Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-04

defeat the nomination of RooSevelt man by the Republican national con vsntion of next year and to prevent any further enforcement of the Roose- welt policies.
 It is said that of the $260,O00 raised by Hartman to carry New York state for Roosevelt and Higgins in the cam paign of 1904 s200.000 went to the Re publican state committee, of which ex- Governor B. B. Odeil was chairman, and the remaining $80000 was retain ed by the Republican national commit tee to be used under the direction of Chairman Cortelyou.
 MT. Hartman. lost no time in getting back at President Roosevelt, who inti- mated very pointedly that the great railroad Hnancier was a liar. Harri- mans reply pointedly charges that the chief magistrate of the United States has fallen from the pinnacle of truth and is himself plain prevaricator.
 Not only does MT. Hartman class the president among the prevaricators in . diplomatic way but he goes to some length in an endeavor to prove 1t. Incidentally he calls former Con gressman Sherman, whom the presi- dent used as a weapon in his attack, q falsifier.
 He goes further. He asserts that President Roosevelt knew when he quoted what Sherman said about what Hartman said about Roosevelt that Sherman was telling untruths; that he had been assured of this by mutual friend wnO was present at the Sher- man-H Hartman interview.
 MT. Sherman is now in line for . statement calling somebody liar.
 MT. Hartman in statement refuses to withdraw a word from the publish ed copy of, the letter he wrote to Sid- ney Webster. He says that while he is most anxious to treat the president and his utterances with the considers ton due to the high ofice he holds he feels bound to call attention to injus- tices done to himself.
 Right at the start of his explanation he claims that President Roosevelt in publishing correspondence in his state ment repeated his action in the Bella my Storer case. He omitted an im- portant letter in a history of core spondence and eliminated . sentence from another which would have changed it's meaning
 In his public statement the president positively denied that he asked Mir. Hartman to visit him in Washington and help him in campaign matters. The president, according to MT. liar riman, omitted to include in his core spondence a letter he wrote on June %, 1904. in which he is said to have asked MT. Hartman to visit the White House immediately upon the latter's return from Europe.
 Again. in making public copy of ! letter he received from MT. Hartman dated Sept. 20, 1904, he claims the president omitted the opening sentence reading, T was very glad to receive your note of June 20 last while was abroad"
 MT. Hartman says he is willing to let the public decide who is the liar. He repeats that he raised $200,00O for the Republican campaign fund in 1904.
 It is strange that just when the sen sation crisis caused by the Hartman Roosevelt episode is at its height it is reported at Washington that two i'm portant steps in the governments pro- ceedings against the Hartman consol- idation of railroads have been deter mined upon.
 It is expected that Attorney General Bonaparte will decide that Mir. Harri- man shall be prosecuted for making a combination in restraint of trade un- der the provision of the Sherman anti trust act.
 That it is now a fight to finish be- tween the president and Hartman is admitted.
 Former Governor Odell in an inter- view said that he believed MT. Harri- man implicitly. Mir. 0dell was chair man of the Republican state commit tee in 1904 and ought to know. He emphatically says that E. H. Hartman raised sum of money in that cam paign and turned 1t over to the com mittee and that the money was used.