The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-03

with such matters than any of the
others of your Cabinet, and I believe
he will agree with me in this / fear
there has been q lack of cooperation.
During the enormous develop
ment of the last four years tho rail
roads have found it very hard to keep
pace with the requirments imposed upon
them. and the so-called surplus earn
been devoted to providing additional
facilities and the bettering and enlarg-
ing of their properties, so as to give
the increased and better service re-
quired of them. This work of better
ment and enlarging must go on, and
is all important for the proper deyel-
opment of all sections of the country.
There is little doubt that during the
next decade every single track railroad
in the country will have to be double
tracked and provide for enlarged ter
mlnals and other facilities and any
move that will tend to cripple them
financially would he detrimental to all
interests over the whole country.
SO I beg that you will pardon my
not, signing this. personally, rs | have
TO leave to catch my train for Arden,
and have asked my secretary to sign
it for me.
Yours sincerely,
HT was unable to agree with Mr..
Hartman s viows Of the matter and
left my message unchanged as regards
the interstate commerce law.
" (The rough draft of this portion
of the message was completed in Oc-
tober before the election). | had al
ways discussed with freedom all my
proposed moves in the trust and labor
matters with the representatives OF the
big combinations or big railroads, as
we'll as with the leaders of labor men,
Of the farmers organizations, the ship
pers' organizations, and the llke-that
is, ] had as freely seen and communl-
Gated with Mr.. Hartman, Mr.. Morgan
Mr. Hill, and other railroad men, as
| had seen and communicated with Mr..
Gompers, Mrs. Keefe, Mr., Morrlssey,
and other labor leaders.
Says Hartman Protested.
"Mr. Hartman, like most of the big
railroad men, has always written me
very strongly protesting against my
proposed course as regards the supervi-
sion and control over big combinations,
and especially over the big railroads
in a letter of his of August 10, 1902,
for instance. he expressed The fear that
a panic would follow my proposed ac-
tion.
CIT will be seen that the above cor
respondence is entirely incompatible
with what Mr.. Hartman now, as you
inform me, alleges as to my having
asked him to secure money or TO sub
scribe money for the presidential cam
paipn, AS for the Depew matter, he
professed throughout to be acting IN
the interest of Governor Odell, ana
though Governor Odell had been auX-
ious that Mr.; Depew should be nomir +
mated as ambassador to France at
time when he was supporting Governor
Black for Senator, he had changed his
mind shortly after the last letter to me,
above quoted, from Mr.. Hartman, and
ON December 10 he wrote me the letter
I enclose which reads in part as fol
lows:
MY Dear Mr.. P,esident; A great
many of your friends here IN New orS
pleased il YOU could find it possible to
appoint Mr.. James II. Hyde as Minister
ness interests have given to him splen-
did executive abilities and his assocl-
alton with so many prominent business
firms would be fitting recognition of
the effective work done by them III the
last campaign,
E' In addition to this, he has behind
him, ] am sure, the approval of Sena-
tor Platt and Senator Depcw, and, so
far as can speak for the organization,
I believe his appointment would be,
without question, more satisfactory
than any that could be made from New
York at the present time.
/" Personally, | should appreciate
your favorable consideration of this
suggestion almost beyond anything else
YOU could do for me. If YOU so desire,
and talk with YOU about it, but / be-
Ieve there are others who are close 10
YOU and who feel Just as I do and [
thought, therefore. that this letter
would be sufficient as showing the atti-
tude Of the organizations and myself
personally upon this important appoint
mcnt.'
Hyde Was Turned Down,
Z" As you know, ] was obliged to re-
fuse the request of the New York fnan-
ciers and of the Republican organizers
of the State and of the city, not deem
ing it proper to appoint Mr.. Hyde TO
the position he sought.
SO much for what Mr.. Hartman
said about me personally. Far more
important are the additional remarks
he made TO YOU, as YOU inform me, you
who asked him if he thought it was
well 10 see Hearstism and the like tri-
umphant over the Republican party,
You inform me that he told you that
he did not care in the least, because
those people were crooks, and he could
buy them; that whenever ne wanted
legislation from a State Legislature, he
could buy IT, that he could buy Con
9rcss.' and that he could 'buv the iu.
dietary This was doubtless said part
ly in boastful cynicism and partly in "A
mere burst of bad temper of his OBJ
lection to the interstate commerce law
and 10 my actions rs President. But
il shows a cynicism and deep-seated
corruption which make the man utter.
ing such sentiments and boasting, at
least as undesirable a citizen as Debs,
or Mover, or HAYWOOD II is because
we have capitalists capable of uttering
such sentiments and capable of acting
on them that there is strength behind
sinister agjtators of the Hearst type.
The wealthy corruptionist and the dem
agogue who excites, in the press or
upon the stump, in Office or out of Of
fee, class against class. and appeals to
the bascst passions OF the human soul
are fundamentally alike, and arc
equally enemies OF the republic / was