The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-20
IS PARKER CHOICE
OF STANDARD OIL?
Continued from First Page.

president and Of its selection Of Parker
as the democratic nominee; also hint
as to the source of Parker s famous gold
telegram. This, which is sure to create
something of a tempest in political cir
cles, runs In part as follows
Theodore Roosevelt, while president of
the United States, refused to allow Stan
dard or to run him. and STANDARD Or
got hotter and hotter; but. not daring to
rage openly, how they did spit fire ION
the QUIET! If I. have listened once, I
have twenty times while Mr.. Rogers raved
at 'that-'-well, went use his exact
language, 1t wouldn't be respectful to our
president. At last, in all such cases,
there came an absolutely not to- be- borne
trampling on Standard Or dignity, and
Theodore Roosevelt was on the "Sys-
tents blacklist until eternity. Mr.. Rog-
ers called me to New York in connection
with some, other business. l found him
in a terribly excited mood. What do you
think that fellow Roosevelt has done now?
Young John Rockefeller telegraphed him
to give, al audience to Archibald on the
trust matter. Roosevelt saw. he had us
and played some of his dirty politics. He
sent for the manager of the Western AS
ISOLATED Press and had him agree to pup-
l1sh the telegram in the west keeping
1t out of the east, and to publish it as
having been sent by Mr.. Rockefeller In
stead Of that unthinking boy, and, Of
COulSe, yOu lldFe Seell II III the papers:
it's everywhere how he kicked STANDARD
OIL out Of the White House. That is his
last insult to us, and we will defeat him
at any cost"
Decision for Parker. .
From that time on Mr. Rogers able
bra.a was working day and night first to-
get John Hay to run against Roosevelt,
next Root, then Uncle Mark Hanna; but
owing tn Of thnSo n1ipatn1 an.
clements that old Dame Fate now and
then reels out Of her crochet-basket to the
beWilderment of slick mortals, his efforts
went for naugnt, and he was compelled to
fall back on a more dangerous and ex-
penstve plan. He laid out on his campaign
! table the most available (what worlds
of eelskin political piety those two words
| CoVerD democrats, and it didn't take him
| long to make his selection Of a man who
would, If president Of the United States.
allow those who put him there to run
| the shop"
| When his selection was made he called
! in his faithful hired man, Senator Pat
McCarren of Brooklyn, N. T., and gave
his orders, the same kind of orders as he
gives for the purchase of an oil well, or
| the knocking in the head of a business
| rival, or the setting UP of on anaalga-
mated down and drag out, GO
here!' go there!'' Buy this!'' ''SeIl
| LlldI! E>llly Sneendn to captain LnaI
company and Dave Hill to dig that mine!'
In short order the venture was all covered
to it's f1na1ity, and there has never been a
slip Of a cog or the ungearing of a wheel
that was not foreseen and provided for.
To try to balk part of his game posted
Bryan in advance of the st. Louis con-
| vention, and we all know how he upset
their plans in the committee, but We also
know it took but the pressure Of one
finger on one button at &c Broadway and
| the gold telegram episode to put things
back into the smooth running groove.
MI. Lawson s current installment Of
his great story clears up some confusion
and makes plain the reason for telling
50 much about Addicks in October. The
October story is followed by facts about
Mr.. Lawson's captaincy Of a fight
against Standard Oil for control of the
gas business Of Boston. This leads ur
to his association with H. H. Rogers il
subsequent business enterprises, details
Of which are to come in subsequent
numbers Of Everybody's, exposing the
"System.'
Standard Oil Would "settle.'
+ It is apparent that Standard Oil has
seen clearly the drift of Mr.. Lawson >.
articles, if the average reader has mo-
been 80 ready to note the necessity Of
so much preliminary explanation. First
says Mr.. Lawson, they pooh.poohed a
the idea that any man would dare tt
attack the "System Later they sait
he wanted to be bought off. "Third, )
says Mr.. Lawson now, LATTER my open
ing chapter in August, when it becam,
evident to all that [ intended to dea
with the actual dealings of the 'Sys
tenn, and its votaries, they said to me
We'll, we'll, you really do mean it! w
didn' It think you ID dare, but as 70,
I have, we II SETTLE And then, for til,
first time, in a stunned, .benumbed kline
of way, the truth worked it's way int,
the great calloused brains Of til,
; System that at last they were u,
against something that their last re
sort, their millions, could not over
come.'
Mr.. Lawson reiterates this month tina
1t is his purpose to destroy the "Sys
month, he is one Of those men ' who d,
things Plainly, he is fond of a fight
and he certainly has the biggest on,
in his experience on his hands now.