The Yale expositor., 1908-10-02

W l.. =, quo.
fight the union workers and prevent
the formation of any defensive body OF
laboring men.
Foraker's Hot Reply.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Foraker pre-
pared statement which was made
public Friday. replying to the recent
charges made by William r. Hearst
and President Roosevelt. In addition
he bitterly assails Hearst, Taft and
the president. charging Taft with con-
sorting with Standard Oil magnates
himself and declaring that President
Roosevelt's actions indicate a guilty
conscience. In the opening para
graph Mr.. Foraker declared that the
president showed bias In accepting as
true all the charges. He denied that
he acted improperly In accepting en-
ployment from the Standard OIL Com
pany, said that there was no secret
about It and produced letters to prove
that after the government began its
attack upon the Standard Oil, he de-
olined to accept a retainer from them.
lie charged that Mr.. Hearst had other
letters in addition to those which he
gave out, and that these other let
ters, II made public at the same time,
would have shown how harmless was
his connection with the Standard peo-
pie.
Taft Answers Foraker.
Albert Lea, Minn.-William II.
Taft issued statement in denial of
certain allegations made by Senator
Foraker in his statement. The Repub-
lican candidate does not touch on the
general defense put up by the Ohio
senator, but confines himself entirely
to that part of the address which d.
rectly concerns himself.
There are two of these charges and
they were denied in vigorous language.
Both of them were meant to show Mr..
Taft at least was in sympathy with the
Standard Oil crowd.
The Judge Doyle Incident.
AS to the first, Mr.. Taft says:
Senator Foraker says recommend
ed Judge Doyle for a United States
judgeship In northern Ohio and the
president acquiesced in the recommen-
dalton when we knew that he was at
torney for the Standard Oil Company,
and argues that this is justification
for him, while a senator Of the United
States, in accepting professional en-
ployment from the Standard Oil Com
pany and In making what was in effect
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 Oil Com
pany as one among a number of eli
ents. told the president Judge Doyle
was a man of high character and a
lawyer of great ability and experience
and would make a good judge, but ex-
planned what his corporate profession
al connection had been, and the presi-
dent, as between Doyle and Taylor
also an able man. preferred Taylor and
appointed him, not. as recollect II,
for any reason discreditable to Doyle
but because Doyle's many corporate
professional associations would make
him less acceptable to the public and
interfere with his usefulness as a
judge"
Senator Foraker's second charge
that Mr.. Taft accepted favors from. a
partner of Judge Doyle and mag
nate in the glass trust" while at Mid
die Bass island, Mr.. Taft characterizes
as ridiculous. He says he was the
guest of the Middle Bass club, as Pres.
idents Harrison, Mckinley and Cleve.
land had been.
Hearst Hits Foraker.
Columbus, Ex-senator J. B. For
aker Of Ohio was openly charged here
by W. r. Hearst with being an agent
OF the Standard Oil Company. Mr.
Hearst said that after the oil octopus
had heen driven from the ReDublican