Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 281, 30 September 1912 — Page 8

1 L & THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AJND SUX-TEU2GKA11, SiOSUAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912.

PAGE EIGHT.

30 TAINTED COIN TAKEN

BY COLONEL

n the 1904 CampaignReads Letter Written by Late Mr. Bliss, Given to Senate Probers Today.

(Continued from Page One.)

bnly othr letter that BIIbs could produce -were from Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt, urging the elder 3Usb to accept service on the national ;ommittee. Mr. Taft In his letter assured Mr. Bliss that he would have :he confidence of those from whom :ne contributions might be expected, end declared that President Roosevelt ras anxious for him to serve. Destroyed Records. : Mr. Bliss testified that before his father's death the elder Bliss went over all the documents concern

ing campaign affairs and destroyed

tthem, as he feared they might fall into

the hands of enemies of himself and th party. He also admitted that he himself had destroyed other papers left by his father but declared that

none of them could have helped the

senate committee in Its investigation.

William H. Libby. Standard Oil di

rector, testified that he had no per-

sonal knowledge of the Standard Oil company making contributions to the

ZRoosevelt campaign fund, but said

Jthat H. H. Rogers, now dead, had told jhim the company had made a very (generous contribution. Llbby could not

recall the amount mentioned by Rog

ers;. Mr. Iibby said that Mr. Archbold j

and other Standard Oil directors knew all about the campaign contributions

that year.

f HISTORY OF PROBE. . .WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 The pri

mary object of the Clapp committee

t the time of its birth in July 1912, was a probe of the contributions made tp the 1904 and 1908 campaign funds

Of both the republican and democratic parties. The original resolution was later amended to take in the 1912 cam

paign, the investigation taking a sen-1

sational turn largely through a series

rof letters from the Standard Oil com

pany to prominent politicians, which were' printed in a magazine.

One of these letters intimated that J

Senator Boise Penrose, of Pennsylvania had received $35,000 from John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil company. . William Minn, successor to Penrose in Pennsylvania republican politics, bitterly attacked the senator on the score of this remittance and Penrose in self-defense took the stand before the committee on August 30th. Here he discharged a broad side at Flinn, swearing that the Pennsylvania contractor and political leadef had offered $1,000,000 to secure an appointment to the United States senate shortly after the death of Senator Quay. : Senator Penrose read excerpts from the cipher messages alleged to have passed between the Standard Oil company officials and Flinn, in which

.flinn was alleged to have sought the

Influence of the Standard Oil company io secure the senatorship. Senator Penrose admitted having received the $35,000, but stated that it had been used by the state republican campaign committee in Pennsylvania. ,! ir Denials From Flinn. ,f These charges Flinn emphatically

Rented, Colonel Roosevelt joining him

in attacking Penrose. The senator in

subsequent testimony charged the

Roosevelt campaign fund committee

swith having received $125,000 from

the Standard Oil company for the

RooBevelt campaign fund of 1904, and with having asked for $150,000 more, which was not forth coming. It was also intimated that the Roosevelt letter to Cortelyou, demanding that money received from the Standard Oil company be returned forthwith and that no money be received from that corporation, was written solely for record. Senator Penrose, forming an alliance with Senator La Follette and other republican senators antagonistic to Colonel Roosevelt supplemented this testimony by introducing in the senate on August 22nd a resolution calling for the investigation not only of the 1904 and 1908 campaign fund, but for an investigation of those of the present year. This resolution was introduced with the object of summoning before the committee all those who had attacked Senator Penrose, and also in order to make a thorough investigation of the recent RooseveltTaft pre-convention campaign. Some of the Charges. In this campaign it had been alleged that William L. Ward, a Roosevelt national committeeman, had made a trip through the South and that he had told members of the Southern delegations that there would be "much Roosevelt campaign money" and that it had also been intimated that Geo. W. Perkins, head of the Harvester

trust, was the angel of the present Roosevelt campaign and that he had contributed a sum estimated at $3,000,000 toward the Colonel's expenses. Senator Penrose was followed on the Btand by John D. Archbold, who stated that the late Cornelius H. Bliss treasurer of the National Republican committee, had received the $135,000 mentioned and that a request through" him had been made for an additional $150,000. Archbold further intimated that it was his belief that Colonel Roosevelt knew of the contribution and the request for more money. The publication of these statements brought forth a heated denial from Colonel Roosevelt who demanded that he be called before the committee immediately that he might refute this testimony. The committee, however, adjourned before the Colonel could be heard, the hearing going over until today. The names of Morgan, Rockefeller, Knox and other eminent financially and politically, were brought into the inquiry either in connection with the 1904 Roosevelt campaign fund, the Flinn-Quay-Penrose imbroglio, or the alleged attempt to control the Republican National convention in Chicago. Secretary Knox, comes under the Flinn-Quay-Penrose division of the inquiry, which Senator Penrose's charges are expected to again bring forth the public. At the time Flinn is said to have offered $1,000,000 to secure Quay's place in the senate, three men were mentioned prominently for the senatorship. One of these was Flinn,

the other two were Francis Robbins, president of the Pittsburg Coal company, now dead and George F. Oliver. Knox Was Appointed. One day a fourth candidate was sprung and within four days Governor Pennypacker appointed Knox. The Knox appointment is alleged to have been due to the influence of Henry C. Fruck and A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad and other powerful interests. These interests are said to have assumed heavy liabilities contracted by the late Senator Quay, with the understanding that Knox be appointed to the vacant senatorship. Quay's obligations amounted to $450,000. Further interest was added not only to this feature of the investigation, but to that division devoted to the 1904 Roosevelt campaign fund by the cabled assertion of William Randolph Hearst that if Archbold, Penrose and Roosevelt did not tell the whole truth he, Mr. Hearst, would lay the matter before the public. This was thought to intimate that supplementary documents to the long list of sensational letters involving politicians and financiers already published would be added to by others that have not as yet seen the light.

THE GHASTLY REUHIOH

Where the Old Friends Meet to Renew Early Joys, but

Find Instead Strange Bejngs Who Show You the Pictures of Their Children.

tired to death of him and actually had to threaten him with the police he was so persistent. This is to give Ellen to understand that no matter if Oscar did like her it was Impossible that he

could have cared for her, Ellen, like

in the world. Why how you changed let me see its

Oh. yes, fully that much!" you in-J

have

an interval. Nobody would be JJu of her now. She's so skinny and as

bis wrinkles on her neck besides dy-

terrupt hastily. "Quite now you think j ins her hair as Maria positively kno s. -

of it, it is. perhaps, more and howi "Just then Pete comes over to ou natural you look, you say with taorri-! and asks if you remember the time

jhe had for her. Maria. That, indeed, ibly hypocrisy to this caricature of the! he tried to kiss you on the stairs. This

the only reason he ever looked at El- Gre?k god. 'disgusts Maria, so she goes of, to

;len was because Maria had handed ihim the marble heart with such fre-

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "I don't know anything more perfectly insane than reunions," cried Sal banging the door and pitching her hat into the offing. "How now, my Sal!" declaimed the cynic idly strumming the window pane. "Oh you here!" said Sal. "I'm always here and why not?" "Sure enough why not?" repeated

Sal. "I'm sure its a relief to see you after banqueting with the forty-niners." "While the exact nature of your compliment is somewhat obscure," said the cynic, "still I thank you." "But may I," he continued, "respectfully inquire the identity of the goldseekers? While I am conscious of the rapid advance of dour and unwelcome time I still can scarce believe that you were actually seated at the festal board with our financial pioneers." "That was merely the famed figure of speech," replied Sal. "I really meant I had been to a reunion of the 'old crowd-' " "I myself carefully steer clear of such social gatherings," murmured the cynic. "And further recognize," he continued, "that things can never be as they were." "There you have hit the celebrated nail right on the head," said Sal. "That's the reason reunions are such deadly bores. Everybody trying to pretend he doesn't notice anything different, you know when the fact is its all different." "Horribly awfully different!" grinned the cynic. "Those be mild words with which to describe the sensations attendant upon one of these reminiscent jamborees," cried Sal. "Its ghastly like cemeteries and dead men's bones." "You must have sat next one of the ossified ones," again grinned the cynic. '"It was a fright a perfect fright. It really wasn't a banquet. I just said that because reunions almost always have banquet attachments. "It was just one of those things where you get a note or a telephone

I message saying that Pete is in town

Detween trains ana wants to get everybody together for one of the old times and will you please send word to Ellen and telephone Oscar and

speak to Maria as she has so many to

inform and knowing how accommodat- j ing you are and that you have your

own 'phone " "Don't don't I beg of thee!" interrupted the cynic. "Well whatever in the world " said Sal. "Don't what?" "Don't say "phone!" Its a linguistic bastard that should be cast out root and branch," vituperated the cynic. "Its illegitimate and has no place in a respectable vocabulary." "Oh, is that all! 1 thought you had been struck with appendicitis." deployed Sal. "It is a beastly word, I admit but convenient. "I use it just like I chew gum I think I never will again but go on doing it just the same. "Gum chewing is one of the blots

"How well you are looking. you Kate and you hear 'em both abusing continue. "Far from not recognising ; you in undertones (Fancy! Putting

quency that his only recourse was tonim. say. you would have known , on that pink dress perfectly rittru-' seek consolation otherwhere. i him any place. On the sands of the ' kus I guess she thought he wtsn't

"You remember all this. "So you concluded to put on a newdress. "Dear Pete! "What a fine profile he had like a

Sahara, in the wilds of the Klondike, married old as the hills always era on the burning equator anywhere ry about the men ! no matter how or when or what you! "And now, says Pete after a miaut would have known 'twas he. land microscopic account of a recent "Oh. do you think so. says Pete. set-i real estate deal he had put throagh.

tling his collar and pulling his cutfs i ant to snow you tne pictures ci my

Greek god and such a physique! And: into position. Well, now isn't it queer, .children

stunning eyes. les. You remember

the eyes. It gives you a sort of early Victorian thrill when you remember them.

Id have passed you any time on the! "And it there is one thing I aim-

street " jl'ly can't endure." cried Sal "that "You gaxe at him with murder inriy m to drink d vm.r hart tin. ,A A nmM In 10 hV IP1 P PoreS Of their

"So you haul out your pink dress in Eee him stood up against a wall and thWr,B on m? in KP w hich even Maria grudgingly admits 6hot before daylight at the strike of and that u my w,f h Pointing you look not altogether hideous and twelve with bandaged eyes gladly jto a detestable and dowdy female sityou pull your hair over your ears and would you have assisted at the exocu-S,inK in tn centerlook at yourself approvingly in the ; tj0n speciallv when vou glance at! "l BlmP, Pond for the taxi hand mirror. j Maria ml Iton who' are trying to'ald "And t-ame home. I didnt "Really you have changed very lit1 pretend they aren't tickled to death v'n '"it for the wfreshnients.Jbey

tie everybody tells you so and. after and are conversing with Oscar with ( f"".

all, no doubt you will have a nice time. iiu v i a a . a

on your fair escutcheon, my Sal." said , " ' . J"u' h ,.vi "T .m w .h -m,w!der the table a minute or two just

eschew it."

"But the truth is gum chewing is a great nerve pacifier. I always chew when I write out my reports on the typewriter. I have heard it said that almost all linotype operators chew tobaoco or gum for the same reason. "However I admit its uncou and loathsome," said Sal. "I admit it all I know its a rotten habit but still

strained, self-conscious smiles. "Then Tom and Dan and Eddie come in together all with much hypocritical

in fun, of course you don't think you ! jocularity.

I'd rather chew It," grinned Sarah, i""' ' , , . ' . """"-- i "men ioiiows Kate ana jaca, wno

' - v jt is miiireu, uui mi ui iui. are married. Kate, pale ana iaaeu.

What's a wife or two in the offing and Jack, bored and bald, and pulling out

anyway she won't be there. Jnis watch every other time. "People are so liberal nowadays. j "Strangely enough Fete declares "So you call a taxi and are whirled . Kate is the onlv one who looks the to the rendezvous where early joys are j 8ame. This pleases no one but Kate to be renewed. because everybody knows she looks no - "When you enter the room you have J more iike 8he did when she married' a short of shock. Jaf k than an onion looks like a rose. !

"There are Ellen and Maria, of

indulge in other ptvnistonc amuse

ments but - "Enough is enough eh Sal!" ' "Enough is too much!" vociferated Sal grabbing up her ha. and exitlig.

tneres sometnmg kinda nice aDout it,! i,iitu uu i j -xvtih which Pete takes Kate off to too " I course, but you're used to seeing) . . . . , , 100 .. a corner and jollies her for an hour.

LiiKe many otner Dad namts, inter-1 nolated th cvnic "But who Is that fat man in the

"I don't agree with you at all." cried .corner!

Sal with a virtuous air. "I'll go as far as gum but no farther."

"Not cocktails or cigarettes or writing poetry or carrying on with other "Anyway reunions are simply impossible," interrupted Sal. "You think, at first, you won't dress up and then you remember that Pete used to kinda like you that, in fact, once he tried to kiss you on the stairs. Of course you slapped him but you enjoyed it and told all the girls. Maria, of course, intimated that Pete had frequently tried to kiss her but that he had never accomplished his fell design.

"Maria never permits anybody to be i kissed or anything else any more . than she has been. If anybody casually remarks that Oscar was a sort of old ; sweetheart, Maria at once says in an j off-hand manner that he had proposed ! to her more than once. That she got j

Maria even whispers to you that

(she thinks it wretched taste for Kate,

He looks at you uncertainly and; married woman, to carry on that

you wonder who on earth he is. "Where's Pete?" you ask with an af-

lu-av lVti- hr rtart sha thlnktft VC a t had

fectation of extreme gayety. "Why Sal is this you!" vociferates the fat man running out of his corner with hands extended. "Why I never would have known you

better stay at home and take care of the children, and look at Jack, bow mad he is. He has done nothing but yawn all evening. "Jealous! The idea! says Maria. No doubt he is glad to get rid of her for

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