The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
The Paramount BIunder.


charges instigated by Mr.. Hearst and exploited by
President Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft
He announces more in sorrow than in anger that
if, in making this defense, l have said ANYTHING
that will work the slightest injury to the republican
party, shall regret it,; and then he charges Mr.
Hearst with plain lying, Mr. Taft with having con-
sorted with Standard Oil magnates and Mr.. Roose-
welt with bearing the burden of guilty conscience
All this while expressing undyng affection for the
party of which Taft Roosevelt and Foraker are dis
tnguished members and for which Hearst is the in
comparable Sherlock Holmes.
When Mr.. Hearst aided and abetted by Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft, placed Mr.. Foraker in a
position where he must explain at length, in de-
Tense of reputation and family name, they cast
boomerang that returned like winged nemesis and
shattered the shields of its projectors
Whether truthfully or untruthfuy it does not
matter much for immediate uses, Mr. Foraker
shows by supplying implying the missing links in
the ArChbold correspondence and correcting its chro
biological sequence that the business he had with the
Standard Oil company was purely professional and
that it ceased before the company became OBJ
ect of attack by the government
Upon this vital point, Mr.. Foraker explains
when | accepted the employment of the Standard
Oil company in 1899 it was not foreseen by me and
probably not by anybody else, that it would become
the object of federal legislation of federal prose-
cuon action of any kind and that employment
existed when the company decided to reorganize I'M
der the law of New Jersey which was before anything
OF that nature occurred
THAT | not in the employment of the
pany after the services have mentioned were rem
dered and that such employment did not afterwards
influence to favor the company in legislation, is
shown by the part [ took IN the enactment of the
Elkins law, approved February 10, 1908 Under this
statute the attorney general has brought and caused
to be brought all the prosecutions against the Stand
ard Oil company of which have read much,
including the case in which Judge Lands imposed the
fine of $29O00,0O0.
Through the publication of letters that sup
pressed by Mr.. Hearst if they included in the
spois of his arcenous quest Mr.. Foraker shows that
he was asked by Mr.. Archbo1d to accept a retainer
from the Standard Oil company in 1906 in the de-
tense of that company in some expected Ohio 1iti-
CATION Mr. Forakers reply is set forth, under date
of May 9, 1906, and in it he explains that his time
is fully occupied by official duties, the letter
Guiding:
On this account we'll my relations to the
public service, cannot accept a retainer in the
urgency named, as [ would be glad to do if it
otherwise.
After presenting his version of his relations with
he oil trust Mr. Foraker abandons the defensive and
assumes the offensive making an assault directly
pon Mr.. Taft whom he accuses of intimacy with oil
rust attorneys and glass trust magnate. Upon this
ranch of the subject, Mr.. Foraker said:
"Only month ago, when Mr.. Taft visited Mid
lie Bass and Toledo he was the guest of c. T. Lewis,
the late firm of Doyle & Lewis, who have been the
ttorneys of the Standard Oil for many years. He
-aveed on the yacht of Mr.. Richardson, promi-
ent magnate of the glass trust and when travelling
rom Hot Springs to Toledo, on his way to Middle
ass he rode in the private car of one of the Off
ers of the road of which also Doyle Lewis at
,rneyS.
"When, three years ago, the president had occasion
appoint United States district judge for the
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