Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED [ARTICLE]

NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED

President Determined to Push the Cases Against the Standard Oil Trust. Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 24. —Presidentßooscvelthas announced In unmistakable terms the determination of the administration to proceed with the prosecution of the Standard Oil case, despite the decision adverse to the government handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals. This decision, the president thinks, in no way affects the merits of the case, and he makes known his decision to cause the action to be brought again before the courts in< such shape, if possible, as to prevent technicalities interfering with a decision based niton the actual issues involved. Secretary Loeb says: “The president has directed the attorney general to immediately take steps for the retrial of the Standard Oil ease. The reversal of the decision of the lower court does not in any shape or way touch the merits of the ease, except in so far as the size of the fine is eon cerned. There is absolutely no question of the guilt of the defendants or of the exceptionally grave character* of the offense. The president wouldregard it as a gross miscarriage of justice if through any technicalities of any kind the defendant escaped the punishment which would have unquestionably been meted out to any weaker defendant who bad been guilty of such offense. The president will do everything in his power to avert or prevent such miscarriages of justice.”