Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-04
Appeals to Reporters Not
to Spur Him Against
Roosevelt. ans sa
NEVER OUT FOR SENATE
No Bargain to Raise Campaign
Fund If Depew Was Ap-
pointed.

New York, April 4-E II. Hartman
today made the following statement
relative TO the recent exchange of cor
respondence between himself and Pres
ident Roosevelt:
i do not intend to continue this
controversy. You gentlemen (meaning
the reporters must try to help me ami
not ask me to answer questions the an
swers to which are self-evident.
Not i'm Senatorial Race.
Everybody knows the contest for
the senatorship in 1904 was between
Black and Depew. and there could not
possibly have been any other candi-
dates.
No Bargain Proposed.
There was no bargain whereby
money was to be raised in cOnsidera-
ton of having Depew appointed as am
baSsadOr TO France or made senator.
and my letter to Webster does not so
state. That part of the agreement was
for the purpose of harmonizing the
Black-Depew forces if it became neceS-
sary"
Discusses With Callers.
Washington, April 4.-President
Roosevelt discussed with a number of
his callers yesterday various features
of the controversy between Hartman
and himself growing out of the publica-
| tion of letters between them. He de-
sired not TO be quoted in the matter,
however. To his friends today the
president made it plain that his ver-
sion of Harriman's visit preceding the
| election of 1904 was that Hartman
/ wanted assistance from the national
Republican committee to help Odell in
the New York state campaign, towards
the expenses of which he (Harrimalj
had raised 100000.
| Promised to Help.
| The president promised 10 communi-
cate with Cortelyou and Bliss to see
what could be done. He did in this
case, he declared, just what he had
done in other instances where he had
been appealed to to help in state cam
paigns
To some of his visitors the president
| referred to the statement made last
night by Alton B. Parker, and then
referred to the statement which ne
(RoOsevelD made on Nov. 4, 1904. n
which he said in part:
| AbOut Parker's Charges.
THAT contributions have been made
to the republican committee as con
tributions have been made TO the dem
Ocratic committee is not the question
at issue. Parkers assertion is in af-
!. feet that such contributions were made
for improper motives either in col-
sequence of threats or in consequence
of improper promises, direct or indi-
rect on the part of the recipients. But
, there is not one particle of truth in
the statement, etc"
\ Neither Parker nor his supporters.
the president declared. have been able
: TO question the statements made in
5 that answer The president said that
to his own knowledge about dozen
contributions offered by corporations
! had been declined by Chairman Cor
telyou. but that others had been ac-
cepted A contribution by the Ameri-
can Tobacco company, he said. has
4 Ibeen returned
Returned Contribution.
A prominent man made a contribn-
ltiOn of 5000 TO the republican carl
lpaign fund. Subsequently this man
made known his desire for an appoint
ment to the diplomatic service in the
event Roosevelt were elected. AS soon
S as his motives were known the nation
s al committee returned the contribution
y The president asserted to his callers
y that none of the corporations that col
5 tributed to the campaign fund in 1904
had come to him for favors either iii
- rectly or indirectly. In this connection
the president referred TO enactments
regarding corporations during the last
two years as disproving any imputa
y tions that immunity would be showr
J them for their contributions