Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
THOSE HARTMAN LETTERS.

1.-The things men do live after them"
and the things that Roosevelt did in
his capacity as president are living
after him to give the lie to his re
form" and purity" statements of the
present day, statements merely bonn
bastic, hypocritical, made with no in
tortion Of keeping them, expressed
only to hOodwink guileless American
idol, into turning to him again the
highest gift in their possession.
Roosevelt has lied continuously ever
since he entered national politics, as
he has been intoxicated more or less
continuously since he was a police
commissioner of New York City and a
good fellow" and particularly in the
last campaign. He is lying more ram
PANTY and imbibing more freely in
this campaign than he has ever dared
to do before; he seems to be Obsessed
with the idea that he and he alone is
the saviour of the American people
and that the American people are fools
enough and blind enough to believe
everything he says.
The national capital is the Mecca of
OIL ACWSP0RCl AACA. IL IL eO tAO
brightest brains of the newspaper pro
fession. to be a Washington CORE
spondent is the pride, the ambition
and the acme of every newspaper man.
To it go only the cleanest, the ablest
and the most reliable writer's that the
big newspapers can gather, men who
have a reputation at stake and men
who guard that reputation as sacredly
as the most earnest lawyer, doctor or
minister.
Yet there is not newspaper man
in the CITY of Washington who was
there during the seven years that
Roosevelt was president, who would
believe Theodore Roosevelt on stack
of Bibles or anything else. He lies
and they know he lies, and yet. true
to the ethics of their profession, they
probably would not tell this to the or.
binary inquirer, though they do con.
fide 1t to their brothers in the pro.
fesSion.
The people of the United States have
seen this week. in the Hartman let.
tiers placed before the senate investi-
eating committee, the most fragrant
instance of the lying proclivities OF
this arch hypocrite yet revealed. Not
so very long ago when the public's at.
tention was called to this Hartman
fund, the colonel replied by calling
Hartman a liar, Bliss liar, Penrose
a liar, Archbold liar, and threw in q
few others as liars. just to be sure he
had covered the ground.
Then come these letters, written at
his own dictation, signed by his own
hand, setting forth his own intentions,
and sent out while he was president.
As we go to press he is scheduled to
take the stand before the investigating
committee and state his own case; we
wonder whether his supreme nerve, his
uneaualled hypocrisy, insincerity and
deceitfulness, second to none in these
United States, will rise to meet the
verdict of guilt stricken across his
character by these own letters of his.
Roosevelt said he did not ask Har.
riman for campaign fund, yet that
great financier's own letters, his own
agents. his own accounts and his own
associates, state specifically and EN-
phatically that Roosevelt did, and these
in turn are substantiated and corrob.
Theodore himself.
Thew show, also, that this national
ward heller sought the railroad kings
counsel in the matter of appointments,
in the matter of policies and in the
matter of his own state papers. We
wish to call your attention to one in
particular, written September %. 1904,
within short time after Mr.. Roose-
welt had been nominated for president:
at present there In nothing for me
to see yOu about. though there were
one or two points in my letter OF ac-
ceptance which ! should have liked to
discuss with you before putting 1t out"
Could anything be more brazen,
more indicative of guilt, more express
sive of that collision on his part with
the interests" he is attacking so zeal
ously in this campaign?