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SIXTY-FIHST YEAR. NO. 302.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912. SIXTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
ROOSEVELT DENIES HOLDUP
METHODS IN 1904CAMPAIGN
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But Admits Contributions
Are Made by Corporations.
CORTELYOU BACKS HIM
Former President Talks Stead
ily for Two Hours to the
Clapp Committee.
Waahrigton. Oct. 4. "I. asked no
man to contribute to my campaim
fund when I 'was elected president,
and I wish to reiterate that Bliss and I
Cortelyou both assured me that no !
promise had ben made as a return
for any contribution. Neither they
nor any one else having authority
asked me to act or refrain from act
ing In any matter while I was presi
dent, because any contribution had
been made or withheld. "Gentlemen,
couid I put It more sweeplngly?"
reiki:ii rv okti.i.Ti or.
In these words Theodore Roosevelt
summarized his testimony today at
the close of the first, part of his hear
ing before the Clapp committee of the
Semite intentiKatirp campaign funds.
He was to continue In the witness
chair when the committee resumed
after luncheon. The colli y Fpecifical
ly denied he ever asked for contri
butions In the l'04 campaign fund,
or that ho had known of any contri
bution by J. I. Morgan. Roosevelt
added he had ordered the return to
the Standard Oil company of any con
tributioj it might have made In 1904;
that ho had been assured by George
Corttlyou "only yesterday" that he
knew of no such contribution; that,
he did not believe Cornelius Bliss
had ever demanded a contribution
from Archbold or from any corpora
tion by any methods of extortion.
A I MIT f'OHI'OHAHON AID.
Roosevelt did not deny corporations
had contributed to the 1304 campaign,
lie said his letters and publish
ed stateaients always acknowledged
that fa-t, but he specified no such
contributions were ever obtained un
der any suggestion that the admin
istration would reward the givers
with special fa''i's. The colonel was
a forceful and emphatic witness.
He talked two hours and was In
terrupted but a half dozen times. His
testimony brintiled with characteris
tic statements.
Vr I'KMKKK OtSTED.
"Senator Penrose should be driven
from the senate," he declared, "be
cauhe of his acknowledged friendll
i:fs with Standard Oil Interests.
Charles D. Utiles and Congressman
Ilarthohlt should be forced to prove
Heir statements that the Roosevelt
j.rimary campaign funds this year
amounted to three or four million, or
i-hould be driven out of public life."
A I.I. IIKAHSAY EYIUK('E.
Asked about the "Harrlman funU,"
Roosevelt interrupted and asked to
exp alu the "charges that have beea
madu" In regular order, and Chair
man Clapp acquiesced.
"There U no testimony against me,
except, in the form of Hearsay evi
dence," the colonel said, "hearsay
ftatetnents of men that are dead.
Archbold and Penrose purport to give
statements of what lilies had to say.
IlliBS Is dead. Odell and other gentle
men refer to statements made by
Harrlman, who is dead."
Roosevelt said he had not Intend
ed to bring his former secretary, Wil-
llani Tuih Intn hn rtTilrAi.'arat hut
as the cum ni it tee had already deter-
mined to call IM-b. he had asked
liim to bear out his statements. The
colonel then spoke of a letter pub
lished in Hearst's Magazine from Coj
Kressman Sibley.
DOES .NOT HF.MEMBKK.
"It Is a letter." the cdlonel said,
"which in substance states that Sib
ley came to see me to speak to me
about seeing Archbold and I said I
would be delighted to see him and
asked Sibley to bring Archbold to
lunch. I don't remember ever hav
ing talked to Sibley on that matter,
but It is very possible I may have
done so. Any invitation I may have
extended was the result of a request
by Sibley. I always saw any man
brought to me by a congressman or
senator."
The colonel did not remember ever
having talked with Sibley about Arch
bold. He said Senator Bourne had
once brought Archbold to lunch at
Oyster Bay.
AM. TRF.ATF.n ALIKE.
The colonel spoke slowly, "while
1 was president. If any man. trust
magnate, socialist, lawyer or clergy
man, had any business with me and
wanted to see me I gladly saw him.
If I thought an thing was to be gain
ed from the standpoint of public ser
vice in sneing any man. then, without
waiting tor Mm to ask. I would send
for him. If elected president a year
hence. If Rockefeller, or any one else
wants to see me I'll see him. More
over, if I have anything to ask for
the public service from Rockefeller,
Mr. Morgan or any one else. I II send
The Weather
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Forecast Till 7 p. m. Tomorrow for
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline,
and Vicinity.
Fair and warmer tonighf; Saturday
Increasing cloudiness.
Temperature at 7 a. m., 3; maxi
mum yesterday, 74; minimum last;
: Light, 48.
J Wind velocity at 7 a. m., 9 mues
j Precipitation in 24 nourB, none.
Relative humidity last evening, 64;
; this morning, 93.
Stage of river at 7 a. m., 3.7, w ith a
fall of 1 feet in last 24 hours.
J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
(From noon today to noon tomorrow.!
Sun sets 5:37. rioeB fiOl Evenlne
tarn: Mercury. Venn. Mars. Jupiter
Morning star: Saturn.
'or him.1
Roosevelt, said that, during
his administration he had sent for
James J. Hill. "I think I sejt for
i J. IMerpont Morgan," he said, "at I
I least I saw Morgan in regard to the
currency question."
EXPLAINS HARKIMt OFFER.
"I have sent for Battling Nelson,
John L. Sullivan and Dr. Lyman Ab
bott," he added, w-yh a laugh that
brought a response from the crowd.
"I thought SulWvan was a has-been.
I did not know you were in that class,"
said Paynter.
"Well, Sullivan and Nelson, I think,
came to bee me," the colonel said.
"Now about the Harriman business.
said Roosevelt. "I feel there ought not
to be need for any intelligent man to
ask any question after reading the
tetters I wrote at that time." Here he
took up his letters to Harriman and
defended the use of the term "prac
tical man," in the much dibcui6sU let
ter of Oct. 14, 1908. He said his ef
fort was to get practical men into
politics. Then he read the letter and
declared it "absolutely incompatible
with any suggestion of my getting aid
fiom Harriman in any way."
TALK STATE CAMPAIGN.
Oct. 20, 1904, Roosevelt said Harri
man telephoned Loeb,
president Harriman wanted to Bee him i
about the New York state campaign, I
which was "running badly." Tle
colonel made an appointment through
Loeb at Harriman's request. Loeb was
present during almost all of that in
terview and there was no possibility
of any "misunderstanding" between
Harriman and himself. "There waa
not a word spoken by Harriman in
reference to the collection of funds for
the national campaign. On the con
trary, "the entire conversation was to
the effect the national campaign was
safe and that aid should be given the
New York state campaign." Roosevelt
said subsequently he had a talk with
Harriman, who favored the appoint
ment of Former Senator Depew as am
bassador to France, but when he told
I!i.rriman other financial men were
sipporting James H. Hyde, Harriman
began to "back water." Roosevelt
added he made It clear Hyde was too
young.
rinT AK DOLLAR.
"Harriman asked me to get Cor-
telyou and Bliss to raise funds for the : he reiterated his first knowledge of
New York campaign. I never asked ' $100,000 contributions in 1904 by J. P.
Harriman directly or Indirectly for a j Morgan or George J. Gould came from
dollar to help tlt campaign or any j Sheldon yesterday. "I knew H. C.
other." Roosevelt said he wished to!Frick contributed heavily and was
correct his statement regarding Harri- ready to contribute more," he said. "I
man. Harriman told me. he said,
that the national committee people
naa plenty or money, i loia mm l ! backers. I had heard there was a
knew nothing about that. His request j standard Oil contribution," said the
to me was that I ask the national foow -but I did not know it came
committee to give money, not that I J fronl Archbold." He could not re
&k the national committee to help j member w ho told him. Paynter called
raise money. He said the national i ,,,... t R,Rvit toWram nr
committee already had
funds."
plenty of
'
He then discussed Judge Al'on Par-
er's statement In 1504 and declared
a repeated misstatement charged to
him wag that he had said corpora
tions did not contribute to the 1904
campaign. "I never made the state
ment that corporations had not con
tributed to the republican party," he
said emphatically.
TnRr TREATMKT.
Roosevelt referred to Archbold's I
statement that the Roosevelt adminis
tration's "treatment of the Standard
Oil company rivalled darkest Abys
sinia." "It Is true that when I was
president I administered darkest Abys
sinian treatment to the Standard Oil
company. But it was because it need
ed it. If I am president again, I will
cgain adminisfer it to any corporation
of the Standard Oil type that may
r.eed it." The colonel added a strength
ening of the anti trust law was need
ed He said he had a fight with Stan
dard Oil in ISK'3 when tie was getting
through the bureau of corporations
bill. I had the first brush with the
Standard then." he said, "and they
knew just what they could expect
from me."
AT OTHER CAI.I FD.
Roosevelt demanded that Charles P.
Taft, William B. McKlnley, Chairman
McOombs and Vice Chairman McAdoo
of the democratic committee be sum
moned. "You can see it is hard on
j me.'
said the colonel, "to have to
wait a month to answer Archbol
charges, then to have things so ax
ranged that the attention of the coun
try is riveted on the campaign ex
penses of the progressive party, while
no attention is directed to the funds of
ether candidates." Clapp assured the
SEVEN ARE DEAD IN
RAILROAD WRECK
Westport. Conn.. Oct. 4. The death
list from the wreck of the second sec-
who told theition of the Springfield express, west-
bound, on the New Yc:k, New Haven
& Hartford road .for New York late
Of several
score of injured, only 10
remain In
Norwick hospital. These are expected
to recover.- 1 lie 1 f Fyi!U Was' alTrttJGted'
to the train taking a cross-over at high
speed. The dead:
MRS. JAMES C. BRADY. New York,
wife of a son of Anthony Brady of
Albany.
MISS MARY HAMILTON, sister of
Mrs. Brady.
MRS M Pit VFR HJVIT rtanhtpr
Of A. N. Brady.
MRS. C. RANSOM, Albany, sister of
Mrs. Brady.
GEORGE CLARK, engineer.
J. MOKER. fireman.
MARK WHEELER, mail clerk.
colonel the other men would be
brought before the committee before
election.
,KTS SEW! YESTERDAY.
When Roosevelt resumed the stand
dirt not know the amount Knox told
j me Frlck was one of my strongest
,0ct ,7 1904 to cortelyou, asking that
f h WfonjQV fill jtAna-f Kntrn fri a a
ijut intauuaiu vn wuu iuuuuu uc 1 c
turned "without delay."
"Did you understand there had been
delay?" asked Paynter.
THOl'CHT IT RF.Tl'RVED.
"I couldn't get any reply to my let
ters," said the colonel. "Corteljoir
was out west. I think. I though't the
money would be returned, but I wanted
to make it clear that in my mind there
was no doubt the contribution should
be returned."
"Have you believed all these years
that the Standard Oil contribution was
net made?" asked Paynter.
"Cortelyou told me that Bliss told
Ioeb that. And only the other day
Cortelyou tola me that he had been in
formed by Bliss that no contribution
had been made by the Standard com
pany. I had an explicit understanding
wiih Bliss and Cortelyou," said Roose
velt, "that no money was to be accept
ed if any kind of conditions were ex
pressed or implied as to its receipt,
and that no money was to be spent In
an improper way, such as buying
votes.
DESTROYER IS HIT,
BUT MEN ESCAPE
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct 4. The new
torpedo boat destroyer Beale collided
with a barge in the Delaware river
last night and tore a large hole in its
row. The Beale had a crew of 82
officers and men, but none was injur
ed The Beale was towed to the navy
yard here.
lli, llTfr V o5i
14 MEN SENT
TO DEATH IN
A SUBMARINE
D.:t!.L : Pn. !rt
rDtlllall VCddCI lo wui I "-l
Halves by Steamer
Amerika.
HIT DURING MANEUVERS
Second Officer Only Member of
Crew Who Is pescued After
Disaster,
Dover, England, Oct. 4. The British
submarine B-2 was run down by the
Hamburg-American liner Amerika
here today. It sank immediately,
drowning 14 of the crew. The officer
in charge was rescued.
The disaster occurred while the third
patrof flotilla of submarines, conslst-
ing of six vessel, was maneuvering off
the coast of Kent. The Amerika ap
pears to have cut the submarine com
pletely in halves.
OXLY ONE SAVED.
Lieutenant Pulleyne, second in. com
mand, was the only man among the
crew of 15 who was saved. He was
found floating In, the sea too exhausted
to say more when he was rescued
than "the submarine was cut in two;
I went down, a mile," The Amerika
stood by and threw life buoys over
board, after being informed of the ac
cident by wireless, and searched the
sea for hours. None of the others of
the' crew was found. There was no
sign of wreckage.
IS SIXTH DISASTER.
The Amerika proceeded on its voy
age to Southampton and Cherbourg.
This is the sixth disaster to British
submarines, each of them involving a
loss of 13 to 15 lives.
The commander. Lieutenant O'Brien,
was among the victims.
NICARAGUA REBEL
FORCE CAPTURED
Washington, Oct 4. The entire reb
el army at Jinotepe, Nicaragua, 20
miles south of Managua, was captured
with all ammunition, arms and artil
lery, after - a four-hour battle which
government troops won yesterday
morning. The troops were trying to
force a Junction with the rebel force
under General Zeledon.
Admiral Sutherland notified Zele
don, who refused to surrender to the
government that he would attack bis
position with 900 marines and blue
Jackets if he did not vacate by 8 yes-
j terday morning,
J known.
The result is not
AVIATOR KILLED
AT A JERSEY FAIR
Falls Distance of 2,000 Feet in
Attempting to Make a
Fancy Descent.
Trenton. N. J., Oct. 4. With 60,000
Persons watching him at the Intei-
Mate -fair grounds yesterday after-
noon, Charles F. 'Walsh, while making
a special descent, in a Curtis biplane,
leu to Instant death about a quar
ter of a mile outside of the fair
grounas. wnen pnysicians reacnea
him Walsh was dead and his machine
was a complete wreck. Practically I
every bone in his body was broken
and his face and body were badly cut.
He had fallen 2,000 feet.
Walsh had been giving exhibitions
at the fair all week and this year for
the first time was doing fancy stunts
in the air with his machine. He was
very high, probably 5,000 feet as he
began his descent
He was making the spiral descent
with the front of the machine pointed
almost downward when the upper
seemed to become loose. Walsh
could plainly be seen struggling to re
gain his balance, but without avail.
The machine then made a rapid de
scent to he earth and the specta
tors realised that the aviator had lost
control of the machine and that death
was imminent
The accident had a depressing effect
upon the audience at the fair grounds.
and within a few minutes nearly half
of those present began an exodus.
Walsh's body was brought to a
morgue ia this city and Secretary Mar
gerum of the fair association gave or
ders for the abandonment of other
flights scheduled for the day.
Walsh was 25 years of age and a
native of San Diego, Cal. His wife
and two children are visiting at Ham
mondsport N. Y., where they intended
remaining while he was flying with.'
Lincoln Beachy.
OFFER $7 A SEAT FOR THE
OPENING GAME AT BOSTON
Boston, Mass., Oct 4. With the
first world's series game In this city
only five days away, quotations on sin-
gle chances to see the initial struggle
at Fenway park rose today to 17 bid.
Twelve dollars was asked.
PARLIAMENT IS CALLED
TO TALK OVER A STRIKE
Madrid, Oct. 4. King Alfonso has
convoked the Spanish parliament to
meet October 14 to discuss the situa
tion arising out of the Spanish strike,
which held up almost the entire traf
fic of Spain.
DYNAMITE FOUND
TO BE TOD WEAK
Indianapolis. Oct. 4. "The strongest
stuff ever invented" was the way Her
bert Hockfn referred to nitroglycerine.
which he bought to carry on a con-! an increase in fixed cbargea for op
spiracy, according to charages today ' erating expenses of approximately
at the trial of the accused "dynamite
plotters." It was after dyBamite was
i found not to be "strong" enough, ac
cording to District Attorney Miller,
that the defendants, in December, 1909,
' decided to use nitroglycerine.
BALKAN SITUATION
IS MORE HOPEFUL
London, Oct 4. A more hopeful
feeling prevails concerning the Balkan
situation, for diplomacy, which seeks
peace, has made some little progress
toward a solution of the crisis.
Athens, Oct 4. Plans to annihilate
all Greeks cow in Albania have been
laid, according to reporta from the
Greco-Turkish frontier. The report
says a Greek notable at Philipiade was
assassinated.
Copenhagen, Oct 4. Prince George
of Greece started for Athens ready to
Join the Greek army should hostilities
break out
Constantinople, Oct 4. Detachments
of Bulgarian troops today penetrated
Turkish, territory north of Kovechaz,
to the northeast of Adrinople.
London, Oct 4. The British Medit-
erranean fleet was ordered today to
proceed to the Levant according to a
news agency dispatch from Gibraltar.
The cruiser Weymouth immediately
left at full speed for Suda bay, on the
north coast of Crete.
Constantinople, Oct 4. That the
Turkish cabinet voted yesterday to ac
cept Italy's latest proposals for peace
was the announcement made today by
authoritative sources. Preliminary
agreements will be signed upon the ar
rival at Ouchy of a special Turkish
embassy who left Constantinople Im
mediately after the cabinet meeting.
Paris, Oct. 4. Pietro Bertolinl and
Rechad Pasha, Italian and Turkish
peace delegates, will leave Ouchy,
Switzerland, tonight for Rome and
Constantinople, respectively, in order
to secure ratification of their govern
ments peace agreement reached by
them, . according to dispatch from
Ouchy.
Pertn, Oct 4. An Italian cruiser is
bombarding forts at Sheik Said, north
of this island.
NEW IOWA SHOPS
FOR ROCK ISLAND
Railroad Company Purchases
8 0 Acres of Land at East
Des Moines.
jg MoineB, Iowa, Oce. 4. The
, , , . ... . ,
Rock. Is,and ra,,road through W '
Whitenton, general manager, today
announced the purchase of 80 acres
of land In East Des Moines upon
which the company Is to build a mam
moth new roundhouse and repair
shops.
It has been known for some time
that the company has been negotiat
ing for the purchase of considerable
land along its right of way in East
Des Moines. The announcement made
this morning la the first authorita
tive statement of the company's plans.
The land was secured quietly and
many people who sold their property
did not know the Rock Island waa ac
quiring it
The property extends from East
Twentieth street to East Thirtieth. In
addition to this the company has an
option on land extending as far east
as Thirty-fourth street Beside the
repair shops and roundhouse the com
pany will lay out a large switch yard
and interchange track.
The yards will serve as the terminal
for the Kansas City Short line, form
erly the old St Paul & Des Moines,
which recently was acquired by the
company. The roundhouse will shel
ter the company's engines and all of
the branch line's repair work win ba
done there. When the southern ex
tention of the road is completed it
will be one of the best lines operat
ing through Des Moines.
The building of the new shops Sad
roundhouse will not affect those which
the company owns at Valley Junction.
Plans are being made for the enlarge-
ment Df tn company holdings there
' 1 be w0rB: prohably will start In the
spring.
SETTLE A WAGE DISPUTE
FOR ROADS OF THE SOUTH
Washington, Oct. 4. A settlement of
the protracted wage and working con
ditions controversy between the south
eastern railways and their employes
was reached late yesterday. The men
by the agreement signed will receive
an average advance In wages approxi
mately 10 per cent
The rules and working conditions on
each of the roads remain substantially
unchanged.
About 13,000 employes, of whom
3,000 are negroes, are affected. They
include cnoductors, forakemen, bag
gagemen, flagmen and yardmen. Track
men and shopmen were not included In
the controversy.
The agreement means to the roads
$1,300,000 a year. As an offset to this,
assurance is given that there will be
no strike of the men.
The settlement was rear bed through
the efforts of the mediators designated
. ti- the Erdman act
Warrants by Hundreds is
Answer to Reformers' N
Demands.
MAY FORCE AN ELECTION
Many Hurrying From the City
Segregation as a Harri
so Solution.
Chicago, Oct. 4. A referendum on
segregating disorderly places of the
city into one district looms as a possi
bility in the opinion of Mayor Harri
son as a result of a sweeping investi
gation of vice conditions and the is
suance of many warrants for resort
keepers and others by the state's at
torney. So sweeping has the deter
mination of State's Attorney Way- -man
become that many Inmates and
resort keepers are fleeing from the
city.
UNDER BLUE JuA. -
"Warrants for 135 alleged divekeep.
ers were sworn out late yesterday in
Municipal Judge Jacob H. Hopkins'
court. More warrants will be Issued
today.
Owners and agents of property in
which houses of prostitution are run
ning will also be arrested within the
week. '
Chicago will be raked from exclu
sive Edgewater to the more prosaic
"strand" in South Chicago and from
Oak Park to the lake.
The city is to be under a strict "blue
law" rule and the effacement of all
vice prostitution, gambling and sa
loon regulation violations is to be a
repetition of New York's famous mu
nicipal "clean-up."
It Is State's Attorney John E. W.
Wayman'B answer to the reform ele
ment of the city. Smarting under the
imputations cast upon, his administra
tion regarding "vice" prosecutions, the
state's attorney has "passed the buck"
to the police. and the reformers by
starting proceedings which he intends
shall include every divekeeper and ev
ery owner and agent of property where
alleged disorderly resorts are situated.
"I will go as far as the courts will
go, and the courts, I have no doubt.
will go as far as the public will sus
tain them," is Mr. Wayman's ultima
tum. WIM GO LIMIT.
To "go the limit." the state's attor
ney will hold a levee from 9 to 10
o'clock each morning at his office .in
the criminal court building. Each man
or woman who has knowledge of the
name of a keeper of a house of pros
titution or the name of the owner or
agent of the building will be heard.
They will bo asked to swear to com
plaints to be filed In the municipal
court, and the state's attorney agrees
to prosecute.
The state law under which the pros
ecutions are to he brought appears un
der the beading "disorderly conduct"
It reads:
"Whoever keeps or maintains a
house of jll fame or shall keep a com
mon, ill-governed and disorderly house
to the encouragement of idleness, gam
ing, drinking or other misbehavior
shall be fined not exceeding $200."
A similar penalty Is fixed for agents
and owners of buildings occupied by
the disorderly resorts.
There was pandemonium in the "red
light" districts when the police began
serving warrants. The work was not
started until after darkness had fallen.'
It was near midnight when the full
Import of the state's attorney's order
was realized by the dlvekeepers. With
the grand jury adjourned they had felt
secure from molestation.
Electric pianos jangled away their
tunes up until 1 o'clock and then things
In both the north and south side levee
districts were paralysed. Numerous
dlvekeepers and Inmates who escaped
arrest prepared to leave the city be
fore morning, fearing that the next
batch of warrants may include their
names.
BLSIW UNEXPECTED.
The blow to the vice district fell un
announced. For two weeks State's At
torney Wayman had been battling ad
mittedly to "head off' the "runaway"
September grand Jury, which was bent
upon investigating vice. Carl A. Wal-,
dron, attorney for the "committee of'
fifteen," Miss Virginia Brooks and nu
merous others bad made charges re
flecting rn the prosecutor's sincerity.
The state's attorney declared the
Jury could not investigate vics that
It was a city problem, not a state one
He said the only way he could proceed
was by information filed in the courts
based on previous investigation.
To show his sincerity the state's at
torney is said to have had the 125
warrants drawn up and shown to the
grand Jury. That was last Monday.
With these warrants as proof of his
sincerity the Jury and Mr. Wayman
reached an amicable understanding,
xnd the "Jury adjourned.
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