The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-09
SOME LUMINOUS FACTS
The Wealthy Corruptionist and the
Demagogue Who Exist in the Press
OF on the Stump

New Orleans States: Out Of the
Roosevelt Hartman controversy there
are some rather luminous facts that
stand forth clearly. 1t is evident that
in ICo4 Hartman was a friend of the
President that his help had been sought
and obtained in the New York campaign
and that the President was DESTROYS of
consulting with him about the forthcom
ing letter of acceptance and message to
Congress Another luminous fact that
stands out among the others IS that in
spite of the scandals Ill connection with
the holding up of insurance companies
in 1904 Chairman Sherman of the Re
publican Congressional COMMITTEE not
later than last fall made a demand on
this same Hartman for campaign
money and was turned down. 1t was out
of this refusal that the correspondence
originated between the President and
Sherman which the former quoted so
generously in his reply to the Hartman
letter Sherman informed the President
of Hartman refusal and of the latter 5
alleged statement to. the effect that he did
not like Roosevelt's policies and the cleo
ence to him The moment, it seems. that
the President read Sherman's letter he
| banished Hartman from his affection,
for in closing his reply to Sherman he
says:
The wealthy corruptioniSt and the
Demagogue who exist in the press or on
the stump, in office or out of office, put
class against class and appeal to the baS-
est passions of the soul, are fundamen-
tally alike and are equally enemies of the
Republic. | was Mortified, as was Root,
when you told us today what Hartman
had said to you.
The impression made on the public
mind in the fact that Hartman refused
to rake up for the Republican con-
gresSional fund Mortified the President
more than. anythin else, for nowhere in
the record is there a word of censure or
reproach addressed to Sherman for So
Letting money from such man as the
President declares Hartman to be,
hence it would appear there was nothing
horrifying to the President in the rehec-
ton that Hartman had been asked. for
money to be used for the benefit of the
party Of "hihg moral ideas" Yet the
President knew of the insurance scan
dals and Harriman's connection with
them, and knew something of his rail
road methods as the country did 1t was
to him the Republican party managers
turned in their hour of need confidently
expecting they would get what they de-
manded and were apparently Mortified by
his refusal to contribute anything.
1t is an interesting fact that after the
President had been told of Harriman's
refusal and the reasons for it, he felt
outraged by many things, but he had no
word of condemnation for Sherman for
asking Hartman to give money, hence
the inference is that the President did
not think there was anything wrong in
the Republican party begging money
from such corruptionists, hence it is i'm
possible to evade the conclusion that the
really horrifying thing was the refusal
of Hartman to again be held up for the
benefit of the Republican party-a party
that can see no wrong i'll drawing on the
forces of graft, greed and corruption to
promote its own ends