The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-26
Hearst Throwing Mud.

party to take him at his estimate, William Kan
dolph Hearst is throwing bad eggs at the party and
he has quite number of the over-ripe kind in his
basket
One of them recently went past the democratic
party and struck Senator Foraker square in the face
But this seems to have been part of the scheme,
for Hearst is not only attacking Mr.. Bryan, but is
trying to help Mr.. Taft
The smile that won't come off always deepens when
Mr.. Foraker begins to squrm and Mr.. Foraker did
little writhing when the Hearst detective bureau
produced some letters duplicating him with Standard
Oil transactions.
The letters were from John D. Archbold to the
Ohio and they enclosed, respectively $4,000
and $4,000 on behalf of the Standard Oil company.
Mr. Foraker admits that he received the letters and
the money but said first explanation that he was
employed in legal capacity by the oil trust and was
paid for his work, the any attorney would
have been paid
Mr. Foraker does not appear an attorney OF rec
ord in any of the Standard Oil cases, but charitable
minded persons admit that he might have been an
attorney behind the scenes long enough to have
earned the $4,000.
Mr. Foraker afterwards recalled from the dim and
misty past another transaction that might account for
the handling of the oil trust drafts. 1t related to the
purchase of newspaper, the Ohio State Journal at
Columbus for which he secured loan. The deal
fell through and the Standard Oil money
turned to Mr.. Archbod. This is Mr. Foraker re-
members after coaxing his memory and refreshing
it by the perusa of certain papers found at his
Washington home.
AS yellow journalist, Mr. Hearst has accustomed
himself to such transactions swipng the private
correspondence of business men and others and he
does not shrink from revelations that would be buried
bv more sensitive traffickers in character.
Speaking for the oil trust, John D. Archbold says:
If Mr. Hearst had come to Mr.. Archbold direct
it would probably have cost him less to secure copies
of Mr. Archbold's correspondence than for Mr.
Hearst have either employed or dealt with thieves
Up to the time of the appearance of Mr. Hearst in
the arena of national discussion the campaign
free from attacks upon the morals of individuals.
But the maevolent spirit of Mr.. Hearst impes him to
leave the issues and resort to mud throwing, and
there is hardly anyone in the country better suited to
the task he has imposed upon himself
He has an audience large one. His newspapers
form a chain across the continent and they
vindctive as their He will influence some
of his readers though probably the spirit of fair play
will prevent him from securing many converts to a
policy that smacks of the arts of the blackmailer
Mr. Hearst also made vague assault on Governor
Haskell, Of Oklahoma, treasurer of the democratic
national committee assuming that Mr.. Haskell was
once connected with the Standard Oil company its
agent meaning probably that he local dealer
in oil and had transactions with the trust, which
was the only source of supply.
He then alleges that when President Roosevelt be-
gan an action in the courts against the Standard Oil
company he drove it of the republican party and
into the democratic party, although he might we'll
have said so far as any evidence is concerned that
Rockefeller and his associates went into the party
that Mr. Hearst calls his own.
Upon the testimony of Mr. Hearst, the republican