UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.
Mil. HEARST’S SELECTION.A PERSONAL CONTROVERSY. United Press Association, Copyright (Received Oct. 1, 11.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 1. Mr. Thomas L. Hisgen, whom -Mr. Hearst induced the Independent party to select as their candidate for the Presidency, is one of four brothers, manufacturers of axle grease, whom the Standard Oil Trust vainly tried to crush because they refused to sell tlieir business for £120,000. Mr. Bryan, in another letter, declares that if elected lie will enforce the anti-trust laws persistently and consistently, not spasmodically and intermittently like President Roosevelt.
Roosevelt now declines to reply to Bryan's last letter on the ground that the controvejrsv is now descending to •‘personalities.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2311, 2 October 1908, Page 3
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