The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-29
ROOSEVELT WILL
HIT BACK HARD
Colonel Is Preparing Answer. to
Archbold's Charge.
ASKS CONGRESS TO BE HEARD
Requests Permission to Appear Be-
fore Senate Committee, But That
Body Cannot Hear Him
Before October I.

OYSTER Bay. Aug. 27.-Colonel Roose-
Welt is about to make an onslaught
against his accusers, who have insinu-
ated that he conjured at obtaining
Standard Oil support for the campaign
of 1904, and will endeavor to free him
self of the odium of such charge
The ex-president, stung by the
blockade put up by the senate com
mittee against his appearing before
II. and on Sunday that he viii write
out a comprehensive defense embody-
ing all he intended saying before the
inQuisitorial body. In it he will bring
out correspondence that passed be-
tween him and various statesmen,
showing their relation to the Standard
Oil company and on his part, the f1rm
adherence which he says be as presl'
dent maintained against corporation
influence
A sharp attack upon the Standard
on company for its attempt TO frus-
trate the administration prosecution
against it will form a conspicuous part
OF the ooloncl's assault. The ex-presi-
dent has been delying into adminlstra'
tive records to spring letters that
we're written 10 him by agents OF the
oil octopus. He intends, so he said,
to use some OF these letters to bring
out clearly the sinister attitude OF the
Standard Oil toward the government.
Mr.. Roosevelt has received no di'
rect word from Senator Clapp in re-
Spouse to his telegraphed request TOT
permission to appear before the In
vestigating committee, but he did
learn, through his campaign secretary
in New York, o. X. Davis, that the
committee would not be able to hear
him before October /.
Davis telephoned that Senator
Clapp had conveyed information by
telegraph that he could not assemble
the committee on Monday and that the
colonel would have to wait. This put
Mr.. Roosevelt in militant mood. He
dictated a statement telling Of his in
tent to spread his defense before the
country In detailed fashion. In the
course Of his statement, the ex-presi-
dent let 1t be known that Saturday
night he had held a secret conference
at Sycamore Hill with George b. Cor.
telyou, chairman OF the Republican
national committee In 1904, and that
Cortelyou had backed up all that
Roosevelt said In his utterances con.
corning the Standard Oil company in
the last few days.
Mind you" quoth the colonel In
relating the visit of Cortelyou, Il have
never said at any time that there was
no contribution made by the Stand.
ard Oil in 1904. | want that made ex-
plicit What | have said all along,
and in this Mr. Cortelyou bears me out,
that / took a stand against the a.
oeptance of Standard Oil money and
ordered any contribution It might have
made instantly returned. ] was in.
formed that my wishes had been com
that was exactly right; that | had
written to him just as ! said, against
accepting the Standard Oh money and
had directed It's return II any contri-
button had come In. Mr. Cortelyou
says he knows Of no Standard OIL
money being tasen for our compaign.
Mr.. Cortelyou supports everything
have said in my statements concern
ing the Standard Oil. | asked him
down here merely to talk it all over
again and we found that our memories
exactly agreed as n the circum.
stances"