The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
ROOSEVELT TURNS ON BURTON
POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH THE
SENATOR SUSPENDED.
william Allen white Says the Kansas Sena-
tor Tried TO Use Private Letter OF
tho President I'm am Advertisement 10
Boom AtOck--ROOscvclt Enraxeti.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July ii.-William
Allen White says in his newspaper, the
Gazette, OF Emporia, Kan, to-day that Sena-
tor Burton has aroused President Roose-
velt's anger by using personal letter
to advertise st. Louis private exhibition
scheme. The Gazette says:
"A few weeks ago d. w. Mulvane went
to Washington to press the claims Of Charles
Bloodsmith as candidate to succeed Judge
Hook. He told the President that as Sena-
tor Long and Mr.. Leland and Gov. Bailey
had been recognized in the appointment
Of Judge Hook 20 the circuit judgeship, ii
was only fair that Senator Burton and
Mulvane and that wing Of the party should
be recognized in the appointment Of Hooks
successor.
"Otherwise, Mulvane represented, it would
be apparent to the people of Kansas that
the President favored the Leland faction
as against the Burton faction Alulvane
did not get on well In his interview with
the President. He got little encourage
ment and wired Burton, who sent him back.
This spring Burton called at the White
House and told the President that he Dur
tian exhibit at st. Louis, to be an exact
reproduction Of the city of Jerusalem. He
represented to the President that the scheme
would enable many religious people to zee
Jerusalem who could not afford the trip
and that it would give thousands a stimu-
lus to Bible study who might otherwise
not have 1t.
The President was enthusiastic about
the matter and gave Burton a letter to &c me
friends. speaking highly Of the idea an a
moral agent Thereon Burton took the
letter, which was personal and private
one. put it in the centre of a big adver-
tis>ment Of the stock Of the Jerusalem
scheme and scrt it to magazine, making
the President. by the wording of the adver-
tssment, advis, people to buy stock in
Burton's scheme
The magazine to which it was sent il a
thoroughly reputable one and, seeing an al
legged letter from the President booming a
stock scheme before printing the advertise
ment wrote to the President 10 learn if it
was genuine. He got that letter the day
Mulvane was to call the second time to urge
the Smith appointment as the Burton can
didate.
Roosevelt was in full-blooded rage.
His language was cracking the paint on the
White House and the cool young Muvane
ran into something that seemed like Cross
between a cyclone and a volcano. He WAS
told for the last time the President was don
with Burton; that Burton had betrayed his
confidence and had attempted TO make the
President boom stock which he knew moth
ing about. More than that, he demanded
tive letter which. Burton obtained and Null
vano did not get to the Smith matter at all
"Mulvane wired the facts to Burton, got
the letter back and the President sum-
moned Senator Long to conference. II
comes TO the Gazette from the highest pos
sible authority outside the White House
that the President has told his friends
that from now on Burton would be con-
sidered politically Democratic Senator,
so far as patronage is concerned, and that
the President requested Mr.. Long to get
as many of the Kansas congressman as
possible united on a candidate to succeed
Hook and the appointment would be made
To-day the Kansas delegation met at To-
peka to CAUCUS on the matter OF Hook =
successor.
w. P. Hackney. who has been playing
pretty close to Burton, said that Burton
had said IL this thing kept getting worse
he EBurtonl would get pull enough with
the Administration to beat any man Long
might possibly indorse. Burton had just
heard from Mulvane about the letter and
the dumping of Smith