The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-10-14
CAUGHT HIM AGAIN
TEDDY TAKEN TO TASK BY
JUDGE PRIEST.

Z JUDGE PRIEST.
Who Says Rooseyelt's Friend an
Not Him Was Standard Oil AttoE
ney in Missouri.
In his last reioinder to Mr.. Bryan
in the debate growing out of tn
case Of Governor Haskell, Presiden
Roosevelt responded to Mr.. Bryan
challenge to name a single offlcia
connected with law-defying corpo
ration" who had declared or will
declare that he is supporting Mr.
Bryan, by quoting from a St. LOU:
paper an interview with Judge Henry
Priest, Of St. Louis, who, according
to the President, represented thc
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, the
Western subsidiary to the Standard
Oil Company, in which he stated that
ne would support Bryan
Judge Priest has taken notice OF
the matter in an interview IN The
St. Louis Republic, and his state
ment illuminates little more Mr..
! Rooseyelt's recklessness of his own
exposure when he lays about amone
his enemies. Judge Priest says that
he Is not nor has he ever been an
official Of the Waters-Pierce' company
nor or any other oil company In
1904, he states, his firm was retain
ed by H. C. Pierce to represent his
minority interest," in the company
IN a suit instituted by the ATTORNEY
General of Missouri against the Stan
dard Oil Company, as the holder
of the majority interest in the Wa
ters-Pierce Company. The Standard
Oil interest in the suit, he states,
was represented by the firm Of
Finkelnberg, Nagel & Kirby.
While the suit was pending, says
Judge Pries-, President Roosevelt
appointed Mr. Finkelnberg Unit Il
States district Judge Mr.. Nagel, con-
tinuing as senior member of the fr~:
and representing the Standard Oils
interests, is now Repuu.4ca, naAouu
committeeman for ----souci and l.,
engaged actively in l.4e management
Of Judge Taft's campaign lot l-e
Presidency. Senator Foraker has
pointed out that Judge Taft recon-
mended to the President the appoint.
nent Of Standard Oil attorney n
Ohio to the Federal bench, and Judge
Priest has nov shown that the Pre;-
dent actually appointed an oil trust
representative to the benc- in Mis-
souri,, while suit against the con-
pany. which ne was defending, w,s
pending, and that another member of
the same firm IS and has been :,
long time prominent in Republican
party affairs in Missouri.
The Charleston Evening Post says
for every remote afiliation with the
trusts Mr. Roosevelt has attempted
to show against the Democratic party
there has been uncovered hundred.
fold greater and closer association
with the Republican party. Even in
the case Of Governor Haskell it was
shown that the protection Of the
Standard Oil which Mr.. Roosevelt
cited against the Governor as proof
Of his control by such interests, was
originally instituted by the President
himself, during the territorial regime
in Oklahoma. In the very nature
of things it necessarily follows tnet
such developments must result from
an exposition Of the trust situat1o::
in its relation to public affairs, for
the Republican party is and has been
for years, and especially during the
trust growing period, in almost ua-
disputed control Of the country's al
fairs, and whatever advantages are
enjoyed by these great corporations
against the public interests are due
to the complacency Of the party IN
power.
This is so inevitable and so utterly
beyond dispute that it is utterly
futile and fatuous for the PresideH,
OF any other protagonist of Judge
Taft to attempt to argue it otherwise,
but it is peculiarly brazen in Mr..
Roosevelt, who has had intimate cs-
sociations with trust magnates and
lifted laws for their benefit and ap-
pointed their agents to high OF
fees, who is, In fact, surrounded with
the representatives of such interests
and obligated to them enormously -or
financial support to his candidates
But Mr.. Roosevelt has welded ab-
solute authority so long and has
become so accustomed to have his
lightest word prevail against tie
most solemn truths from other soucc-
es, that be has thrown himsei: INTO
the campaign melee without regard
to consequences, and he can not yet
understand how it is tHs: ne is COW
cred with wounds. II he continues
his participation in the campaign
at close range the Roosevelt legend
Is likely to be hacked to PIECES oy
the enemies he is kicking up from
every bush.
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