Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
THAT HARTMAN FUND.

joicing among the camp followers OF
Colonel Rooevelt over the eontribu-
:. DRY evidence from J. Pierpont Nor
n that the now famous emergency
ampaign fund of $24O, 900, raised by
the late Mr.. Hartman in 1904, was
Tor the purposes of the New York
Republican state committee, and not
for the use of the Republican nation
al committee. This, it is claimed,
demonstrates concluiveiy the correct
ness of the assertions of Mr.. Roose-
Welt that Mr.. Hartman did not raise
any money for the purposes of his
presidential campaign, And, techni
cally, there is little doubt but this is
so.
But a distinction IS being drawn
here that is in reality not much of
a difference.
This campaign fund was raised by
Mr.. Hartman and TUNED over to the
Republican national committee. Mr.
e Morgan testified he would chip in his
$4,000 only on the understanding
that the money should be paid to tie
national committee. 1t was. the only
political agency with which he pro
posed to do business. The national
committee, after getting possession
Of the money, promptly. turned It
over to the New York Republican
state committee, for whose purposes
It was raised. = -
And does anyone believe that the
national committee was not interest.
ed in any way. in the expenditure Of
e this huge sum to make certain the
success of the Republican cause iu
New York state? Was this money
merely turned over to the state com
mittee' to assure the success OF
the Republican state ticket? Well,
hardly
- In New York, as in many other
states Of the east, when a state and
a presidential election come in the
same year they are so doyetailed to-
gether that the campaigns waged in
behalf of state tickets are as a mat
ter 81 fact campaigns in behalf Of the
national tickets. The voters in New
York state, and especially as far bacl
as 1904, wer enot given much to the
practice of voting for the presidential.
candidates Of one party and the state
cat didates of another party. It has
generally been a case of straight vot-
ing in New York, either for the
Democratic or the Republican candi-
iates or even candidates of am indie
pendent ticket from the presidential
electors down. The New York Re-
publican state committee in 1904 and
before and since has always concern
ID itself in waging a vigorous cam:
paign for the presidential candidates
as we'll as for the state ticket. This
is the method pursued by. state COM
mitteeS of all parties in every other
state. And so in 1904, the New York
Republican state committee was just
as much interested in the success OF
the presidential candidate in that
state as it was in the success of It's
state ticket. Even more so, in al
probability For with Colonel Roose
'Feh, native son and then intensely
popular at home, as the presidential
candidate, the Republican state com
mittee had. every reason to believe
that if his success in the state coulC
be assured; there would be that muc
more chance of the state ticket beinI
successful because of the prediction
ot New York voters to vote thei
D. tickets straight. .'.
1t is therefore childish prattle t
argue that neither Colonel Roosevelt
. nor the Republican national commits
tee was interested or could be benz
fitted in any way by the expenditur
of the Hartman fund of $24O, 90
through the medium Of the New Yor
Republican state committee.-TOpek
State Journal.