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Show 1 ROOSEVELT I NAILS LIES bh HI j Assault on Progressive H J Acts as Boomerang- on H j Republican Party. H H Oyster Pay, X. Y., Auk. 2-1 Col. B Rooscvplt gat on the porch at Saga- B more bill for an hour and a half lo- BB night and dictated a statement in re- jfl ' Ply to the testimony of John D, Arcli- Wm bold yesterday before the senate In-, M I Ycfltlgaling committee Bh He reiterated his declaration that HJ be knew nothing of a contilbution by j Mr. Archbold or the Standard Oil H company to the Republican -campaign Hj of 1904; declared he did not "for one jH moment believe that Mr Arch bo Id's ' testimony is truthful." charged Mr. 1 Archbold with a "wicked assault on a B dead man;" added that during many H calls which Mr. Archbold made upon H i him while he was presiderit to urge HK him not to prosecute the Standard M9 Oil company, Mr. Archbold never rc- WM fcrred to any contribution to his cam- H palgn fund," and concluded with the H suggestion that the senate commlt- HH I tee should make. Mr. Archbold and Krafl Senator Penrose testify at once con- gftV corning their relations whilo Mr. Hj Penrose was a member of the lndus- Hj trial commission. In his last word Col Roosevelt H J thanked both Messis. Archbold and H i Penrose for "making it clear beyond H possibility or doubt that 1 am the Bj , man the Pcnroses and Archbolds of H The country most dread in public H Col. Roosevelt's statement follows. H "In the first place 1 w'sh to call al- H tontion to the fact that oven if Mr. H Archbold's statements are ture. they jHI amount only to saying, so far as I am concerned, that Mr Bliss told him IH that I had knowledge of and approved yVj a request for .$10,000 from the Stan- H I dard Oil company, which was pranted, WM and a further request for $150,000, lVJ which was not granted. This is a pure IH I hcarsav statement and even If mado IVJ In swd falth vrould be uUerl-v vahie- IH 'eS EBJ He Acted at Once. BH "Not only did I never know any-BBj any-BBj tiling of such a request being made. KB but my published letters and telc-Kl telc-Kl grams show that when the rumor MA that thero had been a contribution H rer.ched me I acted at once reiterating HS ' my demand again that the money B i should be immediately returned If it WM I had been given and being assured by B ' Mr Cortelyou that tho money had H not been received and would not be H received Therefore even on the as-BBj as-BBj sumption that Mr Archbold Is telling fl the truth, his testimony, so far as I ; am concerned consists of the repeti-BB repeti-BB tlon of hearsay assertions which were . Bl instantly disproved by tbe produc-rfl produc-rfl tion of "my letters and telegrams. IB "I wish to reiterate that until Mr. mm Penrose made his Bpecch I never had . Kl heard it suggested that Mr. Archbold Bl had contributed to the campaign or Bl been the means through which any , Hi contributions had been made. Bu ' "But I do not for one moment hern he-rn heve that Mr. Archbold's testimony Bj is truthful lie apparently posesses HI ( 6iicji a moral standard that he does rfig not understand the Infamous accusa-M accusa-M tion he is making against Mr. Bliss. HI Mr. Bliss I3 now dead. But during the HI ft-ven years that elapsed before Mr H BIIs6" death after Mr. Archbold claims HI he made the contribution in question Mr. Archbold never brought up any H statement of this kind. BH ' He now saya that Mr Bliss warned IB him that he was making a serious Hj mistake in not contributing tho extra M amount of money and that later on HJ when the administration began to deal j with the 3tandard OH people Mr BJj Bliss said it would have been differ-M differ-M cnt If they had done as he asked M them. H Attempt to Blackmail. BJ "This is an assertion that Mr. Bliss Bj was deliberatelv trying to blaclcmail J the Standard Oil into contributes by I scarcely veiled threats as to what would happen if thoy did not contrib-ute contrib-ute and that Mr. Bliss In effect told them afterwards that if thoy had contributed con-tributed tho administration v.oiild not hae proceeded asainst them for violating vio-lating tlie law for this wa6 all the administration did "This Is a wicked assault on a dead i man whoso high standing and probity was such that no human bcln who was himself honest would etor Imputo evil motiea to him Mr BlitB w? Incapable of conduct such as Mr. Archbold imputos to him. And I cannot can-not too strongly denounce the baseness base-ness of making such an assault upon an honest man who Is now dead and whom Mr. Archbold never ventured to assail while living. "Moreover, Mr. Archbold shows perfectly clearly as published reports I say that his corporation has conixjb-.uted conixjb-.uted in order to get value for its gift aud that the gift was made with the expectation of receiving a proper consideration. con-sideration. do not for one moment believe that Mr Bliss made any such remarks to Mr Archbold as Mr. Archbold sayn. For example, Mr. Archbold slates that he and the late II. H Rogors visited me at the White House anil that 1 then remarked to them that there had been some criticisms about campaign contributions. This Is a falsehood. Neither on that occasion or on any other occasion was one word said either ei-ther by me to Mr Archbold or by Mr. Archbold to me about campaign contributions. con-tributions. Protest Against Action. "Mr Rogers and Mr. Archbold called call-ed on that occasion to protest against any government action being taken against the Standard OH company. This was one of a number of calls which Mr Archbold made on me to trv to prevent action against tho Standard Oil company by the bureau of corporations. If Mr Archbold had icallv believed that Mr. Bliss had told him "that I knew of any contribution by Standard Oil interests or had felt he was jeopardized by having refused to make a contribution or was entitled to immunity for having made one he, would certainly in one of these calls have said as much. He never broached broach-ed the subject. "He merely said, over and over again, that Mr. Garfield and Mr. H. K. Smith were treating him unfairb and he denied again and again that the Standard Oil ever got any rebates or ever did anything that was not absolutely ab-solutely proper. And he would keep on with these denials even Then I would tell him that I had in my possession pos-session reports from the bureau of corporations and the secretary of the Interior which conclusively showed that the Standard OH had been taking rebates on the largest possible scale. "Inasmuch as Mr Archbold does not tell the truth in his interview with mo I hae no doubt that he does not tell the truth about the man who Is dead and who, living, he never dared to accuse as he now accuses him. "Mr. Bliss never spoke to me about asking or receiving a contribution from any one and he never before or after the election said anytning to me about my conduct towards corporations corpora-tions except to say that he knew I would act fairly and justly towards all: and I told him that I should never nev-er dream of acting any other way. Noither Mr. Bliss or any one else ever suggested or hinted at in any shape or way the Idea that I should take or refrain from taking any action ac-tion in connection with any corporation corpora-tion because of any contribution whai-soeer whai-soeer 'Specifically, he never said one word to me about any contribution from the Standard Oil corporation and never said one word to me about proceeding pro-ceeding or not proceeding against the Standard Oil corporation. I saw Mr. Archbold again and again while the department of Justico was contemplating contemplat-ing proceedings against him (always at Mr Areabold's request, of course I, listened to all he had to say and heard hmi repeat the same statements over and over again when I was entirely en-tirely convinced that thej were false, and "directed my attorney general lo proceed only when it had become evident evi-dent that Mr Arc'ibold lJad nothing to tell me which would ghc anv warrant war-rant for directing the attorney general gener-al not to act. "During all that lime neither Mr. Archbold nor anyone else ever hinted hint-ed to me that the Standard Oil people peo-ple had contributed or that there was any expectation of any human belnir that I should show iaor to the Standard OH. Fought Standard Oil. ".Moreover, let it be remembered that long before the campaign of 1904 I had had a sharp run-ln with tbe Standard Oil and had shown them Just what they could expect from me. This was when we were passing the bureau of corporations act. I found out (lint the Standard Oil people were opposing the passage of the act. that two of their representatives had come down to Washington to oppose it and that they had sent telegrams to various senators and ropiescnta-tlves ropiescnta-tlves against it. I got hold of these telegrams, published some of them and forced the bill through. ".Mr. Archbold shows bis animus in his rather ludicrous complaint that 'darkest Africa never saw anything like the persecution of the Standard Oil corporation by the Roosevelt administration' ad-ministration' and he proceeds unwittingly unwit-tingly to pay Messrs, Garfield and Smith the highest pralso by his bitterness bit-terness to tbem for their action J do not wonder that ho feels bltlerh-The bltlerh-The action in question disclosed nil kinds of improper practices on the part of the Standard Oil company and a colossal scries of rebates. A stop was put to these rebates because of the action of the people in my administration ad-ministration and through the action I a. fine was imposed by Judge Landis on the Standard Oil company which If It had not been reversed by the appellate division, would really have made that corporation smart: and even as it was, it forced them lo act properlv Penrose Frame Up. "It seems to me that the course of Mr. Penrose in this matter and the bringing In of Mr Archbold to testify bear close analogies to which, In the Xow York police situation at this time would be called a 'frame up and this is shown b- the questions , which Mr Archbold iR asked and I those ho i3 not asked. Ho is allowed to testify about a dead mans statement state-ment and to make a cruelly unjust j assault upon the character of that dead man who I believe to hnc been one of tbe most honorable and high minded of gentlemen, but he has not i testified anything about Mr. Penrose ' In that case he would not be testl- I fving about what he had done and said and about what Mr. Penrose had done and said ! "It appears that Mr. Penrose, while n member of the industrial commls- nion. received the check of ?25.000 i from Mr. Archbold and that he was I serving on that commission in a peculiarly pe-culiarly confidential relation to Mr. Archbold; among the instances of his position as Mr. Archbold s representative repre-sentative on the committee being that j he communicated in advance to Mr ( Archbold the report which the in- , dustrial commission ns about to make and secured his approval in ad- vanco of its publication. Mr. Penrose and Mr Archbold should both be examined ex-amined upon this transaction and sec if there can be any possible was in which thoy can explain it or In which ' Mi Penrose can justify himself The t transaction itself and the whole alliance al-liance between Mr. Penrose and Mr. Archbold and Mr. Penrose's action in connection therewith aro a startling example of tho workings of that invisible in-visible empire to whose reign we intend in-tend to put an end. Agent of Archbold. "These documents show that Mr Penrose, nominally the representathe of the popple was secretly and in the dark acting as the representative of Mr Archbold Mr. Archbold's testimony testi-mony shows that he sought to get and hoped to get from me and im administration, ad-ministration, some proper consideration considera-tion and he comes now to tbe defense de-fense of his friend and ally. Mr. Pen-rosePar Pen-rosePar Nobile Fratrum and assails as-sails me becauso be could not influence influ-ence me, because under mv admin- , istratlon Justice was meted out to ( him and bis kind as it should hac been meted out. 'His complaint against me Is that neither through political nressure nor the use of.mouev in politics could be exercise any Influence oer me; and Ills complaint Is Just. "I feel that Ibe country has a right to exnect the committee to refuse to permit Mr Archbold to go away until un-til he has testified lo every fact within his knowledge He should (bus testify and he should thus testify tes-tify now. He and Mr Penrose both should be rigorously cross-examined as to the transactions between them so as to see what exolanation they can possibly give as to the correspondence corres-pondence between them when Mr Penrose was a member of the industrial indus-trial commission and both should be rigorously examined as to their relations re-lations together in previous vears. "Meanwhile I wish lo thank them both for having made it clear beyond possibility or doubt that I am the man whom the Penroses and Archbolds Arch-bolds of the country most dread In public life." |