The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-01-30
BY Marlen E. Pew.

| CINCINNATI, ", Jan. 3o.-Ne&l
to Aldrich, the Rockefeller-appoint-
ed ruler of the senate, the most
conspicuous friend of the corpora
tons in that corporation-ridde
body at the present time is Sena-
tor Joseph Benson Foraker of
Ohio.
Foraker is the type of legislator
who borrows the livery of the peo-
pies tribune to serve the tyranny
of corporate greed.
Just at the present time Foraker
is to be seen as the avOwed cham
pion of railroad interests opposed
to railroad rate legislation.
Former Senator Chandler recent
ly denounced Foraker for what he
termed his intellectual dishon-
esty" in championing a pretended
peoples rate bill.
Foraker and Fairbanks are the
only public men in Washington who
have press agents" to boom them
for the presidential nomination in
1908. This goes on in spite of the
consistency of the service Of both
to the trusts and railroads.
| Having manipulated legislatures
and even national conventions,
having seen how easy it is to raise
shout from the populace by few
we'll turned phrases and then to
juggle the statutes in the commit
tee room, Foraker cannot be con
WINGED that a subsidized propagan-
da and the backing of the millions
of vested interests will not suffice
to make him a second Mckinley.
In Washington, Foraker lives in
style and plays the social game. He
occupies a large house in the fash
ionable part of Sixteenth street,
keeps a retinue of servants, gives
dinners, and with his family at
tends numerous social functions
given by the high and mighty of
the Washington official world.
Killed Antitrust Plank.
The republican conventions of
1888 and 1892 contained antitrust
plans in their platforms. Foraker
was chairman of the committee on
resolutions in 1892, and that year
reported a plank in practically the
same wording as the previous con-
vention. But in 1896 Foraker was
again chairman of the resolutions
committee, and then, the trust ques-
ton having meantime become more
acute and pressing, he succeeded in
cutting out of the platform the
antitrust declaration. That was
one of his first tricks turned for
the trusts.
Foraker was a director of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad, the affairs of which have
developed perfect example OF
over-ca pitahzation, Juggling and
mulcting under the name of high
finance. His railway connections
and affiliations, If nothing else
should make him ineligible to sit
= in judgment on legislation involv
ing the rights of the people VS.. the
railroads. For years he has beer
attorney of the system of railways
lying TO the south of Cincinnati ii
which will be most seriously af
fected by the proposed rate legis
h lation.
At the head of the railway lobby
, opposed to rate legislation, is Sam
uel Spencer, head of the Southern
railway monopoly.
At the head of the opposition il
the senate committee dealing will
the rate bill is Foraker, attorney
legislative jobber and railway con
solidator, rich with the fees O
steam and street railway corpora
tons.
Street Railways His Clients.
In Cincinnati Foraker's faithful
service to corporate interests frs
attracted attention when he pre-
l cured for the odious street railwa
company of that city a reversal c
a decree by the supreme court c
, the state.
The statute books of Ohio teeI
with laws drawn with a view {
giving gas, traction, steam raj
, roads and other corporate interest
advantage over the people. Their