The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-21
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A Word About Presidential
Primaries Roosevelt and tarri-
mana Question of Veracity- Il
An local Republican. % 81 &
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he wolld cease to handy words anG
pass the lie 50 readily. Judge Alton
h. Parker, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry NJ.
Whitney. ex-senator Chandler, the
Storers. ex-senator Burton and L. u.
Hartman are the most conspicuous
personaseS 40 become invC!yel il qUes
tions of veracity with him. The most
unfortunate feature Of the case is that
nobody has an equal footing with him
in this matter. There is an Old fash
toned way of settling questions Of
veracity which cannot well be used
where the president of the United
States is party to the Wrangle I1ar-
riman is the last one to lie put into the
Ananias class, and few will sympa
thize with him. He has come to the
parting Of the ways, so it seems with
the distinguished occupant of the
White House. though he was dele
gate to the national convention which
nominated Roosevelt, and as RooGe-
welt was nominated unanimously it fol
lows that Hartman voted for him, and
Notwithstanding this lovers quarrel be-
twixt these two eminent Republicans
it's no two to one that Hartman will
not be delegate to the next national
Republican convention and vote for
Roosevelt therein.
1t frequently happens in this world
that men remember q conversation diff
ferently, and every difference in recoi-
lection by no manner of means signi-
fees that the one or the other is DELHI
erately lying.
The president uttered one sentence
in reply to Hartman which will go
far in the public mind to obscure the
issue of veracity, and that was when
he declared that he was happy in be-
ing attacked In one week by both Bur
ton and Hartman. So mild a states
man as Uncle Shelby NJ Cullon, who
looks like Lincoln, has expressed de-
sire to see Hartman in the peniten-
tiary, proof positive that the latter is
not at this particular juncture a popu-
lar idol. Otherwise your Uncle Shell
by would not venture upon the use OF
buSu udSe, lOl ue
and cultivates popular men.
One fact stands out clear as crystal.
however, in the Hartman case, and
that is that Hon. James Schoolcraft
Sherman; chairman Of the Republican
congressional campaign committee. did
apply to Hartman for contribution
to his war chest in the campaign of
1906, and, while it doth not appear
from the evidence thus far submitted
whether Hartman came down with
the dust, the chances are ten to one
that he did. But, whether he did or did
not, it does not admit of doubt that
Sherman also applied to others like
unto Hartman. and no sane man will
believe that James went away from
such applications empty handed. There
fore it must he concluded that all this
Republican hullabaloo about restrain
ing and destroying the trusts is the
veriest tommyrot, as has been suspect
ed all along.
The wisest one ia the lot appears to
be Cornelius n. Bliss, eX-secretary OF
the interior, now treasurer of the Re
publican national committee. He il
certainly close mouthed ana believes
in the old saw, THE least said the
soonest mended" He says nothing.
Charged in the public press with re-
ceiving stolen insurance money, he
was dumb. Asked as to the Hartman
letter, he is dumb. One thing cocksure-
others may babble, but Cornelius will
not turn states evidence. If he would
tell what he knows of Republican cor
ruption it would make a large and in
teresting volume. What he will tell
would not make Stick