Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-09-24
HEARST READS
MORE LETTERS
Answers Foraker's Reply to
Letters Read By Him.
EDITOR HINTS At BRIBERY

Foraker Admits He Was Standard OIL
company's Attorney In Ohio and
Payments Were For Legal Services.
ArchboId Accuses Hearst of Dealing
With Thieves to Get HE Cores
pondence and Says His Relations
With Senator Foraker Were Proper
and Legitimate.
st. Louis, Sept. 19.-William R.
Hearst, in speech here, answered
the reply of Senator Foraker made to
the letters read by Mr.. Hearst in Co
lumbus, O., Thursday night. Mr..
Hearst said in part:
"Mr. Foraker replies in characteris-
tic Republican manner. He admits
that he did serve Standard Oil and is
proud Of it. His statement is based
on letters read Thursday night. If
he had seen the letters lam now going
to read he would have denied the
whole matter.
The first letter follows:
"26 Broadway, New York,
Jan. ~, 1902.
my Dear Senator-Responding to
your favor Of the 25th, it gives me
pleasure to hand you herewith certif-
cate Of deposit for $4,000, in accord
ance with our understanding. Your
letter states the conditions correctly,
and trust the transaction will be sue
cessfully consummated. Very truly
yours, ]. D. ARCHBOLD.
Hon. J. B. Foraker, Washington, D.
c."
The second letter as read by Mr..
Hearst was as follows:
"26 Broadway, New York,
Feb 25, 1902.
"My Dear Senator-I venture to
write you word re the bill intro
duced by Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
known as s $40, intended to amend the
act ITO protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and mo-
nopolies. etc." introduced by him on
Dec. "a.
1T really seems as though this bill
is very unnecessarily severe and even
vicious. Is 1t not much better to test
the application of the Sherman act
before restorting to measure of this
kind? hope you will feel SO about it
and will be greatly pleased to have a
word from you on the subject. The
bill Is, believe, still in committee.
with kind regards, yours very
truly. JOHN D. ARCHBOLD.
Hon. J. B. Foraker, Washington, D.
c."
"The bill referred to in this letter
is the one introduced by Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, in the United
States senate. Consequently Mr. For
aker's statement does not convince
when he said the correspondence had
nothing to do with any legislation in
congress.
There Is no greater danger to this
republic than this mighty power of
money employed for evil There are no
greater, criminals than those trusts
that corrupt the public servants.
"The Republican party has long
been maintained by these criminal
combinations. The Democratic party
has long wanted to be tempted by
these corporations.
when Bryan was nominated in
1896 I had just reached success with
my New York newspaper. I pondered
all night what l should do. I stood
everything to lose and nothing to gain.
| did not believe in free silver, but l
did believe in Democracy. l decided to
make a fight for Bryan. My ma
terial successes crumbled, advertisers
threatened to withdraw their patron
age If continued to support Bryan.
The deficit for October, 1896, was
s158.000. But we did not surrender"
Mr.. Hearst then gave his reasons
for leaving the Democratic party
"Mr. Bryan" he said "is a shell
man at county fair, executing shell
game. Where is the little ball of free
silver, of public ownership, of the ref
ersndum? Cone"