The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-11
.FORAKER SAYS HE'S NOT
 AT WAR WITH PRESIDENT
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 "The time has not yet come, and nor body knows that better than the presi- dent himself, when dead lines can be drawn in debate for anybody to ob- serve nor has the time come when any real man would respect them if they were drawn.
 "So far as I am personally concern ed, l shall always speak with malice i toward none but according to my con- victions whenever and wherever l may have occasion to speak at all"
 Mr Foraker characterized as a "sort of companion piece published state ment that the president to his friends has named as members of the combina- tion to do him up for his attitude to- ward Wall street E. H. Hartman, J. B. Foraker and John D. Rockefeller.
 In view of this publication" said MT. Foraker, T trust l may without impropriety say that until 1t was given out at Washington a few days ago, never heard of any combinations or trust, or conspiracy to oppose the pres ident In anything much less did ever hear of the five million dollar conspir- acy of which have heard so much of during the last week"
 T trust I may be pardoned for going l farther, and saying l never saw John D. Rockefeller but once in my life, and that was twenty years ago or more when I was governor of Ohio. "Mr Hartman I have seen oftener have seen him three tlmes-twce at the White house; the last time as an honored guest at the wedding ceremo- nies of the presidents daughter. On neither of these occasions did I have any conversation with him.
 "The only other time that l ever saw him was to meet him at dinner party given by Senator and Mrs Depew, where Speaker Cannon and his daugh- ter, Senator Spooner and his wife, Sem ator Elkins and his wife, anl many oth- CTS were present.
 Except only the brief conversation of the evening in the presence of all this company, I never communicated with him directly or indirectly on any subject whatever.
 T call attention to all this with par ticulartyso that at the outset such, wild, reckless, crazy stories may be put into the class of campaign literature where they properly belong.
 But these stories are but samples of many others. all of which taken togeth- CT seem to have for their object the dis sen1ination of the idea that am at war with the policies of President Roose- welt.
 "No man evNc occupied the White I house who has been identified with so many legislative measures as President Roosevelt He is tireless worker He is constantly doing, or causing to be done, something of great importance, This is true not only as to domestic but also as to foreign affairs He has been president since September, 19o1 almosta six years.
 During all that time have support ed all measures that have come before the senate of the United States for consideration with which he was in any way identified, except only three.
 ulltlUu Nibl ullli 1io tO JoAht hNdtN' hood for New Mexico and Arizona, n- sisting that they should not be forced into the union as one state, unless a majority of the citizens of each terri tory might so vote. The proposition favored was adopttel by congress, ant the people of the territories voted against joint statehood That was 6 proposition about which men might well differ There was no occasion fol any bitterness of feeling in connection with it's consideration; and there was none on my part, and l never heard that there was any on the part of the president.
 ''I was unable also to agree with tl president as to conferring the rate mak ing power upon the Interstate Com merce commission, as provided in thu Hepburn law, passed at the first ses sion of the 59th congress. I was not op posed to that proposition, however, be cause did not want governmental con trol and supervision of railroads en gagged in interstate commerce. for
 was among the first to advocate such measure, but because 1 thought tn, Hepburn law in that particular wa both unconstitutional and unnecessary and that it was a long and serious stel in the wrong direction as a matter O public policy.