The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-10-16
PREP AIRED TO
GO The LIMIT"
-CHARLES p. TAFT.
Gave Nearly S375,OOO 10 Aid
Brother in Campaigns
WANTED PRESIDENT TO Be FREE
Dan r. Hanna, Ex-Speaker Scott, John
D. ArchboId and Others Quizzed by
Campaign Fund Probers Of Senate.
-cHARLEs P. TAFT.

Charles p. Taft told the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign funds
that he contributed s159, 1880 to aid
in electing his brother president in
1908 and that he had paid $2l3,59241
this year toward the expenses OF Sc
curing the presidents denomination in
the Chicago convention.
Mr.. Taft said his object in going
into the campaign was to see that If
his brother was elected he should
walk into the White House free of
any monetary obligation to any indi-
vidual, great interest or corporation.
On this basis" he added, 81 was pre-
pared to go the limit. | believed my
brother was admirably equipped for
the position. | believed in his in
tegrity, his fearlessnes1, and | be-
lieved no one could bulldoze or use
him. The principal thing to be
obviated was the influence on any can
didate of any monetary interest"
Mr.. Taft's contribution in the pre-
convention fight of 1908 was reported
to be 100000. If this latter figure Is
correct Charles P. Taft has paid out
all told in the last four years the i'm
mense sum of $675,OOO to further his
brothers political ambitions.
Dan R. Hanna Of Cleveland, hacker
of the Roosevelt forces in Ohio this
year, followed Mr.. Taft on the wit.
ness stand. He testified that he gave
$177000 to the support of the Roose-
welt campaign for nomination this
year.
Hanna declared that he alone had
sustained the entire burden of the
financing of the Roosevelt fight for
delegates in Ohio. Mr.. Hanna ad-
mitted that he had dumped $4,000
into the Ohio campaign.
Former Senator Nathan B. Scott OF
West Virginia told of a telephone con-
versation he had at the Republican
Headquarters in New York with some
one in the White House whom he be-
lieved to he President Roosevelt.
According to Senator Scott, the man
in the White House declared that he
would rather lose the national cleo
ton than be defeated in his own state
and added; 81 will send for Mr.. Har-
riman to see if funds cannot be raised
for Mr.. Higgins"
The authenticity of the majority OF
the letters recently made public by
William r. Hearst, purporting to have
passed between John d. Archbold of
the Standard Oil company and men,
bers of the house and senate was ad
mitted by Mr.. Archbold.
Those letters of which facsimile
photographs have been published were
in almost every case identified by Mr.
Archbold with the statement: Il un-
doubtedly wrote that These included
letters to and from Senators Hanna,
Foraker, Quay and Penrose, and for
mer Representatives Sibley of Penn
sylvania and Grosvenor of Ohio.
In regard to the gift of 100000 to
the Republican campaign fund of 1904
Mr.. Archbold admitted that the re-
NtlDl SlNtH Ny wi lltlluo ~ lpAlpo lDl
the sum had been destroyed by him
self ard II. r. Rogers, now dead, He
said he had not been able to find even
book entry of the amount on the
books of the Standard Oil company.
81 repeat that the money was paid,
he said, "and was not refunded; that
it was paid by me to Mr.. Bliss. | don't
want any man to tell me it was not.
Il. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia on
the stand said in 1904 he made col
lections among business men in Penn
sylvania in behalf of the Republican
national committee and the Republi-
can candidate. He raised $l65, 1880
and turned that amount over to Cor
nelius ~ Bliss, the treasurer of the
committee. Mr.. Stotesbury collected
$33, 1000 from the steel interests and
this added to the $l5O,0OO contributed
by ]. p Morgan makes a grand total
of $1SS,O00 from interests keenly con-
cerned in tariff legislation.
Among those contributing to the
1904 campaign at the instance of Mr..
Stotesbury were the United States
Steel corporation, $l2,775; the Ameri-
can Bank Note company, $1,000;
Charlemagne Tower, $500; Drexel &
Co., $4,000; Bethlehem Steel, $4,000;
CambriS Steel, $4,000; William Cramp
{: Sons, $1,000; Midvale Steel, $4,000;
Pennsylvania Steel, $4,000; Philadeh
phia Electric company $4,000.
In 1908 Mr. Stotesbury again passed
the hat around among his business
friends in Pennsylvania. He was not
as successful. that year. He harvested
only $lO1,O51.67. The greater part of
the 1908 yield were small contribu
tions
Mr.. Stotesbury testified that he con-
trbuted $4,000 this year to Mr. Talt's
campaign fer denomination.
William Edwards, deposed Republi-
can national committeeman of Charles
ton, w. Va, said that the Bull Moose
campaign in West Virginia cost not
more than $4,000 and that he hired
special train and took all of the West
Virginia delegates to the convention
at his expense, including hotel bills
The sum of S265,OOO collected and
spent in t,.J campaign for President
Tafts renon nation through his Wash
ington headquarters was partially ac