The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-07
NO APOLOGIES SAYS
FRANK B. KELLOGG
His Professional Career Not
As the Democrats
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NOT STANDARD ATTORNEY.
NEITHER HAS HE ExAcTEp AS A
LOBBYIST FOR ANYBODY-ToO
BUSY TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL
CHARGES HE SAYS.

Chicago. ILL.,, Oct. TT have no
apologies to make for my professional
career | am confident the American
people are not interested in my law
practice. | take it they are interested
in the great economic and political
questions now before the public and
that this election will be settled on
those issues
Frank B. Kellogg, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Minnesota
and special attorney for the govern
ment in the Standard Oil case and
trust busting proceedings, made the
foregoing a part of his answer to
charges against him issued from Demo
cratic national headquarters.
He was called a lobbyist for the
steel trust, the beef trust, the sleeping
car trust, the express companies, and
the railroad companies
He is also reputed as counsel for the
Standard Oil company in Minnesota"
said the charges, which profess to rest
| largely upon the word of George S.
Lotus, OF ST. Paul.
Accuser a Defeated Rival.
Mr.. Kellogg, being in Chicago, gave
out an answer to this latest Democratic
echo of the Haskell affair." saying that
he supposed his turn had been reached
in the general campaign of PERSONAL
ties. His answer follows:
Il have seen the statement made by
George S. Lotus of st. Paul, and pur-
porting to come from the Democratic
national committee. 1t is full of enron
eous statements and insinuations. The
people of Minnesota know Mr. Lotus
and know me. l have practiced law
there thirty years, and, with a full
knowledge of my professional and bus
mess connections, and in opposition to
Mr.. Lotus, they elected me delegate to
the Republican national convention in
1904, and member of the national COM
mittee, and reelected me to head the
Minnesota delegation at the national
convention of 1908, and also reelected
me to the national committee.
Il am not holding public office, mol
seeking it, and as a practicing lawyer
1t Is not my privilege but my duty te
take cases, as only | have done, fol
large corporations and small ones, fol
rich men and poor men. | consider
it an honor that l have been thus EN-
ployed, as also | consider it the great
est professional honor that represent
| cd ho in he
case, and now represent the govern
ment in the case against the STANDARD
Oil company, now being tried; in the
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific case
and in the suit against Mr.. Hartman
leave it to the people Of this countr,
whether l have performed my duty
or not.
He Never Has Been Oil Lawyer.
''Mr. Lotus and the democratic ma
tional committee have included il
their statement some corporations
which l never represented, and hav,
omitted many which I have represent
ed. If it will give them any satisfac
ton l will try and furnish them an &C
curate list.
Neither | nor my firm have eve
been attorney for the Standard Oh
company in Minnesota or any othe
place.
Neither | nor any member of m,
firm have ever appeared for or beef
, attorney or lobbyist for the Pullman
company, the so-called Sleeping Ca
Trust to which they refer.
Il did not come fresh from the pres
, tige of victory over the Standard Oh
company before Judge Lands in Chi
; cago to take the generalship of tn
steel trust forces in it's battle for tn
$ destruction of labor unionism on tn
D iron range l had nothing to do witt
the trial before Judge Lands; and
1 did not take charge of the strike re
: ferred to.
. Lobbyist for No Company.
= Il have never been a lobbyist TO
: anybody and am not now. hav
3 made arguments before courts, raj
: way commissions, and occasionally be
fore legislative committees of Mime
sofa, as all attorneys properly do.
Il am too busily engaged in tryin
i the antitrust case against the Stand
ard Oil company to keep track of al
: the charges and countercharges O
this kind
National Chairman Frank H. Hitch
u cock is expected to come to Chicag
u headquarters today and to remain
here until the end of the week.