The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-25
Editor Speaks At Convention p.
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ATTACKS THE OLD PARTIES
Hearst Continues Exposures of Polit-
ical Leaders In the Old Parties
and Reads Letters Relative
to Standard Oil Work.

New York, September 24.-The in
dependence league state convention
opened here tonight. James A. Allen of
New York acted as temporary chair
man and made a brief address.
William R. Hearst received an ova-
tion when he entered the hall and the
band played Hail to the Chief" Mr..
Hearst addressed the convention in
part as follows:
"The national independence party ex-
lists today as an active and powerful
force for good in every state of the
Union. We have offered to the country
a new party-the independence party
as the one hope of rescuing the peoples
government from the control of de-
praved bosses. purchased politicians
and corrupt corporations.
You independence party men of New
York have every reason for patriotic
effort in this campaign. One of the
old parties has nominated Mr.. Hughes.
who throughout his term has served
the great privileged interests with the
consummate skill of a trained corpora
tion lawyer
1.-THE other old party has nominated
Mr.. Chandler, who has been worn
smooth in the past two years as the
pocket piece of Charlie Murphy.
'I have read letters to show the cor
ruption in the republican party. have
read letters and court records and az
fidavits to show the equal, or even
greater corruption in the democratic
party.
Foraker Repudiated.
"The republicans have at least re-
pudiated their Foraker, but the demo-
Gratis cling tenaciously to their Baileys
and their Haskells.
''Mr. Bryan sustalns Mr.. Haskell and
writes Mr.. Roosevelt proudly claiming
to be responsible for Mr.. Haskell.
"Mr. Kern rushes to the defense of
Mr.. Haskell, although it would be nigh
ly appropriate for somebody to rush to
the defense of Mr.. Kern. Mr.. Mack
says that when he said he had gotten
100000 he was only joking. Mr. Mack
then, to be perfectly frank, admits that
admit that we don't know whether he
was lying then or is lying now.
"Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Kern attack the
republican party for not prosecuting
the steel trust
Perhaps they hope that Mr.. Roose-
welt will whip the steel trust out of
the republican party and into the dem
ocratic party, as he did the oil trust,
and that Mr.. Mack will get another
$500, 00O
"If Mr.. Roosevelt should drive out the
steel trust the democratic party is quite
ready to receive it, for this same C. N.
Haskell, according to court records, is
one of the men who helped to organize
the steel trust.
Court Records.
In the court of common pleas of Putnam
county, Ohio John P. Bailey, ex-law
partner of Haskell, sued the Illinois Steel
company, and the following paragraphs
are extracted from the complaint:
plaintiff AYERS that within and during
the year commencing July, 1907. one
Charles N. Haskell who was during
said time an attorney at law, at the spe-
cial instance and request of said de-
fendant (the Illinois Steel company acted
fendant 0he Illinois Steel company and
about the acquisition by said defendant
of certain property, and in the formation
and organization of the Federal Steel
company, Ga part of the steel trust), and
in the sale by the said defendant of cer-
tain stocks to the said Federal Steel
company. and In the sale and transfer by
said defendant to said Federal Steel COM
pany of certain ore lands, so called, and
certain properties.
And plaintiff AYERS that said services
of said Charles N. Haskell rendered to
said defendant by him as aforesaid were
and are of the amount and value of fifty
thousand dollars 100000, and were and
are but a fraction of l per cent of the
profits realized by said defendant from
said services, and that said charges, fees
and compensation are reasonable and just
d" Plaintiff AYERS that afterward said
Charles N. Haskell duly sold, assigned
and transferred to this plaintiff all his
said claims and demands against said
defendant, and this plaintiff is now the
owner and holder thereof
(Mr. Hearst here rsad the official at
testation to the foregoing).
Trust Organizer
$50 it appears, not from my assertion.
but from court records, that Mr.. Haskell
is not only a Standard Oil tool and a
crooked railroad promoter, but a steel
trust organizer.
mo wonder he can get money for Mr..
Mack and no wonder Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Kern do not want to relnquish SO valu-
able a campaign treasurer.
Before | read you few more letters
regarding the Standard Oil, l want to
read you Mr.. Haskells opinion of that
corrupt corporation. expressed publicly in
speech at a banquet at Tulsa, Okla,
on February 20, 1908.
MY friends: We often hear-for want,
perhaps, of some clearer thought-we
often hear a speaker assail the Standard
Oil company. I sometimes think tha>
the speaker has merely heard the name
mentioned. and does not know what the
purpose Of the company is, or it's plan of
business. The Standard Oil company has
done wonders in the United States. The
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