Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
Ryan, Root, Roosevelt Element"


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 Ryan, Root, Roosevelt Element"
 Ryan's success in all his manipulations traction deals, tobacco combination, manipulation of the State Trust company into the Morton Trust company, the Shoe and Leather bank into the Western Ma tional bank and then again into the Bank of Commerce, thus covering up his tracks has been done by the adroit mind of Elihu Root, and this present situation has been brought about by a combination of circumstances which has brought together Ryan, Root, Roosevelt element. Where do I stand? Yours sincerely,
 E. H. HARTMAN g President Hits Back.
 The presidents disclaimer is made up mostly of two long letters which MT. Roosevelt wrote to Congressman James $. Sherman last October. In them are embodied a number of letters which passed between the president and MT. Hartman, some of them mark ed "personaP' and strictly personal"
 In these letters Mr. Roosevelt told Congressman Sherman that the only reason he had a conference with liar riman in Washington was because of his interest in the campaign of Gov ernor Higgins. The president said he had wanted to secure Higgins cleo ton, and as there was a bolt against Higgins he wanted to talk to Harri- man about it.
 Hyde For Ambassador.
 In his letters the president said that Hartman at first persistehtly urged that Senator Depew be made ambas- sador to France, but that he told liar riman he didn't think it would be pos sible. Hartman said that "a big busi- ness interest" favored Depew for the post. The president wrote that he was surprised, because this same 'big busi- ness interest," had written to him urg- ing that James H. Hyde get the ann bassadorship to France. Subsequently Hydes appointment The president says he gave him no encouragement.
 Another part of the letters referred to MT. Harrimans desire to influence the president in his railroad attitude. Tn letter written by Hartman to Roosevelt, Hartman said that Loeb, the presidents secretary, had given him to understand that he could see in advance that part of the presidents forthcoming message relating to the interstate commerce commission and the regulation of railroad rates. The president wrote to him that his mind was made up and that Hartman couldn't see his message or any part of 1t in advance
 President Bitter.
 The conclusion of the presidents last letter to Sherman about Hartman is particularly bitter. It is in part:
 Far more important are the addi- tional remarks he made to you, as you inform me, when you asked him if he thought it was well to see Hearstism and the like triumphant over the Re publican 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 he wanted legislation from a state leg islature he could buy it, that he could buy congress- and that if necessary he could buy the judiciary
 Worse Than Debs.
 "This was doubtless said partly in boastful cynicism and partly in mere burst of bad temper because of his ob- jection to interstate commerce law and to my actions as president. But 1t shows a cynicism and deep seated cor ruption which make the man uttering such sentiments and boasting, no mat ter how falsely, of his power to per form such crimes at least as undesira- 1~I 1;4 NoI~c los wood. 1t is because we have capitalists capable of uttering such sentiments and capable of acting on them that there is strength behind sinister agita- tors of the Hearst type. The wealthy corruptionist and the demagogue who eXcites in the press or on the stump, in office or out of office, class against class and appeals to the basest pas sions of the human soul are fundamen- tally alike and are equally enemies of the republic. I was mortified, as was Root, when you told us today what Hartman had said to you"
 Sidney Webster, to whom the Harri- man letter was written, is a million aire His wife is sister of Stuyvesant Fish, whom Hartman only a few months ago dynamited out of the pres idency of the Illinois Central. The Fishes and Websters have led in the fashionable cottage life at Newport for years MT. Webster owns Pen Craig there, an estate adjoining the Pagets. He is an old line Democrat, a writer on political subjects and a lawyer with name that is known abroad as well as in this country. There are few good clubs in New York to which he does not belOnp