Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-19
HEARST EXPLoDES
ANOTHER BOMB
This Time Okla
horna Governor is
the Target
A TOOL OF THE STANDARD
Haskell Brands Him a Liar
Fresh Charge Against
Senator Foraker.

Chicago, Sept. 19-In face of the
assertion Of w. R. Hearst made in st.
Louis last night, that an affidavit sign.
ed by F. 8. Monnett, former attorney
general, of Ohio, identifying Governor
Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, ae
having been a party to the Standard
Oil company's alleged negotiations,
Governor Haskell today declared that
the statement was absolutely false.
"The assertion that l had anything
to do with the Standard Oil company,
is absolutely false," said Mr.. Haskell.
"On the day the affidavidts are said
to have been signed, September 12,
1908, Monnett was in Oklahoma City
and on that day he made speech in
which he exonerated me from all con.
nection with the Standard OIL affair.
1t is unbelievable that any man would
make such speech. and on the same
day deliberately sign an affidavit stat.
ing the contrary thing. There is no
truth in the charges"
Hearst alleged that Haskell had been
in the employment Of the Standard
Oil company.
Haskell Tries to Squirm Out Of It.
Washington, Sept 19-When the at
tention of w. G. Haskell, formerly
United States deputy marshal at
Cleveland, Ohio, and now sealec of
weights and measures for the District
of Columbia, was called to the stare.
ment of Governor Charles N. Haskell,
Of Oklahoma, that 1t was he whom w.
R. Hearst referred to in his Columbus
speech of Thursday night, as having
been retained by the Standard OIL
company, Haskell emphatically declar'
ed that Governor Haskell was mistak.
en-. He denied ever having had any re-
lations with the Standard OIL company,
either in a business or social way, with
any of its officials. He declared he
did not have even an acquaintance
with any official or member of the
Standard Oil company. He could not
recall ever having been connected with
a case involving the Standard OIL com.
pany while he was marshal of the
United States Court for the northern
district of Ohio, from 1892 to 1896.
Foraker Makes Another Statement.
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 19.-As part
of the purchase price in an unsuccess.
full deal for the ownership of the Ohio
State Journal at Columbus, the draft
for $4,000 mentioned in letter writ.
ten by John D. Archbold of the Stand.
ard Oil company, made public at st.
Louis last night by William R. Hearst,
was received by Senator Foraker, and
upon a failure of the attempt to buy
the paper the draft was returned and
the incident forgotten, is the way Sen
ator Foraker explains this transaction
in a statement given to the Associated
Press here today. He further declares
in his statement that no one at any
time ever paid him cent or even sug.
gested such payment in consideration
for anything he might do as public
man.
Taft Keeping Out Of Fight.
Still maintaining his determination
not to be drawn into the Hearst-For.
aker controversy, Judge w. H. Taft
spent the greater portion of the morn.
ing working on the speeches he is to
make throughout the West. Colonel
Daniel Ransdell, sergeant-at-arms of
the United States Senate, will be in
charge of the Taft special train.