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Show 1 WELCOMES PUBLICITY II I Progressive Leader De-I1 De-I1 1 sires Full Investigation HI of Archbold Story III ?rstfrBay' N- Y-.- Au- 26. What , Colonel Roosevelt knew and did in llit ,the mattQ1" cf Jhn D. -rchbold's alii al-ii ; leged $100,000 contribution to the Re- II publican campaign fund in 1904- what III President Roosevelt said to tho late II ft H' Harriman ad what .Mr. Harrl- III m.an sald t0 Resident Roosevelt l g about Harriman's .$260,000 contribu- I E tlon are matters to which William K Loob, Jr., formerly Mr. Roosevelt's IH Private secrotary, is prepared to tes- I K tifjr Defore the senate committee in- K. vestigating campaign contributions. Iff "Mr. Loeb told me last night that lw he nad 8een stRtementK that he was IV to bo brought down before tho com- II mittee." Colonel Roosovek said "He I B wished to come and tell me about IB these rumors. I told him that If he I was called he was to go. of course. I ft md to testify to everything." II Colonel Roosevelt was greatly IF- pleased at the prospect of Mr. Loeb's If testifying before the campaign com- I ' ruittee. If "While under no circumstances I would I have ever asked Mr. Loeb to II ; testify." Colonel Roosevelt said, MI am II more than pleased that the commit- j. If , tee chooses to do so. For instance : when I made my statement about Mr. VII I Harrlman in Mr. Harriman's lifetime, , f lot It rost only on my written let- It ters, yet as the committee has chosen ( , to listen to hearsav gossip by Mr li Odell and Mr. Archbold as to what ' Mr. Harrlman said took place at that interviow, I shall bo glad to have li tbem listen to Mr. Loeb, who was II present at the interview What Harrlman Said. j "Mr. Loob heard Mr Harriman a8k l r me to get Mr Bliss or Mr Cortelyou It to contribute funds for himself and I! ;' Mr. Odell for the campaign (neither R - Mr. Harriman or T eer so much as U spoke of Mr Harrlman contributing to my campaign), and Mr. Loeb him- self telephoned either to Mr. Bliss B or Mr. Cortelyou, transmitting Mr. B Harriman's request of me. "Mr. Loeb also telephoned to Mr. B Bli6s and Mr. Cortelyou about the al- K leged Standard Oil contribution, mak-fjr mak-fjr Ing in my behalf the same request K that I had made in the two letters 'K, and telegrams that have been pub-IE pub-IE isl)ed and recoiving the same assur-Vw assur-Vw rcnee that I had received that no Mfe Standard Oil monoy had been recelv-jr recelv-jr ed or would be receded." J Ul Concerning the statement made by ML William Randolph Hearst yesterday K' In London, In which Mr. Hearst urged BJ him and Mr Archbold and Senator Bj Penrose to tell the "full story," Colo-H Colo-H acl Roosevelt had this to sa-s : jK "My attitude to the Standard Oil M company was precisely the same be-mm be-mm fore election as after election, as IK anyone can find out by turning to the K Mies of the newspapers at the time jK f the passage of the bureau of cor-yMt cor-yMt poratlon bill before I was nominated :JK or elected, when the Standard Oil 'IK apposed the law and I got It through !S by making public the telegrams of the IK Standard Oil people opposing the law 'm lno- showing their activity iB Would Toll Everything. WkJ "For any connection of mine with iiW tho Standard Oil people before or jjjl ifter election any human being is H welcome to" ask anything public about II It of any sort, kind or description, l nd If I had appeared befo-c the corn-I corn-I ft mittee today I should have testified 3ft to very feature of . of which I had ft any recollection or knowledge, and ft submitted from my letter bookfl any ft letters of mine dealing In any shape ar way with the matters, and I should have been delighted to have ' Mr Loeb, who has been my private i secretary, appear and give every- particle par-ticle of Information that he has." Colonel Roosevelt said that ho had ) "eceived today a telegram from Sen- itor Clapp advising him of the Ina- blllty of the committee to have him .eatify today. He said the telegram jaid that If he should testify It should i have to be at a considerably later j late. nrt |