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Show WILL MAKE I IT PUBLIC I Teddy Will Give All Cor- " I respondence to the H Committee I'l OyBtor Bay, N. Y, Aug. 27. Colo- H B nel Roosevelt desires to bring tho 1 H names of Alton B Parker, Dorao- r IH cratic nominee for the presidency in y H 1904, and James Sherman, vice- preB- H' H ident of the United States In, the in- H qulry into the campaign contrlbu- K H tlons authorized yesterday by the ' H , senate by the adoption of the Pen- t H rose resolution. He rjtid today that H he would place the! names "before g H the senate committee in his letter I IH to Senator Clapp. ' H "I shall inclue in my letter to H Senator Clapp," tho colonel said, H "the letter which I -wrote to Judge H Parker in 1904, and my letter to Jim H Sherman ou the Harfiman contribu- H tlon. I think they are pertinent to H the inquiry and I want to get them H on tho record. 9 M The letter to Judge Parker was In T reply to Judge Parker's charge that - H Roosevelt's 1904 campaign, fund had - H been enriched $100,000 by a Stand- H ard Oil company contribution. The s letter to Mr. Sherman gave the VM Roosevelt version of the Harriman- H Roosevelt controversy over a contrl- ; H bution by the lato E. H. Harriman, of H $200,000 to tho 1904 campaign fund. l l Nor will Colonel Roosevelt allow mm H to go unchallenged the alleged as- H sertlon of Philander G. Knox that H Colonel Roosevelt's letters of Octo- . H ber 27, 1904, and his telegram of Oc- j, H tober 29, 1904. to George B. Cortel- 2 M you "were written for the record." H Not for Record. r H "Mr. Knox may have heard me H say, 'These letters will put the rec- t H ord straight,' or 'This will establish -- H a record of my attitude;' but It is - H certainly not to be inferred from this - jH remark (I don't say that I did mako B IH it, but I may have) that they were - H written solely for the record. They p H were genuine letters and expressed p H just what I wanted to express when k H I first heard of the report that the r H Standard Oil had contributed or IH wanted to contribute to my cam- - H paign," fc H William Randolph Hearst's state- H . mer.t in London Sunday finds Colonel j" Roosevelt still wondering, Colonel r jH Roosevelt said, what letters Mr. H Hear8tjics to make public on tho ' H alleged Standard Oil campaign con- H tributions. r H ' If Mr. Hearst will let me know JM within a year or a vear and a half of H the date these letters were written. H and to whom thev were written," ' H Colonel Roosevelt said today, "I will JM make them public myself. "Anyone . M can readily appreciate how difficult IH it would ho for me to go through my H entire correspondence for a number H of years to find a letter in which I H referred to this matter It would be jH a tremendou3 undertaking. I do not 1 think I ever wrote Mr Sibley on this jH matter, although I may havo done so. H I can't find any letter to him." IH Is Still Writing. IH Colonel Roosevelt said ho hoped to IH finish his letter to Senator Clapp be- M fore he departed at midnight tomor- jl row on his three-day campaign trip jH through Vermont He has been de- H laved, he said, by his falluro to ro- JH celve a copy of John D. Archbold's ..H testimony before the senate commit- H tee. This text, he said, should be M ready in a day or so. H Judge Llndsey of Denver who con- lH ferred last night with Colonel Roose- jH velt, Georgo W Perkins and Wil- , IH Ham H. Plotchkiss at Sagamore Hill. M left for New York today. Colonel jH Roosevelt proposed planks of the M Progressive party also discussed. H 00 H |