Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
A FALSEHOOD, SAYS PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Denies He Begged Hartman to Raise Funds. SCORES RAILROAD MAN. Undesirable as Debs, Mover or
 Haywood"
SCORES RAILROAD MAN.
SOUGHT OFFICE FOR SENATOR DEPEW

SUUuul UTrlIE TUX SENAlUk UEIEN Masnate Recommended Appointment of
 James Hazen Hyde as Ambassador
 to France and Was Greatly DspIeas-
 Be Named-PoiticaI Secrets and Pri-
 vate Letters Given Out.
 Washington, April 8. President Roosevelt lost no time in taking up the amazing charges made by D. H. Harri- man In a letter written to Sidney Web ster and which is the sensation of the decade in political and financial cir cles. The president deemed the letter to be of such importance that he sum- moned a cabinet meeting to discuss it.
 The cabinet was in session for sev- eral hours, after which the president issued a statement in which he en- phatically denied the statement by Hartman that he at the request of President Roosevelt assisted in raising a fund of $25O,0OO to be used in carry ing New York for the Republican par ty at the election which was then ap- dent characterizes as:
 "A deliberate and willful untruth. By right it should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never requested Mr.. Hartman to raise a dollar for the presidential cam paign of 1904"
 Harriman's Letter.
 Following is the Hartman letter which called for this characterization from the nations chief executive:
 MT Sidney Webster, 245 East Seventeenth
 Street, New York:
 Dear Sir-I am glad to see that you are fin town and hope soon to have an oppor- tunity of talking matters over with you.
 I had printed copies of the testimony gent you in hopes that you would, after reading them, give me some idea of where T stand, for I confess that I feel some what at sea in the whole insurance mat ter. The trouble originated in my allow ing myself to be drawn into other peo- ple's affairs and partly from a desire to help them and at their request I seem to be like the fellow who got in between the man and his wife in their quarrel. e As to my political instincts to which you refer in your letter of Dec. 13, I am quite sure I have none, and my being made at ell prominent in the political situation Is entirely due to President Roosevelt and because of my taking an active part in the autumn of 1904 at his urgent request and his taking advantage of conditions then created to further his own interests. If 1t had been a premedi- tated plot it could not have been better started or carried out.
 CorteIyou's Failure.
 About week before the election in the autumn of 1904 when it looked certain the state ticket would go Democratic and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself, he, the president, sent me request to go to Washington to confer upon the political conditions in New York state. I complied and he told me he understood the cam paign could not be successfully carried on without sufficient money and asked if I would help them in raising the necessary funds as the national committee, under control of Chairman Cortelyou, had ut terly failed of obtaining them, and there was a large amount due from them to the New York state committee.
 I explained to him that I understood the difficulty here mainly caused by the up state leaders being unwilling to support Depew for reelection as United States senator; that if he Depew, could be taken care of in some other way, I thought matters could be- adjusted and the different contending elements In the party brought into close alliance again. We talked over what could be done for Depew, and finally he agreed that if found necessary he would appoint him as ambassador to Paris.
 Hartman Their "Last Hope"
 With full belief that he, the president, would keep this agreement, came back k< V@~I- for- Ty-oa 1i1e, who told me that I was their last hope and that they had exhausted every other resource. In his presence I called up an intimate friend of Senator Depew, told him that it was necessary in order to car ry New York state that $200.000 should be raised at once and if he would help I would subscribe $50000. After a few words over the telephone, the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did probably in three or four hours, with the result that the whole amount, including my subscription, had been raised.
 The checks were given to Treasurer Bliss, who took them to Chairman Cortel- you. If there were any among them of life insurance companies or other like organizations, of course Cortelyou must have informed the president. I do not know who the subscribers were other than the friend of Depew, who was an Individual. This amount enabled the New York state committee to continue It's work, with the result that at least 50,0O0 votes were turned in the city of New York alone, making a difference of 100, ,0O0 votes in the general result.
 There are between 2,200 and 2,300 dis tricts in Greater New York, and in a campaign such as that the expenditure of, say, $50 in each district for campaign purposes, not including the watchers on election day, would take more than $100,- 900.
 Roosevelt Changed Mind About Depew,
 Some time fin December, 1904, on my way from Virginia to New York, ] stopped and had a short talk with the president He then told me that he did not think if necessary to appoint Depew as ambassa- dor to Paris agreed-in fact, favored him for the senate. I had not expected that he was the one (sic) as to what would be necessary, but he arrogated that to himself, and I, of course, could say nothing further. After that I used what influence I could to have DepeH returned to the senate, as I considered