The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-10-02
ADMINISTRATION AND TAFT
TAKEN TO TASK.
BRILLIANT SENATOR DEFENDS
HIS REcoRDs-oPENs UP THE
BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR, POUR
ING HOT SHOT INTO RoosE-
VELT-DoES NOT WANT TO
HURT PARTY, BUT WILL PRO-
TECT HIS GOOD NAME.

Senator Joseph Benson Foraker,
who has been the subject of attack
by William R. Hearst and President
Roosevelt, has given out statement
defending his course in the Standard
Oil charges.
Senator Forakers statement, which
had been eagerly awaited, created a
tremendous stir throughout the State,
and it was claimed by his friends that
it would bring back to him many Of
his supporters who had wavered in
their loyalty in face of the repeated
attacks of the past week
Senator Foraker's statement, in
part, follows:
"The President commences his stae-
ment connected with the publication of
Judge Taft's letter with bitter ar
raignment of me because of Mr..
Hearsts charges, which he appears to
have accepted as fully proved as soon
as made. He does not wait for proof
or explanation, nor accept the same
when offered.
fMr. Hearst's charges are not sim
ply that | was in the employment or
the Standard Oil Company and that |
was paid for my services, but that
was secretly in that employment for
illegitimate purposes, and that the
money | received was paid as compen-
sation for improperly influencing leg
islation by Congress in conflict with
and in violation of my official duties.
"He read a number of letters and
made certain comments calculated, II
unanswered or unexplained, to create
the belief that his charges were true.
"That I was employed by the COM
pany was never concealed or denied.
On the contrary such employment was
we'll known at the time to all con-
cerned. Only few days ago ex-Attor-
ney-General Monnett who was prose
cutting the proceedings against the
Standard Oil Company at the time,
stated. in public interview, that
told him at the time that | had been
retained by the company.
"If employed and rendering services,
presumably was compensated.
"In announcing, therefore, the mere
fact that I was employed by the COM
pany and showing that received pay
ments on that account, no information
was impaired by Mr.. Hearst and no
offense was established, for it re-
mained that such employment and
payment might be entirely proper
and legitimate.
Under all the circumstances an eX-
planation was required, and in former
statements I made such explanation,
by showing that my employment was
confined to the affairs of the company
in Ohio and it's reorganization after
the trust was dissolved by order of our
Supreme Court, and that my employ
ment had no relation in the slightest
degree to anything in which the Fed
eral Government was then interested,
or with respect to which the Congress
was then legislating, or at that time
proposing to legislate, and that the
employment was ended long before
the company was made the subject Of
any special attention in Congress, and
longer still before it was attacked in
the Federal courts or proceeded
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Government; and, further, that the
employment was not to defend the
company against charges Of violation
of the laws of Ohio or the United
States, or the orders of any of the
Courts, but only to assist in so execut-
ing the orders of the Courts and so
recognizing as to conform to all laws,
state and national, and to fully COM
ply with all the orders Of the Courts
that had been made against 1t.
EFF my statements in this behalf are
4 true they make a complete defense
y against Mr. Hearst's charges and all
deductions therefrom Of improper con-
duct unless the ethics involved have
been radically changed from what