Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-09-25
FORAKER NOTORIOUS.
Ohio SENATOR IN BAD Light
JUST NOW.
Expose by Hearst Makes 1t Impossible
for Him to Take Stump for Taft
He Admits the Letters from Standard
Oil Company to Him Are True but
Claims He had a Right to Retainer.

There appears to be no reason to
doubt that the letters from John d.
Archbold of the Standard Oil company
to Senator Foraker of Ohio, read by W.
R. Hearst in his speech at Columbus,
Ohio, recently, were genuine. Mr.. For
afer has practically admitted their au-
thenticity, defending himself by saying
that at the time the letters were writ
ten, and in which mention was made of
enclosures of $4,000 and $14, 500 from
Archbold to Foraker, he was in the
employ of the Standard Oil company
IN legal capacity.
The letters referred to certain cor
poration bills in congress in which
there were 60 Objectionable " and "out-
rageous" clauses, as to which Mr..
Archbold said to Mr.. Foraker: "I
hope there will be no difficulty in kill
ing Them Those letters were writ
ten in March and April, 1900. At st.
Louis Friday night Mr.. Hearst re-
turned to the attack by reading an
other letter from Archbold to Foraker
dated February, 1902, enclosing a GER
tificate of deposit for $4,000, Gin ac-
cordance with our understanding.
None of the letters with these large
enclosures contain any reference to
litigation in the courts in which Mr.
Foraker might be acting in legal ca
pacity. They allude to bills in con-
gress, to which he was asked to give
his attention. They show an intimate
relationship between Mr.. Foraker and
the Standard Oil trust.
The correspondence sustains the
public impression that this relationship
in some form has continued, and that
Senator Foraker's long fight on Presi-
lent Roosevelt was not disinterested.
Archbold's Letters.
John D. Archbold of the Standard
Oil company, whose letters to Senator
Foraker enclosing large sums of mon
ey were read at Columbus and st.
Louis meetings by w. R. Hearst, says
that eff Mr.. Hearst had come to Mr.
Archbold direct it would probably have
cost him less to secure copies of the
correspondence than for Mr.. Hearst
to have either employed or dealt with
thieves" The Standard Oil company
is not in the habit of disclosing its op-
erations, particularly when of dis
creditable nature.
These very letters show that an at
tempt was being made to corrupt a
United States senator.
Foraker Not to Speak.
Senator J. B. Foraker has eliminated
himself from participation with Judge
Taft in the rally of the National
League of Republican clubs held in
Cincinnati.
Still Run for Senator.
Cincinnati, o., Sept. %. - United
States Senator Joseph B. Foraker has
cancelled all of his speaking engage
ments in the presidential campaign. In
written request to National Chairman
Frank II. Hitchcock he asked to be re-
lieved from the appointments which had
been arranged for him by the national
speakers bureau and in a communica-
tion to State Chairman Williams of the
Ohio republican committee he made the
same request as to the engagements
which had been arranged for him in this
state.
AS to Senator Foraker senatorial
candidacy the senator IS position is as
follows: Senator Foraker will leave
the selection of his successor to the
legislature, but will do all in his power
to see that republican legislature is
elected
Senator Foraker has told his friends
that he should at the proper and con
venient opportunity make a speech in
answer to Hearst s charges and in de.
Tense of himself and then should cam.
paign the state in behalf of his sena.
torial candidacy, but under the jurisdic.
tion of no political committee.
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Valdez, Alaska, Sept. 3O.-For the