The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-08-28
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER AND
VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN !.
KNOW SOME THINGS.
IN REGARD TO Campaign
70 Roosevelt's Stand in the Matter
y Alleged Contributions From har.
riman and Standard Oil-Colonet TO
Fight In Vermont.

Oyster Bay, Aug. 27--Coloncl Roosc-
welt desires to bring the names of AL
ton b. Parker democratic nominee for
the presidency I'm 1904. and James
Sherman. vice president of the United
States, into the inquiry into cam
paign contributions authorized yester-
day by the senate by the adoption Of
the Penrose resolution. lie said to-
day that he would place their names
before the senate committee In his
letter to Senator Clapp.
II shall include In my letter to Sen
ator CIapp," the colonel said. the
letter which wrote to Judge Parker
In 1904, and my letter to Mr.. Sherman
on the Hartman contribution. I think
they are pertincnt to the inquiry. and
want to get them in the record"
The letter to Judge Parker was In
reply to Judge Parkers charge that
Roosevelts 1904 campaign fund had
been enriched 100000 by n Standard
OIL company contribution. The letter
to Mr.. Sherman gave the Roosevelt
version of the Hartman Roosevelt
controversy over contribution by the
late Il. II. Hartman of 100000 to the
1904 campaign fund.
Genuine Letters.
Nor will Colonel Roosevelt allow
to go unchalenged the report that
Philander G. Knox, now secretary OF
state, saw him In 1904 as he was
debating letter to George B. Cor
telyou about the alleged Standard Oil
contribution and told him that the
money had been spent and could not
be returned; and that Colonel Roose-
welt remarked that the letter was be-
ing written for the record
MFR. Knox may have heard me say
these letters Will put the record
straight or this Will establish n rec
ord of my attitude but 1t Is certainly
not to be inferred from this remark
Il don't say that did not make 1t.
but | may have) that they were writ
ten solely for the record. They were
genuine letters and expressed just
what | wanted To express when
first heard of the report that the
Standard Oil had contributed or want
ed to contribute TO my campaign"
A. to Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst's state
ment in London Sunday finds Colonel
Roosevelt still wondering. he said,
what letters Mr. Hearst has to make
public on the alleged Standard OIL
contributions.
If Mr. Hearst will let me know
within IA year or a year and n half of
the date these letters were written and
to waom they were written" Colonel
Roosevelt said today. Il will make
them public myself. Anyone can
readily appreciate how difficult 1t
would be for me To go through my
entire correspondence for number Of
years to find letter in which | re-
ferred to this matter. II would be a
tremendous undertaking. ! don't think
l ever wrote Mr.. Sibley on This mat
ter, although | may have done SO. !
can't find any letter to him"
Colonel Roosevelt said he hoped to
finish his letter to Senator clapp be-
fore he departed at midnight tomor-
row on his three days campaign trip
through Vermont.
II will be several days before Colo
mel Roosevelt's letter to Senator Clapp
is made public The colonel said to-
night that hc did not receive until
late today copy of John d.. Arch
bolds testimony before the senate In
vestigating committee. which is to
form the basis of an important por-
tion of his letter and that he had a
long seige ahead with his secretary
before finishing his work. II Is prob
able the letter will be given out early
next week.
Hard Fight in Vermont.
Plans for the coloners tour through
Vermont were completed today. The
colonel will take a train from New
York at 1925 Thursday morning The
last half of the week he expects to
make one of the hardest fights of the
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