The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-30

viii having asked LOT S10U,UUb more,
which was not forth coming. 1t was
also intimated that the Roosevelt let
ter to Cortelyou, demanding that
money received from the Standard Oil
company be returned forthwith and
that no money be received from that
corporation, was written solely for
record.
Senator Penrose, forming an alli-
ance with Senator La Toilette n
other republican senators antagonis-
tic to Colonel Roosevelt supplemented
this testimony by introducing in the
senate on August 22nd a resolution
calling for the investigation not only
of the 1904 and 1908 campaign fund,
but for an investigation of those of
the present year. This resolution
was introduced with the object of sum-
moning before the committee all those
who had attacked Senator Penrose.
and also in order 10 make a thorough
inve atigation of the recent Roosevelt
Taft pre-convention campaign.
Some of the Charges.
In this campaign it had been al
legged that William L.. Ward, a Roose-
welt national committeeman, had made
a trip through the South and that he
had o members of the Southern del
egations that there would be much
Roosevelt campaign money" and that
it had also been intimated that Geo.
w. Perkins, head of the Harvester
trust, was the angel of the present
Roosevelt campaign and that he had
contributed a sum estimated at 3d.
900, 900 toward the Colonies expenses.
Senator Penrose was followed on
the stand by John D. Archbold, who
stated that the late Cornelius H. Bliss
treasurer of the National Republican
committee, had received the $780, 600
mentioned and that a request through
him a been made for an additional
$4,000. Archbold further intimated
that it was his belief that Colonel
Roosevelt knew of the contribution
and the request for more money.
The publication of these statements
brought forth a heated denial from
Colonel Roosevelt who demanded that
he be called before the committee i'm
mediately that he might refute this
testimony. The committee, however,
adjourned before the Colonel could be
heard, the hearing going over until to-
day.
The names of Morgan, Rockefeller,
Knox and other eminent financially
and politically, were brought into the
inquiry either in connection with the
1904 Roosevelt campaign fund, the
Flinn-Quay-Penrose imbroglio, OF the
alleged attempt to control the Repub-
lican National convention in Chicago.
Secretary Knox, comes under the
Flinn-Quay-Penrose division of the in,
quiry, which Senator Penrose's char
ges are expected to again bring forth
the public. At the time Finn is said
to have offered 81, zoo, 900 to secure
Quay's place in the senate, three men
were mentioned prominently for the
senatorship. One of these was Finn,
the other two were Francis Robbins,
president Of the Pittsburg Coal com
pany, now dead and George F. Oliver
Knox Was Appointed.
One day a fourth candidate was
sprung anu NltIlu lOul udyS 1OS Z i uol
Pennypacker appointed Knox. The
Knox appointment is alleged to have
been due to the influence Of Henry G
Fruck and A. J. Cassatt, president OF
the Pennsylvania railroad and other
powerful interests. These interests
are said to have assumed heavy Ii
abilities contracted by the late Sen
ator Quay, with the understanding
that Knox be appointed to the vacant
| senatorship. Quay's obligations
amounted to $45O,0Oe
Further interest was added not only
to this feature OF the investigation, but
to that division devoted to the 1904
Roosevelt campaign fund by the cab
led assertion of William Randolph
Hearst that if Archbold, Penrose anG
Roosevelt did not tell the whole truth
he, Mr.. Hearst, would lay the matter
before the public. This was thought
to intimate that supplementary docu
ments to the long list of sensational
letters involving politicians and fl
nanciers already published would be
added to by others thai have not al
yet seen the light.
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