Show GOL GOL ROOSEVELT EN A COMPLETE DENIAL president occupies cha chair ir for three hours in explaining gathering Ga of funds washington theodore roosevelt occupied a witness chair for three ind a half hours on oil friday before tile senate investigating committee defending his administration himself and ills his campaign associates against what whal lie he termed infamous charges ana hearsay evidence lie he appeared before the commit committee tec at his own request to answer a statement made in ill august hy by john D archbold that the standard oil com pany had given to the re publican campaign fund in 1904 un der the impression that president donl roosevelt olt know knew of and approved ne costance cop cep tance of the contributions not only did colonel roosevelt deny this but he put into tile the corma records of the committee a sweeping deniful that he bg had 4 alver ed funds from anyone while president deril that any money had been received b the 1904 campaign committee with at express or implied promise of favors favori from the administration that erceg sive funds had been used in ills his 1901 campaign or in the 1908 cam campaign or that money ever had been improti erly used in his behalf so bo far as h lic knew in reference to the harriman fune of raised in 1004 colonel roosevelt declared the statements ol 01 J P morgan ceci george ge R sheldon an ana others had fully corroborated eilf hl earlier statements that this fund was wae raised expressly tor for the now new yore state campaign and had not ot been solicited by him for his own support in the light for election that year senator penrose should be driven from the ithe senate lie he declared be cause of his acknowledged fri friendliness e adli with standard oil interests charles D hilles and congressman bartholdt should be forced to prove their statements that the roosevelt roosevell presidential campaign fund this year had amounted to or or should be driven out of public life I 1 |