The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22
LOOKS LIKE BACK DOWN
Standards Threatened Suit Against
Lawson Has Not Been Filed.

New York, Dec. 22.-SamueI Inter
myer, chief counsel for Henry IL.
Rogers, vice president of the Standard
Oil company and president of the
AmaIgamated Copper company, has
returned to this city from Boston,
where it was reported he had gone to
institute legal proceedings against
Thomas w. Lawson, because of the
latters attack on Mr.. Rogers in the
current number of Everybody's Mag
azfne.
Definite developments in the situa-
ton are expected, as it was reported
that the clerks in the offices of Inter
myer. Guggenheimer & Marshall and
of Sterling & Beck had been set to
work on papers in civil and criminal
libel suits against the American News
company and the publishers of Every
body's. With the arrival of Mr.. Inter
myer at his office Wall street expects
the first legal move along these lines
to be instituted as it is known that
everything depends on the personal
decision of Mr.. Rogers counsel.
The New York Globe and CONNER
cial Advertisers takes the position
that the Standard Oil people have
backed down and says:
1.-THE fight on Lawson has been
called Off Henry H. Rogers, the vice
president of the Standard Oil com
pany; Dwight Braman, stock broker
and former receiver for the Bay State
Gas company; Roger Foster, lawyer
and counsel for the creditors of the
Bay State Gas company, of which Ed
ward J. Addicks was the head, and
others mentioned in the recent stories
of election corruption and bribery,
have resolved to do nothing and will
allow the charges to go unchallenged.
This decision was reached only after
long conferences held last night and
this morning with Samuel Untermyer
on his return from Boston. Mr.. Rog-
ers, Mr.. Braman and their colleagues
have been anxious to avoid suit for
libel. 1t now appears that ever since
the first reports as to the character
of the latest articles in the series OF
'Frenzied Finance" articles became
known, Mr.. Rogers and his lawyers
have been studying out some method
of silenc1ng Thomas w. Lawson with
out bringing him into court to attempt
to prove his assertions. 1t is now
known through stories officially told
for the first time today that the noti-
fications sent by Samuel UntermyeT
News company, limiting at the penal
ties which would follow the circulation
of the current number of Everybody s
Magazine was sent only long after the
January number had been circulated
over the country and when it was i'm
possible to stop the publication of the
articles.
''On behalf of Mr.. Rogers, it is now
stated that his only object in seeking to
stop the publication of the Lawson ar
ticles was to enforce respect for the
memory of President Mckinley, Mark
Hanna, Judge Wales, John Moore. the
stockbroker who was said by Mr.. Law
son to have handled the million dol
lars election fund for the alleged pur-
chase of five doubtful states; ex-Judge
Towle, Edward Patch and others who
are now dead. Mr.. Rogers great regret
was for President Mckinley, who, OF
course, was not really affected by the
story; Mark Hanna and Judge Wales
who died soon after his dectsion va
eating the receivership of Bay State
Gas"