The Calumet Chieftain. (Calumet, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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IS
CRITICIZED
PRIVATE CHARACTER EXCEL-
LENT; OFFICIAL CONDUCT
NOT APPROVED.
LAST OF THE MAXEY REPORTS
Poor Advisers and Allowing Appoin-
tees to Violate Laws Charged.—
His Whole Administration
Reviewed.
"The governor's strength lies in -his
excellent private character; his weak-
ness in his unfaltering reliance upon
the advice of his personal friends,
when nearly everybody in the state,
except himself, is convinced that many
of his advisors, some in responsible
public positions by his appointment,
are concerned only with personal
profiting out of the public treasury."
Thus does the general investigat-
ing committee of the house of repre-
sentatives, in a unanimous report, last
of the long series of the investigations
made by the committee, summarize its
opinion of Governor Lee Cruce.
The most carefully prepared of all
the reports ma*ie by the committee,
based upon matters the committee has
been probing ever since it came into
existence more than four months ago,
and including as evidenco the testi-
mony and statements of Governor
Cruce himself during a ten hours' sit-
ting before the committee, it is un-
questionably the most remarkable as
a public document of all the reports of
the committee.
Citizen Versus Official.
As a citizen and as the higUest offi-
cial of the state the governor received
mingled praise and severest censure.
"A man of the highest private integ
rity," says the committee: "an official
who has not measured up to the anti-
cipations of the people, and many of
whose acts cannot but be harshly crit-
icised."
The report makes no recommenda-
tions and stands rather as an analysis
of Governor Cruce and his official acts,
as seen through the eyes of the legis-
lature, than an indictment. The com-
mittee removes the one point on which
most talk of impeachment was based,
alleged violation of the nepotism laws,
when it states that the circumstances
surrounding the employment of the
governor's brother as attorney for the
banking board were not such as con
stitute an illegal act on the part of
the governor.
Severe criticism is meted out to the
transactions by which Attorney C. B.
Stuart was engaged by the governor
to defend the grandfather clause
cases. The committee calls the ex-
penditure of the $15,000 appropriated
by the legislature as a melon cutting
by the lawyers to whom It was paid.
The governor is given credit for
paying the strictest personal attention
to the duties of his office,
The report was adopted by the
house by a viva voce vote.
His Politics Came High.
Concerning the governor's cam-
paigns, the report says!
"We find that the governor spent
about $40,000 In his first campaign to
secure the nomination for governor,
and a considerable sum after his nom-
ination. In his second campaign for
nomination we find from the evidence
that a large sum was collected and
expended In his behalf by his friends
and managers. ■
"We find that R. W. Dick, warden
of the penitentiary, raised a consider-
able sum of money to be expended in
the governor's behalf; that a note
for $4,500 was executed to the Capitol
Hill National bank by John R. Wil-
liams, secretary of the school land de-
partment, John Doolin, game warden,
R. W. Dick, warden of the McAlester
penitentiary, Lon Frame, member of
the board of affairs, and the money
expended for campaign purposes. That
John R. Williams waa his authorized
political manager at this time. Other
sums were raised by R. W. Dick
"We find that the warden of the
r.tnite reformatory, whose removal
hase been recommended by the legis-
lature hertofore, on account of gross
neglect of duty and Incompetency, is
still retained by the governor, and
that conditions there maintained were
of long standing, and to some extent
at least well known to him. The law
had placed the governor in a very com-
manding and responsible position with
reference to this institution. He was
chairman of the board of prison con-
trol. He knew or should have known,
in our judgment, that the manage-
ment of that Institution was a disgrace
to this state, and we repeat that a
proper administration of the board
of prison control, of which the gover-
nor is chairman, would have resulted
In the removal of the warden long
before the findings of this committee
and the assembling of the legislature.
Two Board Members Should Resign.
In a report that sustains the find-
ings of the Thomas-Mcintosh branch
ot' the senate "confirmation" commit-
tee as to Chairman Lon M. Frame of
the state board of affairs, the general
investigating committee expressed the
view that the state would be better
off without the services of Mr. Frame
and Eugene M. Morris, the latter the
republican member of the board of
affairs.
The criticisms of Mr. Frame and
Mr. Morris are based largely upon
the same matters condemned by the
Thomas-Mcintosh committee, although
going further in some respects and
ont so far in another.
For the third member of the board
of affairs, E. B. Howard, the investi-
gating committee expresses the high-
est commendation, and practftally
give him credit for checking various
bad practices which the two other
members of the board are accused of
having' at least willingly condoned.
Senate Committee Report
The report of the senate commit-
tees upon the board of affairs was
made before Christmas, to the special
session of the senate called by Gov-
ernor Cruce to settle the state board
of education controversy and con-
firmations of various gubernatorial
appoUitees.
The senate committee disagreed as
to its findings. Five senators, of
which Senator Barefoot was chair-
man, refused to condemn Mr. Frame,
whoso appointment was the subject
under consideration. The other two
members, Senators Thomas and Mc-
Intosh, joined in a report severely
criticising Mr. Frame and recommend-
ing that he should not be confirmed.
The Thomas-Mcintosh findings, in
brief, were as follows:
That Mr. Frame and Mr. Morris
had joined in an attempt to organize
and control the policies of the board
of affairs, and to shut Mr. HowariJ
out of any voice in the deliberations
of the board.
The Contracts Awarded
That during this period of Frame-
Morris supremacy, various contracts;
such as the khaki cloth contract for
the penitentiary, the contract with C.
O. Bunn to annotate and index the
code, the contract for the supreme
court filing cases, and the purchase ol
electrical machinery for the state uni-
versity, were made.
Tljat these contracts were all con
demnable as bad business, at the
least.
That Messrs. Frame and Morris had
awarded much business to the Okla-
homa Brokerage company against
whom charges were filed with the
governor.
* TJie house committee concurs
these findings, with the exception of
the contract for electrical machinery
for the university and the contract
for the annotation for the code. With
regard to thes- the house committee
finds everything O. K., so far as the
board of affairs is concerned, al-
though Bunn is severely criticised in
another report for the manner in
which he inserted certain alleged "ad-
vertising" annotations.
Relative to State Auditor.
Of the state auditor's office the com-
mittee says: "We do not go into, the
details of the administration of this
office, for the reason that Leo Meyer
recently resigned, pending impeach-
ment proceedings, and was succeeded
by J. C. McClelland, the present in-
cumbent, and in the opinion of the
committee It would not be of any
material benefit to the people of the
state or the management of the affairs
of this office to go into a history of
the Tacts in connection with said
office, which resulted in the resigna-
tion of Mr. Meyer.
"Mr. McClelland appears to be a
very competent man and sincerely in
earnest in an endeavor to put the
state auditor's office on a Etrictly busi-
ness basis."
With regard to the Oklahoma Brok-
erage company, the house committee
reports: "In the opinion and judg-
ment of this committee, this broker-
age company was organised for the
primary purpose of grafting on state
contracts, and that Its objects and in-
tentions were thwarted througfl the
earnest Effort of Mr. Howard."
The committee says of the school
land office:
"The committee la glad to saj that
this great department of our state
government has handled the millions
of dollars under Its control with effici-
ency: that its books are systematically
and accurately kept; and accounts
for the vast sum in its hands very
readily. We believe that there is an
excess of employes and officers in
this department; we believe that the
money it handles should be converted
Into the state treasury by act of the
legislature, and we believe the vast
sum it keeps on deposit In the vari-
ous banks of the state, ?1,840.805,03
by the last statement, is capable ol
earning at least 5 per cent per annum
instead of 3 per cer.t paid by th.
' banks.
CAPITAL NEWS
1,548 REQUESTS FROM TWENTY-
THREE COUNTIES FOR UNI-
VERSITY EXTENSION.
MORE FUNDS ARE BADLY NEEDED
University of Chicago May Handle
Part of the Work in State.—
Other News of the
State.
BIRTHS ON THE INCREASE.
Ten Per Cent More Babies Last Month
Than In May, 1912.
Already 1,548 requests have been
made for the extension work offered
by the University of Oklahoma in two
departments alone, the department of
public discussion and debate and the
department of correspondence study.
This is the report of Dr. J. C. Scroggs
of the university extension faculty,
who has just returned from the second
week's canvas of the county normals.
He has received reports from only
twenty-three normals, which is a little
less than one-third of the total num-
ber. Before the canvas is completed
it is expected than there will be at
least 4,000 requests from the teachers
of tho state alone for the extension
work.
With the present appropriation of
$7,500 for the extension work of the
university, Dr. Scroggs declares, only
a few hundred of the many thousands
applying for courses In the extension
department can be accommodated.
Dr. Scroggs at present is negotlat-
iyg with the University of Chicago to
take off his hands the correspondence
study which cannot be provided for
at the University of Oklahoma. He is
making every effort to complete this
arrangement in order to accommodate
the thousands who are applying for
work in the extension department
which cannot be given on account of
the lack of facilities.
"The thousands of requests that are
coming from university extension
work are not coming from the uni-
versity, but from the multitude who
are not able financially to go to the
university or any other school. While
they are not addressed to the legis-
lature, only the legislature can answer
them. The legislature should make a
generous provision for university ex-
tension and doubtless would if it under-
stood and realized the need and value
of the work being done by this de-
partment," Dr. Scroggs said.
A bill was introduced in the house
providing for anadditional appropria-
tion of $20,000 Ofor the work.
West Is Criticized.
That Attorney General West may be
an extremely active and energetic of-
ficer and prompted by what he be-
lieves the best thing to do, but that
some of his policies have not served
to the best interests of the state nor
are hardly In keeping with the posi-
tion he holds as chief law officer and
adviser of the state government, is
the way the general Investigating
committee of tho house of represen-
tatives summarize their opinion of his
official career.
Births increased 10 per cent in Okla-
homa last month as compared with
the same month of the year before
and the death increased 17 per cent
for the same period, and yet there
were three times as many persona
born as died. This is the report of tha
vital statistics division of the state
health department issued recently.
There were 2,455 births in May and
715 deaths. Commissioner J. C. Mahr
of the board of health of Oklahoma
says that the number of deaths occur-
ring among children under 5 years of
age last month as shown by the official
records were: Deaths under one year
of age, 134; deaths between one and
two years, 32; between two and five,
40; total under five years, 206. Seven-
teen per cent of the deaths under one
year of ago were due to congenital
defects. Theyty per cent of all deaths
under two years of age were caused
by stomach and bowel trouble. Pneu-
monia was the contributing cause in
ten out of fifteen deaths from measles.
Eight deaths were due to whooping
cough. Two deaths from drowning,
throe from burns, and one from drink-
ing lye complete the causes of death
for the children.
An Emergency.
When a certain darky of Mobile,
Ala., announced his engagement to
the dusky one of his choice, the con-
gratulations that were showered upon
him Included a note of wonder.
"Joe," said one of these friends, "I
shore Is surprise: We-all never
thought you'd Bpeak up. It's going on
two years sence you began to fool
around Miss Violet."
"Dat's true," said Joe; "but de fact
Is, bid man, 1 didn't lose my Job until
fast night."
AHOY, OLD KAINTUCKI
Fo(4ner Citizens of the Blue Grass Pre-
pare to Get Together Once More.
A meeting of all Kentucklans of the
state of Oklahoma has been called for
10 o'clock Saturday morning, July 12,
by the state Kentucky club at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms in Okla-
homa City to discuss plans for the
Oklahoma state buildign at the State
Fair grounds. Invitations have been
mailed to more than 1500 former resi-
dents of Kentucky to attend the meet-
ing.
Numerous plans have been suggest-
ed at the last three annual meetings
of the state organization at the State
Fair for financing and building such
a structure but nothing resulted from
tho discussions. A plan for tho In-
corporation of the club wjth provisions
in* the charter for issuing Btock was
devised by W. B. Richards, deputy
secretary of state, and the discussion
of the plan resulted in the call being
made for tho state meeting. The mem-
bers of the committee working on tho
proposition are: W. B. Richards, M.
Cornelius, E. G. Bedford, Attorney J.
R. Keaton, and Jud^o J. B. Harrison
of the state supremo court commls
sion.
APPORTIONMENT ONCE MORE
Both Houses Agree On a New
gressional Division.
Con-
With democrats and republicans
alike voting against it and charging
the use of steam roller tactics, both
branches of the legislature passed fin-
ally a congressional redlstricting bill,
making tho following seven safely
democratic and one republican con-
gressional districts of the state. The
measure carries the emergency sec-
tion and with executive approval be-
comes a law of the state Immediately.
District No. 1—Ottawa, Craig, No-
wata, Washington, Osage, Delaware,
Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Pawnee.
No. 2—Adair, Sequoyah, Wagoner,
Cherokee, Muskogee, Haskell, McIn-
tosh and Okmulgee.
No. 3—Le Flore, Latimer, Pittsburg,
Atoka, Pushmataha, McCurtain, Choc-
taw, Bryan, Marshall, Carter and Love.,
No. 4—Creek, Lincoln,
Seminole, Pottawatomie, Pontotoc,
Hughes," Johnston and Coal.
No. 5—Payne, Logan, Oklahoma,
Cleveland, McLain, Garvin and Mur-
ray.
No 6—Blaine, Kingfisher, Canadian,
Caddo, Grady, Comanche, Stephens,
Jefferson and Cotton.
No. 7—Ellis, Roger Mills, Dewey,
Custer, Beckham, Washita, Kiowa,
Greer, Jackson, Harmon and Tillman.
No. 8—Cimarron, Texas, Beaver,
Harper, Woodward, Major, Woods, Al-
falfa. Grant, Garfield, Kay and Noble.
Love Is Willin'
Tho names of several democratic
party leaders and legislators in the
past have been mentioned as possible
gubernatorial candidates in 1914, but
the first definite statement regarding
any of these came from Jack Love,
chairman of the corporatiqn commis-
sion, when he admitted that it the
people desire him to be a candidate
he w ill make the race.
Another Reapportionment Bill.
Seven democratic and one republican
congressional district Is embraced in
the proposed congressional rearrange-
ment agreed upon by the democratic
caucus of the senate members.
According to the action taken, Con-
gressman Charles Carter, Claude
Weaver and Joe B. Thompson are
thrown together in a district which
would embrace Oklahoma City. This
Is the most unique arrangement In
all previous attempts to agree on
redlstricting bill, and one doubtless
that will meet opposition from tha
friends of the three congressmen.
The proposed arrangement would
place all counties of the old Cherokee
strip with the exception of Pawnee
county in a district safely republican
and the remainder of the districts, un-
der the arrangements, would be dem-
ocratic.
Pawnee county, the home of Bird
McGuire, would bo placed in the dis
trict now represented by Congressman
James Davenport, leaving Walter Fer-
guson of Cherokee almost alone as n
congressional candidate In the repufr
llcan district.
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"A Big Hit"
There is nothing makes a bigger
hit with a hungry person than to
know the digestion is working
properly and that your meals
are going to benefit you. If you
are not in this class take
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BinEBS
It is an excellont medicine for
all Stomach, Liver and Bowel
Ills; also Malaria. Try it now.
Something Really Serious.
lie came Into the president's office,
the small black sinner, to answer to
the charge of leaving his work with-
out proper permission. He tearfully ex-
plained that ho Jjad been absent a
whole afternoon because his mother
was ill. The interrogator diagnosed
her Illness as baseball, but the defend-
ant deposed that it was "heart trou-
ble."
"Heart trouble, eh?" repeated tho
president, pondering. "That sounds
serious, sonnlo. Now, where and
when does she feel the pain wor' cT"
"At night, and In her big toe," waa
tho snufiling reply.
Ouch I
Okno of thoBo dear lady friends of
ours whotakes a particular Interest In
other people's affairs, got on a car and
sat down beside a quiet looking man,
whoso face was badly pitted.
"Why, you poor man!" she ex-
claimed. "How you must have suf-
fered! How long ago did you have tho
smallpox?"
"Madam," was the seriously spoken
reply, "what evidently drew your at-
tention aro not pits of smallpox. I had
theso put on by a beauty specialist to
keep my face from skidding when I
eat watermelon."
On the Lawns.
"They say Bhe's neat."
"Neat? She has cuspidors placed all
around the grounds."—Kansas City
Journal.
Horticulturist.
Knicker How do you remember to
water tho plants when your wife is
away?
Bocker—I keep 'em In the bathtub.
Don't Monkey With Divorced Wife.
Although your divorced wife's con.
duct is not what you think it should
be and you believe she is on intimate
terms with other men you have no
legal right to interfere, no matter
what her relations with other men
may be. Neither haye you any right
to enter her home, or apartments,
without her permission. Such is the
gist of an opinion handed down by
ni'7„«kee1 Judge Henry N. Furman in the crim-
inal court of appeals In affirming tho
conviction of Link Moutry, who was
sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment
in the district court of Muskogee
county for the killing of the man
whom he believed was too Intimate
with his divorced wife.
Pure Marriage Bill Killed. _
Death beyond promise or hope ol
resurrection was the fate of tho so-
called pure marriage bill, which Okla
homa club women sponsored in the
legislature, proclaiming it to be the
opening wedge toward the cure of the
social evil. Five times since January
the measure has been placed on final
roll call, and thrice defeated, but re
vlved by parliamentary devices.
Enid Well 550 Feet Deep.
Enid.—The oil test well being drilled
for the city of Enid Is down to a
depth of 550 feet and about 500 feet
ot casing is to be put down beforo
any further drilling will be done.
BANISHEfa
Coffee Finally Had to Go.
Tho way sotjie persons cling to cor-
feo, even after thoy know it Is doing
them harm, is a puzzler. But it is an
easy matter to give It up for good,
when Postum Is properly made and
used instead. A girl writes:
"Mother had been ufforing with
nervous headaches for seven weary
years, but kept on drinking cofTee.
"One day 1 asked her why she did
not give up coffee, as a cousin of mine
had done who had taken to Postum.
But Mother was such a slave to coffeo
che thought It would bo terrible to
give it up.
"Finally, one day, she mado tho
change to PoBtum, and quickly her
headaches disappeared. One morning
while she was drinking Postum so
freely and with such relish, 1 asked
for a taste.
"That started mo on Postum and I
now drink it more freely than I did
coffee, which never comes Into our
house now."
Name given by Postum O... Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, "The
Road to Wellville."
Postum comes In two forms.
Regular Postum (must be boiled.)
Instant Postum doesn't require boil-
ing, but Is prepared instantly by stir-
ring a level teaBpoonful in an ordinary
cup of hot water, which makes it right
for most persons.
A big cup requires more and soma
people who like strong things put in a
heaping spoonful and temper it with a
large supply of cream.
Experiment until you know th«
amount that pleases your palate and
i have It served that way in the future
• -There's a Reason" for Postum.
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