The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-10-09
CAUGHT HIM AGAIN
TEDDY TAKEN TO TASK BY
JUDGE PRIEST.

Who Says Roosevelt's Friend and
Not Him Was Standard Oil Attor-
ney in Missouri.
In his last rejoinder to Mr.. Bryan,
in the debate growing out of the
case of Governor Haskell, President
Roosevelt responded to Mr.. Bryan S
challenge to name a single official
connected with law-defying corpo-
ration" who had declared or will
declare that he is supporting Mr.
Bryan, by quoting from a st. Louis
paper an interview with Judge Henry
Priest, of St. Louis, who, according
to the President, represented the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, the
Western subsidiary to the Standard
Oil Company in which he stated that
ne would support Bryan.
Judge Priest has taken, notice of
the matter in an interview in The
st. Louis Republic, and his state
ment illuminates little more Mr..
Roosevelt's recklessness of his own
exposure when ne lays about among
his enemies. Judge Priest says that
he is not nor has he ever been an
official of the Wate ers-Pierce company
nor or any other oil company. In
1904, he states, his firm was retain
ed by H. C. Pierce to represent his
minority interest in the company
IN suit instituted by the ATTORNEY
General of Missouri against the Stan
dard Oil Company, as the holder
of the majority interest in the Wa
ters-Pierce Company. The Standard
Oil interest in the suit. he states
was represented by the firm OF
Finkelnberg, Nagel & Kirby.
While the suit was pending, says
Judge Priest, President Roosevelt
appointed 4hr. Finkelnberg Unit,:l
States district Judge Mr.. Nagel, con.
tinuing as senior member of the firr;
ard representing the Standard Oils
interests, is now RepuDncan na,ionrl
com mmitteeman for ----souri and /:
engaged actively in lue management
of Judge Taft's campaign Tor u..e
Presidency Senator Foraker has
pointed out that Judge Taft recon-
mended to the President the appoin.
ment of a Standard Oil attorney 10
Ohio to the Federal bench, and Judge
Priest has now shown thatsthe PresI-
dent actually appointed an oil trust
representative to the benc.. in Mis-
souri,, while a suit against the com
pany, which he was, defending, W is
pending, and that another member oi
the same firm is and has been -,
long time prominent In Republican
party affairs in Missouri.
The Charleston Evening Post says
for every remote affiliation with the
trusts Mr.. Roosevelt has attempte;i
to show against the Democratic party
there has been uncovered hundred
fold greater and closer association
with the Republic n party. Even iI
the case of Governor Haskell it was
shown that the protection of the
Standard Oil which Mr.. Roosevelt
cited against the Governor as proof
of his control by such interests, was
originally instituted by the President
himself, during the territorial regime
in Oklahoma. In the very natur*
| of things it necessarily follows that
such developments must result from
an exposition Of the trust situatio:
in it's, relation to public affairs, fol
the Republican party is and has been
for years, and especially during the
trust growing period, in almost un'
disputed control of the country's az
fairs, and whatever advantages arc
enjoyed by these great corporations
against the public interests are du@
to the complacency of the party II
power.
This is so inevitable and so utter'J
beyond dispute that it is utterl!
futile and fatuous for the Preside1'
or any other protagonist of Judge
Taft to attempt to argue it otherwise
but it is peculiarly brazen in Mr.
Roosevelt, who has had intimate as'
sociations with trust magnates anC
lifted laws for their benefit and ap'
! pointed their agents to high OF
fees, who is, in fact, surrounded with
the representatives Of such interests
and obligated to them enormously :ol
financial support to his candidates
But Mr.. Roosevelt has welded alb
solute authority so long and has
become so accustomed to have his
lightest word prevail against TIC
most solemn truths from other scurc,
es. that he has thrown himself into
the campaign melee without regard
to consequences, and he Can not yet
understand how it is that he is GOV,
cred with wounds If he continues
his participation in the campaign
at close range the Roosevelt legend
is likely to be hacked to n'cc'S by
the encmics he is kicking uD from
every bush.
Quits the Party.
W. G.. Cronemeyer, of Mackesport
Pa. known for the past third of