Show I RYANS RYAN'S BIG STORY SHORT AND UGLY Facts Place Campaign Fund Statement Huge Joke Column Colum ii DATES DECIDEDLY MIXED Troubled Financier Refuses to Enter Controversy With Bliss New York April 1 One I.-One One fact alone standing a above o c all others in the strong I arro array of or contradictions and direct dh refutations of tho tIme truth of or the re It rePorted reported re- re ported portell testimony of or Thomas Fort Fortune u ne n. n Ryan before eCore the tho special grand jury I is Iii enough to ty tax the credulity of Up th most credulous Mr 11 Ryan Han is alleged to have testified that the loot I taken talen from tho the treasury of or the le Metropolitan Metro o politan Securities company for th scandalous Wall Yan and Cortlandt strict t ferries deal eal was distributed a as it- it for individual contributions tion to the time Republican national campaign campaign cam cam- fund fun of 1900 ma made e on behalf of I the time company compan Tho The insurmountable obstacle In the way of acceptance of II this explanation is that thal tho the Metropolitan tan Securities company compan was not in existence cx- cx I I In n l 1900 1901 OO and therefore could not possibly have had any Interest at tt stake stalo in lii the tIme Presidential campaign As extraordinary as it i is the explanation put forth by hy Mr Ir Ryan's Ryans friends to save him from Ium 1 in indictment by 11 the grand rand jut jury presupposes Up- Up I poses poses- that the Metropolitan S Securities I company compan then Own ha lied had such uchi sucha a great interest nt at stake In the Presidential i- i campaign n of or 1900 that thal the thu looting of its treasury two years caIS r lallI of or more than half haIr u. u million dollar ollar i i.- i. pur purged ed of ci criminal intent la in ble r ha thou In other WOi words S the laughable laughable- ex explanation x fX- I is put hut forward that tilt Metropolitan l Securities company waborn wa wa- va- va born in Fe February 14 H. 1902 with a full mortgage ago for an and interest against the mortgage contracted by y Its sponsors years before Lefore it w was s launched upon its trou troublous lou career And this mortgage e fur for political purposes to promote its lis wel wel- fare It H Is an undisputable fact tact how- how over 01 that collection was as promptly ma made e for fOl this prenatal contribution ution of or the Metropolitan Securities company com corn pany to the Republican campaign campal n fund although Cornelius X N. Bliss s. s the treasurer of the national committee in that year ear car declares unequivocally that the tho committee never saw sa the monc money Thomas F. F n Ryan to today ay in III an nn interview inter view positively declined to avail him him- It Ito If o t to to I X t l lI o of the U nn con I t tee tec c Mr Ir s today the tIme lie He to the tIme statement that Hint n an and antl his lila colleagues colleagues col col- leagues in iii the hie Metropolitan Securities company had donated to lo the J campaign aign fund This Tills is the tile explanation of or tho GS OO r ferries railway deal loot said to have o been given gl by H Ryan an to the grand jury Jun Statements of or H In that testimony it was alleg alleged Mr r. r Ryan TIan ha had sworn that he and hi hihi partners Whitney Dolan Widener and Elkins ha had contributed ute to the Ule national Republican campaign committee when Mr lr Bliss was treasurer treasurer treas treas- to lo aid the election of or Mr Mi- Ir McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley that M Mr 11 Ryan added adde was repaid to him an and his as associates associates associates as- as out of tIle funds of or the Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan Street railway ralla by means of oC tho thio now flOW notorious Wall all and Cortlandt streets ferries deal I can scarcely believe o that such a astory astory story could havo have been told before a grand jUl jury sal said Mr 11 Bliss ClIss when it was wa brought to his attention When hell that contradiction of his Imis story was shown sho to lo Mr 11 Ryan Ran today he lie contented himself with I r 1 will not discuss it I 1 have nothIng nothing noth noth- ing to say |