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campaign, which was running
badly" The colonel said he made the
appointment through Secretary Loet
at Harriman's request.
Loeb At Interview.
Mr.. Loeb was present throughout
almost all of that interview. Their,
was no possibility of any misunder.
standing. ! mention that because
have sen that some we1l-meaning but
f1abby persons have said there NIGH
have been a misunderstanding be.
tween Mr.. Hartman and myself"
Colonel Roosevelt said at the time
the Hartman contribution was made
there was no doubt of the national
ticket carrying New York, but thai
the State ticket was in difficulties.
There was not one word spoken
by Mr.. Hartman or me having any
reference to the collection of funds
for the national campaign. On the
contrary, the entire conversation was
to the effect that the national cam
paign was safe, and that aid should
be given to the State campaign"
Colonel Roosevelt said he had sub
s%equently had a talk with Mr.. Harri-
man, who favored the appointment
of former Senator Depew as ambas-
sador to France, but he told MI. Har-
riman hat other financial men were
supporting James H.. Hyde. Mr.. Har-
riman began to back water" Col
onel Roosevelt added he made it clear
that Mr.. Hyde was too young for the
important diplomatic post and had
not "won his spurs"
Bills. Raise Fund.
II wish to call your attention to the
fact that Judge Duell and Mr.. Shell
don both have testified and that Mr..
Bliss stated that the money was not
Nraised by Mr.. Hartman for the
national campaign. but that it was
raised by Mr.. Bliss to help put Mr..
Hartman in the State campaign. Mr..
Loeb was present during the inter-
view between Mr.. Hartman and my
self and heard every word.
MIR. Hartman asked me to get
Mr.. Cortelyou and Mr.. Bliss to help
raise funds for the New York State
campaign. | never asked Mr.. Harri-
man directly or indirectly for a dol
lar to help in that campaign or any
other"
Colonel Roosevelt said he wished to
correct his statement regarding his
interview with Hartman.
Mr.. Hartman told me- he said.
THE national committee people had
plenty of none and I told him |
knew nothing about that. His re-
quest to me was that | ask the ma
tional committee to give money, not
that ] ask the national committee to
help raise money. He q the ma
tionoal committee already had plenty
of funds"
Coolnel Roosevelt then discussed
Judge Alton B. Parker's statement
in 1904 and declared that a repeated
misstatement'' charged to him was
that he had said corporations did not
contribute to his 1904 campaign.
IT never made the statement thai
corporations had not contributed to
the Republican party he said EN-
p~hatically. He said his recent letter
to Chairman Clapp and his open
published statement" made it clear
that h chad never denied that corpor-
atoms had contributes; but denied
specifically that &C operations had been
"blackmailed'' into contributing, "or
assured of some kind of favor for
contributing.
Colonel Roosevelt said he had Sc
cured the word of Bliss and Cortelyou
that the statement was a fact before
he made II. Corporation contributions
were not considered improper in 1904,
1900 or 1905, he said. and it was public
knowledge that they were being made.
Talks For An Hour.
Cor an hour the colonel had talked,
practically without interruption.
Half a dozen questions by Senator
Clapp started him and thereafter
there was no opportunity for guess
tions. Colonel Roosevelt talked along,
choosing his own subjects, stopping
low and Their to go through his pa