HEARST'S CHARGES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 250, 19 October 1908, Page 5

HEARST'S CHARGES.

BIG WHIT FOB LIBEL. £1,200,000 CLAIMED BY HASKEIX (Received B—o a.m.) NEW YORK, October IS. A writ was recently issued by Mr. Haskell, ex-Governor of the State of Oklahoma and. ex-treasurer of the Democratic National Fund Committee, claiming six million dollars (£1j200.000 sterling) damages against Willi-am R. Hearst, the millionaire newspaper proprietor, for | alleged libel contained in his speech made at Memphis last month, in which he described Haskell as the tool of the Stan- j dard Oil Trust. I Mr. Hearst evaded service of the writ i until last night, when the sheriff of Nebraska, on being refused admission to Mr. Hearst's private railway saloon ear, which was standing on a siding at Ottaha, broke into the car while Hearst and his wife were retiring tor the night, and served the writ on him. On September 21st. Mr. Hearst created a treat sensation by declaring that Senator Foraker and Mr. J. C. Sibley, Republican politicians. Senator Bailey (Democrat), and Governor C. N. Haskell, Governor of Oklahoma, and treasurer of the Democratic National Fund, were the servile tools of the Standard Oil Trust. He read) a number of letters which it was stated had been stolen from the trust's office, in support of his allegations. Mr. Haskell resigned both his public positions and declared himself willing to go before any tribunal which President Roosevelt chose to name in order to prove his innocence of the charges. As a result of the charges, Senator Foraker, who was assisting in the Republican campaign for the Presidency, withdrew from the tight, and it wns stated that his political career j had been rained. !