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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 15
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ROOSEVELT-HARRIMAN "TIE-UP"
For a correct understanding of the
ttooHovclMIarrlman incident It Is not
ntrcFsury to eoiiHklor the question o
tonicity between the two.
President Roosevelt's own letters to
Chairman Sherman In 1000, which ho
give.i to the press, show tlmt during
the presidential campaign oil 100,4 ho
was in closo political relations with
llnrrlinan and that botli of them real
ized the Impropriety of the associa
tion. Both were deeply concerned in the
Ktiecess of Mr nigglns, the republican
candidate for governor of Now Yorlc.
The president approved of Mr. II lo
gins, though there were so many re
publicans in New York state who cou
riered "Mm too friendly to Ilarriman
that It was feared the state would bo
lost to the parly.
In this emergency the president
worked hand-ln-glovo with Mr. Ilarrl
iiiim in the politics of Ills native state.
Mr. Ilarriman wanted Illgglns elected
for reasons best known to himself.
Mr. Roosevelt desired the same result
in order to jnako sure of the thirty
nine electoral votes of New York.
The president sent frequently for
Mi. Ilarriman and together they la
bored upon the problem of saving the
state for Iligglus and for Roosevelt.
If the subject of campaign funds was
never mentioned In their interviews
there must have been remarkable for
bearance on the part of the president,
for ''unds were badly needed and Mr.
IIiuTlimui might bo depended upon is
resourceful in producing them.
That Mr. Ilarrlman's visits to the
White Ilouse might have been more
frequent if tlioy had been entirely
proper wo learn from one of the presi
dent's letters to him which Is among
the so given to the press. To men of
such terrtncnmiftu.t that ihey exneet
'fvnlnTc men and candldatestor office 1
to deal openly and above board with
the ieoplo It Is nothing less than a
conkKsion of duplicity which the pres
ident makes by the publication of this
letter. The president had hoard that
Mr. Harrlman did not "think It wise
to come to see mo in these closing
.days of the campaign." Knowlelgo
of the closo relations existing between
them might be hurtful to the republi
can cause in- Now York.
Mr. Roosevelt sees the point and re
plies: "Now, my dear sir, you and I
are practical men, and you are on the
ground and know the conditions better
than I do. If you think there Is any
danger of your visit to mo causing
trouble, or If you think there Is noth
ing special I should be Informed
about, or no matter In which I could
give aid, why, of course, give up tho
visit for the time being and then, a
few weeks hence, before I write my
message, I shall get you to come down
to discuss certain governmental mat
ters not connected with tho cam
paign." As tills letter was written on Octo
ber 14, "a few weeks hence" meant
of course "after the election," when
public knowledge of the political al
liance between tho two would bo less
dangerous. The American people will
form their own opinion of tills sort of
underground work in presidential pol
itics. But tho alliance did not last after
the election. Understanding tho presi
dent to mean railroad matters In his
Invitation to discuss "certain govern
mental matters not connected with the
campaign," Ilarriman did his best for
tho success of Roosevelt and Illgglns,
and when ho wanted to talk railroad
matters with the president before the
message was written the president
wanted to talk something else.
If tho astuto Ilarriman broke off the
association with nn acute feeling that
he had been bunkoed It would have
been tho most natural thing in the
world. St. Louis Republic.
"WHO'S A LIAR"
In the good old days, when the min
ers made human sieves of tho fellow
who dared to call them liars, and men
of the logging camps fought duels and
otherwise defended themselves against
the charge of untruth, tho idea of a
public ofllclnl using the term in print
Avas most absurd.
In fact, it seldom happened. There
was not so much of Unit sort of tiling
a few years ago. Now we And the
president of the United States using
the term "deliberate and wilful false
hood" on numerous occasions.
It used to bo that when the lie was
passed, tho victim How into a passion
and demanded, "Who's a liar?". Then
there was something doing.
Nlur8trTTow". -IlottV4m(L.JtofloveIt
Indulge hi most any old terms tfioT
come to them first. The president
calls Mi Ilarriman a liar in cold type,
and Mr. Ilarriman says he did not He,
which means that Roosevelt does.
And there you are. Fremont (Neb.)
Herald.
member by glancing occasionally over
the flies of their papers.
Near the wlndup of tho campaign
of 1004 it was known to and pub
lished in tho New York papers that
thero was danger of the republicans
losing Now York, and the betting
showed it. It was conceded that un
less a movement, then on foot, for rais
ing a largo fund prospered, that Parker
would carry the state.
The next day it was reported and
published and telegraphed abroad that
Mr. Harrlman, who had returned from
a visit to Washington, had Interested
the leading business concerns and in
stitutions to contribute to a fund
reaching up into the hundreds of thou
sands, which would save the country
from the horrors of a democratic vic
tory. The next day Alton B. Parker de
clared that tills sum had boon raised
to control tho election and that .a largo
part of the money had come from Ilar
riinan nnd tho Insurance companies
and that if the president didn't know
It, Mr. Cortelyou did. Responsive to
this the president denounced Mr.
Parker as a deliberate, malicious and
conscienceless liar. Mr. Cortelyou
also denounced Mr. Parker as a liar.
Something like a year later the checks
showing the truth of the statements
in the newspapers and by Mr. Parker
were found. Somebody prevaricated.
Who was It?
When all these things are put to
gether, don't they sound funny?
We know from the historian, that
Washington couldn't tell a lie. Let
us stick to it that none of his succes
sors can. Let us stick to that for
George's sake. Columbus (O.) Press-Post.
TWO WORDS
"The statement," said the president,
"io a deliberate and wilful untruth,
By right it should be characterized by
even a shorter and more ugly word."
Wft-mwcjtp amend. Two words, Mr.
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NAUSEATING MESS
In all this nauseating mess the
World cannot but nnd, as it found in
the insurance disclosures, -the strong
est confirmation of tho position it has
consistently held upon these points:
1. That Judge Parker was essen
tially right -when in tho campaign of
mo-l lie charged that "the trusts were
furnishing money with which thoy
hoped to control the election."
5s. That President Roosevelt, in
stead of calling Judge Parker's state
ment "uiiqiinliflQdly' and atrociously
false," might better have been engaged
In reforming his campaign committee.
3. That the rewarding of George B.
Cortelyou by high public office for his
services as collector of campaign
money from insurance companies nnd
from financiers with axes to grind is
a wrong which time cannot cure and
which subsequent brilliant service can
scarcely extenuate.
4. That tho failure of the republican
majority in congress to provide for the
complete publicity of campaign funds
and to forbid corporation contribu
tions thereto is inexcusable.
'High finance" has been too long
the power behind the puppets of poli
tics. No graver need confronts the
country than the need of cleaner elec
tions and legislation free from corrupt
ing influences. Now York World.
LOOKING BACKWARD
Tho president, in good strong Anglo-Saxon,
says that his great and
good friend Harrlman is a liar of the
kind that deserves a sulphurous handle
to It.
Now there are ajlew tilings In this
connection that newspaper men re-
AND COLUMBIA BLUSHES
"All men are liars."
The psalmist was professing ais
love and duty to his God, and in ex
plaining his thoughtless unbelief, ex-
claimed: "Tne sorrows of death com
passed me and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me. I found trouble and
sorrow. I was a filleted. I said
in my haste, 'All men are liars.' "
But the psalmist had turned to his
God and in his trouble he found the
apology for his temporary distrust in
men.
"You are a liar." Thus answers
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-offlcio the First
Man in America, to United States Sen
ator Thomas C. Piatt; to United States
Senator Benjamin R. Tillmnn: to
United States Senator Joseph W. Bai-
iyy; to jonn n Wallace, Panama canal
engineer; to G. O. Shields; Herbert W.
Bowon, minister to Venezuela; Henry
M. Whitney, capitalist; ex-United
States Senator William E. Chandler;
democratic nominee for president, Al
ton B. Parker; Bellamy Storer, min
ister to Austria; Mrs. Bellamy Storer;
Edward H. Harrlman, railroad presi
dent. Thus it would seem the psalmist of
sacred history finds a lamentably
weak imitation in the Roosevelt of pro
fane history. In his sore affliction the
psalmist hastily cried out "All men are
liars." in tne Hour of his exposure
Theodore Roosevelt, in the agony of
his guilty soul, shouts from the sum
mit of the presidency of the American
republic to him who dares to differ
with him "You are a liar." The
psalmist was pentlnent; the president,
audacious. Tho psalmist, having de
fined men as liars humiliated himself
before his God. TheodorX Roosevelt,
clothed with the dignity of the great
est office on earth, flaunts his bravado
and repeats 'You are a liar."
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