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Show MONEY WAS RAISED FOR ODELL. From out the mouth of their own witness, the Standpat Republicans Repub-licans at last have yielded up the truth as to the Harriman campaign fund. The Associated Press report of the investigation of campaign funds today contains this statement by George R. Sheldon. Republican Repub-lican national treasurer four years ago. With equal posltlveness Sheldon swore that the records Bhowed the disputed Edward H. Harriman fund of $240,000 had been received by Mr. Bliss for the New York Republican stato committee, headed by B. B. Odell, Jr. "That fund of 5240,000 was raised at tho request of B. B. Odell," said Mr. Sheldon, "and turned over to his committee In Its entirety. Mr. Bliss' records showed it was entirely apart from the fund spent by the national committee." So, after all, Harriman did not raise the $240,000 for Roosevelt, but for Odell and the New York Republican state committee ! Odell had denied this but now come3 Sheldon, a reactionary, to confuse and confound his own associates. The truth gradually is coming out and with it comes the conviction con-viction that Roosevelt must have been a man of wonderful fortitude and inherent greatness to have escaped being defiled by such a gang of scheming rascals as were in control of the party when by accident, acci-dent, he became president of the United States, to later, by his masterful mas-terful strokes of statesmanship, win the confidence and gratitude of the American people. |