Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27

ALBERT LEA, MIMI, september %
w. H. Taft today gave out the following
statement in reply to Senator ]. B. For
aker:
'First-Senator Foraker says in his
statement that l recommended Judge
Doyle for a United States judgeship in
northern Ohio and the President ac-
quiesced in the recommendation when we
knew that he was attorney for the Stand
ard Oil Company, and argues that this is
justification for him while a senator of
the United States in accepting profess
sional employment from the Standard OIL
Company and in making what was in ef-
fect a newspaper partnership with the
Standard Oil Company to control an organ
of public opinion. Judge Doyle held no
public office and numbered the Standard
clients.
What Taft Told Roosevelt.
Il told the President that Judge Doyle
was man of high character and a law
yer of great ability and experience and
would make good Judge but explained
what his corporate professional connec-
ton had been. and the President, as be-
tween Doyle and Taylor, also an able
man, preferred Taylor and appointed him,
not, as [ recollect it, for any reason dis
creditabie to Doyle, but because Doyle's
very many corporate professional associa-
tions would make him less acceptable to
the public and&interfere with his useful
ness as a judge.
Second-Senator Foraker refers to my
alleged receipt of favors from Mr. c. T.
Lewis. partner of Judge Doyle. and Mr..
Richardson. whom he denominates as a
magnate In the glass trust as parallel
with and In a measure justifying his rela-
tions to the Standard Oil Company al
ready described. If the facts were ex-
actly as he gives them / would be content
TO submit the justice of the parallel to the
American people without comment, but
the facts are not as he states them.
visited Middle Bass as the guest of
the Middle Bass Club, as Presidents Har-
rlson, Mckinley and Cleveland had done
Gen. keifer invited me as the spokesman
of the club. Mr. Lewis was president
and carried out the will of the club in
making the arrangements.
Didn't Use Lewis Car.
1 did not travel in Mr.. Lewis private
car. He rendered it, but l declined it.
[ hired special car from Hot Springs
to Toledo from the Pullman company
for fifty dollars a day. and paid therefor
eighteen fares to the Ohio river and
twenty-five fares to Toledo at the regular
tariff for special, together with fares
for berths.
Mr.. Lewis joined us with his private
car when we We're half way to Toledo
and | spoke from the platform at sta
tions because his was the end car but |
had my own car and used it and paid for
it.
Didn't Know Richardson.
The Middle Bass Club advised me that
1t would see to my ferriage from Toledo
to Middle Bass. and secured for the pur-
pose a power boat Of Mr.. Richardson
who was a member of the Middle Bass
Club. l did not know Mr.. Richardson or
aboard his boat. / did not know, and
don't know now, that there is a glass
trust. or Mr. Richardson's relation to it, If
il exists. | accepted his courtesy as ten
dered on behalf of the club, whose guest I
was.
Branded as Ridiculous.
| am indebted to the members of the
Middle Bass Club, numbering ovar 100.
for their hospitality, but the attempt to
connect me with the Standard Oil Com
pany and the glass trust-if there is any-
through tile Middle Bass Club. is ridicu
lous and shows the extremity In which
the author of the statement finds him
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