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OCTOBER 11, 1912
The Commoner.
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gtaltwart, serious, incorruptible com
moner." Congressman UuJzer'e name
was greeted with cheering.
George H. Kennedy of Erie then
placed in nomination Senator George
B. Burd ! Buffalo and Congressman
John J. Fitzgerald of Kings nomi
nated Herman Metzo, former comp
troller of New York, whoso name was
warmly cheered.
Prior to the assemblage of the
Now York session, the New York
county delegation caucused and
lifted the unit rule. Leader Charles
F. Murphy told his friends to vote
for whom they pleased.
Deputy Attorney General Joseph
A. Kellogg of Washington county
nominated Governor John A. Dix.
The delegates applauded the gover
nor's name. The speaker appealed
for support for Governor Dix on his
administrative record and for what
Mr. Kellog termed "fair play." John
Burke of Saratoga seconded the
nomination of Governor Dix.
The roll of delegates was thon
called, resulting in no choice. It
showed Dix 147, Sulzer 126, Metz 70,
Glynn 46. Congressman Francis Bur
ton Harrison, who was not placed in
nomination, received twenty-one
votes. Necessary to a choice, 226.
Sulzer went ahead of Dix on the
second ballot, the vote standing:
Sulzer 141, Dix 124.
Indianapolis, Oct. 3. Governor
Woodrow Wilson, who arrived here
at noon today, enthusiastically
praised Representative William Sul
zer, the democratic gubernatorial
nominee in New York state, and ap
proved the action of the state con
vention. "The freedom, both of action and
of choice, which the convention ex
ercised must afford every democrat
great satisfaction. In choosing a
candidate, it named a man whose
reputation for integrity and inde
pendence is, unquestionable a man
of high principle, devoted to the
public interest. Mr. Sulzer, as the
chairman of one of the most im
portant committees In congress, has
shown capacity and discretion of a
very fine sort. He certainly deserves
the suffrages of independent men of
every caste. His running mate, Mr.
Glynn, has a very enviable reputation,
both for capacity and independence,
and the ticket, as a whole, Is of a
kind to gratify progressive democrats
very deeply. Both candidates have
already shown character and capacity
in the service of the great state of
New York.
The governor sent the following
telegram to each of the nominees:
"My heartiest congratulations and
good wishes. I am greatly gratified
by the action of the convention."
LA FOLLETTE AND WILSON
In publishing in his magazine an
article by Rudolph Spreckles on why
he favors the election of Woodrow
Wilson, Senator La Follette is pur
suing his difficult but entirely con
sistent policy of maintaining his re
publicanism while making no secret
of his wish to have the democratic
national ticket elected this year. He
feels that the course he Ib taking is
the best one for keep'ng together and
strengthening, in various parts of
the country, the progressive move
ments for which he has worked so
hard for so many years. The recent
session of congress showed that he
had his old power to lead the pro
gressive group of senators, and he is
quite frank in indicating that he
thinks that, if Woodrow Wilson is
elected, he and the group of progres
sive republican senators will be of
a great deal of use to him in putting
into effect whatever progressive ideas
he may be urging. Collier's Weekly.
Governor Wilson was made chair
man of the platform committee of the
tjaw. .TfirRov democratic convention.
'...and "prepared 'the resolutions -adoptedn
rby . the -contention. . -
1 WASHINGTON NEWS
The testimony beforo tho Clapp
investigating committee showed that
the record of tho names of contribut
ors to more than ten million dollars
for the republican campaign fund
during the last four campaigns had
been destroyed. This was tho testi
mony before the Clapp committee in
vestigating campaign contributions of
Cornelius N. Bliss, jr., son of tho
former republican treasurer. Bliss
said his father had destroyed all
books and papers showing who con
tributed. Ho submitted his father's
papers, however, tabulating contri
butions to tho republican national
committee, as follows: In 1892,
$1, 600, 000; in 1896, $3,450,000; in
1900, $3, 000,000; in 1904, $2,088,
000. Tho committee was also balked
in Its efforts to discover the sourco
of Standard Oil contributions.
William H. Libby, of tho Standard
Oil company, testified ho know noth
ing of any gifts. He and Bliss were
tho only witnesses at the morning
session.
The second day the correspondence
between Mr. Roosovolt und tho late
Edward H. Harriman was laid toforo
the committee. Harriman raised a
fund of 240,000 dollars during tho
Roosevelt campaign.
C. C. Tegjthoff, now agent for tho
Harriman estate and former private
secretary to Mr. Harriman, and
Charles A. Peabody, president of tho
Mutual Life Insurance company and
personal attorney for Mrs. Harriman
in the administratioi of the estate,
both testified that Mr. Harriman
told them the raising of tho big fund
had been undertaken at President
Roosevelt's request, a statement
which Mr. Harriman made before his
death, but which was denied by
President Roosevelt.
The Associated Press report says:
None of the three letters touched
upon the facts alleged by John D.
Archbold that Mr. Bliss had assured
him President Roosevelt would wel
come a contribution cf $100,000
from the Standard Oil company. The
one bearing directly on campaign
contributions was a vigorous defense
of Mr. Bliss integrity, written by
President Roosevelt in 1906, In which
the president asserted that no one
had asked him for favors because of
contributions to his campaign f'ind,
and that no one had been favored or
discriminated against b' ;ause of
their contributions or their opposi
tion to him. The receipt given Mr.
Harriman for his personal contribu
tion of $d0,000 was prodiifod by Mr.
Tegethoff but he said ho did not
know what other men had con
tributed to the so-called Harriman
fund. The checks passed through his
hands, he said, but he had no way
of Identifying them.
On the third day It developed that
William Flinn of Pittsburgh had been
a generous contributor to the cam
paign ftind. Elon H. Hooker of New
York, treasurer of tho progressive
national committee also gave some
inside facts. The Associated Press
report says:
Mr. Flinn appeared not only to
tell of his contributions, but to
answer the charges of Senator Pen
rose made last August that Mr. Flinn
offered $1,000,000 to him and Israel
W. Durham, in 1904, for the Pennsyl
vania senatorial appointment to suc
ceed M. S. Quay and that in the same
fight Mr. Flinn exchanged telegrams
with John D. Archbold of the Stand
ard Oil company asking his support."
The Pittsburgh man declared that
if Mr. Penrose made the first state
ment "he lied." As to the other, he
produced-. J. Gv Splain -of .Pittsburgh
who "testified, thathe '.'thought' he
had signed Mr. Flinn's name to tho
tologram to Mr. Archbold, Juno 7,
1904, and that he, and not Mr. Flinn,
had handled the tolcgrams with Mr.
Archbold and had attempted to se
cure tho Standard oil inlluonco in
Mr. Flinn's support.
Prodded by Senator Pomorone of
Ohio, who demanded a specific
answer, Mr. Flinn admitted having
written an agreement in January,
1896, in which Mr. Quay, J. L.
Brown and Mr. Flinn proposed to di
vide tho federal and local patronage
of Pennsylvania. Ho declared ho had
"gold bricked" Senator Quay; that
ho had nover signed or intended to
sign the agreement and that he had
written it only to allay Senator
Quay's opposition to the republican
candidate for mayor of T ttsburgh.
The investigation brought out the
fact that Mr. Flinn has this year
contributed $144,558.50 to tho
Roosevelt republican and progres
sive campaigns in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hookor, who preceded him on
tho stand, produced records to show
that tho Roosevelt national com
mitteo had spent $141,657.44 in tho
entire national primary campaign
preceding tho Chicago convention.
More than $52,000 of this sum went
to Massachusetts for tho bitter pri
mary fight there. Mr. Hooker also
produced the records of tho New
York primary campaign, whore the
Roosevelt forces spent $52,606.52.
Tho records showed that George W.
Perkins had given $15,000 to tho
New York and $22,500 to tho na
tional campaign fund; Frank A. Mun
sey $15,000 to tho Now York and
$19,000 to the national campaign
and D. R. Hanna, $25,000 to the na
tional campaign.
Four contributions of $100,000
each from John D. Archbold, of the
Standard Oil company, J. P. Morgan
& Co., H. C. Frlck and George J.
Gould were made to tho republican
national campaign fund of 1904, ac
cording to records of the late Corne
lius N. Bliss, which passed through
the hands of George R. Sheldon,
treasurer of tho 1908 republican
committee, who testified before the
senate committee investigating cam
paign expenditures. Mr. Sheldon
said Mr. Bliss gave him a detailed
statement of the 1904 funds; that ho
noted "these largo contributions"
and that ho was positive one ap
peared as tho $100,000 Archbold con
tribution. With equal posltiveness he swore
tho records showed tho disputed Ed
ward H. Harriman fund of $240,000
had been received by Mr. Bliss for
tho republican state committee,
headed by B. B. Odell, Jr.
"That fund of $240,000 was raised
at tho request of B. B. Odell," said
Mr. Sheldon, "and turned over to his
committee in its entirety. Mr. Bliss'
records showed it was entirely sepa
rate from the funds spent by the na
tional committee."
Mr. Sheldon's statements were
made during a lull in a day or
wrangling between Senator Joseph M.
Dixon, manager of Colonel Roose
velt's present campaign, and mem
bers of the senate committee. Sena
tor Dixon charged the committee with
concentrating its activities upon the
Roosevelt funds and ignoring the
financial activities in behalf cf all
other candidates, republican and
democratic alike.
Committee members heatedly de
nied this, declaring that arrange
ments for the investigation had been
left entirely in the hands of Senator
Clapp, a strong supporter of the pro-
igressive national candidate.
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