Milford chronicle., 1912-10-04
Denies He Offered Million For
SenatOTShIp
he GOLD BRICKED" QUAY
Progressive Leader Admits That He
Contributed s144.sos to RooseveIt's
Campaign.

says l offered him 100000 to secur
/ my appointment to the senate he lies.
Emphasizing this statement with
, Rave of his fist, William Finn, O
Pittsburgh, Pa, denied before the ser
Rt0rial campaign fund investigatin
committee in Washington Senate
Penrose's s assertion that Finn ha,
tried to buy his way into the senate a
successor to the late Senator Quay.
Finn also fatty denied that he hac
sought the aid Of Standard Oil t
make him the successor OF Quay il
the United States senate, and asserted
that the telegram recently produced
by Senator PenrOse had been sent bJ
}. G. Splain, who. Finn said, signed
Films name without his knowledge
or consent.
Prior to this Finn had given the
amount Of his contribution to the
Roosevelt campaign fund in Pennsyl-
vania as 100000, and said this was
about 80 per cent of the total used in
that state, He said about S2SO00 was
used in Pittsburgh. His second state
ment was that his expenditures to-
tailed $l44,30S.29, OF which about $780,
900 was directly in the interest Of
Roosevelt. He said he had personally
contributed at least So or 80 per cent
of all the money spent for Roosevelt
in Pennsylvania.
Other amounts expended BY Mr..
Finn came under the head OF expendi-
lures in Republican and Progressive
organization work. which Mr. Finn
did not characterize as Roosevelt ex-
penditures."
The statement follows: Total ex-
penditures in Allegheny county, $2S,-
S0018; cost of postcards in state OF
Pennsylvania outside OF Allegheny
county, s29,965; expenditures in sixty
six counties in Pennsylvania outside
Of Allegheny county, $36,67770; total
expenditures Pennsylvania for RoOse-
yelt delegates, $94,942.SS; total expen-
ditures outside of the state Of Penn
sylvania, $4441.30; total Roosevelt ex- /
penditures, S99,3SA1S; contributed to
the Allegheny county Republican
party organization expenses, $S22L76;
expenditures Of raul S. Ache, S17.-
S4S.54; eyrcg led by John S. Weller,
treasurer Roosevelt league, S9O8O. ex-
pended by A. W. Powell, $IlG0; ex-
penditures OF Republican state organi-
cation, $4,000; personal expenditures
attending the Republican national
convention, S71LS5; expenses of Re
publican state convention, S187470;
expenses OF Progressive national con-
vention, siS5.46; contributions to the
Washington party state committee,
$150J; total expenditures, $144,3OS.29.
Finn was grilled by Senators Pom
creme and Olives about his part in
Penns. lvania politics. After much
spauiug he was forced to admit draw
ing up me agreement with the late
Senator Quay ". e aby he, Quay and
Brown were to wC.k together poliji-
eally and were to share federal ami
patronage. Finn declared
be never intended to sign the agree
ment and asserted that he had sold
Quay a gold brick"
Finn said his connection with the
presidential campaign in 1904 was lin
tied to his activities in Roosevelt's
favor in Pennsylvania. He added that
the famous postal card campaign in
Pennsylvania during the recent pri-
maries cost S29, 800. In accounting for
the expenditure of s99.SS4.1S in Penn
sylvania Finn said that more than
tgS, 600 was spent in Pittsburgh and
Allegheny county in his card cam
Daign and a total Of $44S1 was spent
outside of the state. He said he spent
526,OOO in sixty Pennsylvania coun les.
He declared the Taft people had
spent $4,000 in our county
Il think the money was all spent I
Iegitimately," he added, but it was
!
Senator Clapp called Mr.. Films at q
lention to Senator Penrose's charge
IN the senate, Aug. %. that Mr. Flnn c
nad made a fortune out Of municipal v
ieais, and had offered S1,O00.OO0 or t
100000 to Senator Penrose aud Is
-ael W. Durham to obtain the senate l.
seat of the late former Senator Qaay a
u 1905
"What have you to say to that?" &
,sked Senator Clapp, the chairman. 4
Films face flushed, and for the b
irst time his quick temper showed it. C
Ielf Glaring at Senator Pomerene, a
Who sat not ten feet from him, he a
mapped out Ii
well, sitting hege under oath, Il
viii say that if Senator Penrose made q
my such statement as that, he lied" Ia
mapped Finn: neither did | author
ne any other man to make such an II
,ner for ME" Of
That Colonel Roosevelt, late in 1908 Il
nd in 1904, when he was president, in
invited the late E. H. Hartman to In
oaie to see him at the White House,
nd that Hartman had given at least m
81, 1000 to the 1904 campaign of Roose- q
cit, was brought in before the senate az
in Washington investi- m
ating campaign funds of that and fol T.
wing years. si