Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

such contribution had been received
or would be received. He tells me he
saw Mr.. Bliss. showed him the letters
and telegram, and that Mr.. Bliss then
told him that no Standard Oil money
had been received and that none would
be accepted
Turned Penrose Down.
Mr. Penrose was a candidate for
chairman of the Republican national
committee in 1904 and it was reported
to me that the members of the com
mittee wished to choose him. This l
emphatically refused to allow. l knew
but little of Mr.. Penrose at the time,
but / was not willing to have any man
whom l did not personally know and
in whose probity l did not have en-
tire confidence as head of the commit
tee
Mr.. Cortelyou was put on at my
personal request He ran the cam
paign almost without suggestion from
me. l communicated with him occa-
sionally by telephone, and generally in
writing"
Several matters irrelevant to the
committees inquiry are mentioned by
Colonel Roosevelt as the topics of these
letters. He communicated also with
Senator Penrose, Colonel Roosevelt
added. One letter from Colonel Roose-
welt to Senator Penrose, dated the day
after the 1904 election, read:
Upon my word! OF all phenomena
returns, the Pennsylvania figures are
most phenomenal l congratulate you
and heartily thank you"
Colonel Roosevelt continues:
I'm all my communications with him
before or after election l spoke OF con-
tributions but once. This was in d
letter to him of October %, 1904, in
response to request of his that /
should retain the services of one of his
herchmen, named Bum, of the Phila-
delphia postoffice, who had been recon-
mended for removal by the civil service
commission because of the collection of
political assessments from among his
subo9dinates in the postoffce. My let
ter ended as follows;
"I have no alternative but to direct
his removal. l suppose you won't like
this and l am awfully sorry but | beg
you to believe that if it were feasible
for me to act in any other way I would
do so; and it is only because l have no
other alternative that I must remove
Bunn.'"
About the Hartman Contribution.
Colonel Roosevelt next replies to an
aluson in the recent Washington tes-
timony to Alton B. Parker's charges in
1904 by introducing the statement he
issued on November a. 1904, in reply
to this charge, that big corporations
had contributed literally to the Repub
Gcan campaign fund through the solicit
tation of Mr. Co,teiyou Also, Colone!
Roosevelt includes the letter he wrot,
to James S. Sherman. now vice presi
dent, on October s, 1906, in which he
reviewed at length the Roosevelt Har-
riman controversy over the $3.50, 900
contribution of the late E. H. Hartman
in 1904
This letter, which was published
shortly after it was written, contained
correspondence between Messrs Roose-
welt and Hartman, and characterized
Mr.. Harriman's statement that Roose-
welt requested him to raise $500 az
"a deliberate and willful untruth-by
rights it should be characterized by an
even shorter and more ugly word" 1t
also included the letter written by
Colonel Roosevelt-then president-to
Mr.. Hartman on October IA, 1904 in
which Colonel Roosevelt said Now,
my dear sir, you ana l are practical
men," as well as several other letters
bearing closely on the issue. Colonel
RoOsevelt's letter to Senator Clapp then
continues, as follows:
This letter was written in Mr.. Har-
rimans lifetime, and neither was con-
tradicted then, nor can be contradcted
now. Mr.. Loeb, my then private secre-
tary, heard my conversation with Mr..
Hartman, and can testify about It, Mr.
Hartman never even discussed with
me giving anything to the national
committee, and 1 never spoke to him
about it, or requested dollar from him.
He asked me to intercede with Mr. Bliss
and Mr.. Cortelyou to get money for
him and Mr. Odell in their state cam
paign. Mr.. Loeb heard him make the
request, and by my direction transmit