Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17

H. H Rogers. John D. Archbold. VIII
liam Rockefeller (standard Oil COM
pany) ......................... $4,000
James Speyer and banking interests -. 10000
Cornelius n. Bliss (personal) ............ 10, 00n
each 5000
Sent to Mr.. Hartman in smaller dona-
tions ........................ $4,000
Total $3.50. 900
This sum of money, exceeding by
100000 the amount estimated by George
B. Cortelyou chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee, and B. B.
Odell, jr., chairman of the Republican
state committee, to be necessary to in
sure the election of Mr. Roosevelt as
president and Mr.. Higgins as governor.
was collected by Mr.. Hartman and
Senator Depew and turned over by Mr..
Hartman to Cornelius N. Bliss, treas
urer of the Republican national COM
mittee."
In commenting on this showing the
World says:
whether Mr.. Hartman raised this
money at Mr. Roosevelt's request, as
he says, or whether Mr.. Harriman's IS
oldlCilCAI DG ny
an even shorter and uglier word as
Mr.. Roosevelt says, the president of
the United States played most shock
ing part in the transaction, as will be
seen from the sequence of events.
"Mr. Harriman's visit to Mr.. Roose-
velt was the result of conference be-
tween George B. Cortelyou, Mr.. Roose-
velt's personally appointed chairman of
the Republican national committee:
Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of that
committee, and Benjamin B. Odell, jr.,
Mr. Harriman's personal and political
friend. then chairman of the Republic
can state committee.
mo matter who arranged the inter-
view, Mr.. Hartman visited Mr.. Roose-
velt eleven days before the election.
He took with him Mr.. Odells final
canvass of the state, showing the situ-
alton in every county. The next day
he returned to New York and began
raising $260,000 campaign fund. Every
dollar of it came from men who must
have known Mr.. Harriman's interview
with the president. Every one of these
men was seeking favor of the admins
tration in one form or another"
It is not necessary to state that The
Herald is not an apologist for e. H.
Hartman in any sense, but it is a
supporter of the right and truth in any
man, especially when he is attacked
by the president of the United States
and on matter so shameful as the
wholesale purchase Of the vote of a
great state. z. H. Hartman claimed
President Roosevelt invited him to the
collection, and the president denied
the statement, intimating Hartman
was a liar. In view of the Worlds ex-
pose it will be interesting to note the
presidents course.
The World is great and wealthy
corporation and amenable to suit fol
liable and able to pay damages, an6
1t is hardly likely such journal would
make such charge unless the fullest
proofs were at hand to substantiate it
If the charge is true, as the World
says it is, what must be thought ant
said of President Roosevelt's part il
the matter? How must it look to hi
admirers to see him "in cahoots' will
Depew. Hartman, Hazen Hyde, H. H
Rogers, J. P. Morgan and other notet
trust magnates just before his owl
election. and maneuvering for a "dougI
bag from them to carry his own stat,
in his own favor? His most bite
political opponent would never hav
thought of inventing so mean an ac
and attributing it to him, yet here it
in cold type, with all the shameful
trimmings, and What is he going t
do about it?"
When approached by Washington
Star reporter on the subject, Depey
said. "Oh, it's ancient history nowl
and so. in a measure it is, but what ar
the people to expect in the coming Bit
ter fight, when all the powers of COZ
porate and Republican trickery sha
be leagued to defeat the people yea
from next November?
II Roosevelt stopped to such bas
tricks-doubIy base in the light of sui
seuuent law which outlawed them