Arizona republican., 1915-04-24
MENTIONS FAMOUS
 RYAN CONTRIBUTION
Says Such Contributions May Be Given to Cam paign Funds as One Might Donate Similar Sum to a Church
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SYRACUSE. N. Y. April 23.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt told on this. his second. day of cross examination about his dealings with ''bosses.-' his personal relations with William Barnes and his ideas about campaign funds of millions of dollars. He mentioned the famous half million dollars which Thomas Fortune Ryan contributed to the presidential campaign of Alton B. Parker and swore he never had seen a list of persons who helped to swell the fund to s3,0OO,O0O used in connec- ton with his campaign for the presi- dency.
 The list contained the initials of men whom Colonel Roosevelt readily identified as being allied with the countrys most powerful business and financial interests. Speaking of the Ryan contribution. the witness gave it as his opinion that a leader of big business who contributes a half million to help elect a candidate for president of the United States was prompted by the same spirit which caused him to donate a similar sum to a church and that such contributor has no more hope of reward in the one case than he has in the other
 Personally he said. he would have been very much surprised if many masters of big business had not con tributed to the republican campaign of 1904. The colonel mentioned the Standard Oil companys campaign contributions and. too, he said, if the report of the congressional committee which investigated his campaign con tributions showed that "H H. R. and "J D. A." which the witness said stood for H H. Rogers and John D. Archbold. had contributed to the re- publican fund of 1904 he was aston ished. He said he had given explicit instructions against receiving any Standard Oil contributions
 Personally. he emphatically declared, he would regard just as highly a contribution of s25 from the station agent at Oysther Bay as he would a contribution of s25.OOO from George w Perkins. who. in 1904. was a part ner in the firm of J. P. Morgan com pany
 He expressed the belief that there was a limit to the amount a campaign fund should total Over a certain sum, he did not know how much. he thought there might be some danger. The witness swore the late E. H. liar riman himself told him there never was any such thing as a S24O,000 Hartman fund" He did identify as being his a letter he wrote to Harri- man in which he said we are practi- cal men,, and that if Hartman thought there was any danger in coming to the White House at that time he might come later and discuss a certain matter
 Colonel Roosevelt said he regarded Ifnrr a a 1r Mir Hyde" who, like other politicians, had his good and his bad sides" He said he had been persistent in his efforts to make politicians ao what he considered what was right, and that instead of endeavoring to sever the fragments between these SiameSe twins of politics. his aim always had been to have the pr. Jekyll in them absorb the Mir Hyde
 Many letters that passed between MT. Barnes and the witness were identified by the latter and read to the jury Tn these letters the pair discussed political and legislative mat ters and the appointment to offices in the state government of number of men. In one of the letters MT Barnes expressed stern disapproval of a meas ure which proposed that state senators should be elected Tor four years ana assemblymen for two, because such condition would give the voters little opportunity to register approval or disapproval.'
 There will be no session of the court tomorrow. On Monday. however, Col. Roosevelt will again resume his testi- mony and submit to further cross ex- animation by William Wins, chief counsel for MT. Barnes.
 The colonel was just as active on the witness stand today as upon the three