The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-27
TWAS ROOSEVELT
AIDED HARTMAN
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Are you supporting Colonel Roosc-
welt as against President Taft?' COL
lector Loeb was asked.
Not In Politics.
The collectors office is not In poll
tics" was his reply. When l was
sent here TO take charge President
Iafts only instruction TO me was TO
collect the revenue. This 1 have been
doing. and this 1 shall continue to do
TO the end. The President has never
Siven ms any other Instructions"
Collector Locb's statements on both
subjects We're repeated TO former re
publican National Chairman CortelyOu
to-day In his office in the building OF
the Consolidated Gas Company. of
which nc is now president While list
cring to them with obvious interest.
Mr.. Cortelyou ARMY declined to com
ment upon them. saying in reply to
every question: II have nothing 10 say
at this time
Air Coriclyou repeated that he had
voluntarily appeared before the Senate
lnFestisauns committee at Washing
ton, mad answered frankly and from
the best OF his recollection every
question that had been asked him, and
had volunteered whatever Information
tnat occurred TO him at that time lie
expects to be again called before the
committee and VIII then amplify his
testimony TO the best Of his ability.
The head OF the gas trust, s, is
pointed out by his friends. must be
especially embarrassed by the itoose-
'eit-Archhold controversy for "a tsso
H.N
seven and a half years was his official
cn!et. lie served him Arat Is private
Acc!etary, then succcsalvcly as Secre-
tary OF Commerce and LABOR, manager
az the Roosevelt presidential cam
pa!en Postinaster-Gener4i ana Secrc-
Tar! Of i.e treasury. In all these scv-
oral positions Mr Cortelyou's rela-
,ions with Colonel Roosevelt wcro
particularly intimate and confidential
II 80 happens that several directors
Of the gas trust arc PERSONA. and bust
ness int!mates OF John y. Arcnboid
hni otner Standard oil nasHates who
axe heavily Interested ia Consolidated
lis. Thus MI Cortelyou is supposed
70 md himself more or less divided
'iwiNt love and duty
Judge Alton 3. Parker. whom Col
ouel Roosevelt defeated for Prosiaon,
In 1908. could not be seen TO-DAY. An
.Nort was made TO lay before him the
latest Developments in the STANDARD
Di!- Roosevelt CONTROVERSY 10 which
Jrage Parker has contributed con-
s.ceraoly in the last .few days.
ne accuracy with which Judge
Farker's Information given out bv him
four years ago. a,s IA with the testI-
monf given under oath by John ID
Archoo!d before tho Senate committees
last week mas aroused much curiosity
as % tho source of his Information.
In his Baltimore speach on October
1908. Judge Parker. besides telling OF
me Woo 0l0 standard Oh contribution
and tho demand for Sl5o.000 more
even asserted that President Roose-
ve.t had written one or more letters
ordering Chairman corteiyou to send
lac money back TO the STANDARD OH
company y that concern had as re-
ported. contributed a dollar 10 his
campaign that those letters had never
been given ont FOR publicity. but that
az the proper time they would be
May Come From "Inridc."
II Us generally surmiscd that this
Information came from inside s-~rces
~ inc OH monopoly
Judge Parker has also declared that
according 10 his Information Il was
Hartman Corte!you and not Treas
urer Bliss. as nearly everybody had
been led 20 believe, who initiated the
!thHt'a'4oAs which resulted in the
standard OIL Comparys large contri-
button. and that Chairman Cortelyou
had done this by calling up II II.
Rogers. now dead. but who In 1874
Was FIRST vice president OF the stand
ard OIL company Mr.. Cortelyou de-.
clined to comment upon this state
mont;
Because OF his apparently intimate
knowledge OF the whole affair. it is be.
leved the Senate committee Will ask
Judge Parker 10 appear and give his
testimony.
Mr.. Loeb dismissed the subject OF the
midnight conference at the white
House between Messrs. Archbold and
Rogers and President Roosevelt soon
after the election OF 1904 with the
positive assertion that hs was not
present and has never heard what &C.
Cured then.