PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3000, 24 September 1908, Page 5

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT.

MR HEARST'S EXPOSURES. A CURIOUS SIDELIGHT. Received September 23, 9.40 p.m. NEW YORK, September 23. President Roosevelt attacks Senator Foraker and Governor Haskell for bitterly opposing all the reforms proposed by the Government. President Roosevelt adds that Mr Hearst's exposures strikingly justify the action of the Administration, and the attacks cast a curious sidelight on the Government by Mr W. J.Bryant's friends.

Mr W. R. Hearst (organiser cf the new Independence Party) recently cast a bombshell into the Republican and Democratic camps. He publicly read letters from Mr John D. Arcbbold (director of the Standard Oil Trust since 1875) to two Republican politicians, Senator J. B. Foraker and Mr J. C. Sibley, indicating that they, while in public office, had financial and other relations with the Standard Oil Trust. Other documents read by Mr Hearst similarly assails two Democrat politicians, Senator J. W. Bailey and Mr Easkell. The owners of the letters anil documents contend that they were stolen. Senator Foraker's explanation is that the moneys were legal fees for services not connected with legislation. Senator Foraker was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the Presidency, but at the Convention his name was at the foot of the poll. He was recently "reconciled" to Mr Taft, and it was thought he could bring to the latter's support the negro vote.