The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-19
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STANDARD OIL MONEY used In
west VIRGINIA
ELECTED HIM SENATOR

Another Letter From JOnn ~. arCn.
bold, Head of Standard Oil and a
Good Friend of Our Senator Nc
Laurin, is Published in the March
Number of Hearst Magazine.
Further damaging letters from
John D. Archbold, the Standard Oil
official, who kept United States Sen
ators on his pay roll, are given in
the Hearst Magazine for March.
Hearst's Magazine has already pub
lished letters bearing the signature
o. John D. Archbold addressed to
Senators John L. McLaurin, of South
Carolina, Bailey, of Texas, and 9TH
ers. These letters have been hard
to explain-so hard that Senator Nc
Laurin and Senator Rbi1ey have left
public life because Of them.
These last letters deal with the ac-
tivities of Standard Oil in West Vlr-
ginia, with men like Elkins and
Scott, both United States Senator'S
at the time. Read the following ex-
cerpts from the article when Stand
ard Oil Carried West Virginia." and
you will be given an instructive
if not an entertaining glimpse of Mr..
Archbold throwing his Shiny Stand
ard Oil net over the Senate end OF
West Virginia.
The last published lesson-leaf in
Standard Oil and its corrupnons left
Mr.. Bailey, then Senator from Texas,
| on his way to Mr.. Archbold and No.
26 Broadway. The New York Amer
lean says a review of what letters
| and documents are in the hands of
Hearst's Magazine does not develop
the particulars of that Bailey-Arch-
bold conference. It is less publicly
| important perhaps since Mr.. Bailey
already has been driven from the
Senate. Senator McLaurin, of this
State, was exposed by Tillman sew
eral years ago.
The American goes on to say "the
Clapp Committee, if it would, might
lay bare every angle of the Bailey
| Archbold story. But-apparently-
it won't. The resolution which call
ed the Clapp Committee into being
commanded to go thoroughly into all
of the correspondence between Mr..
L nf hnfh HNnCc
and Senate. Or, if you prefer the ac-
tual words, All financial transactions
and correspondence relating there
unto between John D. Archbold and
Colonel Roosevelt and Representa-
tives in Congress and members of
| the United States Senate from the
year 1900 to the date of the investi-
CATION
Why, then, doesn't it call for all
the Archbold letter-books, and the
entire Archbold files? Or is it afraid
to make what sure discoveries would
thereby be uncovered? If the Clapp
Committee were in honest earnest,
what would it do in the dripping case
of Mr.. Penrose? The Baileys and
Lorimers are gone, but Mr.. Penrose
still insults mankind from his Sen
ate place. He confesses, Mr.. Arch
bold confesses- Of course, when
confronted by overpowering proof
that Mr.. Penrose received $4,000 of
Archbold-s .andard Oil money.
Going back a decade, Standard
Oil, counting its Senate henchmen,
could point to Mr.. Hanna and Mr..
Foraker in Ohio, Mr.. Platt and Mr..
Depew in New York, Mr.. Quay and
Mr.. Penrose in Pennsylvania, while
Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. Westmore and
Mr.. Crane and Mr.. Gallinger and Mr..
Hale might be described as holding
the Standard Oil fort for all New
England. And there were others.
| Over in West Virginia Senator Ell
kins, himself a trust master of coal
and railroad sort, was to the Stand
ard Oil and every other trust as the
shadow of a great rock in weary
land. And Mr.. Elkins was in con-
slant and effective touch with Mr.
Archbold. What a dark wealth Of
West Virginia secrets the Clapp Com
mittee might unearth, if it would
but act up to the design Of its il
vention and demand the whole Arch
bold correspondence!
| Take the following letter from Mr..
Archbold to Mr.. Elkins. Where does
the inference which it sets in motion
end? And differences are the corner
posts of all discovery. One hears the
squeak behind the Dashboard, and
infers the mouse; one sees the back
fin cutting the surface of the sea, and
infers the shark. 1t was during the
campaign of 1900, the second Nc
Kinley campaign, and Mr.. Elkins had
written to Mr.. Archbold preferring g
certain requests. Thus affably did
Mr.. Archbold answer him:
October 80, 1900.
My dear Senator:
You need not offer any excuses for
asking any aid that we can possibly
extend you in West Virginia. Mr.
Clark has returned and / have just
telegraphed him as follows:
Senator Elkins is very anxious to
have John Starkey and D. F. Cornell,
foremen, work vigorously for the sue
cess of the Republican legislative
ticket in their districts. 1t is very
important We are very anxious to
do everything possible to aid Sena-
tor Elkins. Will you please give the
matter prompt attention?'
I have no doubt whatever but that
Mr.. Clark will give the matter
prompt and vigorous attention. With
good wishes, I am
| Very tr,11y YOURS