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Show PLAINLY A "FRAME-UP." There can ho littlo doubt in the minds of practical men (and in his famous letter to Mr. Harriman, Col. Roosevelt dwelt upon the fact that he was a practical prac-tical man) that Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania has the Roosevelt letters on the Standard Oil contribution in litOI classified with precision when he Bays that they are plainly a "frame-up.'' "frame-up.'' Judge Parker coincides in this, putting the ease in legal phraseology. The wording of them stating that no contribution must be received from the Standard Oil Company is really a give-away of the whole case, for there was no proposition for the Standard Oil Company, as such, to contribute to the Roosevelt campaign. On the contrary, it was fully understood with all con cerned that there must not be anjr such contribution by the Standard Oil Com pany, or any of the other great corporations. corpo-rations. It was for this reason that Mr. Archbold made the contribution of 11100,000 to the Roosevelt campaign fund iu his own name, and not in tho name of the Standard Oil Company. Doubtless other large corporations contributed con-tributed in the same way. In view of the disclosures, and of the adroit wording of the Roosevelt letters to Mr. Cortelyou, the interpretation as indicated is uua. oidable. Col. Roosevelt Roose-velt evidently knew al about the contribution con-tribution of Mr. Archbold, and he so worded his Icttor as to make it cli?ar that he did so understand, and also to justify Mr, Cortelyou as Chairman of the Republican National Committee in retaining funds contributed by Mr. Archbold. but not bv tho Standard Oil Company, It was ruther a shallow, tricky dovico, and is clearly in tho na turo of what is termed "manufacturing evidence" to meet possible future disclosures. dis-closures. Besides, the letters wero writ ien at a time when Col. Roosevelt must have known not only of the receipt some time before of the Standard Oil money, but must have known also that this money had been distributed and that its return was impossible. He Look no chances on the return of that money. Mr. Archbold 's testimony that Col-Bliss, Col-Bliss, treasurer of the National Republican Repub-lican Committee, told him of tho knowledge knowl-edge aud concurrence of Col. Roosevelt in this and in the solicitation of other like contributions, must necessarily be accepted at its face value. It is in vain that Col. Roosevelt will make bis protestations pro-testations and denial at this late day, and especially is it in vain that he will bring forward bis letters of October, 1 904, as having any real application to tho case. They were cjearly intended for a blind, and to be used precisely as Roosevelt is now trying to use them; and his effort now to show that they had an actual bearing on the situation and were to be interpreted as be now endeavors to interpret them, simply furnishes fur-nishes a measure of his hypocrisy. The Penrose disclosures stand really unchallenged, in spite of Roosevelt's furious vituperation and purported denials. de-nials. Even though Roosevelt siould go upon the stand and deny everything, his denial could hardly be accepted as of much value when sized up with the facts as disclosed, and compared with the evident calculative designs shown in the peculiar wording and evasive phraseology of the Roosevelt letters themselves. Tt. amounts to nothing for him to get abusive and denounce every-bodv every-bodv concorned as liars; for that is precisely pre-cisely what any such person as Roosevelt Roose-velt wonld be erpected to do when caught, as he has been plainly caught in the disclosures made by Senator Penrose. Pen-rose. Tt Is noteworthy also that he now comes forward with reluctant willingness willing-ness to testifv before the committee, being threatened with a subpoena if he doos not; but his testimony is not likely to be of a different character from the evasivo denials which he has already mado, and which ar so clearly to be set aside as in pursuance of a premeditated scheme of exculpation which cannot possibly pos-sibly be effective iu view of the Penrose Pen-rose revelations. |