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The Commoner.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1907
-tfemmetgr jli '33"BPS
of the republican machine In Now York, state
has recently said, "Theodore Roosevelt will bo
re-nominated by acclamation." Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson has been studying forestry
in the west and northwest. Mr. Garfield ha3
done all the public land estates and territories.
Mr. Metcalf has made a tour of inspection, of
the various naval stations. Secretary Strauss
has been studying Immigration conditions in the
far west, and yet these cabinet officers and other
high officials of the administration all return to
pronounce that Theodore Roosevelt is the first
choice of all good republicans, and Roosevelt
is silent.
Recently at a meeting of the republican club
in New Haven, Conn., Congressman Sperry,
launched a third term boom for the president
which was greeted enthusiastically. Is it any
wonder that the public conclude that Mr. Roose
velt, in spite of his election night announcement,
is really a candidate for re-nomination. Until
the president speaks, there can be no certainty In
this matter. If he does not intend to bo a can
didate his silence has only 'unduly complicated
the political situation for too long a time al
ready; indeed, the public is entitled to an au
thoritative answer in this matter, certainly the
political situation would be greatly simplified
if it should appear that the president believes
his duty tends in the direction of another term,
his former public declarations to the contrary
notwithstanding. Why is the president silent;
when will he speak?
WILLIS J. ABBOT.
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In its issue of Sunday, September 8, tho
Now York World prints an interesting Btory
concerning the big fund raised by B. H. Harrl-
man during the closing hours of tho 1904 cam
paign for the benefit of- tho republican party.
The World presents a synoposls of tho story In
this way:
"Tho mystery concerning tho campaign
fund raised by Edward Henry Harriman on Octo
ber 29, 1904, 'at the personal solicitation of
President Roosevelt,' has been cleared up by
the World and Is sot forth below. Tho amount
of that fund, names of the subscribers thereto
and tho manner of Its collection by Mr. Harri
man and Unltod States Senator Chauncey M.
Depew have been obtained from a source that
leaves no room for question. The exact amount
of 'the fund was $200,000, not $200,000, as has
been stated. The names 9f the subscribers to
it and the amount given by each of them are as
follows:
Edward H. Harriman $ 50,000-
H. McK. Twombly (representing tho
Vanderbllt interests) 25,000"
Chauncey M. Depew (personal) 25,000
James Hazen Hyde 25,000
The Equitable Life Assurance Society 10,000
J. Pierpont Morgan 1 0,000
George W. Perkins (Now York Life In
surance Company) . , 10,000
H. H. Rogers, John D. Archbold, Wil
liam Rockefeller Standard Oil Co.) 30,000
James Speyer and Banking Interests. . 10,000
Cornelius N. Bliss (personal) ........ 10,000
Seven Friends of Senator Depew,
$5,000 each 35,000
Sent to Mr. Harriman in smaller dona
tions -. . . . 20,000
Total .' $200,000
"This sum of money, exceeding by $00,000
the amount estimated by George B. Cortelyou,
chairman of the republican national committee,
and B. B. Odell, jr., chairman of the republican
state. committee, to be necessary to Insure the
election of Mr. Roosevelt as president and ,Mr.
HIgglns as governor, was collected by Mr. Har
riman and Senator Depew and turned over by
Mr. Harriman to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer
of the republican national committee.
"Mr. Bliss gave his check for the full
amount to Mr. Cortelyou. The latter retained
$00,000 of it for his own uses in the state and
gave his check for the remaining $200,000 to
Mr. Odell."
Mr. Cortelyou took occasion to denounce
as false the World's story. And the World re
plies in this more or less heated editorial:
MR. CORTELYOU SHOULD RESIGN
"George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the
treasury and chairman of the republican national
committee, denounces as 'false and mendacious'
the World's account of the coHectlon and ex
penditure of the so-ca.lled Harriman contribution
to the republican campaign fund of 1904.
"Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that after a con
ference between himself, Cornelius N. Bliss and
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., he asked Mr. Harriman
to raise $200,000 for the republican campaign
fund?
"Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that In order to
give Mr. Harriman assurances that the adminis
tration would not 'run amuck' he arranged for
an interview between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Harriman?
"Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that the inter
view took place, and that, in Mr. Roosevelt's
own words in a subsequent letter to Mr. Har
riman, 'you and I were both so engaged In the
New York political situation that we talked of
little else?'
"Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that Immediately -after
this interview Mr. Harriman and his asso
ciates raised $200,000, the principal contributors
being Mr. Harriman, Senator Depew, James
Hazen Hyde, H. McK. Twombly, H. H. Rogers,
William Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan, John
D. Archbold, George W. Perkins and Cornelius
N. Bliss?
- "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that this money
was turned over to him for Mr. Bliss and that
eight days before the election he gave $200,000
of it to Mr. Odell to Influence the state election?
. "Does Mr. Cortelyou deny that the cam
paign was over at that time, that the money was
intended to corrupt voters, and that Mr. Har
riman was able to boast afterward that with
the help of this money his friend Odell succeed
ed In turning 50,000 votes In Now York City
alone, 'making a difference of 100,000 votes In
the gouornl result?'
"If tho World's account bo 'fnlse and mon
daclous,' confirmed as it la In part by Mr. Roose
velt's own letter to Representative Shorman
and Mr. Harriman's lottor to Sidnoy Wobstor,
Mr, Cortelyou can prove such falsehood and
mendacity by opening tliQ books of tho republi
can national committoo. The World challenged
him to do It during the 1901 campaign. It has
challongod him repeatedly since. Ho has al
ways refused.
"More scandalous than thoso contributions,
more scandalous even than the uses to which
tho money was put, is tho fact that Gcorgo B.
Cortelyou, former grand inquisitor of corpora
tions, who know their socrots, who solicited this
contribution from Mr, Harriman, who arranged
tho Interview with the presidont, who brought
tainted monoy up to tho very doors of tho White
House, should now bo secretary of tho treasury
of tho United States and In a position to give
or withhold financial favors from tho men and
interests who contributed or rofused to con
tribute to tho campaign fund which ho collected.
"Mr. Cortelyou should resign. In any otlier
civilized country ho would bo forced out of office.
"Fancy an English chancollor of tho ex
chequer holding ofllco in any cabinet after such
a series of exposures as that which has pursued
Mr. Cortelyou since ho laid aside his duties as
secretary of commerce to fry tho fat from tho
corporations his department had full power to
Investigate! Fancy a French minister of
flanance Impudently trying to woathor tho storm
that would there follow such rovelations as
these!
"Not only should Mr. Cortolyou resign, but
Mr. Roosevelt owes It to himself to Insist on
at least one act of atonement, by compelling
the republican national committee to return to
Edward H. Harriman the $50,000 that wont Into
tho republican campaign chests and presumably
camo out of tho pockets of the stockholders of
the Union Pacific Railroad company."
Some of the friends of Mr. Roosevelt are
pointing out that It Is significant that tho World
is in a position to got tho secrets of tho railroad
magnates and that It is significant also that
while the World speaks very bravely concerning
some evils, it has not beon conspicuous for its
criticism of railroad evils.
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PUBLIC STILL IN DOUBT
At a meeting of the directors of the Illinois
Central Railway company Mr. Fish said that
Mr. Harahan was a tool of Mr. Harriman, and
Mr. Harahan said that Mr. Fish was a liar.
Whereupon Mr. Fish Hinoto Mr, Harahau in the
optic. Then directors separated the combatants
and the"mootlng adjourned. The result of this
little argument, fistic and verbal, is still in
doubt, and an anxious public would like to be
enlightened as to tho facts. Did Mr. Fish ex
press a great truth as regards Mr. Harahan, or
did Mr. Harahan give utterance to a-great truth
when he spoke so warmly of Mr. Fish.
THE WORRYING BROTHER
Satan come a-chasin' me lively thoo' de night;
Run me fum de shadders ter do breakln' or do
light;
An' I can't climb ter heaven an' de yuther place
in sight,
An' I don't know what's a-coming' on Ter-
morrer! ' .-'.-
He run me oh, he run me dos ez fur ez ho
' kin see;
He swim de ragin' river an' he climb de burnln
tree;
An' 1. wonders what ho wantln' wid a sinner
po' ez me?
An' I dunno what's a-coming on Ter-
morrer!
He sho' got time I tell you! ter be runnin'
roun' lak' dat!
Wisht de harrican vould head 'ira, or de earf
" quake th'ow 'Im flat!
De sinners sho'll be burnln' on de griddles whar
dey at
An' I dunno what's a-cpmlng on Ter
morref! Frank L. Stanton, in Uncle Remus' Magazine.
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