Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-26
THE IDEAL
HANDY LETTER WRITER
Continued from Page y.

DolQ was extremely duAlOuS " nave d
friend named as Democratic senator
if a Democrat had a chance to succeed
Senator Faulkner. John P. Elkins, a
lawyer of Lancaster, Pa, seems tc
have written Mr.. Archbold in October
1904, asking Mr.. Archhold to help his
friends in the regular Republican or
ganization of that district in the fight
with an independent organization, add
ing that the regulars were Mr.. Arch
bold's friends.
| Haskell Steel Trust Aid?
Before reading these letters Mr.
Hearst got after Governor Haskell
again while the audience roared it's ap
prevail and set the air ringing will
cowbells and all sorts of shouts. Mr.
Hearsts contribution to the Hask Il
literature was an affidavit in suit
brought by one John P. Bailey in Put
nam county, Ohio, against the Illinois
Steel company for $4,000, that being
the amount of the fee Haskell should
have received, it was alleged, for act
ing as attorney for the steel concern
in the formation of the Federal Ste :
company Haskell having assigned the
claim to Bailey This was Tie pegin
ming of the United States Steel cor
poration
'In the Court of Common Pleas o.
! Putnam county, Ohio, John P. Bailey
exlaw partner of Haskell's, sued the
Illinois Steel company and the follow
ing paragraphs are extracted from the
complaint:
Plaintiff AYERS that within and
during the year commencing July
/, 1897, one Charles N Haskell,
who was during said time an at
torney at law at the special in
stance and request OF said defend
ant the Illinois Steel company
acted as agent and attorney for
the said defendant Ghe Illinois
Steel company, md about the ac-
QUESTION by said defendant Of GER
tain property, and in the forma-
ton and organization Of the Fed
eral Steel company "a part of the
steel trust), and in the sale by
the said defendant Of certain
stocks to the said Federal Steel
company, and in the sale and
transfer by said defendant to said
Federal Steel company of certain
properties.
"And plaintiff AYERS that said
services of said Charles N. Has
kell rendered to said defendant by
him as aforesaid were and are of
the amount and value of fifty
thousand dollars ($50,O00) and
were and are but fraction of 1
per cent Of the profits realized by
said defendant from said services,
and that said charges, fees and
compensations are reasonable and
just.
plaintiff AYERS that afterward
said Charles N. Haskell duly sold,
assigned and transferred to this
plaintiff all his said claims, and
demands against said defendant,
and this plaintiff is now the OWE
er and holder thereof"
Mr.. Hearst here read the official at
testation to the foregoing.
Haskell Defends OIL.
so it appears" he continued. mo
from my assertion, but from cour
records, that Mr.. Haskell is not onl
Standard Oil tool and crooked raj
road promoter, but steel trust j
ganizer.
mo wonder he can get money TO
Mr.. Mack, and no wonder Mr. Brya
and Mr.. Kern do not want to relin
guish SO valuable campaign treas
urer.
Before l read you a few more LEI
, tiers regarding the Standard Oil
want to read you Mr.. Haskell's opior
ion of that corrupt corporation e2
pressed publicly in a speech at a bar
quet at Tulsa, Okla. on Feb. 20, 1908
"'My Friends We often hear-fO
want, perhaps, of some clearer though
we often hear a speaker ass,4il tn
Standard Oil company. l sometime
think that the speaker has merel
heard the name mentioned and doe
not know what the purpose of tn
company is or it's plan of business
The Standard Oil company has don
wonders in the United States. TIL
r Standard Oil company, by the apple;
' ton of good sense to it's business,
the application of genius and di
coyery of the component parts of th
raw material has made oil product
reach values that were never dreame
! of a few years ago.
; Fellow members Of the Indepe,
dence party, I think that we all kno
more about the purpose of the Star
Z ard Oil company and it's plan of bus
ness than we did a few years ago.
:, 1--WE all know that the Standal
s Oil company has done wonders in Il
h United States, Or at least in tt
United States senate.
1--WE all know that the Standal
i Oil company, by the application
g genius and discovery has develope
8 some pretty raw material in IL
a organization of the Democratic part
= Senator M'Laurin Next.
l. "As example of methods that we
lnapar dissansd of few years ago a