The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-03
REPLY OF PRESIDENT.
Gives Out Letters Which He Claims
Prove His Side of Case.

WASHINGTON. April 2.-Presidcnt
Roosevelt today emphatically denied
the statements contained in a letter
published this morning purporting 10
have been written by r.. III. Hartman
10 Sidney Webster of New York i'll tho
latter part OF December, 1905. In Mr..
Hartman S letter the statement is
made that at the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. he, Hartman. assisted
IN raising fund of $250,000 to bo
used IN carrying New York for the Re.
publican party in the election of 1901.
This statement the President charac.
terized as deliberate and willful
untruth-by right it should be char;
acterized by AN even shorter and
more ugly word. / never requested
Mr., Hartman TO raise u dollar for the
Presidency campaign of 1904
The President IS denial was contained
in brief statement and copies OF
letters written 10 Representative Sher-
man of New York, The letters are
dated October 5 and October IL, 1906,
respectively.
The President, after furnishing tho
letters TO the press, dictated the fol-
lowing statement:
"After writing these letters to Mr..
Sherman, the President was assured
that Mr., Hartman had not made tho
statements which Mr., Sherman credited
him with making lnasmuch as the
same statements appear III the major
part in the letter of Mr.. Hartman now
published. the President deems 1T proper
that the letters he sent to Congress
man Sherman last October be made
public
Says Hartman Wanted Depew.
In the first letter reference is made
to n conversation between Mr., Harri-
man and Mr. Sherman, which was re-
ported 10 the President, IN which Mr..
Hartman is said to have given as
reason for his personal dislike OF tho
President partly the latter g determi-
nation TO have the railroads super
vised. and partly the alleged fact that
after promising Mr.. Hartman to APP
point Senator Depcw Embassador 10
France. he, the President, failed to
do il. IT appears from the converse
tiou repeated to the President that Mr;
Sherman had gone to Mr. Hartman and
asked hlm for n contribution for the
campaign The President says that
Hartman also urged him TO promise to
make Mr.. ncpew Embassador be-
cause this would help Gov. Odell by
pleasing certain big financial interests.
Tho President SAID he informed Mt,
Hartman that he did not believe 1t
would be possible 10 appoint NJ. ~
pew, and expressed his surprise at
his Chairman 50 saving that the men
representing the big financial interests
Of New York wished the appointments
made, inasmuch ms a number of them
had written asking that the place be
gwen to Mr., Hyde. Mr.. Hartman, on
learning Mr., Hyde was candidate.
said that he did not wish to be under
stood ms antagoniznG him.
The President ii appears; was nn-
willing to appoint either Depew or
Hvde as Embassador, aud also iett
unchanged his recommendatlons TO oom-
merce law, notwithstanding suggestions
and criticisms by Mr. Hartman Of the
President S course in that regard. as
cxpressed in certain letters which Mr..
Hartman wrote to the President
Letter to Sherman.
The text Of the first letter to Mr.
Sherman is as follows:
October. 8. 1906; Ny Dear shax'