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Senator Owens'
Reply to Haskell
Muskogee., Okla, June 19th. 1912
W. L. McCann, Ksq .
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma.
My dear Sir: —
I appreciate the fact that my
friends are unable to properly answer
the charges made against me by Has
kell unlets I advise them of the facts.
In accordance with your request,
therefore, 1 give you, briefly, au out-
line of an answer to the charges as
far as they have been reported to rae.
I will say first, that any charge
questioning my integrity or sincerity
as a Seuator is a flat falsehood.
SWAMP LANDS.
The statement that 1 had intro-
duced a bill providing for the drain-
age of swamp lands In Oklahoma be-
cause I had an interest in 71,000 acres
of swamp land* on the Clear Boggy,
or elsewhere, is false 1 have no in-
terest of auy kind on the Clear Boggy,
and no interest in swamp lauds any-
where.
The Oklahoma Legislature, by
House Concurrent Resolution, ap-
proved by Haskell January 27th, 190!#.
memorialized me as a Senator from
Oklahoma—
"To extend the uses and pur-
poses of the Reclamation Service
to include drainage as well as
Irrigation." (See Session Laws
19uy, pp. 6.)
RECLAMATION FUND.
The statement that Oklahoma was
Injured by the Act of June 2ith, 1910,
authorizing loans to be made from
the Reclamation fund to complete the
northwestern irrigation works, is aluo
untrue. Champ Clark represented the
Democrats on the Conference Com-
mittee that agreed to this act and no-
body opposed the conference report
in either House. The bill provided
for a loan subject to reimbursement.
The Oklahoma delegation can easily
obtain the money for any Irrigation
works needed in Oklahoma. We have
a promise now for an examination of
a number of irrigation projects in Ok-
lahoma.
THE USE OF THE FRANK.
1 am charged with the abuse of the
frank. The statement is false. All
matter not fraukable has been paid
for when sent out by my Secretary.
I have used the frank for legitimate
purposes only, to advise my constitu-
ents of my public service. This is
the proper use of the frank. It is ri-
diculous to say that a Senator shall
not be allowed to send a citizen a
speech which he has delivered as the
representative of that citizen. The
citizen has a right to know, and it is
the right and duty of a Senator to
inform the citizen It was made all
the more necessary since I was being
systematically lampooned throughout
the State by John W. Flenner. the em-
ploye of Haskell, who has been de-
faming me for four years by circular
letters sent to the newspapers In all
the counties of Oklahoma.
IMPROPER EXPENDITURES FIVE
YEARS AGO.
This statement that I spent over
one hundred thousand dollars in mak-
ing the campaign five years ago is a
wilful falsehood. Outside of my bills
for stamps, printing and newspaper
items my expenses were small.
ENLARGING CAMPAIGN EXPEN-
SES.
The statement that I attempted to
enlarge the amount of expenditure*
permitted to a Senator in Oklahoma
is a wilful falsehood. The Congress
ional Record (page 3072, July 17,
1911.) shows that the Reed amend-
ment. contained the following words:
"No candidate shall expend
more money than it is lawful to
expend under the laws of the
State in which he resides."
It had the further proviso that no
candidate for the Senate should ex
peud exceeding $5,000. Mr. Reed had
previously offered his amendment
(Record page 3062) without this pro-
viso. The proviso weakened it, be-
cause several Senators living in popu-
lous states were unwilling to have
this limitation. After consultation
with Senator Reed, I suggested that
this proviso should be made $10,000,
and he changed his proposal accord-
ingly. It nevertheless was defeated,
even with this enlargement (page
3072), but wa8 later accepted In a
modified form (page 3074). The state-
ment that I wbr responsible for the
further proviso in the bill that per-
sonal expenses and distributing cir-
culars, etc., should not be regarded
as an expenditure within the mean-
ing of the law, is a falsehood. I was
not responsible for it.
The examination of the Record will
show that I demanded a thorough-
going corrupt practices act (Record
3065 66 and 3075, July 17th). and that
I attempted to limit this bill much
more strictly by an amendment offer-
ed by me, which failed.
RECALL OF U. S. SUPREME
COURT JUDGES BY POP-
ULAR VOTE.
Statement that I advocated the re-
call of Uulted States Supreme Court
Judges by popular vote is also untrue.
The bill I introduced showsnhat the
recall proposed was the recall by Con-
gress and not by popular vote, which
would be Impracticable and ridicu-
lous. I favored electing subordinate
Federal judges and recalling all Fed-
eral judges by resolution of Congress.
The misrepresentation of the bill I
introduced is wilful.
8ELLING THE CHOCTAW TIMBER
LANDS IN LARGE TRACTS.
The statement that I favored the
sale of the Choctaw timber lands In
large tracts is a falsehood. My pro-
test to the Secretary of the Interior
lUfSliUd the sale In large tracts, and
i this protest was published in many of
the papers in the Choctaw country be- !
fore the bids were received, and on ,
my protest the Secretary refused all
bids and will sell in saiall tracts.
SALE OF THE SURFACE OF THE
SEGREGATED COAL LANDS.
The statement that I did not make
a resolute effort to bring about the
prompt sale of the surface of the seg
regated coal lands Is a falsehood. I
did everything in my power to accom-
plish this, and passed the bill through
the Senate within an hour after 1 got
it back from the House accepting the
House provisions.
My relation to this matter has been
wilfully and deliberately mlsrepre
seated in repeated dispatches sent out
by John W. Flenner, a Republican re-
porter. who for some time drew one
hundred dollars a month from the
treasury of Oklahoma, as statistical
clerti, and who seems to have been
employed out of the treasury of the
State by Haskell when Governor of
Oklahoma to backbite me, the Sena-
tor from Oklahoma.
DEMOCRACY.
The charge that I am not a good
Democrat Is a wilful falsehood.
1 organized the Democratic party In
Indian Territory In 1892; was Demo-
cratic National Committeeman. 1892-
ROBERT L. OWEN.
96; was a member of the sub-commit-
tee that drew the Democratic Na
tlonal platform in 1896! was then
member of the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee; was
then vice-chairman of the Democratic
Campaign Committee in Oklahoma in
1906, when we elected the Constitu-
tional Convention. 1 have just been
appointed a member of the Advisory
Board of the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee. Every
Democratic Senator on the floor of
the Senate will vouch for my progres-
sive Democracy, as will William J.
Bryan, Champ Clark, and other Demo
cratlc Leaders.
On May 15th, 1910. at the Columbia
Theatre, New York I addressed a
meeting called by the American Civic
Alliance a non-partisan educational
organization, on the subject of "The
Meaning of Insurgency In Congress "
The address wa8 on progressive demo-
cracy. It was published In the June,
1910, issue of the official ongan of the
American Civic Alliance "Emancipa-
tion," and can be found In any public
library.
Haskell secretly circularized the
State with the letter pretended to
have been written by Charles B.
Peters, of Hominy, Osage County. 1
am reliably informed that Peters did
not write the letter. I am satisfied
that Haskell wrote it. In this letter
he charged that the meeting at the
Columbia Theatre was called by the
Hearst Independence League and that
I affiliated with that party. The state-
ment is false. >
Haskell has attempted since then to
make the State believe that my ap-
proval of the principles of the Hearst
Independence League party is treach-
ery to the Democracy.
I enclose, as my answer to this
charge, a very remarkable letter (Ex-
hibit 1) from Haskell himself, when
Governor, addressed to William R.
Hearst, in which Haskell, in a three-
page legalcap size sheet, undertakes
to show that every Item in the plat-
form of the Hearst Independence
League will be found in the Constitu-
tion of Oklahoma and In the Demo-
cratic National platform. In this let-
ter Mr. Haskell says:
"To William R. Hearst.
"You have claimed that there Is
need for a new political party and
have sought to organize one, and have
formulated a platform.
"Below you will find every declara-
tion of State principles in your plat-
form, and you will also find that in
every instance, except one, the De-
mocracy of Oklahoma, In framing the
Constitution and acts of the first Leg-
islative session, have covered every-
thing you recommend.
"You will also find that the Denver
platform covers them with only two
exceptions, as indicated below."
The two exceptions were recall and
the postal censorship. Mr. Haskell,
therefore, while Governor, approved
everything in W. R. Hearst's plat-
form, except the recall and postal
censorship. And I remind you that
Mr. Haskell, in writing, committed
himself to the "Joint Legislative
Board," of the Farmers' Unions, the
American Federation of Labor, and
the Railway organizations of the
State of Oklahoma that he would sup-
port the recall as well as the Initia-
tive referendum and blanket primary,
aa a condition of their support of him
as a candidate for the Constitutional
Convention. The proof of this 1 send
you as exhibits 2 and 3.
The record I a*ad you. consisting of
a copy of the demand of the Joint
Legislative Board of the Farmers'
Cnions, the American Federation of
I.abor. and the Railway organizations,
demonstrates that those organisations
made the demaud on every candidate
for the Constitutional Convention that
such caudidate should answer in writ
iug immediately whether he would
agree to support the Initiative, the
referendum, the recall, the blanket
primary, aud other progressive and
humane statutes—slxteeu In number
aud that this demand was signed by
W. T. Fields, Chairman, and J. Mar
vey Lynch, Secretary, and contained ;
a flat pledge from each candidate that
he would pledge himself "to support
every measure with all the powers
of my belug should 1 be elected.
Candidate for Constitutional Conven 1
tlon in District No
The record sent you shows that Mr.
Haskell, from District No. 76. signed
this pledge, together with 123 other
candidates. He now claims to be en-
titled to all the credit for these pro-
gressive doctrines The fact is. he
did not carry out his promise to sup-
port the recall, and put in force a dif-
ficult form of the initiative and refer
endum, whereby the Indifferent inat-
tentive and ignorant vote is counted
against the initiated measures in-
stead of permitting a majority of the
vote on the measure submitted to con-
trol. All men familiar with the ini-
tiative and referendum know that out
of 100,000 votes cast for Governor
only about 65,000 will vote on an in-
itiative measure. About 35,000 out of
100,000 votes voluntarily disfranchise
themselves. Under the Oklahoma
system where 100,000 votes were cast
for Governor It would take over 50.•
000 votes to make a majority to carry
an initiated measure, and since only
65,000 votes are cast on an initiated
measure it would require those who
propose it to carry over 50,000 out of
65,000, approximately. In this way
the rule of the Intelligent vote acting
upon a measure is denied by permit-
ting the registration as against a pro-
posed measure of every vote not vot-
ing. In other words, In actual prac-
tice. 16.000 rotes of those voting on
an Initiated measure may defeat 49,
000 votes who vote on a measure, it
Is a rule of the minority over the ma
Jorlty, against which the progressive
movement is a protest.
I assert now that I, In 1906. caused
George H. Shlbley, the President of
The People s Rule league of America,
headquarters at Washington, D. C., to
request Samuel Gompers. the presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, to have the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor in Ok-
lahoma question the candidates for
the Constitutional Convention on the
initiative and referendum.
I assort again that after consulta-
tion with George H. Shlbley. Presi-
dent of The People's Rule League. I
went to Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1908,
and obtained from William J. B'yan.
a letter addressed to Mayor Brown,
his personal representative In Denver,
requesting that The People's Rule de
claration should go into the Demo-
cratic National platform, then being
prepared in Denver.
On August 11th, 1911. I wrote to Mr.
Bryan, calling his attention to the
fact that I had called upon him at
Lincoln as National Chairman of The
People's Rule League of America. In
1908, and had requested him to give
me a letter to his personal represents
tlve in Denver, asking that the decla-
ration in favor of the People's Rule
should be inserted in the platform. I
reminded him of his having given me
this letter, which he wrote In his of-
fice at his residence. Mr. Bryan, on
August 18th. 1911. answered my let-
ter and sent the following:
"Dear Mr. Owen:
"I have no doubt of the accur-
acy of your memory with regard
to your visit to Lincoln, and of
your requesting my active inter-
est in the declsratlon for the Peo-
ple's Rule in an explicit fashion
In the Democratic National Plat-
form of 1908. ^
"Your recollection of my having
written a letter to this effect at
your instance I do not question.
"Yours respectfully,
(Signed) W. J. BRYAN.M
. "My Dear Owen:
"Glad to send letter.
(Signed) "BRYAN."
On June 14th, 1912, I received a let-
ter from George H. Shlbley, President
of The People's Rule League of Amer-
ica, containing the following:
"My recollection of the matter
is very clear. In 1908 you planned
that the Democratic platform
should declare for the People's
Rule, and, as Chairman of our Na-
tional Committee, you visited
Mr. Bryan at Lincoln to persuade
him, if possible, to recommend
the adoption of such a plank In
1 the Democratic National Con-
vention.
"The success of your mission
was evidenced by a letter which
you secured from Mr. Bryan to
his representative at Denver, re-
questing him to place this plank
in the proposed draft of the plat-
form. This was done and the
Resolution Committee approved
it, as also did the Convention.
The foregoing facts are of record
In the files of our office.
"Sincerely yours,
(Signed)
"GEORGE H. SHIBLEY,
"President.*
DEMOCRATIC CONTRIBUTIONS
The statement that I have been par-
( simonieus In contributing to the Dem-
I ocratic cause is untrue. I have ex-
; pended a larger sum than my salary
i as °enator in promoting the princi-
plei of Democracy during the last
t' -* years, In 1908 I led the contri-
butions with a check for $1,000. In
1910 I campaigned Oklahoma at my
own expense and contributed other
funds, making a total of about $450,
for that campaign, and nearly two
months of constant campaigning.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY Dl
RECT VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.
The charge that I had done nothing
to promote the election of Senators Is
false.
In the 60th Congress I led the fight
for the election of Senators on the
floor of the Senate, for Senate Joint
Resolution No. 91. introduced by me.
and forced a vote of the Senate, aud
gave National Publicity to the rea-
sons justifying this reform by a wid*+
spread propoganda
In the 61st Congress I again led thf
fight, pressing Senate Joint Kesolu
tlon No. 41. Introduced by me. My
speech on this subject on May :<lst.
1910, wsh published In Bryan's "Com- 1
moner" and extracts from this speech
were kept at the head of the columns
iu the "Commoner" for eight months
Iu the 62nd Congress (the present
Congress! I again took an active part,
and Congress, for the first time in th*
history of the United gtntns bM Mb
mitted an amendment to the States
providing for the election of Senators
by the direct vote of the people
I favor now, the Oregon plan of
electing U. S Senators In Oklahoma
by adopting the present initiated bill,
and 1 hope It will he adopted -if tbl
August primaries I have advocated
It in the press of Oklahoma, and in
this enterprise I oeem to have no other
candidate as a competitor
PERSONAL CHARGES
Various personal charges have beeu
made against me, which I answer in
serial order.
EASTERN CHEROKEE CASE
My fee in the Eastern Cherokee
case was not excessive. In this case
1 had taken up a claim which was
sixty-five years ohi Every man who
had attempted to collect the claim
had failed I gave it seven years of
service, spending over $30,000 expen-
ses before 1 recovered a dollar, argued
the « in In thrst court trials, Includ*
ing the Supreme Court of the United
States, passed various resolutions of
the Senate and acts of Congress In
connection therewith, aud finally oh
tained a recovery of five million dol-
lars in 1906 before 1 became Senator.
The record of my private file was
2580 printed pages of briefs, memor-
ials, etc., in this case. The fee
awarded to me by a judgment of the
United States Court of Claims, acting
under the authority of an Act of Con-
gress, after a full hearing of the facts
and with full knowledge of the case.
The fee was awarded for seven years'
service on a contingent basis, and 1
was allowed four and one-third per-
i cent, out of which 1 had to pay mrtoUS
assistants and reimburse my expenses.
Wlille I was absent from my private
business I suffered serious losses be-
cause of neglecting other things.
MISSISSIPPI CHOCTAWS.
My opponents have circulated the
story that I have received millions of
dollars in fees from the poor, ignor-
ant Mississippi Choctaws. The fact Is
I hav« never received a dollar from
the Mississippi Choctaws. As the at-
I torney and associate of Charles F.
Wlnton, I represented them In Wash
lngton for ten years, assisting to se-
cure for them an estate worth about
six or seven thousand dollars apiece
after their claim had been rejected by
the Dawes Commission, by Judge Clay-
ton's court and by the Supreme Court
of the United States I worked for
them ten years aud expended $36,000.
After the Mississippi Choctaws had
been allowed the right of citizenship,
Congress in 1906, before I entered
public life, authorized the United
States Court of Claims to pass upon
the question, whether Winton and his
associates were entitled to receive
anything This act drawn by me,
I limited the Judgment of the court to a
basis of quantum meruit, and the At-
torney General of the United States
was instructed to defend the Missis
sippi Choctaws
Under my advice, Wlnton never
made an effort at any time to enforce
the original contracts, but they were
merely prrwented to the Court to
show that Wlnton had been employed
to represent the Mississippi Choctaws
aud that he appeared with authority.
The petition in this case speaks for
j itself, and it makes no demand for
anything beyond what the court may
find to be Just compensation, consid-
ering the services rendered.
The original contracts contem-
plated Wlnton's moving the Missis
slppl Choctaws to the West, and look
Ing after the development of their es-
tates—a task which proved to be gi
gantlc and impossible. Wlnton never
made any claim for the money lost In
moving the Mississippi Choctaws
West, but counted it as a loss. Win-
ton died, his family believes, as a re-
sult of exposure in this work. His
widow was left in poverty, and has
never received any return for his
sacrifices
The statement that Winton was my
private secretary is untrue He was a
business man. formerly a banker in
Oswego, Kansas.
The court of claims has never
, passed upon this case, which has been
pending for six years.
' The statement that I used my po-
sition as a United States Senator to
pass an Act securing a lien on the
land of the Mississippi Choctaws to
protect any judgment which might be
j recovered by Winton is untrue. I
expressly refrained from taking any
part before the Committee ou Indian
AfTairs which had this matter in
charge. The item was put upon the
bill in the House of Representatives
in accordance with the precedents set
in other cases. John Boyd was the at-
torney who represented Wlnton in the
House. In the Senate Committee I
expressly refrained from discussing
the matter in any way.
THE BLACKWELL SUITS.
The charge that I had wronged the
Palmers at Blackwell is false a suit
was recently brought in Blackwell,
purporting to be in the Interest of the
Palmers, seeking recovery of 160
acres in the heart of the city of Black-
well. This suit falsely made me a
defendant, charging me with misde-
meanor in probating the case as at-
torney nineteen years ago, although
I had no interest whatever in the city
of Blackwell, and although I had
taken no part In the probating of
these lands
Nineteen years ago I obtained the
right for fifty or sixty Cherokees, in-
cluding the Palmers, to buy eighty
acres of land each at $112.50 per al-
lotment, on the Cherokee outlet. The
Palmers sold their allotments to a
man named Blackwell who founded
the town of Blackwell. I was not
Blackwell's attorney In probating the
cases, had no license to practice law
In old Oklahoma, and did not practice
law there.
The petition was a political attack
on me ttlltd with scurrilous cha.ges
and printed In the newspapers for the
obvious purpose of discrediting me
politically, and my answer was re-
fused publication.
These suits claiming half of the city
of Blackwell were dismissed with,
prejudice upon payment of $3,500
thus showing the indecent character
of the suit.
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE.
The charge that I opposed the
Grandfather Clause is false.
1 favored the Grandfather Clause, j
advocated Its strict enforcement and 1
have not done or said anything Just I-
fying a contrary view.
My letter to Russell was written tc4
the editor of a Democratic negro
paper, iu answer to a suggestion that
he desired me to draft an argument
which would appeal to the educated
negro. I wrote this letter for his use,
from the standpoint of the educated
negro, giving him a good and valid
argument why. even from his point
of view, he should support the Demo-
cratic party. 1 did not then Imagine
that Russel was in the employ of Has-
kell. The copj which Is lllisd by
Haskell to be a true photographic
copy in point of fact is not a true
photographic copy, for the reason that
heavy underscores are forged into the
body of this letter and then photo-
graphed as a part of my letter.
The forged underscores give a false
emphasis and entirely change the
significance of the letter which should
be taken ns a whole, without era-
ptinsis, and Interpreted as written for
the purpose intended—as an argument
from the standpoint of an educated
negro, for whom it was drafted.
The immediate delivery of the let-
ter to Haskell for publication dis-
closes a petty conspiracy which is ob-
vious. The grandfather clause, which
permits the Illiterate white man to
vote under certain circumstances, U
justified on the ground of the superior
Intelligence and higher ethical and
moral standards, of the white man,
even though he be illiterate.
I do not think that a citizen of the
far North is qualified to instruct a
Southern-born Democrat how to deal
with the negro. Mr. Haskell's views,
coming from Northern Ohio, are very
different from the Southern view. He
introduced in the Constitutional Con-
vention in Oklahoma, Proposition No.
162, as follows:
"Leader Print, Guthrie"
Proposition No. 162.
By Mr. Haskell.
"A PROPOSITION."
"For Constitutional Provision Re-
' lating to Race Distinction.
Section 1. In every instance, under
the constitution and laws of this state,
' in distinguishing between the races,
! the words "Negro" and "colored per-
sons" are synonymous and declared
to mean persons of African descent
within the third degree.
"Sec. 2 In no instance under the
constitution and the laws of this State
shall there ever be any race dlstlnc-
tlon between the Indian and whits
races.''
This proposition was submitted by
Mr. Haskell, December 6th, 1906, and
referred to the Committee on General
Provisions In other words, Mr. Has-
kell proposed to require all Oklaho-
mans to recognize any person of negro
descent beyond the third degree as
the equal In every respect with mem-
bers of the white and Indian races
Any laws under this constitutional
provision, providing for the separate
use of cars, hotels, and other public
accomodations, and the laws with re-
gard to marriage, etc., would have
given full recognition to mulattoes be-
yond the third degree as if they were
whites or Indians.
It is not agreeable to a man who
was born and raised in the South, but
I submit it does Bhow that Mr. Has-
kell Is not qualified to Instruct me
with regard to the manner of dealing
with the negro.
Recently Mr. Haskell's campalg*
manager, Samuel V. O'Hare, whose
name Is printed on the Haskell liter-
ature, addressed the following letter
from the headquarters of the Jackson
Club to a negro, authorizing him to or-
ganize a Negro Democratic Club
IMPRESSION OF NOTED ABBE*
Irving Calls Sepulcher® in Weatmln
eter Nothing but a Treasury of
Humiliation.
I^ondon.—The last beams of the day
were now falutly streaming 'hrough
the painted windows in the high vaults
above me; the lower parts of the ab- '
bey were already wrapped In the ob-
scurity of twilight The chapel and
aisles grew darker and darker The
effigies of the kings faded into shad*
ows; the marble figures of the monu-
ments assumed strange shapes In the
uncertain light; the evening breeze
crept through the aisles like the cold
breath of the grave; and even the
distant footfall of a verger, traversing
the poets' corner, had something
strange and dreary In Its sound.
I endeavored to form some arrange-
ment in my mind of the objects I had
been contemplating, but found they
were already fallen into Indistinct*
ness and confusion. Names, inscrlp*
Some of the
best physicians
prescribe
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PARSER'S
HAIR BALSAM
aid ha!m
Westminster Abbey.
tlons, trophies, had all become con-
founded in my recollection, though 1
had scarcely taken my foot off the
threshold. What, thought I. Is this
vast assemblage of sqpulchers but a
treasury of humiliation, a huge pile of
reiterated homilies on the emptiness
of renown and the certainty of obliv-
ion! It Is Indeed the empire of Death
•—his great shadowy palace, where he
sits in state, mocking at the relics of
human glory and spreading dust and
forgetfulness on the monuments of
princes. How idle a boast, after all.
Is the Immortality of a name! Time
Is ever silently turning over his pages;
we are too much engrossed by the
story of the present to think of the
characters and anecdotes that gave
interest to the past; and each age is a
volume thrown aside to be speedily for-
gotten. The Idol of today pushesthehero
of yesterday out of our recollection;
and will, in turn, be supplanted by his
successor of tomorrow. "Our fathers,"
says Sir Thomas Browne, "find their
graves In our short memories and sad-
ly tell us how we may be buried In our
survivors."—'"Westminster Abbey."
THE JACKSON CLUB
Fite-Rowsey Building
I Second Floor. Telephone 2675.
Muskogee, Okla., 4-30-12
To Whom Concerned:
This is to advise that Dr. J. W. Cole-
man, Jr., has our approval to call and
organize a Colored Democratic Club
account of this approaching fall elec-
| tlon.
(Signed) A. R. PEYINGHAUS,
Approved. Secretary.
(Signed) S. V. O'HARE, President.
In other words, while my conduct
in giving the educated negro a valid
argument why he should be a Demo-
crat is denounced as very reprehen-
sible by Mr Haskell, he deserves
praise for proposing negro race equal-
ity beyond the third degree of negro
blood, and Mr. Haskell's manager de-
serves praise for authorizing the or-
ganization of Democratic negro clubs
on a charter Issued on the letterheads
of the Jackson Club, by Its president,
without the authority of the Club it-
self. Mr. Haskell's Negro Democratic
Club should he valuable to him in
i nominating him as a Senator in a
Democratic primary.
WHY NO DEBATE.
I have ignored the so-called "chal-
lenge* of my political defamer to meet
him on the public rostrum for the
reason that his accusations are un-
true, insulting and therefore impos-
sible of debate.
In my public addresses, I have not
been willing to devote my time to
answering the petty, scandalous at-
tacks to which I have with reluctance
furnished the above answer. I wish
to employ the hour (in which I may
properly keep the attention of a public
audience) .in discussing the great
questions which relate to the public
, welfare.
I have studiously refrained from
discussing the record of my defamer,
for the reason that the unhappy pub
liclty already given to his record has
done the State of Oklahoma great
harm throughout the United States,
and has cost the Democracy of Okla
homa many thousands of votes.
Yours very respsctfully,
(Signed) ROBT. L. OWEN.
STEERS CAPTIVES FOR YEARS
Large Herd Grows From a Few Ani-
mate Which Fell Into a Deep
Ravine Long Ago.
Meeker, Colo.—ny risking their
lives a company of Uncle Sam's regu-
lars has rescued a large herd of Texaa
long horn mavericks from the bot-
tom of a deep ravine.
A number of years ago a large
bunch of cattle was turned on the
range. A stampede occurred, and
hundreds of the animals fell over
from a preclploe. The first ones
were killed, but the remainder, alight-
ing on the carcasses of their com-
panions, survived. And there they
stayed, their existence unknown to
the cowmen, who supposed that they
had all been killed.
The survivors increased, growing
large and becoming wild. The war de-
partment finally detailed the soldiers
to get them out.
The rescue was thrilling. The huge
beasts, proved more than a match for
the soldiers' horses In speed and
charged their rescuers. They over-
turned many horses and attacked the
riders.
SNAKE KILLS HER TWO SONS
While Mother Goes to Rescue of Chil-
dren Baby Falls In Tub and
Drowns.
Raleigh. N. C.—The attention of
Mrs. George Adams, living in Pitt
county, was attracted by the cackling
of a hen, and she sent her 8-year-old
son to the barn to drive the hen from
1 the nest. A scream from the lad that
'he hen had pecked him caused the
mother to send her younger son to as-
; certain the cause, and a similar out-
burst from him led tho mother to in-
! vestigate.
She found that both boys had been
i bitten by a rattlesnake that was colled
In the nest. Hurrying with her little
| ones to the house, she found that her
babe had fallen into a tub and drown-
ed.
The boys, lacking medical atten-
I tlon, soon died in agony. The three
I children will be buried in the same
, grave.
HERE IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA
Fire Insurance Would Be an Ea«y Mat-
ter if It Could Be Conducted
That Way.
Senator Williams, at a dinner at
Yazoo, said In condemnation of a moot-
ed tariff change.
•They who advocate this change
know just as much about the tar-
iff as the old lady knew about fire in-
surance.
"This old lady visited an Insurance
office and lusured her barn for $3,600.
The policy was drawn up, signed, seal-
ed and handed over to her, and she
put it in her cabas and started out
" 'Hut hold on, ma'am,' said the
agent. 'I must ask you, please, for
the first year's premium.'
M 'The first year's premium,' said
she. 'And how much will that be?'
" There Is it, ma'am, written on
the policy," said the agent. "The small
matter of $24.'
" 'Oh, said the old lady, I'm In a
hurry this morning. You Just let the
premiums stand and deduct them
when the barn burns down."*
Little Study In Relative Value.
On the 23d of June Kdward Albert,
prince of Wales, was eighteen years
of age.
That means that he was old enough
to rule the British empire if his fa-
ther were to die.
But he won't be "of age" with all
which that implies in English law un-
til he is twenty-one.
And he will not be free to choose a
wife until he is twenty-five.
An odd logic this—with eighteen
goes the rule of an empire; with
twenty-one the power to Incur debta,
and with 25 the right to choose a wife.
This would make an anthropocen-
trie world laugh In appreciation.—Chi-
cago Post.
AU play and no baseball Is enough
to make the best baseball player feel
played out.
Chicago Women's Feet Beautiful.
Chicago.—The women of Chicago
have been exonerated and vindicated.
Chiropodists from all over the coun-
try in session there and a noted ex-
pert stated that Chicago women have
the most beautiful feet and ankles. He
said it was an outrage the way New
York and the world libels the feet of
tho Windy City's fair residents
C VENTIDE - Supper.
L What shall it be ? A
cooked meal? No! Too long
— too tedious to prepare.
Just phone the grocer ior
Luncheon
Meats
They're delicious! Some
Vienna sausage or sliced dried
beef—some veal loaf or corned
beef. They're so easy to serve.
Or, here'i an idea—a Libby
menu:
Libby'a OUvm or 5u>««f Cbmrbin*
Libby'a ComoJ Bmaf
Libby '• Veil Loaf Chili Con Carnm
Potato•« Au C rat in
Libby a Aapanifaa
And then just top off
with Libby't Fruits or
Preserve*. Doesn't that sound
good? Order them from your
grocer now. You will be
•urpiued how economical a
Libby meal will be.
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
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