Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — SCOTT DENIES AID . OF CORPORATIONS [ARTICLE]

SCOTT DENIES AID . OF CORPORATIONS

Ex-Senator Tells Probers His Part in Campaigns. HE GAVE $30,000 HIMSELF Declares George W. Perkins’ $15,000 Was Personal Contribution to Help Colonel Roosevelt’s Cause in 1904. Washington, July 23. —Former Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia told the senate committee investigating campalgnUunds of 1904 and 1908 that no contributions were made to Colonel Roosevelt’s campaign by corporations, by Henry Havemeyer, the sugar king, or by any representatives of the International Harvester company, so far as he could recall. Mr. Scott testified that the largest contribution made to the national committee in that campaign of which he had knowledge was his own, amounting to $30,000 of $40,000. Perkins Gave $15,000.

George W. Perkins, he said, had given $15,000, but not to the national committee. Both contributions, were used in the West Virginia state campaign. Mr. Scott said none of the “harvester people” had contributed to the 1904 campaign. , , “How about the Perkins contribution?” asked Senator Clapp. “Well. I understood that Mr. Perkins’ contribution was a personal matter of his own,” said Mr. Scott, “because of the personal relations that existed between him and President Roosevelt.” Didn’t Know Firm Relations. “Was Mr. Perkins at the time a member of J. P. Morgan & Co.?” asked Senator Jones. Mr. Scott did not know. “Do you know whether Mr. Perkins interceded with the president as to the taking over of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company?” asked Senator Paynter. . ' ’ ■'. "I don’t know anything about that matter,” said the witness. Mr. Scott said he knew of no one connected with the steel, oil or beef "trusts” who had given anything to the campaign. It had been the settled policy of George B. Cortelyou and Cor-' nelius N. Bliss, as the heads of the committee, to make it known that no such contributions would be received/ he said. Own Corporation Kept Off. “My own corporation never gave a dollar to the campaign,” he added. Mr. Scott was then a glass manufacturer. George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the national campaign in 1908, is to testify Thursday. It is expected that the books of the Republican committee for that campaign will be submitted to the committee this week.