The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-02
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/ cepted."
Mr.. Penrose was a candidate TOR
I chairman of the Republican national
/ committee in 1904, and It was reported
to me that the members of the commit
! tee wished to choose him. This en-
] phatically refused to allow knew but
little of Mr.. Penrose then, but I was
not willing to have any man whom L
! did not personally know and in whose
! probity I did not have entire confidence
! as head of the committee.
Mr. Cortelyou was put on at my per-
sonal request. He ran the campaign
almost without suggestion from me.
communicated with him occasionally by
| telephone and generally in writing
! Several matters irrelevant to the COM
mittee's inquiry are mentioned by Col
( onel Roosevelt as the topics of these
I letters. He communicated also with
! Senator Penrose. Colonel Roosevelt
, added. One letter from Colonel Roose-
1 Welt to Senator Penrose, dated the day
after the 1904 election. read:
Upon my word! o. all phenomenal
returns, the PennsyIval---. figures are
most phenomenal-I congratulate you
and heartily thank you"
Colonel Roosevelt continues:
In all my communications with him
before or after election, spoke of con-
trtbutions but once. This we s in let
ter to him of October %, 1904. in res
Spouse to a request of his that 1 should
retain the services of one of his henc!-
men named Bum, of the Philadelphia
postoff1ce who had been recommended
for removal by the civil service COM
mission because of the collection of po-
litical assessments from among his
subordinates in the postoffice. My let
ter ended as ollowS:
" I have no alternat tive but to direct
his removal. Suppose you won't like
this, and am awfully sorry, but beg
you to believe that if it were feasible
n a in oil, 7 vor1l1
do so, and it is only because 1 have no
alternative that 1 must remove Bum
Replies to Parker.
Here Colonel Roosevelt replies to an
allusion in the recent Washington tes-
umony to Alton B. Parker's charges in
1904. In reply to this Nharge that big
corporations had contributed liberallv
tc the Republican campaign fund
through the solicitation of Mr.. Cor
telyou, Colonel Roosevelt includes the
letter he wrote to James S. Sherman,
now vice president. on October 8, 1906,
IN which he reviewed at length the
Roosevelt Hartman controversy over
the $3.50, 900 contribution of the late E.
II Hartman in 1904
This letter, which was published
shortly after it was written, contained
correspondence between Messrs.
Roosevelt and Hartman and charac-
serlzed Mr.. Harriman's statement that
Roosevelt requested him to raise
d
untruth-by rights it should be char
acterized by an even shorter and more
ugly word" It also includes the let
ter written by Colonel Roosevelt-then
president-to Mr.. Hartman on Octo-
Der Is, 1904, in which Colonel Roose-
welt said, NOW, my dear sir, you and
/ arc practical men, as well as sew
eral other letters bearing closely on
the issue. Colonel Roosevelt's letter |
to Senator Clapp then continues as fol- |
lows:
This letter was written in Mr. Har- |
rimaH's lifetime, and either was con- |
tradicted then or can be contradicted |
now. Mr. Loeb, then my private. sec
rotary, heard my conversation with |
Mr.. Hartman and can testify about it. |
Mr.. Hartman never even discussed |
tionaI committee and never spoke to |
him about it or requested a dollar |
from him. He asked me to intercede |
with Mr.. Bliss and Mr.. Cortelyou to |
get money for him and Mr.. OdelI in |
their state campaign. Mr.. Loeb heard |
him make the reques-. and by my di- |
rection transmitted the request to Mr..
Bliss and Mr.. Cortelyou over the tele-
phone, as I did myself later.
In my letters to Mr.. Cortelyou dur
ing the campaign the only allusion
tons is in one in which tell him that
/ have heard rumor that Senator
Dick of Ohio has been collecting
money ,s from ofticeholders, and that if
will get him into trouble.
BIiss's Assurance.
Il communicated with Mr.. Bliss
very infrequently, and never made any
allusion to contributions in any letter
that 1 wrote him or any conversation
] had with him. From Mr.. Bliss as
from Mr.. Cortelyou. received the ex-
plicit statement that no promise had
been made and no obligation entered
into directly or indirectly in. connec-
ton with any contribution that had
beer received or would be entered into
in connection with any contribution
that might be received in the future. |
"I have never discussed the question
of contributions with Mr.. Perkins save
In connection with discussing the ac-
cusations brought before your COM
mittee. I have never, directly or indi-
rectly. asked him for a contribution,
and I did not 50 far as I can remem-
her ask any human being for a con-
either while 1 was running
for president or for vice president or
during the recent primary or since the
recent primary.
Mr.. Archbold has alluded to his
visit made year or SO after the cleo
ton, to me in company with Mr..
Rogers. Mr.. Rogers and Mr.. Arch
bold made an appointment to see me
through Mr.. Root, who was then in
my cabinet. He was not present at |
paign contributions was not alluded to. |
"Messrs- Archbold and Rogers. the
former doing almost all the talking,
stated the had come down in connec-
tor with the accusations made against
the Standard Oil company regarding
rebates. I informed them that Mr..
Garfield had informed me that he was
about to report very strongly against
the Standard Oil company. in this
matter; and I referred them to Mr..
Garfield, suggesting that they see him
or Mr.. H. K. Smith and go over the
matter with them before coming to
ms.
Mr.. Sibley, then a CONGRESSMAN
from Pennsylvania, called upon me
once or twice to speak on behalf of
the Standard Oil people( and urged
upon me that they were very good men