The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-07
ROOsEVELT's OPPOSITION
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lv there was a vacancy in the office
of Assistant to the Attorney General.
which office was created to nave I'M
mediate supervision over trust busting.
He has served there for fully three
years and what there is about trust
smashing that Mr.. Purdy does not
know is hardly worth knowing. Dur
ing the past six or eight months he has
had supervision over the preparation
of civil and criminal suits against the
Standard Oil Company and has made
all the cases ready for the eye of the
Attorney General. He knows how to
get evidence, is aware what evidence
is necessary in a given case, and can
also get it into presentable form.
Accordingly, as Senator Foraker de-
clares to the country that the evidence
on which the President acted was in
sufficient, the President proposes to
have the evidence gathered in affidavit
form by an expert. He could not have
set more expert official at the work.
unless, perhaps, he wished to send one
of his own cabinet. Mr.. Purdy has
been travelling to Brownsville, Texas.
by the swiftest possible trains. He
will work with all the energy there
is in him. for the President wants the
evidence back here and ready for use
by January 3 next, which is the day
when Congress reassembles and when
Senator Foraker is expected to open
again with his legal rapid-fire bat
terieS.
FORAKER GETTING READY.
In the meantime Senator Foraker is
preparing himself for the clash. He
will have to fight singlehanded. Some
Senators will come to his aid, but In
the main he must rely upon himself.
He will hardly shrink from the test,
for he loves to fight. The Senate
probably has no lawyer able to cope
with him and that is decidedly his adj
vantage. But back of the President
and back of the Senators who support
him are trio of very astute lawyers
Secretaries Root and Taft and At
torney General Bonaparte. Their for
tunes are with the President in this
matter. 1t is to their interest, almost
as much as to the Presidents, to do
Senator Foraker good and hard. The
President is not a lawyer, although
he has acquired lot of legal aeumen
since he took up the trust cases. His
advisers, of course, can be depended
on to supply him with advice and
strategy in meeting the aggressive
Ohioan.
The spectacular part of the contro-
versy for time will be in the Senate.
But the fight will almost certainly be
transferred from that forum to an in
vestigation committee. Witnesses will
be summoned. Senator Foraker will
undoubtedly be at the table to examine
and cross-examine, and there will be
a struggle for the kernels of truth.
Captain "Bill'' Mcdonald, of the Texas
Rangers, who takes the President S
side of the affair, announces that he
would go forty miles out of his way
to be ross-examined by Senator For
aker. ''Bill' is a great character and
sharp of tongue. It would be a great
scene with Senator Foraker plying him
with questions and "Bill'' giving it
back to him with all the spirit of the
freedom loving Texan. The Senate IN
vestigating committee win almost GER
tainly call "Bill'' to go 1000 miles out
of his way by coming to Washington,