The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-12-20
How Roosevelt Fooled Hartman.

Mr.. Roosevelt dismisses Wharton
Barker's testimony before the Senate
committee with the contemptuous re-
mark that tI would as soon discuss
a pipe-dream with an out-patient OF
Bedlam as discuss this nonsense"
Mr.. Roosevelt's sweeping denials
long ago ceased to carry weight, and
this is a case in which a convincing
defense cannot easily be made out
for him.
Mr.. Barker says a distinguished
fnancier, now dead, informed him
three or four weeks before the 1904
election that Mr.. Roosevelt chad
made a bargain on the railroad ques-
ton" By the terms of this bargain
railroad bill was to be brought in
on recommendation Of the President
cutting off rebates and free passes,
permitting the roads to make pool
ing arrangements and providing for
maximum rates.
If E. H. Hartman is the dis
tinguished fnancier to whom Mr..
Barker refers, a careful study Of the
correspondence made public from the
White House after the New York
World printed the Sidney Webster
letter will prove that Roosevelt made
Hartman believe that ne would
make certain recommendations in his
message in order to get Hartman
to raise campaign Doodle for him.
AS soon as he got the campaign
Doodle from Hartman, Roosevelt
went completely back on the railroad
magnate, as the facts related below
will amply show.
June %, 1904, Mr.. Roosevelt
wrote from the White House to Mr..
Hartman: CAS- soon as you come
home I shall want to see you
Oct. 10, 1904, Mr.. Roosevelt wrote
tc Mr.. Hartman: In view of the
trouble over the State ticket in New
York, I should much like to have
few words with you"
Oct. "A, 1904, Mt. Roosevelt wrote
to Mr.. Hartman: "a suggestion has
come to me in roundabout way
that you do not think it wise to come
to see me in these closing weeks Of
the campaign, but that you are re-
luctant to refuse inasmucn as have
asked you. Now, my dear sir, you
and I are practical men,
In this same letter Mr.. Roosevelt
suggested that if Mr.. Hartman did
not think it best to come to Wash
ington at that time, then before I
write my message I shall get you
to come down to discuss certain Gov
|ernment matters not connected with
the campaign
Mr.. Hartman went to Washington
in the closing days Of the campaign.
He returned to Wall street at once
after his conference with Mr.. Roose-
velt and raised a fund Of s260,00O
by which, he boasted, eat least So
coo votes were turned in the city Of
New York alone, making difference
Of 100000 votes in the general re-
suit
Mr. Hartman was not consulted
about the message, however, as he
expected, and telepboned to Secre-
tary Loeb Nov. 80 Mr. Hartman
thought that part Of the message
could be sent to me-" meaning the
part that referred to railroads. Mr..
Roosevelt wrote to Mr.. Hartman in
sisting that it was currency legisla-
tion that he intended to discuss with |
him, and that it was not possible to
send out parts of the message in ad-
vance to anybody.
MT. Hartman did not agree with
all Of Mr.. Rooseveit's railroad rec
arr thought no more |
power should be lferred upon the
Intestate Commerce Commission. In
1905 he refused to contribute to the
Congressional campaign
fund. Whereupon Mr.. Roosevelt de-
nounced Mr.. Hartman as "an unde-
sirable citiZen.' and the Federal au-
thorities pursued him until his death.