Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-05-04
BIC BUSINESS"
CONTROLS TAFT,
SAYS BRIST0W
Standard Oil Got "What II
Wanted"

FoWer1ul 'Caoe Against tho I att Ad-
rninistrati on"-Why Rockefeller Was
CompIaccnt as to Election of 1908.
Washington, April 1S-That tue TAFT
administration has entered Into an un-
derstandlng with the great business
combinations Of the country and that
the relations between those combinn-
lions ma the administration now are
harmonious and directed toward com
mon end Is the profound belief Of Sen
ator Joseph L. Erlstow Of Kansas, one
OF the foremost leaders Of the progress
slve movement In the United States.
If you take for text tho speech de-
Nvered In Philadelphia rot long ago by
President Tart. in which he declared
himself q progressive along with the
rejoindcr thereto delivered BY Colonel
Roosevelt ut Louisville and attach to
these speeches the reasonable knowl-
edge Of known facts and events, you
cannot escape the conclusion at which
I have arrived" said Senator BrIstow
In talk on what might be called the
case against the Taft administration.
said Colonel Roosevelt:
Tafvs "Progresaivicm."
-Four yeas ago the progrcssivcs sup
ported Mr.. Taft for president, and no was
opposed by such representatives OF spc-
ctal privileges as Mr.. PcnrOse OF Pennsyl-
vania. Mr. AlG:ich Of Rhode Island and
Mr.. CallnGer Of New Hampshire. "a
M"rsra l.cr'nc". Cannon and Mckinley
OF Illinois. and he was opposed ~ prac-
ideally all OF the men Of The stamp OF
Messrs CuGGenheiHlcr and Evans OF Col
orado and Mr.. Patrick Calhoun Of San
FranciPCO. These men were not DrCgrcs-
sives then. and they are not Drorrcssivcs
now: but. unlike the president they kno"
VINO Is q progressive and who IS not
Their judgment In the matter IS good
After three and a half years of associa-
tion with and knowledge Of tho president
these and their fellows are now tho pres
1dents chief supporters, and they and the
men who feel and act az they do In busi-
ness and In politics give him tho great
bulk OF r1s strength The president says
be Ia progressive. These men know him
we'll and have studied his actions for three
years. and they regard him rs being pre-
cisely 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 criml-
nal on trial for his liberty or his i'll
gotten property seek to select Il Judge
by asking change Of venue? Why
does he discriminate so closely In the
selection OF the jury which is to try
him2 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
candidate for president they have
motive, Il motive that it seems to me
ought to be plain to oil men.
John D. Was Informed.
LET me next call your attention to
The interview which John D. Rookie
Teller gave out ut the Standard Oil Of
fces In New York, Oct. 80, 1903, n few
days before the election in which MT
Taft first ron for the presidency. MIR
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 farreaChlng way this interview,
Colonel Roosevelt and all the other
progressiyes were OF the opinion that it
was done for the purpose of hurting
MIR. Taft. Eut ] have changed my
mind about that since that time
have become convinced that Mr. Rock
efeller then had information about tie
complacence Of Mr.. Taft regarding
big Business that the progressivcs
did not have.
"As 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.. Charlie" =. Warren Of Michigan
the personal representative Of the sug-
ar trust In the beet sugar industry in
Michigan, on matters vital to that ini-
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
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