Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-02
POST IS PROUD
TO Be ROOSEVELT LIAR
"0rder of Merit" Appreciated.
Says Ex-President's Reply
Confutes Nothing.

NEW YORK. September 2.-The New
York Evening Post. expressing apprecia-
ton of association with many individuals
OF high worth In the "Ananias class,
created and kept numerically strong by
Theodore Roosevelt's frequent additions
to its membership. is OF opinion that its
statements in criticism OF the ex-Presi-
dent. contained In a recent editorial. are
not controverted by Roosevelt's reply in
the Outlook. and points to its record to
controvert the ex-Presidents counter
charge.
"order Of Merit" Appreciated.
Mr.. Roosevelts reply in the Outlook is
considered In this wise:
Mr.. Roosevelt writes in the Outlook
that the editor of the Evening Post is "a
liar. and adds that objection will be
made to my use of this language.
mot by us. We regard It as a decora-
ton.
TIE be thought worthy OF receiving the
order of merit which Mr.. Roosevelt has
bestowed upon so many distinguished citi-
zenS makes us, In his own words, very
proud but also very humble
But to the question of fact. Mr..
Roosevelt says that the Evening Post at
lacks only small bosses II there have
been any bigger bosses than Plat and
Quay. and IL any newspaper has more
consistently attacked them than the Even
ing Post-why, we were fighting them
to secure political advancement-will some
one please inform us.
Mr. Roosevelt asserts that the Evening
Post has been against 'depriving the cor
poration OF its improper influence over
politics. But IL Mr.. Roosevelt refers 70
n NJ tinr SxffiA oh
as his advocacy of the franchise-tax In
New York and his ordering of the suit
against the Northern Securities Com
pany-it Is known to everybody but him
that we gave him our best support.
If he means measures to froce corpora
lions out Of politics. especially to make II
illegal for them to contribute money to
political campaigns. We were heart and
soul for those objects long before Mr..
Roosevelt was, and did our best to make
corporation gifts to politicians odious at
the very time when Mr.. Roosevelt 8
agents were collecting hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars from them to help elect
him President.
In view Of all this we will not retort
Mr.. Roosevelt's own words upon him, but
Will merely say that he has been mis-
informed.
Different Light on Hartman Affair.
I'm the specific matter Of President
Rooseveit's dealings with Hartman In
1904. we print elsewhere the letters he
wrote In that year to the later 'unde-
sirable citizen 50 that everybody may
Judge for himself.
Mr.. Roosevelt now refers to the mat
ter. as he admits, from memory ana
quotes a part of one Of his letters to the
effect what l want to say to you can be
said just as well after election This, he
says, is absolutely incompatible with any
thought that 1 was asking him for cam
paign funds
But the entire correspondence and the
rest Of the letter from which Mr.. Roose-
Welt takes q fragment, put the matter in
different light. 1t Is plain that the
President urged Mr.. Hartman repeated
ly and cordially to come to the White
House. and that, in fact. Mr.. Hartman,
after he did go to see Mr.. Roosevelt,
made q contribution OF $4,000.
'As Hartman himself said L was not
political manager. could help
to raise money
This he did. collecting $4,000, by the
expenditure of which sum, he wrote TO
Sidney Webster. at least $1,000 voters
were turned in the city Of New York
alone"