Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1908 — STANDARD OIL WORKING FOR TAFT. [ARTICLE]

STANDARD OIL WORKING FOR TAFT.

The trusts and monopolies are working with all their for Taft and Sherman. The Standard Oil company Is as busy as the rest of them. The following article, which is reproduced from the Gary Evening Times, a Tsjft paper, which printed it under big headlines, shows one line along which the Standard is working: (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., Sept 14. —Positive declarations have been adduced that the Standard Oil company, victims of Judge Landis’ $29,000,000 fine, will support the republican candidates for national office in this year's campaign. The information was received yesterday by a Times representative from a

relTaETe source ancffs absolutely ofthe utmost importance to local office-seek-ers as it gives them the assurance that they may be carried into power on the strength of the national ticket, at least. Receive Literature. For several weeks, office employes of the Standard Oil company at Whiting have received the issues of Harper’s Weekly, one of the dominant republican papers of the year. Articles of unusual strength, advocating the Taft-Sherman platform and denouncing Wattersonian ideas as advanced by Mr. Bryan have appeared weekly. The campaign, waged by the Harper company has been virile in the extreme and will Influence its readers to a marked degree. There has been no charge made for these papers and the recipients have often refused to accept them from the postoffice, believing that they will some day receive a bill for the subscription. Weeklies Gift of Company. Investigation at the Chicago postal headquarters, through which the Harper magazines pass, revealed the fact that the weeklies are the gift of the Standard Oil company, who have paid a year’s subscription in advance for upward of 200 of their employes. The method of campaign managing has been' kept very secret Until discovered by The Times representative and is a new one in political circles. It Is believed that other corporations will follow the example of the oil interests and . elect their candidates by the distribution of such* sensible campaign literature as that produced by the Harper company.