The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-23
MONEY FOR TEDDY
NAMES OF MEN Who ST2PLIED
his CAMPAIGN fund
WHEN OPPOSED PARKER
Private Memoranda of Late Corne-
Illus Bliss Introduced Before 1nves-
tigating Committee, Revealing
List Of Campaign Contributors,
Who Were Mostly Trust Magnates.

For the first time since its inves-
tigation began the Senate campaign
committee Friday obtained copy of
a list of contributors to the much dis
puted 1904 Republican campaign
fund, when Roosevelt defeated Judge
Parker for President. Elmer Dover
| who was secretary Of the 1904 Re-
publican committee, put the list in
evidence, saying it had been copied
from the private memorandum book
of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, treas
| urer Of the committee. It totals ST.
2S0,01S, and showed practically all
of the contributors to the 1904 fund,
| which have been mentioned in the
| committees Investigation.
The list credited ]. P. Morgan &
| Co. with two contributions, one Of
100000, and one Of $4,000. A
contribution of 100000 appeared on
the list from III. H. R." and 81. D.
| W." Mr.. Dover told the committee
he supposed the III. H. R." stood
for H. H. Rogers, OF the Standard
| Oil Company, and that the ~. D.
| w" was an error and should have
been the initials Of either John D.
Archbold or John D. Rockefeller. E.
H. Hartman was credited with
s15O,000 in two contributions. Geo.
W. Perkins appeared asSiving $685.
900 in two contributions aid the fol-
lowing entries were on the list:
G. W. P, s25,0O0;" &c. W. P.
s100,OO0," and &C. w. P. committee,
100000" There was still another
entry I'D. W. P. committee, $780,
| 000." The contributions Of $4,000
each credited to &c. N. Bliss for P.
R." were on this list. George J.
Gould appeared as giving 100000.
Contributions aggregating s230,000
appeared as follows:
| J. P. Morgan & Co. (additionaD
$4,000; J. H. Hyde, $4,000; I. N.
seligman, $4,000; C. N. Bliss, s5,-
900; James Stillman, 100000; E. H.
Hartman, $4,000; D. o. Mills, $5,-
900: H. Mex. Twombley, $4,000;
G. ". Perkins, $4,000; Jacob H.
Schiff, $1,000; I. N. Seligman, s5,-
900. Several Of these contributors
have been mentioned before the COM
mittee as contributing to the social
ed Hartman fund of about S240,000.
Other contributions on the list
were: Chas. P. Taft, $4,000; Clifford
Pinchot, $4,000; Jos. H. Choate, ST.
900; Kountze company, $4,000; Jno.
Hay, $4,000; Charlemagne Tower,
$4,000; C. W. Post, s2,5oO; Seth
Low, $1,000; Theodore Roosevelt,
$4,000; C.. W. Fairbanks, $4,000;
William N. Cromwell, $4,000; S..
Guggenheim, $1,000; C.. A. Coffin, for
General Electric, $4,000; American
Locomotive Company, $1,000.
As accounting for several repeti-
tions of names in the list, Mr. Dover
explained to the committee that
there were collectors for the fund
in various cities. He mentioned E.
T. Stotesbury in Philadelphia, j. F.
Dryden in New Jersey and W. D.
Wainwright in Pittsburg.
The committee tried in vain to get
| information from Col. George Harvey
| of Harper's Weekly. He knew abso-
lutely nothing of funds collected or
OF attempts to collect funds or Of Of
fers Of funds to the Wilson precon-
vention campaign. A gruelling cross
examination by Senator Oliver failed
to shake this statement or to elicit
any statement regarding the Harvey
Wilson-Thomas F: Ryan incident.
Dover testified he supposed the &c.
W. P" stood for George W. Perkins.
He explained he believed the list
showed repetitions and inaccuracies.
J. P. Morgan already had told the
committee he gave S150,000, though
Dover's list shows more in separ-
ate items. Other items in the list as
Dover presented it might either be
interpreted as repetitions OF one con-
tribution or separate gifts.
Medill Mccormick, of Chicago, one
of Roosevelt's hackers, stirred up a
sensation before the committee when
he read a prepared statement touch
ing upon the attempted assassination
of Col. Roosevelt, declaring it had
been melted by "falsehoods OF char
acter assassins and liars like Charles
D. Hilles."
at is different for any ordinary
man in the compass of ordinary Ian
guage to compete with the testimony
of character assassins and liars like
Mr.. Hilles-men, who, by their false
hoods melted weak-minded men to
actual assassinations," was the pas
sage which brought out storm of
protest from the committee, in which
Chairman Clapp joined. The state
ment was admitted to the record
without being read from the prepar-
ed copy.
LYON STRONG IN DEFEAT.