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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 7

THEFT OF THE STANDARD OIL LETTERS. MORE TO GOME. ELECTION CONTEST CENTRES IN NEW YORK. (BT TELEGKAm—rKESS ASSOCIATION—COPIKIGHT.) New York, October 21. "Collier's Weekly" narrates how two employees of tlio Standard. Oil Trust sold .to various firms Mr. Archbold's letters,.-,in-volving Messrs. Bailey and Haskell' (Democrats) and Foraker and Sibley (Republicans). Mr. W. R. Hearst paid £600 for tbe privilege of photographing some of them, the letters being afterwards returned .to the Standard Oil Trust's files. Letters to Senators Aldrich and Penrose, and to Mr. Kenna are still unpublished. Mr. Taft (Republican candidate for the United States Presidency) and Mr. W. J. Bryan (Democrat) are concentrating their electioneering efforts in Now York. They admit that whoever carries New York at the poll will carry the country. Mr. N. W. Aldrich, Republican Leader in the Senate, is chairman of tho Committee on Finance, and took a leading part in the currenoy question. He introduced a Curroncy Bill. Mr. Boies Penrose, Republican Senator, was chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican State Convention in 1903-01, and has written a "History of the City Government of Philadelphia."