"A PALPABLE TRICK."

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1908, Page 7

"A PALPABLE TRICK."

♦ THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ME. ROCKEFELLER. WHAT "FRIENDSHIP" FOR TAFT MIGHT MEAN. \ By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 2, 8.18 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ist November.

Referring to an announcement by Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, the oil magnate, that he intends to vote for Mr. Taft, President Roosevelt, describes it as a palpable trick, on the part of the Standard Oil Trust to defeat the President's friend. Mr. Roosevelt has for a long time vehemently denounced the methods of the Standard Oil Trust, and "the whole web of business corruption." Mr. Taft is the "President's friend." i MR- TAFT ON TRUSTS AND TARIFFS. "SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?" NEW YORK, 31st October. ■ Mr. W. H. Taft, the Republican nominee for the Presidency, declares that the issue before the electors i^ whether the trusts shall be regulated by the Republican party or extirpated under Mr. Bryan. • The people must choose the method of revising the tariff and decide whether they will maintain the home market for American products, giving labour its proper reward, or whether they will cripple industries by making tariff reductions regardless of the difference in wages paid at home and abroad. Mr. Bryan declares that the great issue is: "Shall the people rule?" In a speech at Athens (Ohio). Mr. Taft said "tho question now for the people to settle is whether the remedies which the Republican Party has adopted and carried out under Theodore Roosevelt shall be continued ; whether the confidence which the public have in the Republican party and which' the business men have in the Republican party, and those who are willing to invest their capital have in the Republican party, shall be availed of by the people of this country in order to bring back the prosperity that we have had, or wtiether we shall turn back the Government to a party that has been doing everything by turns and aothing long : that in 189b proposed not a revision of the tariff nor any other remedy, but to scale down 'jr debts by adopting a silver dollar that was worth 50 cents in order to bring about a prosperity which their leader said was impossible. He said, if you remember, that unless 'we took fr&e silver wheat would go clown, and he did not have to live two years before he saw that prophecy repudiated -by the fads."