904. 1 Telegram received. Sorry that th, expect to jail Pop sharply parsed fan ! ming, and until flagon prefix is Ia mented for me to have flood hatret reship.
 This translated, read as follows; Telegram received. Sorry that tn \ phone did not work better. expec ' to have talk with Senator Penrose and until after that it is lmpossiDt
 for me to have any definite view. JOHN D. ARCHBOLD. l As to MT. Van valkenburg. MT Penrose told how he had been arrest ed in 1896 and indicted for bribery il Mir Penrose's first Senatorial cam paign. At that time, said MT. Penrose l the editor escaped only through thu leniency of Senator Quay, and by tn, payment of S100O0 for various cost ! connected with the case the day be fore it was to have come to trial. | Senator Penrose had a distinguished audience The galleries were filled nearly every Senator was in his seat and many members from the Houst came over to hear what had been re ported in advance to be sensationa attack on the Roosevelt forces. Col Roosevelt's son-in-law, Representative l Nicholas Longworth, was an attentiv, listener. Senator La Toilette, a dis appointed candidate for the Republi
 can nomination, was the only Sena