New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-02

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100000 TO the Roosevelt campaign ana
directed that the money be returned IL
the report were true. The telegram, dated
october %. 1904, read;
Has my request been complied with!
] desire that there be no delay .,.,,,r
THEODORE ROOSEN ELL
I'VE letter continues
Subsequent TO this telegram Mr.. Loeb.
my private secretary. called MT. Cortel1
you up on the telephone, and later dIn
So myself lie notified me first througn
Mr.. Loeb ana then directly that no suci,
contribution had been received or would
he received. He tells me he saw NJ
Bliss, showed him the letters ara 'eie-
gram. and that Mr.. Bliss then toid MN
that no Standard Oil money had Deen r.
Cefved and that none would be acceptel.
Mr. Penrose was a candidate Tor cndn-
man of the Republican National com
mittec i'm 1904. and II was reported 70 M M
that the members of the committee Wlsneu
10 choose him. This ! emphatically re-
fused TO allow I knew but little OF ny.
Pehrose at the time, but was not Wllnle
10 have any man whom ! ana not PEI,
sonally know and in whose prohlty qua
not have entire confidence as head OF t'e
committee.
Mr.. Cortelyou was put on at my per-
sonal request He ran the campaign al
most without suggestions from me. l
telephone and generally in writing.
Several matters irrelevant to the COM
mittee's inquiry are mentioned by Colohel
Roosevelt as the topics Of these letters
He communicated also with Senator Pen
rose. Colonel Roosevelt added. one let'er
from Colonel Roosevelt TO Senator rem
rose. dated the day after the 1904 cleo
ton. read
Nv Dear Senator Penrose:
i.pou nv word, OF all phenomenal 1"-
turns the Pennsylvania figures are mos
phenomenal / congratulate you ana
heartily thank YOU
I Colonel Roosevelt continues:
In all my communications with him
before or after election ! spoke OF con
tributions but once. This was IN a lettcI
10 him of October IS. 1894 IN reSpohst
TO a request of his that should retain
the services Of ono of his henchmeh
named Bum. of the Philadelphia POST
Office. who had been rccommended LOT
removal by the civil Service o9l,Ss asl
sessments from among his subordlnates
in the postofice My letter ended as fol
lows: Il have no alternative pnt 10 d'I Ivso
his removal. / suppose You Wo, I'M IN
this and I am awfully sorry. but beg
you to believe that II il were teasinIe TOT
me to act in any other way | would 90
so: and IT is only because ] nave no othei
alternative that / must remove Bum
The Parker Charges.
Here Colonel Roosevelt replies TO an
allusion in the recent Washington testi-
mony to Alton b. Parker's charges in
1907 by introducing the statement nc Is
sued on November 4. 1901, in reply to this
charge that big corporations had con-
tributed literally 10 the Republican cam
paign fund through the solicitation Of
Mr.. Cortelyou. declaring:
Any assertion that ever denied that
corporations and individuals had con-
tributed TO the Republican campaign fund
land also TO the Democratic campaign
fund.- is . falsehood.
The Hartman Letters.
Also. Colonel Roosevelt includes the let
ter he wrote 10 James S. Sherman, now
Vice President, on october s, 1906, in
which he reviewed at length the Roose-
velt-Harriman controversy over the s2JJ,-
600 contribution of the late +. II. Harri-
man in 1901
This letter. which was published shortly
after it was written. contained CORE
spondence between Messrs. Roosevelt and
Hartman and characterized Mr.. Harri-
mans statement that Roosevelt request
ed him 10 raise $4,000 as "a deliberate
and wilful untruth-by rights II should be
characterized by an even shorter and
more ugly word II also included the
letter written by Colonel Roosevelt-then
President-to Mr.. Hartman on October "a,
1904. in which Colonel Roosevelt said
Now, my dear SIR you and | are prscii-
cal men," as well as several other let
tiers bearing closely on the issue. Colonel
Roosevelt's letter TO Senator Clapp then
continues, as follows:
This letter was written in Mr.. Harrl-
mans lifetime. and neither was contra
dicted then nor can be contradictcd nov.
heard my conversation with Mr.. ilarri-
man and can testify about il. Mr.. Harri-
man never even discussed with Inc giving
anything TO the national committee, and
never spoke to him about II or requested
a dollar from him. He asked me 10 in
tercede with Mr. Bliss and Mr.. Cortelyou
to get money for him and Mr.. Odell in
their state campaign. Mr.. Loeb heard
him make the request. and by my dlrec-
ton transmitted the request 10 Mr.. Bliss
and Mr. Cortelyou over the telephone, as
did myself later
In my letters 10 Mr.. Cortelyou during
the campaign the only allusion that ! can
find to campaign contributions Is in one
In which / tell him that have heard a
rumor that Senator Dick of Ohio. has
been collecting money from offlceholders
and that If so he must be warned to stop
or he will get into trouble.
Saw Bliss lnfrequently.
/ communicated with Mr.. Bliss very in
frequently, and never made any allusion
to contributions I'm any letter that | wrote
him or any conversation ] had with him
From Mr. Bliss. as from Mr.. Cortelyou.
received the explicit statement that no
promise had been made and no obligation
entered into directly or indirectly, in CON
nection with any contribution that had