The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-30
Alden Freeman Quotes From
Com municatiOnS to
Charles Il. Bloomfield.
MURPHY AND THE TRUSTS
Standard Oil Executive Commit
teeman Sewers Relations With
Freeman on Account of OPP.
position to Republican
Candidate.

In a noon speech delivered today by
Alden Freeman, chairman of the Inde-
pendent Citizens. party, at the plant of
the American Transformer Company, in
Miller street, he took occasion to show
sympathetic relations between the STAN
dard Oil Company and J. Franklin Fort,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
and told how, as a result OF his crusade in
opposition to Mr.. Fort, he had lost tht
friendship Of F. @, Barstow, OF Easi
Orange, a Standard OIL man.
Mr.. Freeman also read excerpts from
two letters received by Charles H. Bloom
field, of Metuchen, from Governor e. C.
Stokes which would indicate, after the
speech that Mr.. Fort made last night in
New Brunswick, that somebody has made
a mistake or has a poor memory
Mr.. Fort stated in the speech yesterday
that he had never spoken to Governor
Stokes, directly or indirectly about the
signing of the Raritan River bridge bill
of last year.
to Mr.. Bloomfield, as read by Mr.. Free
man. were as follows, the first being in a
letter dated June u, 1906. and the second
in one dated January rs of this year:
Judge Fort thinks this bill should be
signed.'
IT signed Senate bill No. 262 after con-
sultation with Judge Fort and the At
torney-General.'"
Mr.. Freeman also ridiculed the attitude
of the Republican party towards corpora
lions during the campaign, under State
Chairman Franklin Murphy, who, Mr..
Freeman recalled, in his message to the
Legislature Of 1908, made a strong defense
of the trusts. Incidently Mr.. Freeman
suggested that the mtssage to the Legis-
lature was in accordance with the wishes
and suggestions of the firm of j. Pierpont
Morgan & Company.
Mr.. Freeman told how he had recently
received from his former friend, F. @.
Barstow, who is a member of the executive
committee Of the Standard OIL Company,
a letter which served to indicate to him
that Mr.. Fort was persona grata with the
Standard OIL. The significant thing about
the letter, said Mr.. Freeman, was that Mr..
Barstow used to be a Democrat but had
evidently switched to a friend of his COM
pany.
Mr.. Freeman proceeded to read thelettei,
which was as follows:
October II, 1907.
M Alden Freeman. East Orange, N. j..
my Dear Sir-I I'm in receipt of your
abusive printed matter concerning Judge
Fort and will ask. II you please, that you
take my name from your mailing list.
II re gard the course you and a few
others are pursuing toward the Judge as
both cruel and contemplate. Yours truly,
"F. @. BARSTOW."
''The letter." said Mr.. Freeman, sar-
oastically. came from a sanitarium at
Watkins Glen, N. Y, where Mr.. Barstow
lac gone to ~recuperate after q strenuous
session with Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands, who imposed the fine Of $29, 900. 900
on the Standard Oil Company. which Mr..
Barstow was helping to defend.
'I don't know whether the Standard Oil
Company is putting up for Mr.. Fort
said Mr.. Freeman, but if 1t isn't, a
friend Of his is a friend of the trusts.
That friend of both is former Governor
Franklin Murphy.
HE put himself on recoar in a message
60 the Legislature in 1908. And now he
is managing the campaign for MI. Fort.
! think that indicates something regarding
the affiliations of the two men,"
There was a good crowd at the meeting.
the auditors being composed of working
men principally.