ELECTION FUNDS.
AMERICAN POLITICIANS AND TRUSTS. MR, ROOSEVELT'S COMMENT. HOW HIS REFORMS TVERE OPPOSED. (DI TELEGRirn—rHESS ASSOCIATION*—CariKIQIIT.) (Rec. September 23, 9.40 p.m.) New York, September 23. In connection with Mr. W. R. Hearst's exposure of financial dealing by tho Standard Oil Trust with prominent politicians of both the Republican and the Democratic parties, President Roosevelt attacks Senator Foraker and Governor C. N. Haskell (first Governor of the new State of Oklahoma) for bitterly opposing all reforms proposed by the Government. President Roosevelt adds that Mr. Hearst's exposures strikingly justify his Administration's actions, 'and cast a curious sidelight on Mr. Bryan (Democratic candidate) and bis friends in their attacks on tho Government; President Roosevelt some time ago raised an outcry against receipt of donations by trusts to , campaign funds, and threatened to repay personally some of the Republican contributions to which he objected.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 7
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142ELECTION FUNDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 7
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