Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-01
OLD REPUBLICAN,
LEADERS SCARED
MILLION DOLLAR DEAL is Sc
VERELY CRITICISED
Exposure Of Standard OIL Deal and
Other Crooked Tactics Alarms
New Yorkers--cannon
snowsd Under
Especial to The Herald. /

NEW YORK, Oct. 81.-Democratic
leaders assert there is proof of the
bargain made between the Standard OIL
company and the Republican leaders
that the $2s,OOOO00- fine against the
Standard oil company will be forgot
ten in case Taft is elected.
This is confirmed by yelled editorials
recently appearing in influential Re-
publican papers dealing with the tech
nical side of the question of Standard
Oil rebates.
ut is not hard to put two and two
together In connection with the Rookie
feller declaration of faith" said a lead
ing New York Democrat today. "The
question with Rockefeller, as with Will
liam ]. Bryan is Shall the people rule 2
Rockefeller, however, wants It an
swered in the negative. He knows
there will be no letup in the campaign
against trust evils if Bryan is made
the next president.
''The Standard Oil company will not
worry about that $29,00O,00O with Re-
publican success, but with Bryan at
the head of the nation the fine and a
lot Of other things will make an un-
easy sleep for the trust magnates.
''I believe that back of RoekefelIer's 8
statement there is a substantial cash
contribution which is Influenced by i'm
portant things to be left undone pro-
vided the Republicans can control the
government four years more"
His statement expresses the general
feeling among Democrats.
The fact that the New York Evening
Post, one of the stanehest supporters
of Taft and Sherman, apparently has
deserted them at the critical moment,
as is evineed by the fact that today
it denounced the Republican parade as
a weak, apathetic and "canned" affair,
and admitted Taft has failed to carry
his issues to any prospect of victory,
has caused nothing less than conster-
nation in Republican ranks and sent
the hopes of the Democratic leaders,
which already were running high,
bounding into utmost optimisms
Change Disastrous
The change of front in the Post,
which is the most formidable turn that
possibly could have come into the New
York campaign, in view also of the be-
trayal of the fact that the Republican
leaders had made a deal with Rocke-
feller to 'ix'' the Standard Oil $29,-
O00,000 fine if Taft is elected, considered
with the revelation that practically all
the illegal trusts and combines, which
Roosevelt ostensibly has been fighting,
but which he has failed to convict, are
f1ocking TO the support of Taft, or Sc
cretely contributing vast sums to the
Republican campaign fund, are factors
grayely to be considered by the Re
publieans who, until recently. claimed
with confidence that Taft would be
elected, but who now are extremely
skeptical.
Everywhere Republicans look defeat
is staring them in the fact. Their best
leaders, including La Toilette, have
turned upon one another; Cannon is
being mlred down in the Indignation of
the W. c. T. u. and other prohibition
bodies and former Governor Black of
New York is on the stump criticising
Roosevelt, though he was expected to
go forth eulogizing him.
All this is more than the Republicans
can bear, which may explain in part
the extreme apathy of the Republican
parade in New York today, which was
a miserable frost" in every sense of
the word, though It was expected to
be the grandest affair in the history
of New York Republicanism.