The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-01
BIC BUSINESS"
CONTROLS TAFT,
SAYS BRISTOW
Standard OIL Got what |
Wanted"


compIaoent as to Election of 1908.
Washington, April 1S.-That the Taft
administration has entered into an un
derstand1ng with the great business
combinations of the country and that
the relations between those combina
tons and the administration now are
harmonious and directed toward com
mon end is the profound belief Of Sen
ator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, one
of the foremost leaders Of the progress
sive movement In the United States
"1f you take for text the speech de
livered in Philadelphia not long ago by
President Taft, in which he declared
himself 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
I have arrived" said Senator Bristow
IN a talk on what might be called "the
case against the Taft administration -
Said Colonel Roosevelt:
Taft's "Prosrsssivism."
''Four years ago the progressives sup
ported Mr.. Taft for president. and he was
opposed by such representatives of spe-
ctal privileges as Mr.. Penrose of Pennsyl-
vanfa, Mr.. Adrfch of Rhode Island and
Mr.. Gall!nger of New Hampshire Ge
Messrs. Lorimer, Cannon and Mckinley
Of Illinois, and he was opposed By prac-
tically all of the men of the stamp of
Messrs. Gusgenheimer and Evans of Col
orado and Mr.. Patrick Calhoun of Sab
Francisco. These men were not progress
sives then, and they are not progressives
now; but. unlike the president, they know
who is progressive and who IS not
Their Judgment In the matter r. good
After three and a half years of associa-
ton with and knowledge Of the president
these and their fellows are now the pres
idents chief supporters. and they and the
men who feel ana act as they do in bust
ness and In politics give him the great
bulk Of his strength. The president says
he is progressive These men know him
well and have studied his actions for three
years, and they regard him rs being pre-
cisely the kind OF progressive they APP
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 change of venue? Why
does he discriminate so closely Ia 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 it. When the great combina-
tons which have piled up enormous
aggregations of money by Illegal and
candidate for president they have a
motive, a 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, few
days before the election in which Mr..
Taft first ran for the 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 farreaching 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 l have changed my
mind about that since that time. |
have become convinced that Mr. Rock
efelIer then had information about the
complacence Of Mr.. Taft regarding
big Business that the progressives
did not have.
"As one indication Of this, I have
been advised that not SO very long be-
fore the Rockefeller interview the sug-
ar trust approached Mr.. Taft through
Mr.. Charles B. Warren of Michigan,
ths personal representative Of the sug
ar trust in the beet sugar industry in
Michigan, ON matters vital to that I'M
Quitous combination. That the confer
.,nce was eminently satisfactory to tn,
suear trust was Immediately shown b.
xhe fnct that MI. Warren and his as
poctates ware for Taft and have bee
Bo4 MN ever since. 1nueeu, OH III
point have only to recall to you Il,
VI. warran was accredited in :
pEsm IMPORTS Of few days ago v
b1fnr tAs person who at midni.
ptncsd nffy huskies from the MichiE
best sugar factories in the hall whe
she Michigan Republican state convel
ton was to be held In order that I,
hail might be controlled In the intercs
ct Mr.. Taft ana against Colonel Rooae
wsi& tie next day.
oil Octopus In Touch.
Now. h such conference coulC
make the sugar interests the devoted
supporter Of Mr.. Taft the question nat
urally arises why something of tht
same Kind might not have Influenced
Mr.. Rockefeller. There are not the accu
fate data In regard to the Standard Oh
company that there are relative to the
meeting with the sugar trust, but there
In some interesting collateral evidence
tending 30 show that somewhere anc
somehow the oil octopus got in touch
with the influences that controlled the
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