The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-27
FORAKER ISSUES
STATEMENT.
More Light on His Employment
by Standard Oil.
ANTITRUST LAW FAIRLY MET.
Counsel for Octopus Declares Legal
Services Rendered Standard by Ohio
Senator We're Not inconsistent With
His Public Duties.

Cincinnati, Nov. Ex-senator 10
@epb b. Foraker issued the following
statement: Now that the election Is
over, and the people have read ano
studied the returns, deem 1t an op
portune time, and my duty to my con
Stituents, as well as to myself, to pub
Aisb the following correspondence:
Cincinnati, oct. 5, l90S.-Virgil
Kline esq, Cleveland. o.; Dear Sir
Hn view of the charges of Mr.. Hearst
and the discussion now going on In
Ehe newspapers as to the character OF
my employment by the Standard Oil
company, and the services | rendered
under such employment, | would be
glad IL you would write me in regard
thereto, and give me permission to
oise your letter If occasion should
seem to require it. | make this re
quest because | was employed by you
personally, and because you are en-
cirely familiar with the scope of that
employment. the services rendered,
and, In short, the whole subject
~. b. FORAKER"
Kline Writes Foraker.
cleveland, Oct. 6, 19OS.-Hon. Jo
Beph b. Foraker, Cincinnati: My Dear
Sir am just in receipt of yours OF
the 9Th inst, asking me to write you
In regard to your employment, with
permission to use my letter, If ocCa
sic1 should SEEN to require. With
that request | am glad to comply.
n nnnnp, Of h.. inc
were employed by me, there was pend.
fng against the Standard Oil com
pany, in the supreme court of Ohio
very serious and difficult litigation
"A proceeding in contempt had been in.
stituted by the attorney general
charging that company with having
wilfully violated the order of the su.
preme court directing it to withdraw
from the trust agreement
There was also pending against
6he Buckeye Pipe Line company a pro.
ceeding in quo warranto, charging II
with being a member Of a trust, in
violation of the antitrust laws OF the
state. also like proceeding against
the Ohio Oil company and the Solar
Rehning company, and one of like
character. at that time, think. threat.
tsned against the Standard Oil com.
tpany of Ohio, and which was brought
,an january, 1899 These were so
I. csASeH constituent companies of the
STANDARD OIL trust.
Your employment extended over
fperMd of more than two years, dur.
hDg which time | was repeatedly in
consultation with you, and there was
no phase of the litigation of which
you were not fully abreast all the
time, and your counsel was fully ap.
.preciated by my associate counsel and
lDy my client, and there never was
'YpartiCle of effort upon our part to con.
.ceal your relation to the interests we
represented, So far from the attitude
r Of the company being one of desire
Ttr 0vade the law or the decree of the
E2ourt, 1t had faithfully endeavored to
comply Herewith, and, so far as the
Valentine trust law was concerned, we
wore not trying, by subterfuge or indi'
rpCtiOn, to evade 1t. You understood
perfectly our desire, and CO-operated
with il, to put these large properties
ron "a basis Of conformity to the de.
scree,o of the court and Of the law, that
,Ghty might be safely and securely held
by their owners. You efforts greatly
contributed to the success of the liti-
cation and the preservation of the
property by its owners At the time OF
YouT employment and when it ceased,
as it did. according to my recollection,
somewhere about the LIST of January.
1901, there was no intimatiOn from
any source whatever of criticism or
attack on the part of the federal gov
eminent. That did not come for more
Ttian four years afterwards, and so far
as know, and have been intimately
On touch with the litigation ana trOu.
Ihles of the company for twenty years
and am still, nothing has ever been
asked of, or accepted by you inCOn.
sistent with your public duties, and
so far as | know you have had no
relation whatever to the company, as
an attorney OF otherwise, for more
chan aseven gears.
"VIRGIL P. KLINE"
Elliott o. KS Statement.
STANDARD Oil Company, 26 Broad.
way, New York, Oct. ~, 19OS.-Hon,
b Foraker, Cincinnati, o.; Dear Sir
ana in receipt of your letter of the
9Th inst, with which you enclose copy
of letter from Hon V, p. Kline to you
under date of Oct 6, 1908. was as.
eociated with Mr.. Kline in the cases
he refers to in his lNter and know
that the statements cOntained in his