The farmer and mechanic., 1907-04-09
A NEW NAME FOR
ANANIAS CLUB
Idol Would be Shattered
if the Public Knew
Roosevelt.
HARRIMANPUTUPCASH
Roo-eyelt'~ Letter Ia sherman carries
More Weight Than DO the lEsr.c~
Made Against Him in finr-
.iman'~ Letter.


boys nave "a SpilS
,one more job for the undertake..
\ little more worl, for the oaskct
maker
TINS Is usually sung on the football
field where men who are not moil,-
coddles struggle for victory
Here III Washington the song Is re-
yiSed II has not Yet been pat INTO
verse but il starts out Win. oht
more name Tor the Ananias club.
Another name was oneIed toGa&,
that uf +, II. Hartman. Ali the nom
nations for this club are made by
Theodore Roosevelt president 81 the
United states. ii you should ask The
iIen who know him best. they would
say that he should be the perpetual
president of the organization
This week the papers have beth
filled With the story of the letter writ
ten last December by j.. II. Harfl-
man in which he asserts that at
RoOSeVcltS request he raised $2Uo,OO0
tor use in New York in the 1901 cam
Iaign. In this correspondence II would
be impossible To give these letters in
ul Doubtless they have been sent
out through the agency OF the press
aSSociationS But summarizing
10th the charge and the answer | Of
fer these quotations:
Mr. Hartman says that he MAS
asked by Mr. Roosevelt. then Presi-
arriving the President urged him 10
raise at least $2oo,000 To carry New
York for the late Governor higgins.
MT Hartman says furthermore that
treasurer BliSs-the same Bliss who
touched the Equitable Life Assurance
company for $4,000 which George W
Perkins has since been compelled to
pay back-said that he, Hartman,
was 4 last resort.
Now mark, Hartman had one other
resort. He said, according 10 his own
statement, that he could not raise TINS
Necessary 100000 TO buy the election
in New York if something could be
done for Senator DepeW. senator
DepeW was then director in the
Equitable Life Assurance Company.
senator DcpcW has since paid back to
the stockholders of that corporation
something in the neighborhood of
100000 borrowed on a real estate
speculation. Hartman says that Pres
iuent Roosevelt agreed to appoint De
pew ambassador to France This was
rot done, but Robert ;. Mccormick.
owner of q Chicago newspaper, was
sent in his stead. According to Har-
riman the promise was definite and
exact. The viola don Of it was quite
as positive.
The money was raised SO Harri-
man says, and no doubt was spent
The State was carried. But Just prior
20 the time Of the election Judge Alton
Il. Parker, who was then a hopeless
candidate for the Presidency on the
Democratic ticket, declared that ne
knew of enormous contributions from
corUor@tionS to the Republican cam
raign fund | have not at hand the eX-
act words in which Mr.. Roosevelt,
then as now, denounced Judge Par
ker', statement But | think that !
can fairly quote what he has now to
say about Mr. Hartman as almost a
larallel to what he said about Judge
Tarker. This is it:
ANY such statement is a deliberate
end wilful untruth-by rights it should
be characterized by an even shorter
and more ugly word"
Something of this sort, as we all re-
member, Roosevelt said concerning the
charge brought against him by Judge
Parker. Yet hardly had he been
seated in office when it was shown
that his campaign manager undoubt-
edly with his knowledge. had taken
out of the funds of q life insurance
company, funds that should be cCnse-
Grated TO the service Of those widows
and orphans Of whom Mr. RoosevelCs
rarty is continually speaking. more
Than $4,000. He was slenced. George |
w. Perkins. partner of PiCrpont !
Morgan's. after being indicted has
paid back this money. There is no
ecord that Mr.. Roosevelt For whose |
i''iltill u WIS expended, mas pdld BACK |
one cent
Thc Politician and the plutocrat
Never has the close association be- |
tween the great fnanciers, the money |
power and the politician. who has used |
them to place himself in power. been |
more clearly shown. Mr.. Roosevelt |
Genounces all that Mr. Hartman
said as Wiiful and m.- |
l!cious lie But Mr.. Roosevelt has
i habit Of denouncing everybody who
has quoted him literally. or who has |
done what he told them to, as liars |
ana traitors If the country could |
really understand how this popular !
idol is regarded among the men who
know him best in Washington. the IDOL |
would be shattered.
1t is obvious that this particular |
controversy was not sprung on tna /
President without warning The /
neWsI aper which printed AIR. Harri-
written in December. 1905. The an
swer made by Mr.. Roosevelt take the
form of the publication Of letters Writ
ten to Representative Sherman IN Gc- /
tober Of 1906. Why did either r.
these men hold back :hnir letters 50
long?
Did Hartman think ttat his kno,vl-
edge Of Roosevelts coEnivancc n The
purpose of New YORK in the rationalI
election would help HIM to control |
the administration? or did Roosc-
Welt thiak that in holding back his
II 3oonSe thereto he might compel
Hartman 10 come once again 10 his
aid?
Whatever we may conjecture about
this affair, .he fact remains and il is
undeniable. that the now President
of the United States when President
as successor To William Mckinley
was trafficking with E. H Hartman
~ q admits If himself In
ter which he prints he shows his de-
sire 10 be in close tonch with that
same Hartman, whom he recently de-
nounced He admits also discussing
seriously with this captain of finance