The Washington herald., 1908-02-14

Rainey Says Executive Play
ed TO the Galleries.
CASTS DOUBT ON MESSAGE
Tells House Mr.. RoOse-
welt Tried 10 Create Impression Of
Terrific Fight with Standard Oil
C0mpany-Say Country Needs VAL
uabIe suggestiOns-Big Fine a BIun.

Representative Raiuey, OF Illinois. took
a vigorous fan out Of the Presidents
special message and the administration
uust-bustiug ia the House OF Represent
atiyes yesterday. in his efforts 20 en-
tertalu the Representatives he said he
would take for this text short bill Of
half "a dozen lines which he had intro
duced. putting crude and refined petro-
leum. wherever produced. upon the free
list
He would vary the programme. he
said and not make an attack upon
Standard oil It had become popular.
whenever in doubt to make a speech
or to send a vitriolic message from the
White House deuouncing the Standard
oil Company. The larger and better
part Of the message of January 81 was
not written by tho President at all, he
said
The Presidents secretaries, Mr.. Rainey
said. had clipped editorials from met
ropoIitan and other papers oriticising
Judge Lands fine Of s290)0.0o0. and he
had sent them to Congress to create the
impression that he was engaged in q ter
rife combat with the Standard Oh Com
pany.
Would Find IL Hard.
The President would fnd it difficult Mr.
Rainey said. 90 demonstrate that there
is any general or widely extended com
pIaint against that fine. The ear-split-
ting fulminauons that have proceeded
from the White House" he added. do
not seem to have produced much effect.
"The projectiles fired do not seem to
have armor-piercing qualities. What is
needed by jhe country is the formation
OF fewer Ananias clubs and more sug-
gestions Of real value. The fact is that
the fight against Standard oil is a bluff
No one has heard that the fine of $1,000
600 assessed against the company has been
collected. and no more trust prosecutions
axe being Instituted by the Department Of
Justice
These things. ike the revision Of the
tariff. have been postponed until after
election. when it is hoped that the re-
vision and the collection will be in the
hands of the protective tariff system"
Early in life, Mr. Rainey said. he had
learned how to conduct a Fourth of July
celebration and keep an audience enter
tained. That was 10 keep a rocket ex-
ploding all the time, and they won't no.
tice the falling sticks. That policy was
the one pursued at the White House, he
said. Every DAY a rocket had been ex-
ploded. and until now the people had
failed to notice the falling sticks.
II the President really meant to tight
the Standard oil Company, he said, and
stop the division of 90 per cent profits.
let him send a message 10 Congress to
put petroleum on the free l'st. But it
won't come. he added. THE fight is
pure bluff. as most Of these messages
are"
In regard TO Presidential possibilities.
Mr. Rainey said the Republicans were in
distress over the negro vote. But one
man in the party (Senator Foraker. he
asserted, represented anything. "and he
represents money and the negroes. That's
why YOU are afraid to turn him down.
"The President is drying up your sources
of contributions from the trusts, and the
Republican party conducting a campaign
with neither money nor negroes would be
a pitiable spectacle The Democratic par-
ty is the white mans party In this coun-
try, North as well as South and we don't
care how long it remains the white mans
party"