New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-01
NOT TO ANSWER BRYAN
STATEMENTS NOT TRUE.
President U'M Not Dignity Them
bu Formal Reply.
from The Tribune Bureeu. !

Washington Sept. 30.-The President IS going
lc make no direct reply to Mr.. Bryan's last
TRADE. To the only statements of Importance
that Mr. Bryan makes the President could
merely answer that they not in accordance
with the facts 1t is not true. and Mr.. Bryan
must know that it is not true that there was
any failure to prosecute any Cabinet officer.
The President supposes that this refers to Mr..
Paul Morton; but, If so, NJ. Bryan either dld
know ought to have known that the Attorney
General reported that there was no cause Tor
action against Mr.. Paul Morton, and that when
the case as TO which action asked for
against him came up in court. the judge, of his
own motion and in the most explicit language,
stated that not the slightest suggestion of i'm
proper conduct the part OF Mr.. Morton had
been made and nothing looking thereto had
been produced
SO of Mr Bryan's assertion that the President
asked Mr.. Hartman for campaign funds. He
either knows or ought to know that this is
false. The letter Of the President of october
s. 1906, to Hon. James S. Sherman has been
published In full and given the widest circula-
tion. In this letter, among other matters ap-
pear the following extracts which cover COM
petely the point raised by Mr. Bryan. On Sep
tember %, 1904 the President. in answer to a
letter from Mr.. Hartman. stated:
At present there is nothing for me to see you
my letter CT acceptance which ] should have
liked to discuss with you before putting it out
On October 10, 1904. the President wrote him:
In view OF the trouble over the state ticket in
New York. I should much like TO have few
words with you.
on October l. Mr.. Hartman stated he would
comes
On October II the President answered. stating
that he had heard that Mr.. hartman did not
think it wise 70 come, and continued:
If you think there is nothing special I should
be informed about. matter in which
could give aid why of course give up the
hence. before l write ny message, shall get
you 20 come down to discuss certain government
matters not connected with the campaign
The President did not, prior to the election,
again write to make any request of Mr.
Hartman, and mere glance at the above let
ters shows that they are incompatible with any
idea that the President asked Mr.. Hartman
for any contribution for he explicitly states
that there was no need to see Mr., Hartman
until after the campaign closed. aid then only
about matters not cOHnectal with it. Any
charge that the President ever asked anybody
for a contribution is simply untrue, and any af-
fcctatiou Of misunderstanding the letters given
above as passing between Mr.. Hartman and the
President reflects only uron the honesty and
good faith of the Individual thus affecting TO
misunderstood them.
Moreover the course of the administration in
relentlessly prosecuting Mr.. Hartman is of it
self more than sufficient proof that there was no
understanding Of any kind, direct indirect,
with him. on the part Of the administration, at
the time he asserts that he made the contrbu-
ton referred TO.