Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-19
FORAKER REPLIES TO HEARST
Ohio Senator Says He Formerly Was
Standard Lawyer.
CONNECTION LONG AGO CEASED
John ID. ArchbOld Declares stand
ard OIL Never Contributed to
the Oklahoma Democratic
Campaign Fund.

CINCINNATI, O., Sept. ls-Ihst he had
been several years ago an attorney for the
Standard Oil company, hut that such en-
ploy-nent had nothing TO do with matters
pending in congress or in which the federal
government was interested, is the sub
stance of hricf statement made today by
Senator Foraker In answer to charges made
by William r. Hearst in Columbus last
night
Senator Foraker's statement follows:
I do not know whether the letters given
out by Mr.. Hearst are true copies or not,
but I assume they are, for 1 was then en-
gagged in the practice of the law and was
employed by the Standard Oil company as
one Of it's counsel in connection with it's
affairs in Ohio, where it was attacked in
the courts and in the Legislature
while l do not now recall the details
remember that 1 rendered the company
such service as l could charged for It,,
and was paid
THE employment had no reference what
ever to anything pending iE congress or to
anything in which the federal government
had the slightest interest.
THAT I was so employed, and presum-
ably compensated for my services, was
common knowledge at the time; at least,
On the contrary, l was pleased to have
people know that 1 had such clients.
"It had rot then become d!scrcditable,
but was considered just the reverse, to he
employed by such corporations.
THAT employment ended before my first
term in the senate expired l have not
represented the company in any way since.
In other words, l have not represented the
company in any way since long before It
was attacked by the federal government,
nor since before with full general knowl-
edge, was reelected to the senate"
Senator Not of Record.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 1S.-United States
Senator ]. b. Foraker was not an attorney
OF record in any Of the Standard OIL cases
tried in the Ohio courts. The first cases
were filed In 1882 and were carried along
through various courts for more than
twenty years. According to the records
in the attorney generals office. the at
torney's record in 1899 and 1900, when the
cases against the Standard and its sub
sidiary companies were tried were NJ. R
Keith, 8. C. T. Dodd and Joseph II. Choate
of New York and Virgil p. Kline Of Cleve-
! land.
None OF the attorneys who were employed
! in the attorney generals office knew any
! tEiLg about any connection OF senator
Foraker with the Standard Gil company,
/ as he never appeared before any courts
| or made any pleas for the company in
| their legal battles.
Yet" said Smith w Bennett assistant
attorney general, "ForaSer may have been
| the power behind the throne and may have
/ been giving advice and looking up similar
| cases in other courts for citation in the
/ fight OF the Standard Oil company in
! Ohio"
The same official stated that he was en-
! ployed most Of the time with Attorney Gen
| eral Monnett in his contests through the
various courts with the Standard and had
! his first time 10 hear Foraker make any
arguments or even appear in person OF
! otherwise at any OF the various fights.
1T was news to US ALL" said this attor-
ney, ito hear that Senator Foraker was
| employed as an attorney in these fights"