The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-08
HE MIGHT AS WELL QUIT.

HE MIGHT AS WE'LL QUIT
If Colonel Roosevelt were q man OF
any fine feeling, If he were man OF
keen susceptibilitics, ne would be cut
TO the heart by the developments IN
the Investigations of the Senate Com.
mttcc He has been loudly proclaim.
ing his antagonism 70 the trusts, to
the "interests, and to everything that
is depressing the people. And now it
is shown beyond the shadow of doubt
that the trusts rallied TO his support
with substantial uuanimity in 1904. The
only thing that he could do was to
sputter that they did not ask any
thing from him. But there has been
no claim that they asked anything.
There has never been, as Mr. Morgan
explained, any idea Of getting any def
mite reward for the immense contrlbu-
tions that the big corporations gave
10 the Roosevelt campaign fund of
| 1904 AS Mr.. Sheldon said, those con-
tributioDs amounted TO 73Ia per cent
of the total amount contributed, al
most three fonrths of the whole. Mr..
| Morgan put in 100000, the Standard
Oil like sum; Mr.. Perkins got Sl4s,-
900 from the life insurance companies;
| Mr.. Hartman raised from tho big In
tercsts S2Jo000; and so it went The
! testimony was very direct and posi-
| tive. and it covered Roosevelt with
| confusion in utterly dcmolisblng all
the claims all the statements. all the
| a1irmations that he had given to the
public.
The Roosevelt pretcnse that the
Standard Oil contributions had been
returned or were to be returned was
denied by Mr.. Archbold and Roosc.
welt called Archbold liar. But Mr..
George r. Sheldon, who succeeded Mr..
Bliss as treasurer Of the National Re
publican Committee, expressly testi-
fed that Mr.. Bliss turned over to him
the list Of contributors with the. $780,
900 from Mr.. Archbold thereon as con.
| tributcd and never refunded Roose
welt expressed surprise that Mr., Nor
gan had contributed so largely TO
his campaign fund, but it was impos
siblc 10 deny Mr.. Morgan s testimony
that he had done so, especially as the
Sheldon list also showed that Morgan
contributed 100000 TO the Roosevelt
fund that year. II showed also that
Mr.. Frick contributed a like sum, and
George j. Gould also 100000 These
sums were testified to by Mr. George
r, Sheldon as the amounts that Mr..
Bliss, his predecessor, had shown him
| in his report. a receipt from Treasurer
Bliss to +. II. Hartman for $4,000
proved the Hartman contribution.
which Roosevelt had heretofore denied
being received by the National Rcpub
| lean Committee.
Further fortifying the Hartman side
of that story, Mr.. Charles \. Peabody,
now president Of the Mutual Life In.
surancc Company of New York. tes.
| tilted that Mr.. Hartman asked him
10 contribute TO the 1904 Roosevelt
| fund. In the conversation between
him and Mr. Hartman. Mr.. Peabody
testified that Hartman said that he
had been to Washington and that the
President wanted him TO raise money
/ for the campaign, Hartman stated
| that he was giving $4,000 and hoped
70 get the rest, which Mr.. Peabody un.
, derstood 10 be in all $240000. While
/ Peabody and Hartman were together
on that occasion, Hartman talked over
/ the telephone. and at Peabody's in
! quiry said he was talking with Hamil-
| ton Mex. Twombly OF New York on
the same matter. This seems TO be
very positive testimony that Mr. Harri.
man was asked by the President to
raise this fund as Hartman always
maintained and Roosevelt denied, and
I that he was so asked on a visit he had
/ then recently made TO Washington.
There would appear 10 be no reason
why he should tell Mr.. eabody that
! he had been asked TO raise this money
unless the. fact was that he had been
asked to DO il. The proof seems TO
/ be absolutely overwhelming that Mr.
/ Hartman was telling the truth in all
/ this business. and that the denials of
I Colonel Roosevelt are untrue.
When Colonel Roosevelt testified he
/ appeared TO be surprised that the ties.
| timony bad been so full, 40 explicit.
and so convincing against the denials
that he had made. and 10 favor OF the
statements made by Mr. Hartman. bv
Senator Penrose. and by Others on the
| contrary side.
A candidate for the high Office Of