The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-27
Thomas W. Lawson
Answers Rookie
teller.
Declares That Standard
Concern Is TOtterilg
to a Fall.
ChsrscterizeS as Purely Technical
Corporations Denial That 1t Caused
ParkerS Nomination.
Special Dispstch to The call

BOSTON, Oct. 25.-Thomas W. Law
son. that eminent author Of the
-Frenzied Finance" articles, replies In
a long statement tonight to the Stand
ard Oil broadside OF yesterday, in which
the Rockefeller people deny their con-
nection with Parker's campaign and
their dabbling in copper gas and steel
matters
Lawson exposes their evasions and
declares that John D. Rockefeller sees
the handwriting on the wall and is now
genuinely frightened, that the disinte-
grafton Of Standard Oil is beginning
and tat the Official statement given
out yesterday is the first 1 of totter-
ing
Taking their statement that that no
Or of the Standard Company has
taken a part in securing the nomina-
ton Of any of the cand- lates for office, %
Lawson replies:
This, Of course, is purely technical
denial, Ringing upon what is meant by
has taken part in securing the nomina-
ton
And yet, which I lave since the ST.
Louis convention many times stated,
Judge Parker's nomination was Sc
cured entirely through the efforts of
Pat" McCarren. who has for years
been in the employ of STANDARD OH
and Henry H Rogers. Ny authority
1oT this statement Is Henry II. Rogers
fl-nselL NOtN it1Standing the Standard
Oils action yesterday, / repeat all
have before stated in regard TO these
peoples operations in business and in
connection with the present campaign.
After the first chapter Of my article,
Henry II. Rogers bolted for Europe,
and il is an open secret that he bolted
on the advice Of active Standard Oil
men TO avoid an open rupture with
John D. Rockefeller. The latter did all
the talking and broke forty years
silence, and dictated the statement
which this morning startled the bust
ness world. Standard OIL officers re-
neutrality-suspicious. this state
ment was issued.
I keep closely in touch with IS
Broadway I used TO for gain, but 1
CO now. since my story began. for
safety. The word was passed before
yesterdays meeting that John d. is
furious and something is going to
drop Wall street and the financial
world know there are two Standard
Oils. But 10 the public there is no
clear distinction between Standard Oil,
the corporation which deals in oil, etc,
and Standard Oil. the great indefinite
system which sometimes embraces all
the Standard Oil group of individuals
and corporations and sometimes only
certain individuals.
This is a reply to the statement,
Standard Oil Company does not as a
company do certain things
During the past thirty years there
has gone up TO him who rights all
wrongs from the countless thousands
who have been robbed Of happiness and
hope by the most brutal Of all human
instruments, the system a piteous
wall, how long, oh, Lord. how long?'
r-fr, 1rtc
the press of the world this morning
comes the answer. No longer. no
longer"
For forty years the thumbscrews
Of legislation, rack OF the courts and
straitjackets Of society have failed
10 coax. force or surprise from Stand
ard Oil any other answer than We'll
see the American people in hell before
we viii consult them about our bust
ness