The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-03
Statement That He Asked Railroad Man to Con- tribute to His Cam paign Fund a "Oe-
 Iiberate, WiIful
 Unlruth."
GIVES LETTERS TO PUBLIC
VERY SERIOUS DIFFERENCES CREDITED TO HARRIlLAM

Representative Sherman of New York Declares the Magnnte Said He Did Not Care if Hearstism Trlumphed
 Over Republican Party-Those PeO- pie Were Crooks and He Could Buy Them--COuId Also Bury q State Leg islature or Congress and the Judici- ary If Necessary--First Wanted De- pew Appointed and Then Hyde ns Ambassador to France -- President Takes Him Severely to Task for Such Statements-Text of the Hartman Letter Which Has Created the Sem sation-The Ryan, Root, Roosevelt Element.
 Washington, April 2. = President Roosevelt to-day answered the state ments contained in the letter of E. H. Hartman published in New York this morning. This afternoon he made pub lic two letters written by him to Repre- sentative Sherman of New York. one under date of October 8, 1906, and the other october 12, 1906. In making pub lie his correspondence the president dictated the following statement, which Ise declared was all he had to say, as he considered the letters self-explana- tory:
 After writing these letters to Con- gressman Sherman, the president was assured that MT. Hartman had not made the statements which MT. Sher- man credited him with making Inas- much as the same statement appeared in major part in the letter of MT. Har- riman now published, the president deems it proper that the letters he sent to Congressman Sherman last october shall themselves be made public.
 Letters of Revelation.
 Following are the letters referred to by the president in his statement and given out for publication:
 October 8, 1906.
 My Dear Sherman-Since you left this morning l. succeeded in getting hold of the letters to which referred, and I send you a copy of Governor OdelPs letter to me of December 10, 1904.
 "As I am entirely willing that you should show this letter to MT. E. H, Hartman, I shall begin by repeating what you told me he said to you on the
 tN ask him for contribution to the cam- paign You informed me that he then expressed great dissatisfaction with me and said, in effect, that as long as l was at the head of the republican par ty, or it was dominated by the policies which l advocate and represent, he would not support it, and was quite in- different whether Hearst beat Hughes or not, whether the democrats carried congress or not.
 He gave as a reason for his per- sonal dislike of me partly my deter imitation to have the railroads super vised and partly the alleged fact that after promising him to appoint Depew ambassador to France I failed to do it.; and I understood you to say that he alleged that I made this promise at a time when he had come down to see me in Washington, when I requested him to raise two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars for the republican presi- dential campaign, which was then on.
 Any such statement is a deliberate and wilful untruth-by rights 1t should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. 1 never requested MT. Hartman to raise dollar fer the pres adential campaign of 1904 On the con- trary, our communications, as regards the campaign, related exclusively to the fight being made against Mir. Higgins for governor of New York, Mir Harri- man being immensely interested in the success of MT. Higgins, because he re- garded the attack on Higgins as being really an attack on him, Mr. Hartman, and on his friend, Governor Qdell; and he was concerned only in getting me to tell MT. Cortelyou to aid MT. Higgins so far as he could, which I gladly did. He also q think more than once) urged me to promise to make Senator Depew ambassador to France, giving me in de- tail the reasons why this would help Governor Odel by pleasing certain big financial interests I informed him that did not believe that it would be possible for me to appoint Mir. Depew, and. furthermore, expressed my sur- prise at his saying that the men repre- senting the big financial interests of New York wished that appointment made, inasEuch as number of them had written to me. asking that the same place be given to MT. Hyde, and that, as a matter of fact while was