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Show PENROSE UNCOVERS HIS OWN ROTTENNESS. I Boies Penrose senator from Pennsylvania, one of the towering figures in the regular Republican organization and one of five men who stole the nomination for Taft at Chicago, delivered a ery lengthy speech in the United States senate yesterday, in defense of his much soiled name. The general impression one gains from a reading of the speech is that the Republican party' has been deep-dyed in villainy and that few, if any of its leaders have been free from secret bargaining with the "big interests." Penrose tries to shift the responsibility for the Standard Oil contributions to the Republican campaign funds to Roosevelt That is natural and about the only reply the senator could make, if he wero guilty as charged. The casual reader will say that Mr. Penrose Pen-rose has an intimate knowledge of Standard Oil affairs and the aims and objects of John D. Archbold, Lie admits that he knew Arch-bold's Arch-bold's plans and that he was in close touch with Standard Oil politics. poli-tics. At the time that he was the go-between in the obtaining of Standard Oil money for the Republican party, he was tho head of a senate committee which was supposed to be inquiring into the law-defying law-defying attitude of the Standard Oil company. Penrose's moral turpitude fails to allow the senator to sec himself him-self as others sec liim. He is one of the corrupt gang that has dominated dom-inated Republican politics in the United States for years. Fortunately Fortun-ately the people are beginning to take the measure of those corrup-tionists.- There is a great stench these days, emanating from the regular Kepublican organization. .Wonder if putrefaction has set in? ' - --- t -a ' J , |