Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-01
CFrom The New York Sun


question by The Suns correspond
ent, William r. Hearst dictated the
following statement:
The Standard Oil investigation,
about to begin before the senate Of
the United States, should be of
great value if thorough and impair
tial and made with an earnest and
honest desire to secure the fullest
facts. and not merely in the hope OF
protecting some individuals and
discrediting others.
The. personnel of the committee
would seem to be sufficient guaran-
tee of. proper and complete in
vestigation which viii reveal the
evil methods of those privileged
interests which seek TO exercise I'M
due influence upon certain of our
public men in America
AS for Mr. Roosevelt, no one
would place him in the same cate
CORY with the Penroses or Sib-
legs and the Archbolds. MI. Roose-
welt is an honorable man and it is
Impossible to imagine him involved
in any squalid scandal
The only question in regard 20
Mr.. Roosevelt is to what extent he
invited and secured the support of
those powerful criminal corpora
tions which he has always publicly
pretended to oppose In discuss
ing this question and in the Stand
ard Oil letters, Mr. Roosevelt should
adhere a little more closely to the
point involved
Evades the Question.
Mr.. Roosevelt says in the pa
pers that if Mr.. Sibley or any other
congressman desired to bring any
Friends to meet him he was always
:. willing to meet them. That is an
evasion of the question. The facts
as related are that Mr.. Roosevelt
urged Mr., Sibley to bring Mr..
Archbold to the white. house to
luncheon, and Mr.. Archbold sent
telegram to Mr. Sibey, declining to
come. 1t is not a question Of Mr..
Archbold's having desired to see
Mr. Roosevelt, but of Mr.. Roose-
velts having desired to see MIR.
Archbold.
Mr. Roosevelt then goes on to
say in the papers that he met MI.
Morgan and he met Mr. Hartman
and he met Mr. Rockefeller. and
that sometimes he discussed the
baseball situation and sometimes
the labor conditions and at one
time the white slave traffic. All
this again has nothing to do with
the point
The question discussed by Mr..
Roosevelt as related by Mr.. Sibley
in his confidential letter was the
attitude to the Standard Oil Com
pany3 It was not the attitude of
the Standard Oil Company on the
= baseball situation, nor yet the at
titude of the STANDARD Oil Company
on the labor situation. nor yet the
attitude of the Standard Oil Com
pany on the white slave traffic. but
the attitude of the Standard Oil
Company on the political situation
as 1t affected Mr.. Roosevelt.
Truth Will Come Out.
That this was exactly the subject
of discussion viii be brought out
later in greater detail, and, in the
meantime, if the subject is to be
discussed at all by Mr. Roosevelt. it
should be discussed with relation
to the points at issue and with
some consideration for the inteIIi
gence and information of the read
ing public
Mr. Roosevelt says that if ! will
tell him exactly what letters / have
he himself will make them public.
II Mr. Roosevelt wishes to make
any letters public, why does he
limit the publication to the letters
that | possess? Why not give the
public the benefit Of all the letters
he possesses on this interesting
subject?
1t is ridiculous to say that he
can't find this or that letter He
can find quickly enough the let
ters he desired to make public, and
had no difficulty in discovering the
letters he had carefully written to