Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-21
STEWART REVIEWS
REELECTION PLEA
oita Chairman Charges Mis-
Representation to Rookie
Teller Spokesman.

e. the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 21.--Stockhold-
CO Of the Standard Oil Co. Of Indiana,
wno on March will decide whether
Col. Robert w Stewart is to continue
az chairman of the hoard. have been
tailed new appeal for reelection by
Col Stewart
The letter charges spokesman of John
D. Rockefeller, IT,, with a campaign
Of Misrepresentation" in their effort to
remove Col. Stewart from control. 1t
expresses the hope that the contest be-
tween the Younger Rockefeller and him.
self be kept on a high plane. 1T was
my understanding that such. too, was
the hope and intention of Mr.. Rookie
Teller" the letter continued.
When Mr. Rockefeller sailed for
Egypt" Col Stewart wrote in the let
tiers which went into the mails last
night. Mr. Aldrich winthrop W. AID
rich, brother-in-law and attorney for
Mr.. Rockefeller) and Mr.. Ivy Lee APP
parently did not understand the matter
as he did
After saying he would embark on no
'unseenly scramble for proxies, 1t surely
must be without his knowledge or con-
tlldJ OLilclS Ill HIS ndII1e nave GIll-
barked upon campaign of misrepre-
sentation: that they in a very wild
scramble for proxies, indeed, have
brought the whole force of the Rookie
Teller millions to bear to intimidate and
coerce wherever possible individuals and
financial institutions and all of the COM
panieS which the Rockefeller interests
dominate in order to defeat the present
management of this company"
His opponents. Col Stewart said. have
initiated 'rule-or- ruin" policy, bent on
securing control of the company, re
CARELESS of the consequences.
The chairman denied that he was
asking a personal vindication of the
stockholders. That has already been
given to me by two courts and two
1urieS" What he wanted, he said, was
that they vote for the good of the
company and your own good"
Asking by what right his opponents
have assumed ''holier than thou" at
tttude, Col. Stewart asserted: THE men
on our board of directors have a devo-
ton to right, clean way of thinking
and living just as deep and sincere as
any OF my opponents. And these men
are supporting me. But they have learn
ed the commandment, Thou shalt not
bear false witness
It deny that Divine guidance is
vouchsafed to my opponents alone. I
deny that they have any corner on
morality, in business or otherwise. 1
deny that their piety-and l use the
word in all reverence and veneration-
is any greater than the piety of thou
sands of clean-living, clean thinking
men and women, who know me and
are supporting me-"
Col. Stewart replied in detail to
charges which he said were made by
Aldrich and Lee in statements issued in
behalf of Mr.. Rockefeller Referring to
a document given newspapers on Feb
I1lary TO- entitled Col. Stewart and the
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana" Col.
Stewart said Aldrich was guilty of
placing in circulation grossly unfair
deception-unfair because it was large
~ insinuation rather than accusation
deception of omission as well as of
statement"
II never had ANYTHING to do with |
Teapot Dome leases Col. Stewart wrote |
the stockholders There never has |
been introduced anywhere single line |
OF testimony or shred of evidence that |
had anything whatever to do with or |
knew anything at all about the leasing |
Of Teapot Dome. Yet this ponderous |
tome issued by Mr. Aldrich deals in con- |
siderable detail with that affair"
THAT Mr.. Aldrich and the press |
agent Mr.. Ivy Lee, with or without Mr. |
Rockefeller's approval, should resort to |
such an unfair and libelous attack |
should disSipate once and for all any |
naive idea which some people still may |
cherish that there is any moral issue |
involved in this struggle for control of |
the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Such |
an attack through insinuation is the /
very antithesis Of morality