Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-26
FORAKER MAKES
 ATTACK ON TAFT
Says Candidate HObnobbed
 With @OiI" Men.
ROOSEVELT ASSAILED TOO

Hearst and Protesting That His Con-
 duct All Along Has Been Controlled
 by His intelligence, His Consciencs
 and His Judgment About Public
 Questions.
 Cincinnati, Sept. 26.--Senator For. aker issued a statement In his de- fense, part of which reads
 "Mr. Hearst read at St. Louis the following letter:
 "'Dear Senator-Again I venture to write you a word regarding the bill in- troduced by Senator Jones of Arkansas, known as "S. 649," intended to amend the act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopo lies, etc., introduced by him Dec. 1. h really seems as though this bill is very unnecessarily severe and even vicious. Is 1t not much better to test the appiica- tion of the sherman law instead of re- sorting to a measure of this kind? I hope you will feel so about 1t, and l will be greatly pleased to have word from you on the subject. The bill is, believe, still in committee.
 "JoHN D. ARCHBoLD.'
 "I have no recollection of ever re- ceiving any such letter. If ever re- ceived such a letter my inability to find 1t or to find any answer to it is doubtless due to the fact that I sim ply referred 1t to the judiciary con- mittee for consideration in connection with the bill.
 MT. Hearst in reading this letter coupled 1t with the following letter:
 My Dear senator-Responding to your favor of the 18th, 1t gives me pleas ure to hand you herewith certificate of deposit for $50,000 in accordance with our understanding. Your letter states the conditions correctly. and I trust that the transaction will be successfully consum- mated. JOHN D. ARCHBOLD.'
 "Mr. Hearst accompanied the read ing of these letters with comments calculated to convey the impression that they constituted evidence that I was, for money received, trying to in- fuence legislation.
 "The certificate of deposit was sent on account of the proposed purchase of the Ohio State Journal and that the proposition to purchase being aban- doned, 1t was returned.
 Taft's Letter.
 "This brings me to MT. Taft's letter and what the president has said in his comments on the same.
 rtrnc Tafts hostile attitude that:
 ''He CD has opposed the vital poli- cies and principles of the administra- ton and sought to embarrass the ad- ministration, using blind race preju- dice to accomplish his main purpose.
 T do not agree with Judge Taft that a senator should be controlled in any way against his intelligence, his con science and his judgment about a great public question of far reaching serious consequences.
 Tn the presence of the unfortunate consequences resulting. from the rate law as to foreign commerce, do not think I need apologize for voting against the rate bill.
 T have in mind not the stopping in- definitely of adequate railroad con- struction at time when it Is so badly needed nor the losses amounting to billions of dollars which have been sustained on account of the shrinkage in values of all kinds of securities, but the empty dinner pails and suffering families of unemployed wage workers and the humber classes of people to be found by thousands in every sec tion of the Union.
 Responsibility for such results is serious. It is the first time we have had anything like it under Republic an administration. Who caused all this? Not Providence. All our nat ural conditions are favorable to a re- sumption of the fullest prosperity, and yet 1t does not come. We know that the policies of the Republican party filled the dinner pails. Whose policies emptied them?
 But what manner of man is Judge Taft anyhow?
 "unpardonabIe Crimes"
 "Only one month ago, when he wis., ited Middle Bass, he was the guest of c. T. Lewis of the law firm of Doyle & Lewis, who have been the attorneys of the Standard oil company for many years. When Mir. Taft had occasion to pass back and forth between Mid dle Bass and Toledo, where I had the pleasure of meeting him, he trav- eled on the yacht of Mir. Richardson, prominent magnate of the glass trust, and while he doubtless paid his fare when travelling from Hot Springs to Toledo on his way to Middle Bass, yet nevertheless he rode in the private car of one of the officers of the road of which also Messrs. Doyle and Lewis are attorneys. What a series of un- pardonable crimes.
 And now comes the president and publishes Judge Taft's letter contain ing his unfortunate reference to this unfortunate case. What does he mean? Does anybody imagine that the president is unable to see that he is rubbing a sore when he should have brought plaster? Does he im- agine that the Republican colored vot- ters can be brought to the support of Judge Taft by parading in these clos ing days of the campaign Judge Taft's belittling of their chief grievance by mentioning 1t as 'an incidental mat terf"