The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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LET THE PEOPLE
KNOW THE TRUTH
So far aa we are concerned we be-
lieve that the Senatorship does not
belong to Mr. Owen and it does not
belong to Mr. Haskell but it does be-
long to the voters of our state, and
if the voters are to rule their own
government they have a right, and it
is their duty, to know' the truth con-
cerning those who offer themselves as
candidates for public office. If this
were not true the people would be
compelled to grope in the dark in
selecting their public officers, but
there is a vast difference between the
truth and slander.. It has become a
very common practice to call your
enemy a grafter but our voters in
Oklahoma are men of sound sense
and reason and they will expect when
you call a man a grafter that you
should tell them what he has grafted
and some of the facts pointing out
the graft. It has been a constant
pastime for the Republican machine
and their agents and the subsidized
press to call Haskell a grafter for the
last five years, yet they do not point
out a single dollar or a single piece
of property that he has ever grafted.
Let the people know the truth;
and we state here that either Senator
Owen or his paid agents are welcome
to make any truthful statement they
see fit concerning Haskell. The peo
pie have a right to know the truth,
but reckless and malicious libel and
slander will not pass unnoticed. The
people have a right to know my life
as a private citizen and as a public
officer, but I warn the few reckless
newspapers that have so disgraced
the honorable profession of the press
already that false statements will be
made at the risk of those making
them. C. N. HASKELL.
grafter. If by that claim they mean
that he is a grafter of Indian lands
or property or imposing on the rights
or property of other people we would
state that we do not believe there is
a word of truth in any such charge.
We believe we are in a position to
know if such thing were true and
we hereby state that we have never
known nor heard tell of Mr. Haskell
being in any wray connected with any
unfair or improper transactions
that would in any way be to the dis-
credit of the best citizen in the com-
munity.
FARRAR L. McCAIN,
Judge Superior Court, Muskogee
County.
R. C. ALLEN,
R. P. deGRAFFENRIED,
Judges District Court, Muskogee
County.
THINGS HASKELL
WILL DO
THOS. W. LEAHY,
Judge County Court, Muskogee
County.
The Daily Oklahoman
In the recent issues of the Daily
Oklahoman the democracy of our
state have noticed several items of
news which are good democratic doc-
trine and should be pleasing to every
citizen of the state, and we are glad
to note the fact that the leading
newspaper of Oklahoma gives its
readers the benefit of such informa-
tion, and inasmuch as there are some
people in the state who deny that
Haskell has ever worked for the pub-
lic welfare we use these items as an
illustration of how easily people for-
get the efforts that their public ser-
vants put forth.
Insurance Income.
The statement in the Oklahoman
that from the beginning of statehood
the Insurance Commissioner of our
state has collected as per centages
over six hundred thousand dollars
as compared with seventy-five
thousand dollars collected under the
Oklahoma Territory law during the
same number of years prior to the
organization of state government.
Taxpayers, understand this: This
whole six hundred thousand dollars
comes from the big Insurance Com-
panies and goes into the State Treas-
What Do You Say?
After reading the above state
ment from the two District Judges,
the Superior Judge and the County
Judge of the County where Haskell
has lived for the last eleven years
and transacted large business don’t
you believe the judges of all these
courts have a better opportunity to
know who has conducted business in
an upright manner than the partisan
republican papers and the subsidized
press and paid hirelings in general?
TO ALL PARTIES CONCERNED:
As to Mr. Haskell’s business rela-
tions we would state that he has
been for several years one of the
most active men of our community
doing business on a large scale and
greatly to the benefit of the entire
community. We have dealt with
Mr. Haskell and his family and the
company that he manages. We have
never x-egretted any of our business
dealings and take pleasure in saying
that we are always glad to do a
credit business with Mr. Haskell or
his family or his company and we
consider Mr. Haskell one of the most
valuable citizens of our town and the
surrounding country.
Respectfully,
The Patterson Mercantile Co.
By W. N. Patterson.
E. W. McClure, Clothing.
Turner Hardware Co.
C. W. Turner, Pres.
W. L. Reeves Shoe Co.
Alley Bros. & Taylor.
By C. H. Taylor.
W. T. Cohenour.
Cohenour-Rygel Co.
Maddin Merchant Hdw. Co.
By Fred V. Maddin.
The O. R. Clothing Co
New Phoenix Clothing Co.
Graham Sykes & Co.
Street-Eicholtz Furn. Co.
By W. M. Eicholtz.
Lafferty & Walker Clo. Co.
By I. S. Walker.
Mittong Drug Store.
Hooker-Hendrix Hdw. Co.
By G. G. Hendrix, President.
Bass & Harbour Furn. Co.
By T. E. Harbour.
Kroh Music Co.
Eli Brown.
Brown C. O. D. Grocery.
Shattuck Hardware Co.
Fnrroat HnrHwQro Pn
When elected to the United States
Senate Haskell will use every effort
within his power to settle the Indian
Affairs in the Indian Territory and
give to the Indian every dollar of his
property without being required to
divide with the carpetbag machine or
witl> the tremendous attorney fees,
and he has not now and never did
have any claim on the property of the
Indians that would divide his time or
attention in his efforts to deal justly
with the Indian.
THINGS HASKELL
WILL NOT DO
Indian Land Tax.
Haskell will make the most stren-
uous effort to have the Indian land
tax question settled so that the gov-
ernment shall keep its promise and
that every taxpayer shall not be un-
justly and unfairly oppressed by un-
equal taxation.
Irrigation.
Haskell wriil endeavor to reclaim
the irrigation funds already lost to
the State of Oklahoma and have it
used in actual development of the
irrigation possibilities of western
Oklahoma.
Drainage.
Haskell will endeavor earnestly to
uring about proper drainage laws to
the end that the overflow land in
eastern Oklahoma may be improved,
out in doing this he will not rob
Peter to pay Paul, lie will not de-
stroy irrigation in order to accom-
plish some other result. Both pro-
jects are commendable and should re-
ceive attention.
Haskell will from the very be-
ginning use every possible effort to
reduce the number of United States
suooruinate courts and to place the
civil jurisdiction back in the hands
ot the State courts elected by the
people and will strive diligently to
set aside every life tenure of office
and put all ornce holders on a term
oasis tor a brief number of years
and where they may be held to ac-
count to the people.
Corporation Control.
Haskell will strive to untie the
nanus ot Jack Loves Corporation
commission in Oklahoma so that
greater good may how to the people
ot cKlanoma without interference
noth the Federal courts.
State Rights.
Haskell will strive to have the
rights, power and privileges, of
stales recognized and to stop the tide
ot centralized government at Wash-
ington that would destroy state
i.gnis and wipe out state lines.
Do Things.
Haskell will strive to make more
taws ami less literature and make
Among the many things Haskell
will not do; the following are some
of them:
He w;ill not waste time in the high
society of Washington City.
He will not waste time on reform-
ing the government of China or Tur-
key or Persia.
He will not vote to print envel-
opes at a great loss to the govern-
ment and thereby to the people of
the United States of that class which
are used by the great business con-
cerns of the east which have already
enough ways of robbing the people
without having their envelopes
printed by the people.
He will not vote to perpetuate and
enlarge the jurisdiction of the Fed-
eral Courts.
He will not vote to make a cor-
rupt practice act a joke and the cor-
rupt use of money in elections easy.
He will not vote to cover the poor
Indian allottees lands with a lien for
attorney fees amounting to millions
of dollars.
He will not vote to approve Sena-
tor Aldrich’s ideas of a tariff bill nor
of the various items thereof.
Reader, if you are interested in
these speeches attend our speaking
meetings and we will show you the
records. You have a right to know
the truth and when you know the
truth you will know who you want
to represent you in the United States
Senate.
HASKELL’S
LAW SUITS
Reader, you have heard the subsi-
dised press and Haskell’s enemies
clamoring about Haskell beating
debts and having a multitude of law
suits. You all understand that there
is no occasion for lying about a law
suit. Every law suit makes a public
record, the truth of which can easily
be ascertained by reading the rec-
ords.
But let us see what the truth is:
From June, nineteen hundred and
one to November, nineteen hundred
and six, Haskell lived in Muskogee
and was the largest contractor in the
Indian Territory, doing business as
a contractor amounting to over a halt
million dollars every year—this in-
cluded the contract work on three
steam railroads, all passing through
Muskogee, and the building of four-
teen business buildings in Muskogee
and building the first part of the
Muskogee City street railroad, and
during that entire time, five and one-
naif years in that large business,
which included the employment of a
multitude of men and having month-
ly bills with the numerous mer-
chants, blacksmiths, plumbers and
farmers, examine every official court
record and you will find Haskell was
directly or indirectly connected with
five hundred dollars, that allowance
being fifty dollars less than Mr. Has-
kell had tendered before the suit
was brought, and the plaintiff, Mr.
Scherubel, paid the cost, and Scheru-
bel himself, or. reflection, feeling that
he had done Haskell an injustice dur-
ing the heat of a political campaign
apologised for ever bringing the suit.
The Illinois Steel Company con-
ceded the credit claimed by Mr. Has-
kell and for the balance due them
after the credit was deducted con-
sented to monthly payments for the
difference in the two accounts.
The first case of the Columbus
Savings and Trust Company, above
mentioned", was tried in the United
States Court, Mr. Haskell’s defense
being that the same officers who man-
aged the Trust Company had also
managed the stock company wherein
the stockholders money was entire-
ly lost and that their mismanagement
being by the same men was conse-
quently known to the Trust Company
and that they could not collect money
from Haskell and other stockholders
for the credit of their own Trust
Company. The Judge of the United
States Court evidently took a con-
trary view of the law and instructed
the jury to return a verdict against
Haskell. That case is on appeal now
in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the
United States, which Court of Ap-
peals will decide whether the trial
court was right in his view of the
law or whether Haskell is right. At
any rate it is a law suit such as men
have every day in every county of
our state.
In the last mentioned Columbus
Savings and Trust Company case Mr.
Haskell denied that the Trust Com-
pany was entitled to between nine
and ten thousand dollars but did
concede that the Trust Company was
entitled to two thousand dollars
which he had previously offered to
pay. The case was tried to the jury
a year ago last May and the jury
found that the amount due the Trust
Company was one thousand, nine
hundred and ninety-nine dollars and
fifty cents, being fifty cents less than
Haskell had tendered. Haskell paid
the judgment as soon as the verdict
of the jury was entered.
Broadhead case not yet been reach-
ed for trial.
Now, reader, you have from the
records just what became of the
bunch of law suits accumulated
against Haskell during the time he
was Governor and the statement of
his previous five and one-half years’
business career in Muskogee and any
man who tells you that there was
any other law suit or any other
judgment during that entire time is
telling you a falsehood and if you
will ask him to prove it from the
record he will be compelled to admit
that he has lied to you.
ABE THE DEMOCRATS COM
Ft TEN I i U'KUN ihtih
LET THE TRUTH
lit KNOWN
We have seen much In the news-
papers, particularly from the repub-
lican press, claiming that C. N. Has
keli forced the endorsement of his
candidacy for United States Senator
through the democratip county con-
mi i — ~ u i ^ u
f til to ami tLtoiiONS
Honorable Sam O’Hare ,a Wilson
delegate from Oklahoma to the Na-
tional Convention, in the Skirvin
Hotel at Oklahoma City a few days
ago, attracted our attention by say-
ing, “Well, I’ll be blamed, look at
that.’’ We looked at that and found
it was an editorial from the Harts-
horne News of the 17th day of Aug.
which reads as follows:
"SWAT THE HASKELL MA-
CHINE.
We believe it is very general-
ly understood among Pittsburg
county Republicans that they
will make no effort t-> carry the
county this year, and probably
will even forego the formality
of putting a ticket in the field.
This is a wise conclusion, for in
the present disrupted condition
of the party in this county
there is a general r.pathy that
presages defeat. Such a condi-
tion in any party absolves its
members from what would
otherwise be party obligations,
and privileges each individual to
cast his ballot accordingly. Thus
a way is opened for the accom-
plishment of much good by the
intelligent, independent and
conscientious voter. And at
this particular time the oppor-
tunity for such voters in Pitts-
burg county is goiaen. The
hydra-headed Haskell machine
has reared itself up in this
county and unless administered
a crushing rebuke at the polls
there is no telling to what ex-
tent ring rule may be carried in
the affairs of this county. Un-
questionably there are Haskell
candidates out for every office
in the county, and it is equally
as certain that they are holding
together as against everything
in opposition to Haskellism. If
the Republicans will join the
Owen forces and vote against
the Haskell machine candidates
in the primary August 6, they
will hate to their credit a share
of the honor of putting that out-
fit forever out of business in
Pittsburg county.”
Well, what about it, we queried?
“Why,” said O’Hare, “that is a repub-
lican party newspaper, in fact, the
leading republican paper of the Choc-
taw Nation, proposing that the
republicans of Pittsburg County
abandon their county ticket this year
and devote their entire time and en-
ergy to helping Senator Owen defeat
C. N. Haskell for the democratic
nomination for United States Sena-
tor. When we relaize that Pittsburg
County is a pretty ciose county; that
Bryan beat Taft in that big county
less than two hundred majority; that
Pittsburg County is the third county
in population in the entire State of
Oklahoma, and yet the republican
party newspaper is bo anxious to
make Oklahoma a republican state
that it advises the republicans of that
county to forego the effort to elect a
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Benson, H. Frank. The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1912, newspaper, July 12, 1912; Okeene, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173448/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.