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Show OLD PARTY'S CORRUPTNESS. I William JR, Hearst, sends a cablegram from London to his J New York paper, to which lie attaches his signature and in which he utters this warning: g I have read la the foreign papers accounts or the. explanations that Senator Penrose has given of his receipt of a certificate of deposit of j 525,000 from tho Standard Oil company. P 1 have also read Senator Penrose's statement of the purpose for which 1 this secret certificate of dcposlL was Intended and tho use to which this I sum of money and other sums of money from the Standard Oil company I were put. , . ., , , . . 9 Senator Penrose's exnlanation Is not quite accurate. HIS statement is I not altogether truthful. He is in part saying what is true and in part say- I ins what Js false. I have tho documents to prove my assertion. J Senator Penrose should take warning of tho fate of Senator toraker and tho predicament or that gentleman whon he attempted to explain 1 falsciv the reason for which his certificates of doposiE frdm Mr.Archbold were "received. I was able to produce promptly the documents which Bhow- j cd that Senator Foraker was not speaking the truth and that the certift- 'cates were received for other purposes than tile ones stated by hinl. J Senator Penrose should also remember tho difficulty into which Mr. r Archhold got himself by makins false statements in regard to socio or the letters published Inculpnting certain Pennsylvania judges. Mr. Archbold said that he had interested himself in tho selection of thoBe judges with- j out their knowledge. I thereupon produced moro letters of Mr xVrchbold's J In which tho Judges wore shown to have Requested him to Interest himself I in their behalf ' T advlso Senator Penrose, therefore, to adhere to the exact facts and I to speak the whole truth, for the v.'holo truth wll suroly bc brought out In J the present series of articles now appearing In my magazine. It is a notable fact that Senator Penrose confines his statements to I allegations unsupported bv legal proof. U is also worthy or note that Mr. Archbold does not produce any of the Interesting documents that he hati In his possession to establish the truth of his utterances. He quotes MV Bliss, who is no longer there to question the accuracy of his statements, j but he docs not produce any letters to or Trom Mr Bliss, to or from Sen- I ator Penrose, to or from Mr. Babcock. or to or from Mr. Roosevelt Why should not Senator Penrose and Mr. Archbold and Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Slblev all tell the -whole truth; particularly when they can bc so confidently assured that If they do not, 1 will? No doubt the vhole truth has not been told, but this much is. evident, that Roosevelt continued his attacks on Standard Oil after the campaign money is alleged to havc been paid to the Republican national committee. Even Archbold admits this in his testimony, reciting how he upbraided Bliss for taking the money and failing to protect Standard Oil from Roosevelt's probing investigations and disclosures. The testimony of Archbold. other than proving Roosevelt's incorruptible in-corruptible nature, proves the old Republican politicians, such as Penrose, Pen-rose, to bc venal. |