The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-26
ROOSEVELT !
STRIKES BACK
Declares New York Evening
Posts Story Was an In
famous Falsehood

New York. Dec. 26.-Thc New York
Evening Post yesterday said hat Col.
Theodore Roosevelt had put George II.
Sheldon in the Ananias club for say
ing that it was he, not Mr.. sheldon.
who proposed that the letters eXonera-
ting Col. Roosevelt from soliciting tle
S240.O00 campaign fund from II late
r.. IL. Hartman be written.
The colonel came right back at the
Evening Post by issuing a statement
at Oyster Bay. which said that the
newspaper had twisted his remarks ia
a reporter into al attack on MIR. Shell
don. Mr.. Sheldon this evening made a
eighth street. which backed up the
| colonel.
Here is what came from Oyster Bay:
Quoted Correctly. hut -.
The Evening Post story is a char
acteristic and peculiarly infamous
~talsehood. as any one looking at my
statement n comparing 1t with Mr.
S%heldon's will see. The Evening Pos,
has quoted ME correctly. except that il
ming of my statement. which was that
in h essentials Mr.. Sheldon had stat
ed the facts correctly. l said 0 one
word about Mr.. Sheldon or what he
had said excepting in the essentials
Mr.. Sheldon has stated the facts cor
rectly.
He asked me why the truth had
not been stated. and very kindly vol
untcered to mak the statement. ]
told him l much appreciated his cour-
tesy and would he glad to have him do
so. and it Is simply infamous to twist
this into an attack on Mr.. sheldon"
Mr.. S%heldon's statement is as fol-
lows:
After seeing the article in the
Evening Post, l called Mr.. Roosevelt
on the telephone. We agree entirely
is absolutely correct. and does not diff
fer in any way from what I told the
reporters. I offered him the CORE
spondence for the Outlook, but he pre-
ferred that l should give it to the
press.
The reporters asked me whether
MIR. Roosevelt wished to publish (not
write) the correspondence. and l said
he did. Quite a different statement
ing Post would be glad to invent"
On Friday MI. Sheldon. explaining
to a reporter how it came about that
the letters were written seven years
after the campaign they had to do
with. said that 1t was purely acct
dental. that he had said to Col. Roose-
Welt. why has the truth v come
ouS: dIu ludI LIE CUlOuSI TepleQ,
why can't you tell it now?"
The resul was that Mr.. Sheldon
from motives Of friendship published
the letters. 1t was he, he said. who
suggested the publication and did pub
lish them after Col. Roosevelt had
asked him to.
The Evening Post quoted Col.
Roosevelt merely in this:
Mr.. Sheldon asked me why the
| fFHYfh fnI not h@n, .ytot4l ,,l ,,~~
kindly volunteered to make the state
ment. told him ! much appreciated
his courtesy and would be glad to have
him do So"
The headline of the story which
contained this quotation was, Colonel
Says It's False" and then followed the
statement that Mr.. Sheldon had been
put in the Ananias club. Mr.. Sheldon
was angry. Some comments or sur
Col. Roosevelt had come to his ears,
and Mr.. Sheldon didn't like them.
One of the stories was that maybe he
had not published the letters purely
because Of friendship since he had
been frankly opposed to the colonels
leadership in the Stimson campaign.
II want to say right now that that's
all rot said Mr.. Sheldon. II keep
my political and personal friendships
Teddy, and I think he would for me.
I was against him last ear in politics,
but l was none the less his friend.
The other papers had that story
straight. and there was no excuse for
trying to twist it."
Mr.. S%heldon's attention was directed
to a story from Newburgh to the effect
that the friends Of b. B.. Odell. Jr.,
We're saying that Mr.. Sheldon's ex-
PLANTATION Of how the $4,000 fund
was raised was ridiculous. in that Mr.
Odell. being on intimate terms with f.
Fl. Hartman, wouldn't have had to 60
to Cornelius N. Bliss to get Mr.. Harri-
man to do something.
Has Odell said anything" asked
Mr.. Sheldon.
NO"
Well, that's sufficient. He knows
that what / have written is the truth