The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-16
FORAKER DEFENDS
OIL EMPLOYMENT
Prints Letters Outlining His
Work for Standard in
Ohio Cases.
TRUST GIVES CLEAN BILL,
SAYS SENATOR NEVER TOOK ANY
THING INCONSISTENT WITH HIS
PUBLIC DUTIES EMPLOY ED.
TWO YEARS.

Cincinnati, O., Nov 16.-Senator
Joseph B. Foraker last night made
public letters in connection with his
employment by the Standard Oil com
pany and in answer to charges made
against him in the recent residential
campaign.
A letter from Virgil P. Kline OF
Cleveland o., tells of Forakers work
as legal adviser in litigation in which
the Standard Oil company of Ohio
was involved about ten years ago.
Kline states that the company had
no desire to evade the law and that
the cases finally were dismissed. He
! says Foraker, as far as he tkline)
knows never accepted anything from
the company inconsistent with his
public duties.
Senator's Statement With Letters.
With the publication of these let
ters," says Senator Foraker. which
added to my former statements
should. in my opinion. satisfy any fair
minded man, | submit to the legisla-
ture, as every other candidate must
do. the question as to who shall be
my successor in the senate.
Il do not mean by this statement
that | do not intend to give any furth-
err attention to the impending contest
but rather that | do not intend to en-
gage in any unseemly scramble
kIne's Letter in Reply.
In answer to a letter from the SEN
ator requesting it, Virgil P. Kline of
Cleveland, O., sent the following eX-
PLANTATION of Foraker's employment by
the Standard in Ohio:
Kline, Tolles & Golf. 1915 William
son Building, Cleveland, o., Oct. g.
19OS.-Joseph B. Foraker, Cincinnati
O.-My. Dear Sir: In December. 1898
at the time you were employed by me,
there was pending against the Stand
ard Oil company, in the supreme court
of the State of Ohio, a proceeding in
contempt instituted by the attorney
general, charging that company with
having willfully violated the order OF
the supreme court directing it to
withdraw from the trust, agreement.
There was also pending against the
Buckeye Pipe line company pro
ding in quo warranto, charging ii
with being member of a trust, also
like proceeding against the Ohio Oil
company and the Solar Refining com
pany and one of a like character. at
that time, l think threatened against
the Standard Oil company of Ohio
and which was brought in January
1899. These were socalled cOnstitu-
ent companies of the Standard Oil
trust.
These bills in quo warranto were
filed in the supreme court and asked
for the revocation of the charters of
the said several corporations, the APP.
pointment of receivers to take posses.
sion of the properties and the dissolu
ton of the various companies.
Wanter to Get Out of Trust.
THE company in Ohio which had
been ordered to withdraw from the
trust agreement could not afford to
permititself to be put. nor could the
gentlemen who managed it permit
themselves to be put in the attitude
of defying the law. A heavy fine
might have been imposed. a receiver
might have been appointed. and the
vast business of the organization ir-
reparably injured.
1T was upon a realization of these
serious and disastrous consequences
well known in your ability as an attor
neyand the respect lawyers and courts
had for you throughout the state that
l sought your service.
Your employment extended over 3
period of more than two years, during
which time l was repeatedly in consul
tation with you. and there was nc
phase of the litigation of which you
| were not fully abreast all the time. Sc
far from the attitude of the company
being one of a desire to evade the
| law or the decree of the court, it had