The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-25
BIG BUSINESS y. ;.
CONTROLS. TAFT,
n. SAYS BRls70W
Standard OIL Got "What II
5, Wanted" ..'.
Kansas Senator ForeibIy Arraisns the
Reaotionary Candidate Makes a
!. Powerful "Caoe Against tho Taft Ad-
MISUNDERSTANDING Rockefeller Was
Conplaoent az to Election of 1908.

Outstanding with the great business
combinations Of the country and that
the relations between those conrbina-
tDns and the administration now are
harmonious and directed toward q COM
mon end Is the profound belief Of Sen
ator Joseph l.. Brlstow of Kansas, one
Of the foremost leaders Of the progress.
sive movement IN the United States.
* III you take for a text the speech de-
lvered in Philadelphia not long ago by
President Taft, In which he declared
,hlmself progressive along with the
rejoinder thereto delivered by Colonel
Roosevelt at Louisville and attach to
these speeches the reasonable knowl-
edge Of known facts and events, you
cannot escape the conclusion Mt which
have arrived" said Senator Bristow
In talk on what might be called 1.-THE
case against the Taft administration"
Said Colonel Roosevelt:
Taft's "Progrossivism."
-Four years ago the progressives sup
ported Mr.. Taft for president and he was
opposed by such representatives Of spe-
Siai privileges rs MT. IenrOSo PennSyl-
Vanta. Mr.. Aldrch OF Rhode Island and
Mr.. Gallinger OF New Hampshire. as
Messrs. Lorimer. Cannon and Mckinley
OF Illinois, and he was opposed by prac-
tically all Of the men Of tho stamp of
go Messrs. Guggenheimer and Evans Of Col
orado and Mr.. Patrick Calhoun of San
Francisco. These men were not progress
slVes then, and they are not progressves
now: but. unlike the president, they know
VINO Is a progressive and who Is not.
. Ihelr judgment In the matter is good
After three and a half years of associa-
ton with and knowledge Of tho president
these and their fellows are now the pres
dents CHIEF supporters, and they and the
men who feel and act as they do in busl-
ness and In politics give him the great
bulk or his strength. Tho president saws
he Is Il progressive. These men know him
well and have studied his actions for three
years. and they regard him as being pre-
c1sely the kind Of progressive they ap-
prove.
study that extract from Colonel
- Roosevelt's speech, If you please. Get
: at its meaning. Why does the crimi-
nal on trial for his liberty or his i'll
gotten property seek to select Judge
by asking a change Of venue? WHY
does he discriminate SO closely in the
selection Of the jury which is to try
him? The law provides these expedi-
ents for him that he may get justice;
but, being guilty, he does not resort to
these expedients to secure Justice, but
to avoid 1T. When the great combina-
lions which have piled up enormous
agGregations Of money by illegal and
criminal means select and stand for a
candidate for president they have q
motive, motive that it seems to me
ought to be plain to all men.
John D. Was Informed.
LET me next call your attention to
the interview which John D. Rookie
Teller gave out at the Standard Oil Of
fees in New York, Oct. 80, 1908, a few
days before the election in which Mr..
Taft first ran for tire presidency: Mr.
Rockefeller had not been near his Of
fees for several years, and when he
appeared there for the express purpose
Of making public in the most effective
and farreach1ng way this interview,
Colonel Roosevelt and all the other
progreSsives were Of the opinion that it
was done for the purpose Of hurting
Mr.. Taft. But I have changed my
mind. about that since that time. I
efeller then had information about the
complaccnce Of Mr.. Taft regarding
big Business that tho -progressives
did not have.
GAS one indication Of this, / have
been advised that not so very long be-
fore the Rockefeller interview the sug
ar trust approached Mr.. Taft through
Mr.. Charles 3. Warren Of Michigan,
the personal representative Of the sug
ar trust In the beet sugar industry in
Michigan, on matters vital to that mi
quitous combination. That the confer
ence was eminently satisfactory to the
sugar trust was Immediately shown by
the fact that Mr.. Warren and his as
sociates were for Taft and have been
for him ever since. Indeed, on this
point have only to recall to you that
Mr.. Warren was accredited in the
press reports Of q few days ago with
being the person who at midnight
placed fifty huskies from the Michigan
beet sugar factories in the hall where
The Michigan Republican state conven-
ton was to be held in order that the
hall might be controlled in the interest
Of Mr.. Taft and against Colonel Roose-
welt the next day.
Oil Octopus in Touch,
"Now, IL such conference could
make the sugar interests the devoted
supporter of Mr.. Taft the question nat
urally arises why something Of the
same kind might not have Influenced
Mr.. Rockefeller. There are not the accu-
rate data in regard to the Standard Oil
company that there are relative to the