The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-15

strongly as theft Itself. To take but
one instance out OF the many in hi,
article; the Evening Post says: 1t was
Roosevelt who asked Hartman TO come
to the White House secretly. who took
his money to buy votes in New York,
and who afterwards wrote TO Ny Dear
sherman yes. the same Sherman-re-
Wiling the capitalist to whom he had
previously written. SAYING: - You and
III are practical men. Not only is
every important statement in this SEN
tence false. but the writer who wrote it
knew it was false. As far as was
concerned. every man visited the White
House openly. and Mr.. Hartman among
the others. I took no money from Mr.
Hartman secretly or openly to buy
votes or for any other purpose. Who
ever wrote the article in the Evening
Post in question knew that this was
the foulest and basest lie when he wrote
the sentence. for he quotes the same
letter in which | had written to Mr.
Hartman as follows: Nv nat I have to
say TO YOU can be said to YOU as well
after election as before. but I would
like to see you some time before | write
my message. | am quoting without
the letter before me. but the quotation
IS substantially. if not verbally. -
| curate. That statement in this letter
to Hartman Is of course on its face
| absolutely incompatible with any
| thought that ! was asking him for cam
| paign funds, for it Is of course out Of
| the question thai | could tell him
| equally we'll what | had to say after
| election if it referred in any possible
| way to getting money before election.
! This is so clear that any pretense of
| misunderstanding is proof positive Of
| the baSest dishonesty in whoever wrote
! the article in question. As a matter Of
fact when Mr.. Hartman called it was
! to complain that the national commit
! tee would not turn over for the use of
| the State campaign in which he was
! interested funds to run that campa On
! and to ask me 10 tell Cortelvou to give
| him aid for the State campaign. Mr..
! Cortelvou is familiar with the facts IN
| other words, the statement Of the Even
| Post is not only false and malicious. is
not only in direct contradiction of the
| facts, but Is such that it could only
! have been made by a man who, know
! ing The facts. deliberately intended to
| pervert them. Such an act stands on a
| Level of nfamv with the worst act ever
! performed by a corrupt member of a
| legislature or city official, and stamps
the writer with the same moral brand
that stamps the bribetaker.
- have seen only a telegraphic alb
straet Of the article. apparently con
tanning quotations from it. Practically
every statement made in these quota
! -i1uS i u fql-phnoI
"To but one more shall [ allude TIL,
/ article speaks of my having attacke,
corporations. and. referring directly t
r my Ohio speeches. of my having sough
\ to intiame the mob and make mischief.
: In those speeches the prime stand
took was against mob violence as show
: by the labor people who are engage
n in controversy with a corporation NJ
+. statement was in effect that the frs
duty Of the state and the first duty O
r. the officials was to put down disordf
r and to put down mob violence. and tina
n after such action had been taken, the
v it was the duty of the officials To il
% Ne,tigate the corporation. and # it la
"A done wrong to make it pay the peuaIt
L Of its wrongs and to provide again.
II the wrongdojng in the future. It
: but another instance of the pecu}Ij
r basene~s the peculiar moral ohhqu.t
20 of the Evening Post that it should pc
f verr the truth in 50 shameless
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