The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 29, 1912, Image 3
I MED BY CLARK
rlHE HOUSE DEMOCRATS DID
GREAT THINGS SAYS THE
SPEAKER OF THE BODY
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Suys the Work of the Democrats in
the House of Representatives Will
<Jives the Party the House, the Senate
and the President in the Next
Election.
Speaker Champ Clark Saturday,
I| delivering tho valedictory of the
lit Democratic House of the sixty-second
|| congress, asserted that historians
II would declare with absolute truth
I that the House Democrats of the slxII
ty-flrst and sixty-second congresses
II "did great things" and "have made a
[I sweeping Democratic victory approxij
mately certain, a victory that will
| give us the House, tho Senate and
f tho president."
Dramatically addressing his colleagues
while the clock across the
House chamber was slowly moving
toward the final adjournment time,
the speaker, in a trLbute to leaders of
both parties, declared that no majority
was ever more successfully led
than by Representative Underwood,
nor any minority ever led moro ably
than by Representative Mann.
"Loader Mann," said he, "has contested
with Leader Underwood every
stop of the long and wearisome road
we have traveled with the stubborn
courage of the English squares at
Waterloo. I have not always agreed
with Brother Mann?Cod forbid! ?
but he lives up fully to his name.
Ho is in very truth a man. Were it
not for him 1 would feel decidedly
lonesome in the speaker's chair."
As speaker?as "dean of tho faculty,
so to speak"?Mr. Clark said
he felt very proud of the membership
of tho House, and he declared his belief
that Democrats should sit in the
seats of th? mighty, hold every
coigne of vantage and every place of
power.
Speaker Clark said that for years
the Democrats had been sneered at
"as a party of negation, green hands
in formulating and conducting public
business, ridiculed as a mob, a
rabble, without coherence or discipline
as militia fighting regulars, and
even exact date on which we would
dissolve into waring factions and go
to pieces was set down in tpyo".
"Rut," ho added, "the Democrats
have fought and won like veterans
and constitute thoroughly a disciplined
force as ever appeared in the
House or any other parliamentary
body since parliamentary bodies were
Instituted among men, mustered our
full strength on every mportant proposition
and passed two great tariff
bills over the president's veto, tho
first instance of the kind In the history
of the republic." They had
fought a good fight and kept the
faith, he said.
?.Mr. Clark said that "so long as
the earth spins upon its axis or slides
down the ecliptic," public men who
would escape the people's wrath
would take to heart the simple and
Instructive story of the astounding
change in the political situation,
"since that melancholy day In November,
1908, when wo were so completely
flattened out." The lesson,
in brief, ho said, was that the Republicans,
in orde/' to get In, promised to
revise the tariff down, but, being in,
they proceeded to wjviso it up.
The speaker expressed thanks and
the gratitude of the country to "the
brave, wise and patriotic Republicans
who co-operated with us in passing
good bills. The secret of our
marvelous success," ho said, "is simple?unity
of thought, purpose and
action, frequent counsel together, a
spirit of mutual conciliation, strict
adherence to principle, with tmost
latitude in non-essential, subordination
of individual desire to the general
party good, sacrifice of personal
ambitions in the earnest, honest, patriotic
endeavor to serve the whole
people with whatever of capacity God
lias blessed us.
"\V'r? Itn vvr>n rnnr?v victories." lip
said, "but what is bettor, we have
formed the habit of victory." lie suggested
that Roflcoe Conk ling's declaration
that General Grant's fame was
earned not alone by things written,
but by the arduous greatness of
things done, "fits our caso like a
glove".
"What the Democratic House accomeMshed,
so far as it could for the
p.nie,:oratIon of conditions," said he,
"thwarted, nr> it has been, by a, Republican
president, is only an earnest
of what. We will do when wo come into
full possession of the three
branches of government. President
Taft vetoed most of our bills of a
remedical character,. a prerogative
unwisely exercised. He made his record;
wo mad? ours. On theso records
we appeal to the country with
absolute confidence that when the
polls ""lose in November we will hnvo
elected a Democratic ITouso and Senate.
Governor Woodrow Wilson to
the presidency and Governor Marshall
to the vice-presidency?consum
mat ions devoutly to bo wished,
which wo believe and hope will prove
of inestimable and enduring benefit
to the entire American people, of
whatever persuasion, religious or political."
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\ ictim c?f Queer Accident.
Rolling out of bed !n his room at a
hotel in Philadelphia, Pa., Franklin
S. Rrokley, a retired business man of
New Britain, Conn., almost toro hiR
ear from his head by striking the
edge of a metal cuspidor.
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Grasshoppers Stop a Rand.
Several million grasshoppers
swarmed In Atchlnson, Kan., and
broke up a baud concert. They crawled
in some of the horns and put them
out of tune. |A
TEDDY AND TRUSTS
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HAD HIS HAND ALWAYS IN THEIR
WELL-FILLED PURSE.
Cluilrman Stanley Says the Colonel
Was in Touch fop Many Years
With Wealthy Men and Politicians.
Chairman Stanley, of the House
steel trust investigating committee,
fired a farewell broadside at former
President Roosevelt Saturday in reply
to the Colonel's characterization
of the work of the committee as
"foolish and futile".
Mr. Stanley charged that the former
president desired no legislation
that would curb capital of monopoly
n rwl flint lin Vinfl fn ilnrl tr? tnkn SitiV
U J VI tliuv II V II |?*,IIVV? VM*?w
position with reference to the dissolution
of control of the harvester
trust or the United States Steel corporation.
;Mr. Stanley declared that the late
revelaitons of their relations between
Colenel ltoosevelt and the Standard
Oil company "should surprise nobody".
lie insisted that for years
Mr. Roosevelt was in touch with
wealthy men and "facile, unapproachable
politicians of the same
typo".
"The worst part of it," ho continued,
"is not that Mr. Roosevelt shared
the plunder of this lawless monopoly.
The money was collected and
spent; that is ancient history. The
astounding and menacing phase of
the situation is not that he once had
access to the purBo of the Standard
Oil company, but that he is now attempting
with an audacity characteristic
of Roosevelt alone, to carry out
to the letter the pet policies of H. H.
Rogers, and John L). Archbold.
Roosevelt is, in a way, a 'thorough
Progressive'. He is far in advance of
his farmer party associates in his en
ergy and audacity in this prop a ganda
for tho licensing of organized lawlessness."
Launching into a bitter attack on
the bureau of corporations, Mr. Stanley
declared an investigation had
proved It to bo the creation of the interests.
"The whole infamous thing
was incubated In Wall street," he
said.
Concluding, Mr. Stanley held that
tho great danger to the country of
hto ascendency of Colonel Roosevelt
was "not that ho was the recipient of
dirty money so much as lie was the
proponent of dangerous policies."
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IN RESPONSE TO APPEALS.
Please's Friends Wanted Senator
Tillman to Indorse Him.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
Senator Tillman's action in making
public the letter he addressed to Harriston
Ferguson of that city discussing
the qualifications of Gov. Blease
to bo Governor came after a week of
intense interest in this document felt
by the people of that city and county.
The letter had not been in the hands
of'Mr. Ferguson an hour before there
were rumors on the street that Tillman
had indorsed Blease, saying he
was "eminently qualified" to be Governor
of South Carolina.
In his speech at Spartanburg Judge
Jones said, after reading the Sims
letter, that lie would give $100 to
any man who would got lien Tillman
to say Blease was "eminently qualified"
to be Governor v?r this State,
which was what the Senator had said
of him, when writing Mr. Sims. The
offer aroused the Illease people to action
and they set about to get such a
statement from Senator Tillman with
a view to taking down the Judge's
hundred.
In tlie letter to Ferguson the expression
they wanted from the Senator
appears, and, according to report,
only this line was shown to several
persons. There persons evidently
spread the news of Senator Tillman's
indorsement of Blease and so the in
quiry that brought out the letter was
started. Ferguson telegraphed Tillinan
asking him not to give out the
letter and refused to comment upon
it at Spartanburg. It is believed at
Spartanburg that it was shown to
Gov. Blease in Greenville, as Ferguson
was there for the campaign meeting
and was with many of the Blease
people during the day.
TillEF BEG'AME PEN 1TEXT.
rjii*l Stole Minister's Salt Case, Head
Sermon and Returned Plunder,
The Rev. Dr. Hugh C. McBridge
was robbed of a suit case two weeks
ago in a department store in Philadelphia,
while he was on his way to
Atlantic City. He made no report of
the loss until when ho appeared at
the detective bureau with a letter
signed "A Heart-Broken Young Woman"
which reads: "I read your
beautiful sermon and was overcome
with remorse. I never had a chance
to learn the difference between right
and wrong, but when I read your sermon
on the test: 'O Lord, please
show me the right from wrong' I
decided 1 did wrong in taking your
suit caso and now return it."
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Booze Kills Aged Horse.
George Washington, .10 years old,
driven many years by William Rodenburg,
a distiller of Lawrenceburg,
Tnd., died of alcholic poisoning. The
horse was in the habit of consuming
a quart of spirits a, day and was unable
to work without it.
o
Caused Mail's Death.
While going through somnambulistic.
contrortlons incident to a bad case
of nightmare, Lorraine Smifh, of
3*%loomirigton, Tnd., aged forty-live
years, caught his head in tho iron
bed upon which ho had been lying
and strangled to death.
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Lightning Kills Sheep.
During en electrical storm near
Cable Cove, Ore., a flash of lightning
flowed its way through a huddled
herd of sheep and logt ninety-six
carocsses In its path.
WHO MURDERED HIM
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NO CLUE TO THE SLAYER NOR
MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME
EVIDENTLY A BURGLAR
The Murder of a Negro Near the Navy
Yard Reveals the Treasure
House of a Successful .Thief?
Some of the Articles Found Have
Hceii Identified.
The Charleston Evening Post says
the discovery of the dead body of a
negro man In a field near the navy
yard Friday has led to a series of
discoveries as remarkable as have recently
come to light in jiolice circles.
In the first place the mu had been
murdered by being stabbed through
the heart, and the mystery of the
crime is as deep now as when the
body was first discovered, in spite of
the investigation that Has been carried
on since that time. The dead
man was at once identified as Thomas
Sapp, the porter in Marks' store on
;h? meeting street road near the government
reservation, and Friday
night when the case had boon turned
over to Coroner O'Donnell and the
city police .by Magistrate Behrens
who conducted the first investigation,
the local authorities discovered Sapps
rooms at No. 5 2 Calhoun street to b?
a veritable treasure house of stolen
goods. Trunks and boxes full of
clothing, fine linen and drug goods,
marked table silver in large quantity,
ranied portraits, and other valuable
loot to the value of several hundred
dollars were found in the dead man's
room.
Most of the recovered booty was removed
to the police headquarters at
once, and the rest was transferred
Saturday, and all morning at the staion
house the owners of lost propory
which had in some case been stolen
luring last fall and winter were identifying
their goods. Several robberies
took place last winter in several
houses in the lower part of the city,
to which no clue was ever found. Silver
and furnishings were found
among the murdered porter's booty,
which evidently had come from these
burglaries, some of it being identified
Saturday morning. Merchants whose
stores had been broken into and robbed
also appeared and identified
goods, and from the evidence at hand
even this soon after the discovery of
Sapp's store house, it is certain that
ho was either one of the cleverest
burglars that ever operated in Charleston
or else was a succesful "fence"
for stolen goods.
No suspicion had ever been attach
ed to tho man before the search that!
was made of his rooms by Coroner O'Donnell
and Chief Cantwell who were
looking for some clue that would
lead to an explanation of his mysterious
murder, and ho was said by his
employer at the Marks store and also
by his fellow residents in the Calhoun
street house to be a quiet, sober
workman, regular in his habits and
altogether trustworthy. The double
life that he was evidently leading and
tile real reason for his prosperous appearance
and continual possession of
ent.y of spending money that had
been noted by his friends Wbuld possibly
never been explained except for
liis sudden death and the investigation
that is being made of it.
Thomas Sapp's murdered body was
discovered early lying in a field off
the'Meeting street road at Station 14,
on the navy yard car line. He had evii'nn
f Itr linnn rlno rl f r\ * OAmn i S ni n nro
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viously and the only mark on the
body was a knife wound through the
heart, which must have produced instant
death. A careful search of the
urrounding ground gave no clue to
the manner in which the crime had
been committed or the murderer. The
knife used was not found. Magistral
e Behrens, of Ten Mile, in whose
jurisdiction the body was found, was
notified and conducted a thorough invigution
together with his constables,
but beyond an identification of
the man nothing was found to throw
any light on the mystery. Accordingly
the magistrate who exercises the
'titles of coroner in his district held
an inquest over the body at which
the jury returned the verdict that
Thomas Sapp had come to his death
by a knife wound infliceted by party
or parties unknown, and the man
was buried by the county. ITe was
known to be unmarried and without
relatives. In the pockets of his clothing
there was found $12f in cash,
showing that the motive was not robbery,
whatever it may have been.
After a further fruitless investigation
Magistrate Behrens notified Coroner
O'Donnell and Chief Cantwell of
he facts and turned the local investigation
of the case over to them. The
coroner wished to examine Sapp's
room which was discovered to be at
No. 5 2 Calhoun street and accompa
mecl by unier (ant won and other orfioers
the official search party broke
through tho locked door Saturday
night.
The biggest surprise of the whole
surprising aflair was then brought to
light, when the little room was found
to he stacked and piled high with
boxes containing stolen goods of
great value. Six new suits of clothes,
together with whole bolts of linen
and other flue cloth were found to All
one trunk and odds and ends of hardware
and house furnishings, together
with a large quantity of silver, both
marke and unmarked, were sotno of
the other loot.
The police headquarters tho whole
mass of recovered goods is being
carefully gone over With a view to
finding tho owners, and later more
definlto results will undoubtedly be
attained. The marks of some of tho
silver will probably load to tho clearing
up of some robberies committed
last winter, which completely foiled
the efforts of the police a,t tho time.
HOLD COTTON CROP
PRESIDENT DAUBS SUGGEST CONCERT
OF ACTION.
Bankers, Merchants and Farmers
Urged to Meet on Dabor Day for a
General Discussion.
To the Farmers, the Merchants, the
..Bankers, and the Press of South
Carolina:
Beginning with last September, tho
South, with dire disaster threatening
the Nation's greatest money crop, has
been engaged in one of the greatest
economic struggles in her history.
The last year ended witn a commercial
victory that perhaps saved millions
of dollars to the growers of cotton
and to those whose easiness in
terests are absolutely dependent upon
cotton and a fair price for that commodity.
The South is now facing another
cotton crop year and aiready the influences
that have heretofore been at
play, at will, to manipulate the marketing
of this commodity, which
brings back from Europe to this
country a half million dollars annually,
and upon which the stability of
American finances and the balance of
the world's trade in favor of the Nation
depends, are again at work, as is
evidenced by the depression of the
prices of cotton to the extent of $10
per bale in the last ten days.
The real fight for whiah proper
marketing and greatest stability of
price must now be fought, and it rests
frith tlie producing, banking and commercial
interests of the South to
push that light upon sound economic
lines based upon .business principles
applicable to changing international
commercial relations. The time for
decisive and concerted *ction has arrived.
It has occurred to the undersigned
that, no more appreciate^ day for the
taking of such action throughout the
communities of the Cotton Belt
States could bo secured for the purpose
than 'Monday, September 2,
which is Labor Day. It is eminently
proper that upon this day, which is a
National and State Holiday, that
thereof our people who labor in the
Holds to create the wealth of the
country, should meet with those
whose business particular product of
the soil and determine upon a fixed
policy in the matter of marketing of
the 1912 cotton crop.
We unhesitatingly most earnestly
recommend that .this policy be
the slow and gradual marketing of
the crop. We most earnestly call upon
every banker in the Sautli, and
particularly in this State, to make
such financial arrangements that will
enable the banks to render to the
producer such aid as will make it possible
for him to avoid the placing of
all his cotton upon the market at one
time in the early fall, enabling him
instead to gradually market it to the
best aavantage. We would call the
attention of the bankers and business
men who are interested in the banks,
to the fact that even if the banks did
get one cent of profit for advance
to farmers for this purpose on cotton,
the increased volume of business
wo Id mare than recompense them.
W(? wish to take this accosion to
command those banks in this and
other States, which las season, secured
the necessary money to lg?an to
the farmers and especially do we
commend those banks and bankers,
who this season, have come forward
and announced similar arrangements.
We most earnestly call upon the
Commissioners of Agriculture of the
several States of the Cotton Belt and
the Presidents of the several State
Farmers' Union to issue calls similar
to this one for meetings on Septem
her 2, to the farmers, merchants and
bankers of their respective States for
1 He execution of the purpose outlined
above.
Realizing the impending danger
and onslaught that is being made upon
careful deliberation, determined
to issue this most earnest call, which
wc desire to be understood as directed
to each individual farmer, each
merchant and each banker to assemble
at such meetings as are suggested
on Labor Day and give this matter
the most careful and thoughtful consideration.
We wish all to bear in mind that
last year though the Farmers' Union
began work in August, it was impossible
to secure the co-operation we
are now seeking. This year with that
experience as a guide the work was
begun as early in June. Could we
have had earnest and active corporation
last season such as we are now
asking and securing, an additional
$10,000,000, at least would havo
been saved to the farmers of South
Carolina, alone and that, too, without
any other State working on the
same line.
In conclusion we wish to impress
as forcibly as we know how upon the
producers the fact that the greatest
ally that the speculative element who
would hammer down the price of cotton
relies upon is the thoughtless
farmer without regard to his brother
producers' welfare unloads all of his
cotton upon the markets at inopportune
and ill-advised moments. We
wish further, on the other hand, to
impress upon the bankers of the
South that it is riot only the securing
or tlio necessary money that that
should bo their mission, but that
their most hearty and earnest cooperation
should bo extended, that
they should realize that the foundation
of their success rests \ipon cotton,
and that if cotton is marketed \o
accordance with the policy outlined,
then, and then only, will the circulating
medium in the Southern States
bo materially increased; In other
words, unless this policy he pursued
wo will experience what we have already
experienced a number of times,
the marketing of a large crop of good
quality at several millions of dollars
lets to the South than such cropg
,would have brought could they have
TURNED THEM LOOSE "
NO REQUISTION WAS ASKED BY
GOVERNOR IILEASE f
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Several South Carolina Murderers
"Were Set Free in Savannah on n
Technicalities.
The Savannah press runs a story
saying several murderers wanted In /
South Carolina have heen released
from custody In Savannah on habeas
corpus proceedings because Governor
Illease had not requested requisition.
The sheriff of Beaiffort
county was present at the Savannah
hearing and declared the governor's
office was asked a week ago to issue
the requisition papers. At any rate
according to the Savannah paper the
murderers are now at liberty.
The following is form the Savannah 1
Press: Not knowing whether Gov- (
ernor Cole L. Please of South Carolina
will issue requisition papers for 1
men caught in Georgia and wanted in
the Sister state caused Judge Walter '
G. Charlton, in the Superior court ^
this morning to release two men who
are charged with murder. A third
prisoner will be held until Saturday.
The night of July there was a
general fight on the steamer Planter, '
which carried a crowd of negro ex- '
cursionists down" the river. While
in Carolina waters John James was 1
shot and killed. Returning to Savannah,
four men wore placed under
arrest, in the case?John Gillstrap, 1
Henry and Charlie iRotbinson land 1
Charles Jones.
Aigument for the release of the 1
men was made by Col. Golding and
Mr. Leo A. Morrissy, representing tho 1
State made an eloquent plea that
tney oe neui, ?nernr JVLcrear oc iseau- I
fort county, was in court and stated
that the solicitor of the lleaufort district
requested Governor Bleaso for
papers over a week ago.
Judge Charlton said ho had no
right to hold the men. Over two
weeks had elapsed, he said and no
intimation has been made by the governor
that he even intends sending
the papers, and Judge Charlton declared
that he could not hold men
indefinitely, just because Governor
Blease was busy campaigning and did
not take the time to fijl out and send
the papers even if it was his intention
to send them.
Concluding Judge Charlton stated
ho did not believe that Governor
Blease would honor any requistion
papers sent to him by Georgia, nor
did he think Governor Blease would
send papers into Georgia asking that
prisoners be returned to Carolina
The local authorities, Sheriff McTeer
and the solicitor wero comended by
udge Charlton for the work in catching
and holding the men.
Judge Charlton deotared that ho
would hold Robinson until Saturday
and the others were released. Judge
Charlton said that nothing had been
heard from Governor Blease as to
whether he Intended sending the papers
and that two months from the
present time the argument that the
papers might bo on th? way could be
put up, but owing to the gravity of
the offence, ho would hold Robinson
until Saturday.
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SPORTSMAN SOME EATER.
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Indiana Heavyweight Itas a Storage
Plant of Remarkable Capacity.
Louis Haverkamp, aged 3 7, and
weighinb 2G7 pounds, a well known
sportsman of Lawrenceburg, Ind.,
while the guest of honor at the Tan
nor s i;rq k auiiouc ciud a dinner,
was awarded the prize in the eating
contest, which was a feature of the
occasion.
Haverkamp stowed away six
pounds of fish, three squirrels, a
spring chicken, twelve biscuits, a
dozen ears of corn, eight cups of coffee,
six bottles of beer, ajialf dozen
baked potatoes, a pound of limberger
cheese, ^hree apple dumplings and a
quantity of slaw and tomatoes.
After dinner Haverkamp won the
fat man's race of 500 yards, and was
presented with a gold medal by the
club.
WOMAN KILLS STEPSON.
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Chokes Little Girl and Then Cuts
Her Throat.
Jealous of the lovo her husband
bore for his children, Mrs. Mary Hurley,
of Gregg Station, Pa., married a
second time, killed Benjamin Hurley,
aged seven years, and made a
vltious attack on Alice Hurley, aged
four, whom she choked into insensibility
and placed on a hot stove.
The husband, William Hurley, arrived
in time to see his wife hacking
at the body of Benjamin. "There,
see what I've done to your brat,"
cried the woman as she rushed to the
kitchen, and standing In front of a
mirror, plunged a razor into her
thrat and died a few minutes later.
been sent to market gradually.
We realize, for we have had reason
to fully appreciate the service
rendered in the past, that no matter
what the farmer, the merchant and
the banker may do, nothing can bo
accomplished in this vital undertaking
without the fullest and freest eoI
t I All /\ f 1 .V ? rt f * h .X C* .X I.i \.
Iv / |' vr 1 <11 iv/11 v?i vill* V>L tin; OVMIt II.
That co-operation wo arc proud to
say has never failed. We do not believe
it will fall now; indeed, we
know it will not.
E. J. Watson,
Commissioner of Agriculture and
President Southern Cotton Congress.
E. W. Dabbs,
President South Carolina Stato Farmers'
Union.
R. M. Cooper,
Jno. R. iMcLaurln,
J. M. Brogden,
R. T. C. Hunter,
W. O. Tat urn,
South Carolina Farmers' Union Committoo
on Cotton Warehousing,
> Marketing and Banking.
SHOWS UP TEDDY
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(NEW ALL ABOUT STANDARD OIL'S
CONTRIBUTION
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ro HIS CAMPAIGN FUND
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Irchbold Siiys One of the Contributions
to the 1001 Campaign Was
$100,000 and This Was Given to
Cornelius Bliss.?The Second Contribution,
$25,000 Was Given to
Senator Penrose.
John D. Archbold pictured to tho
mblic as a political manager and tho
lirectlng genius of the Standard Oil
Company took tho witness stand beore
tho Senate Committee Friday to
Aive It is version of the campaign conribufion
in 190 1, now a subject of
.lispute between Senator Penrose and
Koosevelt.
The star witness appeared half an
hour before the appointed time. He
was followed shortly afterwards by
Senator Penrose. (Messengers were
hurried out after Senators Oliver and
i'onierene who are to sit as members
jf the committee.
Finally the committee assembled
and Archbold was sworn, Senator
Clapp asked him what contributions
the Standard Oil Co. made to the
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Let iii (J<i 1^11 in i ;?ui, >v t? luuvio i wu
contributions, one to Cornelius Bliss
of a hundred thousand dollars and
one to Penrose, of twenty thousand
dollars, replied Archbold. Ho believes
the hundred thousand dollar
contribution was made sometime in
September. He thought about the
middle of the month, his recollection
was that it was given to Bliss in currency
when he was alone in Archbold's
office.
"Wo had had a talk about politics
and contributions and I said the matter
would have to be submitted to
our board; it was submitted and the
board decided to contribute," said
Arehbold, answering the questions
Arclibold said the payment to Penrose
probably was in currency. "You
were the men in the Standard Oil
Company, who had charge of these
political matters?" asked Clapp.
"Only in Pennsylvania and Ohio
where I'd known relations," Archbold
said.
I To said ho talked later with Bliss,
concerning further contributions and
he thought II. H. lingers was present.
Afterward he decided to make no further
contributions. "I talked frankly
with Bliss and told him we wanted
to make this contribution but not
without the knowledge of the powers
that he." We wanted it understood
it was appreciated by Roosevelt. Bliss
smilingly assured me 'thajt this
would be the case.
Archbold continued: "We decided
that our interest as business organization
lay 011 the Republican side.
Nothing was decided about distaribution.
It was the company's money.
There was some talk about objections
to contributions from certain
sources."
"Had you any knowledge that this
contribution had been made known
to Roosevelt?"
"The only assurance came from
Bliss through myconference with
him," said Archbold, explaining why
they paid it in currency. Archbold
smilingly said he didn't suppose there
was a desire on the part of either for
publicity. At a subsequent conference
regarding further contribution
which was refused Archbold said
Bliss gave him to understand that
"further contributions would be acceptable
to Roosevelt."
Witness referred to attacks upon
the Standard Oil which he regarded
n-. unjust, that Rliss told him he sympathized
with us but could do nothing.
The attacks he said ,\vere made
by .Tames A. Garfield and Herbert
Knox Smith, both of whom had been
commissioners of corporations.
"Roosevelt unfailingly approved
those attacks without investigation
or the slightest knowledge of facts,"
he added. "And there was more than
coincidence in the appearance of adverse
reports, every time we were
concerned in court, litigation or every
fin e legislation appeared in Washington
in which we were interested.
Garfield and Smith were mere puppets
who jumped when Roosevelt
pniy d strings."
When asked if lie thought the refusal
to make a further contribution
had anything to do with the so-called
unjust investigations, Archbold bit
bis lip and finally replied, "Well, I
don't know."
iK) you Know mat hups reported
to Roosevelt that you declined a further
contribution," asked Pomerene,
"I assume of course, that it was re
ported. T don't know in what shape
the report was made, but undoubtedly
it wan made," he answered.
Afte Archbold concluded members
of the committee conferred over tho
advisihility of calling Roosevelt to
testify. Penrose wants Roosevelt
summoned. William Rockefeller will
be called if his health permits, likewise
CJeorge Cortelyou.
When Archbold was excused it was
announced that Penrose would take
the stand late yesterday.
Claim produced a magazine stor?
containing a series of letters, pur
port ing to have been written by Arch
hold to Penrose, Archbold declare
that tho letter mentioning twent)
five thousand send to Penrose seeme
to be forgery. The "signature is ver
unlike my own," he said.
.Tack Rabbits Spills Anto?
A jack ra,bblt, which became ?
tangled in the running gear of an a
tomoblle belonging to \V. T*. Lideat
an Iowa man, caused tbo machine
run into a fence near Dover, C(
throwing mombers of bis party li
the road And damaging his machti
The rabbit was attracted by
lights a?nd sustained "fatal InjurH