The Washington bee., 1908-10-17

IhudSIlnging, unworthy of the lowest
ward-heeler in the corruptest muni-
cipal politics. He knew when SEN
ator Foraker was supporting his can
didacy in 1904, or his party knew at
that time, that Senator Foraker had
done legal work for the Standard oil
Company some years before; and the
fact that he did not then decline 10
receive Senator Foraker's suDnort
and did not then decline to recognize
Senator Foraker's worth in the coun-
ellis of his party is evidence to any
tair-minded man with as much sense
as one could push into a goose-quill
with a pegging awl that Mr.. Roose-
velt's real objection to Senator For
aker IS not due to his temporary at
torney-ship for the Standard Oil Com
pany, but IS due to something of much
more recent date, namely, his espou-
sal Of our cause. 1t is perfectly ap-
parent to any reflective mind that
both Mr. Roosevelt's and Mr.. Taft's
hostility toward Senator Foraker is
due to the latter's espousal Of our
cause when we needed a friend and
when, without his aid we would have
been utterly friendless at a trying
mdmeEk of our existence in this
country.
And further proof that Mr.. Taft's
and Mr. Roosevelt's objection to Sen
ator Foraker is not due to his tempo
rary attorneyship for a trust, many
years ago in 1899, is found in the fact
that the Taft-Roosevelt campaign in
this year of grace 1908, is being not
only financed but actually run, in
large part at least, by trust-magnates.
Senator Murray Crane, of Massachu-
sets, who was selected by Messx
Roosevelt and Taft as the chief ad-
wiser of Mr.. Frank H. Hitchcock,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, is known to be the head
of the Paper Trust; Mr.. Sheldon, the
Treasurer Of the Republican Nationa.
Committee with Messrs. Roosevelt
and Taft's approval is known to be a
director in any number of gigantic
trusts; and Mr.. Dupont, who was
but recently removed with a great
display of righteousness for bun
combe's sake, is known to be the
head of the Powder Trust; and vet
this same Mr.. DUPONT, with AIessrs.
Rooseyelt's and Taft's approval. was
put in charge of the Republican Ma
tional Committees Bureau of Speak
ers. 1t looks like shutting the stable
door after the horse is out. If Messrs.
Roosevelt and Taft were sincere and
honest in their assumed hostility to
trust-infiuences, why were these men
selected in the first place? They try
to make point against Mr.. Bryan
in that he did not ascertain all about
Gov. Haskell, of Oklahoma. before he
was allowed to be prominent in the
Democratic National Committee; and
yet; it turns out that Gov. Haskell
had, out of a sense of legal duty, only
protected a franchise which Presi-
dent Roosevelt had, out of a sense Of
political expediency, ordered to BE
granted to a trust But, even if the
objection urged against Mr.. Bryan
were well taken, in this respect, why
is it not equally true as to Messrs.
Roosevelt and Taft? Echo answers,
Why?
If the Negroes of this country have
not lost all of their good sense and
political sagacity, they will, to man,
march up to the polls all over this
great country on Nov. 3, 1908, and
vote for William Jennings Bryan
vote to down a covered foe, William
Howard Taft, and to avenge an out
rage upon an open friend, Joseph
Benson Foraker; for they must know
that the triumphant election of Mr..
Bryan will accomplish both of these
laudable purposes - and more: it
will put into the White House, man
who is and always has been clean,
honest, and fearless friend of the peo-
pie and all the people.
Washington, DC, Sept, 28, 1908.
Rev. S. L. Corrothers,
President.