Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-03
LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN SHERMAN
Text OF Communication of President
with Hartman,

Text OF Communication of President
with Hartman.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Following is the
letter to Congressman Sherman referred to
in the presidents statement on the Harri-
man letter;
WASHINGTON. Oct. g. 19O6-My Dear
| Sherman: Since you left this morning
succeeded in getting hold OF the letters to
which l referred and | sent you a copy
Of Governor odel's letter to me of De-
As / am entirely willing that you should
show this letter to Mr. z. II. Hartman, /
shall begin by repeating what you told
me he said to You on the occasion last
week when you went to ask him for con
tribution TO the campaign, You informed
faction with me, and said, in effect, 80 long
as / was at the head OF the republican
party or II was dominated by the poll
cies l represent he would not support IT,
and was quite Indifferent whether Hearst
beat Hughes or not, or whether the demo-
Gratis won congress or not. He gave as a
reason for his personal dislike OF me partly
my determination to have the railroads
supervised and partly the alleged fact that
after promising him to appoint Depew am
bassador to France, / failed to do II, and
| understood you to say that he alleged
that / made this promise at time when
he had come down to see me IN Washington,
when l requested him TO raise $4,000 for
the republican political campaign which
Never Asked for Money.
Any such statement Is q deliberate and
wtllful untruth-by rights Il should be char
acteriZed by an even shorter and more ugly
word. I never asked Mr.. Hartman to raise
a dollar for the presidential campaign OF
1904 On tbs contrary, our. communications
as regards the campaign related exclusively
to the fight being made against Mr.. Higgins
for governor Of New York, Mr.. Hartman
being immensely interested in the success
Of Mr., Higgins because he regarded the at
tack on Higgins as being really an attack
on him, Mr.. Hartman, and on his friend,
Governor Odell and he was concerned
only In getting me to tell Mr.. COrtelyon
to aid Mr. Higgins so far as he could,
which j gladly did. He also u think more
than oneel urged noe 70 promise to make
Senator Depew ambassador to France, Civ
ing me in detail the reasons why this
would help Governor Odell, by pleasing GER
tain big financial interests I Informed him
for me TO appoint Mr.. Depew and further
more expressed my surprise at his saying
that the men representing the big financial
interests OF New York wished that appoint
ment made inasmuch as a number OF them
had written to me asking that the same
matter Of fact, while was not prepared
TO announce my decision, l doubted whether
!, could appoint either Mr.. Depew or Mr.
switches 20 hyde.
As soon as Mr.. Hartman heard that Mr.
Hyde was a candidate and had asked the
names OF his hackers, he hastily said that
he did not wish TO be understood as an
tagonizing Mr.. Hyde, and wosld be quite
willing 10 support him, ana though under
stood that he still preferred Mr. Depew, he
he would be almost as well satisfied with
Mr. Fyde. and was much disconnected at
my informing him 50 positively, not once,
should be able to appoint either.
His and my letters now before me OF the
fail Of 1904 run as follows;
On his return from spending the summer
in Europe In September he wrote me stat
Ing that II 1 thought IL desirable he would
come - see ne AZ any time, either then