The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-09-23
Hearst charges
MEET A DENIAL
ACCUSATION IS THAT FORAKER
TOOK STANDARD OIL CASH
AS A LAWYER,
SENATOR WAS NOT AN
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
Investigation Of Court Archives by
Associated Press Reveals Condi.
tions-ArchboId Of Company Makes
Statement.

tIons-Archbold of Company Make.
Statement.
Columbus, O., Sept. 19.-Unitet
States Senator J. B. Foraker was moi
an attorney of record in any OF the
standard Oil cases tried in the Ohio
courts, according to the Associated
Press, which conducted an investiga
ton.
| The first cases were filed in the at
torney generals office in 1882 and
were carried along through various
courts for more than 20 years. Ac
cording to the records in the attorney
| generals office, the attorneys of rec
ord In 1899 and 1900, the dates of the
cases against the Standard and it's sub
slolary companies, the attorneys who
TOOK part in the legal battles were
M. Il. Keith, S. G. r. Dodd, and Joseph
H. Choate of New York and Virgil p,
Kline of Cleveland, o. In number
OF the earlier cases only Keith and
Kline were the attorneys of record,
out later on, when the fight became
the thlckest Choate and Dodd entered
the case and their services were given
to the company until after the case
was carried to the highest courts
None Knew of Connection.
None of the attorneys who were
employed in the attorney generals Of
nee knew anything about any connec-
ton of Senator Foraker with the
Standard Oil Company Company, as
he never appeared before any courts
or made, any pleas for the company
In their legal battles.
yet said Smith w. Bennett, as
sistant attorney general, Foraker
may have been the power behind the
throne and may have been giving le-
gal advice and looking up similar
cases in other courts for citation in
the fight of the Standard Oil companv
in Ohio"
The same official stated that he was
employed most of the time with At
torney General Monnett in his con.
tests through the various courts with
the Standard, and had his first time to
hear Foraker make any arguments or
any of the various hearings.
1T is news to us ALL" said this
attorney, ito hear that Senator For
aker was employed as an attorney in
these fights
How Statement Came.
Smith w. Bennett of the attorney
generals office stated Friday that
the statement read by Mr.. Hearst at
the meeting was given by him about
ten days ago and was secured by
James ID. Dorrance of New York, who
represented the New York American.
Mr.. Bennett stated that he had moth
ing to add to what had already been
SAID. When asked about the letters
alleged to have been written to Sena.
tor Foraker by John D. Archbold, he
said he never knew of such a letter
being written before. In reading the
letter he said that the reference to
him in the letter which referred to
the experiences and impressions of
Archbold were probably secured when
he put Archbold through severe
cross examination at the Hoffman
house in New York in 1899, when, as
an attorney for the state of Ohio, he
was assisting in conducting the cases
against the Standard Oil Company.
ArchboId HurIs a Charge.
New York, Sept. 19-John D. Arch
bold, of the Standard Oil Company,
made the following statement Fri
day:
Such correspondence and relations
as I may have had years ago with
Senator Foraker were entirely proper
and legitimate. If Mr.. Hearst had
come to Mr.. Archbold direct it would
probably have cost him less to secure
copies of Mr. Archbold's correspond
ence than for Mr.. Hearst to have eth
er employed or dealt with thieves.
Mr.. Archbold characterizes Mr..
Hearst's statements regarding an al
legged attempt to bribe Ex-Attorney
General Monnett of Ohio as pure fic-
ton and says they were answered and
exploded long ago. AS to the state
ments alleging relations between Gov.
Haskell of Oklahoma, and the Stand.
ard Oil Company and contributions
through him or anyone else to the
Democratic campaign fund, there is
not shadow of truth in them. Mr.
Hisgen's insinuations about burning
his plant are absurd and unworthy of
notice.