The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-04
HARTMAN REPLIES.
Says That the President Has Done
Hin an Injustice.

Hin an injustice.
New York, April 4.-E. H. Hartman
| late Tuesday night gave out a state
! ment in response to one made public
| by President Roosevelt. Mr.. Harri.
man says that in cretain things the
president has done him an injustice.
He says he was repeatedly urged by
Mr. Roosevelt to visit the white house.
One of the letters sent to him Is as
follows:
In view of the trouble over the
state ticket in New York, | should
much like to have a few words with
you. DO you think you can get down
here within a few days and take either
luncheon or dinner with me?"
In another letter the president says:
AS matter of fact. as you will re-
! member, when you did come down to
see me you and | We're both so en-
gagged in the New York political stu
alton that we talked of little else
The president talks at length on
the assertion that he did not ask me
to contribute for the presidential cam
paign' nor for his personal benefit
| do not deny this statement, nor Is 1t
at all inconsistent with the assertions
made in the Webster letter respect
ing theinterview.
The president sent me request
to go to Westinghouse confer upon the
political conditions in New York state
| complied, and he told me he under.
10 hA
cessfully carried on without sufficient
money, and asked me If | could help
them in raising the necessary funds,
as the national committee, under Chair
man Cortelyou had utterly failed of
obtaining them, and there was a large
amount due from them to the New
York state committee
If that means anything whatever,
1t must be that he was urging me 10
help the New York state committee
and no the national political presiden-
tfal campaign, except so far as the
success of the state ticket In New
York would contribute to the national
ticket
What the conditions of the finan.
ces of the New York state committee
and of the national Republican commit
tee at that time were, is we'll known
to every one That the national com
mittee did owe the state committee
and that thes ae commieeshrdlshrd
and that the state committee was in
finacial straits, is notorious. | was
not political manager. | was asked
to go 10 Washington by the president
In the interests of the state ticket
could help raise money. That | did
help in this regard, | did raise funds
immediatel! upon my return from the
interview with the president is unde-
MED, and to this fund contributed
$4,000. My interview with the pres
ident covered a wide range of sub
poets connected with the New York
state campaign, and | did not pretend
to go over the whole matter in the
Webster letter.
THE presidents letter of Oct. Ia
and his comment thereon are interest
Ing. In tina. letter he suggested that
| might think here was some danger
In my visiting him during the closing
weeks of the campaign, and suggested
that If | thought So the visit be post,
poned until after election, when he
would ask me to discuss certain gov
ernmept matters not connected with
the campaign Here were two distinct
invitations to discuss two different
subjects. | could see no danger in Wis
iting him to discuss New York politics
before the election, and therefore went
and discussed the subject alone and
after the election"