Milford chronicle., 1912-10-11
COSTS2SO,OOOTO TO
NOMINATE TAFT
The Presidents Brothers Gave
SI5O,OOO.
$4,000 FOR I. R. IN SOUTH
ormsby MeHars Tells Of His Expen.
ditures For Colonel Prior to Repub-
llcan Convention.

NtdU (0UNGUAioUs
Congressman William B. Mckinley,
who was the pre-conVention manager
for President Taft in the contest for
this years presidential nomination,
presented to the senate sub-commit
zee in Washington investigating cam
paign funds accounts showing that he
had spent about $29O,OOO for the presi.
dents candidacy.
Te said S150.000 was subscribed by
Henry W. Taft and Charles P. Taft,
the presidents brothers, and that John
Hays Hammond. E. T. Stotesbury and
Andrew Carnegie gave s25.OOO each.
Ormsby McHarg, contest manager
Tor the Roosevelt forces at the Re.
publican national convention, told the
committee he spent between $25,OO0 !
and $4,000 in pre-convention work for
Colonel RoOsevelts candidacy through |
the southern states.
Another chapter was added to the |
disputed tale of the so-called "Harri /
man fund" of $4,000 contributed in
1904 when Roosevelt was the nominee
for president, to the Republican cam.
paign fund, when Wayne MacVeagh,
Of Philadelphia, former attorney gen.
eral, told the probers of a telephone
conversation H. Mex Twombly had
with the late E. H. Hartman in 1904.
MacVeagh said that while he was
"a TwOmblys office in October, 1904,
che latter had a telephone talk, and
aold him that it was with Hartman;
that Hartman had said he had been
to the White House; that Roosevelt
had expressed anxiety that a S240,0 900
fund be raised and that Hartman had
agreed to it.
This was MacVeagh's version of
narrative related by Charles Edward
Socialist nominee fer governor
Of New York, and Judson C. Welliver,
a newspaper man. to the effect that J.
P Morgan had received a telephone
call from the White House, demanding
funds.
Former Senator Depew, of New c
York, who followed Mr.. MacVeagh on a
me stand also threw some interesting 7
light on the Hartman fund" saying d
hat he gave $4,000 to it at the re- s
Iuest OF Twombly. He gave $4,000 to a
he Roosevelt fund earlier He put a v
lew angle to the probe by telling OF
] large fund, 100000 to 100000, raised o
" the then Senator Thomas c. Platt, Il
which he said Platt reluctantly turned e
fver to the state committee. o.
For more than four and a half hours "
,oionel Theodore Roosevelt was on Il
he witness stand before the sub-com-
littee. +
Practically all of that time was
zken up by a defense Of the campaign !
md OF 1904 which was raised to eject
roosevelt to the presidency.
He had his letter file with him and 81
rom it produced several new epistles pc
nd then. in sweeping terms, denied nc
nat he had any knowledge Of contri- al
u1ions in 1904 from any big hnan- oI
iers or corporations excepting only
lat he did know tGat Henry c. Frick tn
nd contributed heavily to his cam er
align fund.
The colonel was subjected to in
-Oss-dre of questions. Senator Payn pr
II opened this phase of the session. an
ut il was not till Senator Pomerene tn
,ok up the examination that any pr
parks began to fly. de
Then after the senator had brought To-
ut a series of Il don't know to ques-
ono as. to whether variouc trusts had wi
,ntributed, he asked whether the so in
lned coal trust" had given any sy
ling.
Roosevelt, who had become restive
nder some OF Pomerene's questions,
,plied with some heat; Or
my dear sir, after the revelations
lat have been made here | wouldn't
, surprised at any one having con SCI
lhuted" tei
'T asked no man to contribute to
Is campaign fund when | was elect bo
I president OF the United Sta es, and int
wish to reiterate that Mr Bliss and sci
r. Cortelyou both assured me that fro
D promise had been made as a return col
= any contribution. Neither they nor .
" one else having authority asked the
O TO act or refrain from acting in wa
~ matter while l was president, be- He
.use any contribution had been made Bta
withheld. Gentlemen, could put it
ore sweepingly?"
Colonel Roosevelt's testimony bris- !
sG with characteristic statements. tw'
Senator Penrose should be driven cuI
ON the senate" he declared, "be- tan
.use of his acknowledged friendliness we
tn Standard Oil interests" Tw
The colonel denounced Penrose on Mo
g own alleged admissions. He read opI
ON the senator's testimony in which
said he advised Archbold to make
additional contribution or he might
cur displeasure in high quarters that Wn'
luld lead to official refusals. rae
CHARLES D. Hilles and Congressman turi
lrthodlt should be forced to prove at
cir statements that the Roosevelt wht
Imary campaign fund this year had the
lounted to 100000 or $4,0000OO.
shOuld be rdiven out Of public life" -
Frank Bostock Dies. :
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