The Glenwood post., 1908-09-26
President in Pungent Reply to Bryan
Gives Conclusive Proof Of HaskeIpS
Connection with Standard Oil
CALLS BRYAKs THEORIES CH|MER|cAL

protect the interests of great cor
poration against the law. 1t has been
suggested on his behalf that, after all,
he did not favor the Standard Oil com
pany, but merely the Prairie Oil and
Gas company. This claim is disposed
of by the testimony of the Standard
l'Oil company itself, taken In the latter
part of 1907 in the suit now pending
before the United States court at ST.
Loui' against the Standard Oil com.
pany. In this testimony the Standard
Oil company, upon being required by
the government to put in a list of all
companies in which it held stock, OF
in which its subsidiary companies hello
stock, reported among the others the
| Prairie Oil and Gas company, total
capital $l0,000,000 of which the Ma
tional Transit s portion was 5000, 800,
and Furthermore it appears that the
National Transit company has a cap
ital stock of $25 5,455, 200. of which the
]
/ Standard Oil company owned $25,45l,
$50. In other words this Prairie Oil
and Gas company was owned, all eN
ecpt $500 by the National Transit com
| pany and this National Transit com
/ pany was owned all except about So,
$50 by the Standard OH company.
Taft and Bryan Contrasted.
"Now contrast your action in thi,
case of Governor Haskell with MI
to the denomination of Senator For
aker, as set forth in his letter of Jul,
20, 1907, which j quoted in my state
ment 1t was a matter of common
notoriety about Senator Foraker, as i
has long been n matter of common
notoriety about Governor Haskell, tina
he was the defender and supporter o
certain great corporate interests an'
therefore, hostile to the policies 70
which the administration has stood
There was no such convincing proc
against Senator Foraker at that time
however, as there was against Gov
ernor Haskell, when as you say he wa
with your approval made treasurer o
your campaign committee.
"But Mr.. Taft refused to be part.
to the denomination of Sentaor For
aker, even though it was representa-
that only thus could he advance hi
own interests, showing by actual deed
and that his words were true when h
said
+" Il do not care for the presidenc
if it has to come by compromise wit
anyone on a matter of principle
o ''With n hundred fold clear
o er evidence before you as to
o the connection of Gov. Haskell
. with the Standard Oil company
o than Mr.. Taft then had as to
o the connection of Senator For
. aker with any corporation, you
. nevertheless have secured Gov.
. Haskell as chairman of the COM
o mittee to write the platform on
o which you stand, and put him
. in as treasurer of your cam
o paign committee.
"'Let me add that Gov. Haskell 3 u'
ter unftness for any public positio
! of trust, or for association with II
man anxious 20 make an appeal on
moral issue to the American poop!
has been abunlantly shown, wholly II
respective of this oction of his connct
tion nth the Standard Oil interests.
Unfit 10 Hold Place.
Gas an American citizen, who prize
his Amcricanism and his citizel
ship far above any question @
partizanship, 1 regard it as a scar
dal and a disgrace that Gov. Haske
, should be connected with the manag'
+ ment of an national campaign. / hav
not the space in this letter to dscu'
, Gov. Haskell's conduct, for instance,