Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04
THE PRESIDENT
IS. SEEING THINGS
Believes Effort Being Made to
Defeat His Policies.
WILL WORK FOR DELEGATES
Significance of Conversations He Had
With Friends Yesterday.
THE HARTMAN CONTROVERSY
Gives His Version of His Statement al
to Judge Parker's Allegation and
Harriman's Anxiety.
WILL WORK FOR DELEGATES
Significance of Conversations He Had
With Friends Yesterday.
THE HARTMAN CONTROVERSY

Inc President is seeing things" was the
terse comment of a politician today as
he strolled through the White House
grounds
He referred to important talks the Presi-
dent had late yesterday afternoon with a
number Of friends relative to what he con-
slders tremendous combination of cor
porations and reactionary politicians to
bring about either his downfall or that of
his policies.
The President unhestatngly asserts that
favorite-son campaign for the republican
presidential nomination is In full blast,
and that its entire design is to overthrow
him and his policies. He sees a powerful
combination between Hearst and Harri-
man, men of such Numerically opposite
views and desires that nobody ever thought
of 1t that way before. In his talks yester-
day he attacked Hearst without qualifica-
ton, and alleged that the New York edi-
tor, who has heretofore refrained from
attacking him, was part of the combina-
ton working against the rights of the
people
Is He Working for Delegatesp
The simultaneous appearance of the views
of the President with the announcement OF
| number of people that they were for the
denomination of the President is considered
of vast significance, and the view Is
strongly taken in many directions today
| that the President has practically given the
word to his friends to secure delegates
pledged to his denomination. Whether he
will permit these to be used for his own
! nomination or to insure the nomination of
| some one like Taft is still in dispute
| Yesterday Senator Burkett of Nebraska
had an hours conference with the Presi-
| dent. He would not talk when he went
| away from the White House. but half an
| hour later he gave out an interview an
nouncing that he stood for the renomina-
| ton of the President and would work to
that end. Some time ago ex-Representative
| Martin of South Dakota, just as he was
| going out of Congress, made a similar an
nouncement after comforting with the
President. 1t only short time ago
that Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota
| came out for the President for another
term. His announcement followed several
conferences with the President In Ten
| nessee the principal third-term advocate is
Newell Sanders, chairman of the republic
can state committee. He commenced his
booming after conference with the Pres
ident
The President is said to realize his ner
sonal strength in states like North Dakota
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming
and Idaho, and it will be these states from
what now appears to be the program, that
will first declare for Roosevelt and send
delegates for him.
Some Remarkable Utterances.
Visitors who heard the President talk yes
! terday are still commenting on the re-
markable series of utterances from the
chief executive and not a single man pres
ent differed in his summary to it's mean.
ing. With one accord they took the utter.
ances to mean that the President will take
a hand from now until the presidential
nomination in 1908 in the fight in the re-
publican party No longer will the Presi-
dent be a passive factor in the coming fight.
The President said many things yester-
day of a highly significant and sensational
the alleged conspiracy to prevent the Roose-
welt policies being carried on by nominat-
ing hostile candidates for President and
Vice President.
The Presidents Version.
President Roosevelt has discussed with q
number of his callers various features of the
controversy between Mr.. Hartman and
himself. growing out of the publication Of
the letters between them. He desired not
to be quoted in the matter. however To
his fri-TeSs the President made it plain that
cedIng the election OF 1904 was that Mr..
Hartman wanted assistance from the re-
publican national committee to help out
Chairman Odell in the New York state cam
paign. toward whose expenses he Harri-
mani had raised 100000. The President
promised to communicate with Messrs Cor
telyou and Bliss to see what could be DONE
He did in this case, he declared, Just what
he had done in other instances where he
had been appealed to to help in state cam
paigns.
Corporation Contributions
To some of his visitors the President re-
ferred to the statement made public by
Judge Alton B. Parker in Albany, in which
he said that it has never been denied that
$15OO00 was turned over by the Equitable,
Mutual and New York Life Insurance COM
panies to Mr.. Cortelyou's committee and
that Congress has refused to make an in
vestigation into the corporate contributions
of 1904 or to pass law pl -ibiting such
contributions in the future. On this subject
the President referred to a statement which
he made on November 4, 1904, In which he
said. in part:
THAT contributions have been made to
the republican committee, contributions
have been made to the democratic commit
tee is not the s at 's sSat s M cap
tributione have been made for improper
motives, either in consequence Of threats or
in consequence of improper promises.
direct or Indirect, on the part of the re-
cipient. But there In not one par
ticle Of truth in the statement. etc.
Contributions Returned.
Neither Mr.. Parker nor his supporters,
the President declared, have been able to
traverse or question the statements made
in that answer. The President said that
to his own knowledge about a dozen con-
tributions offered by corporations had been