The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

President Roosevelt wrote that he be- 1 ieved the 1904 campaign fund had been only half as large as the republican fund in 1S96 or the democratic fund in 1892. 1 This is aside" he continued from the i point which was the the money spent | legitimately for the campaign, and no l pretense has been made to the contrary, and that 1t was contributed freely by men who did not ask and who never have re- ceived one particle of consideration in the l shape of legislation or administrative act as reward for having so contributed, ex- actly as no man has, been in any way l diseriminated against for not having con i tributed. MT. Prick was a stanch ally | to me. Messrs. Ryan and Belmont were 1 two of our most resolute opponents. Not only has no single act been done by the | administration or by Congress which could be construed by it's most frantic oppo- nent into favoring the financial interests | of the one side or as discriminating | against the financial interests on the oth- l CT, but I do not believe that even the most mendacous critic or greenhorn would assert such to be the case. The | immense majority of those contributing were and are worthy men influenced by motives worthy. Indeed, considering the action taken by the administration in the various suits against the beef trust, the | tobacco trust, against the railroad com 1 panies in the matter of rebates and in l view of the course we have pursued | throughout in all corporation matters it ought to be wholly unnecessary so much as allude to any allegations that any contribution from any source has been | allowed to influence in the slightest de- gree any administrative action of mine, or any legislation I have recoElmended since I have been President" Commends MT. Bliss
 The letter commended MT Bliss and | added that he hoped MT. Bliss had mot been bothered by those outrageous saults upon you in connection with the campaign bandits The President added he felt the matter very keenly. | 1t was late in the day before Tegethoff, the former Hartman secretary, took the stand. He produced a series of papers | from the Hartman estate file. The first was receipt signed by C. N. Bliss as l treasurer of the national republican conn l mittee. dated 1904. It was for S50,000, which Mir. Tegethoff said was MT. liar riman's contribution. to the republican campaign fund of sl9oi, Then Mir. Teget- hoff put in the record a series of letters l in which President Roosevelt asked E. H. Hartman to visit him at the White | House during the fall and winter of 1903. i Letters dated October and October 9 1 from the former President asked MT. Hartman if he would be in Washington soon. It invited him to dine at the White
 
 that he was not planning to come to | Washington at-that time, but might come | later. 1 The letters included one written by 1 President Roosevelt October II. 1904. This one hitherto has been published In it he ! told MT. Hartman to cancel his proposed visit to Washington If he thought the visitation was dangerous to MT. Roose- velts candidacy letter from Mir. Har- riman, December 20, 1904, asked the Pres 1 ident to consider w. Fl. Stilwell of Phoe- nix, Ariz for an impending vacancy 1 in the chief justiceship of the territory. | To that Secretary Loeb replied that the l President did not know of any vacancy, but would carefully look the matter over A letter from President Roosevelt Oc- I tober 2f, 190t proposed MT. Hartman come to Washington to visit him.
 Hartman Not Anxious l Succeeding letters showed Mr Harri- man did not find it convenient. and that on October 9 President Roosevelt wrote: ] There is no haste about my seeing you 1 for the only thing that could be press 1 ing, viz: the financial situation is not So acute at present Any time you come i down this winter win do.
 A letter from MT Hartman. December 2S, 1903, indorsed W. C. Ralston as cand- l date for naval officer at San Francisco. President Roosevelt replied December 29, | There are one or more points in ref efence to the case which shall like to 1 go over with you, if you feel that you l care to come to the capital" l MT Hartman replied January g. 1904, that the Ralston matter was not impor- 1 tant enough to Induce a special trip to Washington. but said he might go later.
 One letter from Mr. Hartman after ! the republican convention that nominated | MT. Roosevelt. said.
 | fp hot | too glad to have been able to take part in the convention which recognized what was Nour due, and I believe every one very heartily accorded 1t and will as gladly work for it..
 He said he was going to Europe add ing;
 T shall be in close enough eommunca- tion to exercise my influence shouli 1t he necc fsary before my return T. With his return he again wrote tre | President Who replied September 2s 1901: lS At prese9t there is nothing for me to sec yoh about although there were one or two points in my letter of acceptance which should have liked to discuss with Yon before putting it before the puhhc.t
 For @ minutes MT Tegethom read the corresponaence into the record
 Told About Contributions
 
 fanythns about campaign contributions in l9jf2r Senator Clapp asked,
 "Yes, in l9o1, when he was i'll just he- fore Christmas he called me to Eis | house.. Tecothoff answered. eve talked over the relations between ,him and Als Roosevelt then and in the campaign in ! l9Ci. | knew he visited Washington al the request of the President, and as . result of that visit he had raised 'ais money for the campaign
 "tIow mueh?
 Two hundred and fifty thousand .ai- lars of which S5o.o00 was his own con- | trlbution," witness said. T knew he | was raising, the money"
 s@Did you know from whom he was raising itY' asked Mir. clapp.
 Not exactly: l had several receivers S checks" { Witness could not remember the names ! of the numerous contributors. "In 1aS you were with Hartman; do you know of contributions he made tnen?'
 No witness answered. During the examination of Tegethoc