Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-02
FORAKER EXPOSED
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 Right to Retainer.

There appears to be no reason TO
doubt that the letters from John IL.
Archbold of the Standard On company
+o Senator Foraker of Ohio, read by w.
R. Hearst in his speech at Columbus
Ohio. recently, were genuine. MI. For
after 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 $4,000 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 Objectionable " and "out-
rageous" clauses, as to which MI.
Archbold said to Mr.. Foraker: 81
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 GER
tifcate 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 elf 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 it's OPP
erations, particularly when of a 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 NatiOna
League of Republican clubs held il
Cincinnati.
Still Run for Senator.
Cincinnati, o., Sept. %. = United
States Senator Joseph B. Foraker ha
Cancelled all of his speaking engage
ments in the presidential campaign. Il
written request to National Chairman
| Frank H. Hitchcock he asked to be re
lieved from the appointments which ha'
been arranged for him by the natiOna
speakers bureau and in a communiea
ton to State Chairman Williams of tn
Ohio republican committee he made tn
same request as to the engagement
which had been arranged for him in thi
, state.
l AS to Senator Foraker's SENATOR'S
candidacy the senator's position is a
follows: Senator Foraker will leav
: the selection of his successor to tn
: legislature, but will do all in his powe
+ to see that republican legislature i
/ elected.
T Senator Foraker has told his friend
that he should at the proper and col
venient opportunity make a speech j
answer to Hearst's charges and in d,
y Tense of himself and then should can
o paign the state in behalf of his sen,
J. torial candidacy, but under the jurisdi
s ton of no political committee.