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Show t ' Kira? DENIS r ' C:iIro:d f laghote Declares That at Request Re-quest of President He flade $50,000 CohfriDufion to Republican Campaign Fund in 1904; Roosevelt Helped Ryan. In a personal letter to a friend, made public today, E. H. Harriman, magnate of the Pacific railroads, makes v- Intensely sensational charges against President Roosevelt. He declares that Roosevelt sent for him a week before the Presidential election of 1904, and begged him for a campaign cam-paign contribution to save the Republican ticket. Harriman Harri-man says he contributed $50,000. '." . Harriman accuses the President of duplicity in hav-; hav-; T-broken a pledge to name Depew as Embassador to Paris.He-creditauftoosevelt with aiding in the success of August Belmont and TKomas-Pr-Ryan.as. traction kings. - In Ryan's financial triumphs, says Harriman, is seen "the adroit hand of Elihu Root.". Bliss, who took them to Chairman Cor-telyou. Cor-telyou. If there were any among them of life insurances companies, of course Cortelyou must have informed the President. Presi-dent. I do not know who the subscribers were other than the friends of Depew who waa an individual. This amount enabled the New York State committee tP.mtJnu? its work, with the result that at hast 50,009 voUa wwre .turned in ' He vity of New York alone, making a difference of 100,000 votea in the general gen-eral result. "There are between 2200 and 2300 districts in Greater New York, and in a campaign such as that, the expenditure of, say $50 in each . district for campaign cam-paign purposes, would take more than 1100.000. "Some time in December, 1904, on' my way from .Pennsylvania to New York I stopped and had a short talk with the President. He told me then that he did not think it necessary to apoint Depew as Embassador to Paris, as agreed, in fact favored him for the Senate. I of course could say nothing further. After that I used what influence influ-ence I could to have Depew returned to the Senate, as I considered there had been an obligation which should be lived up to. r .-' "This is the way I was brought to he surface in the political matters, as I had never before taken any active part and had only done what I could as any private citizen might, .so you see I was brought forward by Roosevelt Roose-velt in an attempt to help him, at his request, the same as I was in the insurance insur-ance matter by Hyde and Ryan by their request for my help, and in the case of Ryan I probably would have dropped the matter after our first interview inter-view had it not been for my desire to save Belmont from taking a position for which he could have been criticised by the public press. "As he was the one Ryan desired me to influence from opposing Morton for selection as chairman of the Equitable Equi-table board Belmont afterward thanked me for taking his part, as if he had. voted against Morton in view of his local traction contentions with Mr Ryan it would have been misconstrued. "Ryan's success In all his manipulations, manipu-lations, traction deals, tobacco combinations, combina-tions, manipulation of the Tate Trust company into the Morton Trust company, com-pany, the Shoe and Leather bank into the National Bank of Commerce, thus covering np his tracks, has been done by the adroit mind of Ellhn Root, and this situation has been brought about by a combination of circumstances which has brought together the Ryan, Root, Roosevelt element. ' v "Where do I stand!" CHICAGO. APRIL . 2. A SENSATION SENSA-TION WAS CREATED HERE TODAY BT THE PUBLICATION OF A LET-, LET-, TER WRITTEN IN DECEMBER AND ADDRESSED TO SIDNEY WEBSTER OF NEW YORK AND SIGNED "E. - n.,HARRIMAN. THE LETTER -krOLLoWS, IN.PART: . wn."I, HAD PRINTED' COPIES OF-Tim OF-Tim T"STnt2NY 8ENT YOU. IN norn -HAr tott would, after ' ' READING THXM, GIVE ME SOME IDEA OF WHERE I STAND, FOR I CONFESS THAT I FEEL SOME-' SOME-' , WHAT AT SEA IN THE WHOLE IN-,,.;'.' IN-,,.;'.' BTJRANCE MATTER. THE TROUBLE . V ORIGINATED IN ALLOWING MY- .- SELF TO BE DRAWN INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS, AND PARTLY . ' FROM A DESIRE TO HELP THEM, AND AT THEIR REQUEST. I . SEEM .TO BE LIKE THE FELLOW WHO GOT IN BETWEEN THE MAN AND HIS WIFE IN THEIR QUARREL. QUAR-REL. K "As . to my. political instincts, to which you refer in your letter of De-i; De-i; c ember 13, I am quite sure I have none and my being made at all prominent promi-nent in the political situation is entirely entire-ly due to President Roosevelt and because be-cause of my taking an active part in A the autumn of 1904, at his request, and i bis taking advantage of . conditions then created to further his own interests inter-ests If it had been a premeditated plot It could not have been better started or carried out. "About a week before the election . in the autumn of 1904, when it looked certain that the State ticket would go Democratic, and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself, he, the President, sent me a request to go to Washington to confer upon the political conditions in New 'York State. I complied and ' he told me he understood the campaign could not be successfully carried on without sufficient money and asked if ' I would help them in raising the ne-, ne-, cessary funds, as the national commit-. commit-. tee had utterly failed of obtaining . them, and there was a large amount due from them to the New York State committee. com-mittee. . "I explained to him that I under, atood the difficulty here was mainly caused by the upstate leaders being unwilling to' support Depew for re- . election as United States Senator; that t' if he, Depew, could be taken care of in some other way I thought matters could be adjusted and the different contending elements in the party brought into alliance again. We talked Over what eould be done for Depew and finally he agreed if found necessary he would appoint him as Embassador to Paris. . "'With foil belief that he, the Presi- .nt, would keep this agreement, I " tinie bck to New York, sent for ' Treasurer S'iss, who told me that I their last hope and that they 1 exhausted every other resource. In presence I called up an intimate ad of Senator Depew, told him that " as necessary la order to carry New Etate that $200,000 should be . raised at once, and if he would help I would subscribe $50,000. After a few words over the telephone, the gentleman gentle-man said he would let me know, which to did in three or four hours, with the result that the' whole amount, includ-l includ-l - j my subscription, had been raised. ' Ths checks ware fiiTa. to Treasurer ,' |