Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19

they said should not appear in print as
coming from them. Mr. Taft read Mr.
Forakers reply to Mr. Hearst on arriving
at his Office shortly after IL o'clock.
You may say that l have nothing
whatever to say" was his only comment.
Senators Foraker and Dick lunched to-
gether at the Sinton Hotel and let it be
known that they intended calling on Mr..
their repast Mr.. Taft had gone home,
not knowing of their intention Senator
Dick went to the Taft residence later
and made a short call on the candidate.
1t was admitted that the Foraker situa-
ton was discussed briefly, and Mr.. Taft
again announced that he had nothing to
say on the question at present.
Ohio Attorneys Surprised.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Septembe- l9.-Sen-
ator Foraker was not an attorney of rec
ord in any of the Standard Oil cases tried
in the Ohio courts.
ut is news to us all said Assistant
Attorney General Bennett, Ito hear that
Senator Foraker was employed as an
attorney in these fights"
Mr.. Bennett, when asked concerning the
letter from Archbold to Foraker. urging
Benefits defeat for the nomination for
attorney general of Ohio. said he never
before knew of such letter being writ
ten. He said that the reference to him
impressions of Archbold wer- probably
secured when he put Archbold through a
CROSS examination at the Hoffman House
in New York in 1899 when. s an attOr-
ney for the state of Ohio. he was assisting
in conducting the cases against the Stand
ard Oil Company.
When asked whether or not Senator
Foraker opposed him in his fight for at
torney general. he said:
II do not think SO. l withdrew as a
nd IN hnfn fhn
ton was called. and l never had the OPP
portunity of seeing just where Foraker
would have been. but l am under the inn
preston he was not against me, but
rather was for me in my fight.
Engagement of Foraker.
NEW YORK, September 19.-Virgil p
Kline. for many years attorney for the
Standard Oil Company in Ohio, just be
fore his departure on an evening trair
for Cleveland declared that there was NJ
mystery as to Senator FOraker's work a:
an attorney for the Standard Oil Com
pany. He had personally engaged Mr.
Foraker, he said. as counsel for the com
pany In suits of custer which were pend
ing against the corporation in the state o
Ohio.
Mr.. Kline added:
MY recollection is that Mr.. Foraker
filed at least one brief in those cases.
cannot understand why his name SHOULD
not appear on the records. Nothing h
did as counsel for the Standard conf1ictet
in any way with his duties and obligation:
as United States senator"
Sibley's Appeal to President.
OYSTER BAY. n. Y, September 49,
Secretary Loeb's attention was Gale,
yesterday to the letters read by William
r. Hearst at a political meeting in Co
| lumbus Ohio, Thursday night, which in
cluded correspondence said to have pass
! ed between Senator Foraker of Ohio. Rep
| resentative Sibley of Pennsylvania ant
| John D. Archbold of the Standard OF
Company. Last night Mr.. Loeb ISSUED
| the following official statement, presume
| bly, In reply to that portion of the cor
respondence in which Mr.. Sibley is al
| legged to have called on the President il
| behalf of the Standard Oil Company:
when Secretary Loeb's attention wa
called to the alleged letter OF eX-Repre
sentative Sibley, he stated that Mr. Sible,
| was one of several hundred people in tn
| political and financial world who at diff
| ferent times appealed to the President no
| to prosecute the Standard Oil COMPANY
To all of these people the President listen
| ed with all politeness and consideration
| He found himself unable to agree will
any OF them. however, and the prosecu
| lions were accordingly ordered continue,
! and In progress at the present time