The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-23
WARM DENIAL
FROM ROOSEVELT
Colonel Insists That He Knows Moth
Ing About Any Standard oil
Money In tiis
Purse.
JUMPS ON pENRosE
Finda Occasion to Mention LorInnor
and Compares Him to Others
Who crltiolze HIs
Actions

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryica.l
NEW YORK. Aug 2s.--Charging
Senator Penrose with deliberate false
hood, Colonel Roosevelt issued
statement as soon as he reached his
office in the Outlook today on his re.
turn from WilSesbarre. as follows:
Senator Penrose would do we'll not
to attribute to others the baseness
that actuates himself The statement
that Perkins underworld the primary
fund for s3,o00,oo0, or any other
fund remotely resembling It, is the de-
liberate falsehood he knows it to be
when he makes It,
The statement that the letter and
kilograms to Mr.. Cortelyou were writ
ten for the purpose of going into rec
ord and We're not genuine and were
not accepted by Mr.. Cortelyou as genn-
Inc, is wilful and deliberate false
hood, which he knows to be such when
he makes 1t. Until Mr. Pehrose spoke
the other day l. had never heard OF
Mr.. Archbold's name IN connection
with any contribution.
Mr. Penrose's attitude in this mat
ter simply bellies his habituai attt-
tude which has brought him to disas-
ter In Pennsylvania, for he was never
able to understand that other men
are not actuated by his own incurable
baseness OF soul.
MY first letter. written as soon as
7 ~
/ Oh people had contributed, explicit
and unequivocal In its terms, was
written on October "a My second let
ter, IL possible. even more emphatic,
was written October 27 Not hearing
from these letters, wired on October
80. | then received from Mr.. Cortei-
you, the statement that my wishea
would be complied with and that no
contribution from the Standard OH
people had been or would be received.
II any such contribution was re-
celved, 1t was not only without my
knowledge, but against my emphatic
direction. These letters speak for
themselves. They went into the REQ
ords. OF course, but they went into the
records because they were genuine,
because | received assurances that
they were accepted in the spirit in
which ] wrote them and action taken
accordingly.
Il wish to add that am certain
that when Mr.. Cortelyou told me that
they would be thus acted upon, no was
saying what he undoubtedly knew to
be In exact accord with the facts.
mo man can honestly misunder
stand these letters and no man who
Is not dishonest man can put any
Interpretation upon them other than
that upon their face.
"Let me ask anyone who wishes to
know the truth to read my speech
last night; TO read tho statement
made at the time gave out copies Of
my three letters the other day The
speech and the letters cover every
point. The reason that Mr.. Penrose
and his political allies and his back
ers and his masters III the world OF e.
nance are against me now, is because
they and their kind could not use me
while was president. because while
i treated every politician and every
fnancier with Justice. l declined to
do one act for any Of them that was
not both absolutely proper and abso-
lutely Just.
'If ! had been willing to act other
wise, MFR. Penrose and his allies and
hackers In the world Of politics and IN
the world OF business would now be
enthusiastically supporting me tn-
stead OF opposing me with anger, hat
red and malevolence born of the fact
that they were unable to use me and
they know 1t Is hopeless ever to ez-
pect to use me.
There is nothing that | welcome
more than Mr.. Penrose's opposition
Senator Poindexter pointed out the
exact truth when he said that Mr.. Pen
rose and Mr.. Penrose's allies were in
conspiracy to serve the politics of cor
ruption, preserve the cause of .corrun.
tion in politics and business alike by
endeavoring through SANDER and
mendacity to oppose the only man an6
the only party which seriously endan-
gered the rule of corruption in poll
tics and finance; that is the progress
sive party and its candidate
"Mr. Penrose is opposing us precise.