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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1910.
NUMBER 1.
ROOSEVELT'S
"NEW NATIONALISM"
At the Democratic Banquet Held At Oriental Hotel, Dallas,
Texas, the Governor of Oklahoma Discusses Some of
the Things For Which the Ex-President Stands.
surrender of every new principle
had espoused.
Hopes to be Misinformed. *
"As an American citizen, dceminj +
ilndn i«-•;•«11 lor thou who htT( *
held distinguished official positions in i +
the past as essential to the luiles *
pride iu our glorkms country, 1 hope
(hat 1 may yet find myself misin
formed as to the official conduct of
a former president, but to reach thai
I conclusion 1 must forget that 'my dear
Mr. Harriman's' fabulous contribution
to the campaign corruption fund may j
i have been the price of immunity un- '
j der which he decided the laws of our |
I country, united the leading Pacific '
COMPARES THE COLONEL WITH JEFFERSON rates, made fabulous fortunes out of :
the uninterrupted fixing upon the]
t-hippcrs of ilie great west ot the tri
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 28.—Bitterly ar-
raigning Theodore Roosevelt as the
would-be dictator of the nation and
analyzing 'new nationalism' as a means
to the end of acquiring monarch-like
power for the promulgator of such pol-
itics, Governor Charles N. Haskell, of
Oklahoma, speaking at the Texas Dem-
ocrats' Jefferson ion dinner complimen-
tary to him at the banquet hall of the
Oriental hotel tonight made good his
promise to "trim" the militant colonel.
Governor Haskell likened the viva-
cious Roosevelt to John Adams whose
dictatorial ambitions were crushed by
the pure principles of Thomas Jeffer-
son. He declared the greatest danger
confronting the American people at
the present time is the concentration
of power and cash. He questioned the
sincerity of Roosevelt in anything ex
teachings may be, ho long as he is ,,ute which made millions of dollars
cundid and frank in his policies. of «old where values had never been
"Speaker Cannon tells us frankly I cre"" d' n,ld httd "° ri8ht <°
thitt party platform pledges are but """" ,or8tt l1"'1 ",e great na
the means of securing voles and to be ,ural r,'sour«'8 i,on ore- essential
cast aside without hesitation, and
knowing his views of government,
openly expressed with brutal frank-
ness, he presents an open conflict—
approve him with your vote if you
like, condemn him to defeat if you
wish. The Cannon type of man is,
therefore, not a dangerous man.
A Dangerous Man.
iu the affairs of life of every man who
toils, so fur as tbe same are today
available for use, were with his con- !
sent concentrated under the owner- j
ship or control of a single- trust or '
combination.
"i must forget that the Tennessee
Coal & Iron company, the only sub-
stantial competitor of that great trust
i (he United States Steel company), was
Hut, he who is all things to all absorbed under the depression of a
men; I manufactured panic, and with the ex
"He who rides the broncho on the press consent of that president, whose
plains of Wyoming or the millionaire s duty it was to protect posterity against
yacht at Newport; i the perpetual greed of those who
"He who revels in the Dacchana '""ake millionaires whiie you wait.*
cept to satiate his own selfish am-1 ''an feast with the lawless or sits in i ( t T^e Moral of the Act.
bitions; criticised his utterances and 'lie house of the Lord w ith the W hen the true history of that I en
actions made during his recent tour of righteous; nessee Coal & Iron company deal is
the west and the present campaign in
New York, finding no way to reconcile i watomie and
them. i toga;
Roosevelt, he said, advocates gov
"He who is an insurgent at Osa-
written, mark you, it will show that
stand-patter at Sara-
the eighty million people had pledged
this great government not to assert
the illegality of that act of the great
... ,. ')8 dangerous 10 a free government ,rusl swallowing up its only substan
eminent by strong men, rather than under all conditions, because flatten tlal competitor
by the principles of the law and Is „ his wand and deceit Is his rob, . '"That history must show that sub-
today, by virtue of his hold upon the and until the public know that the In . ordlnate offlctTa charg,d wllb tlle
minds of the public and by reason of Jerkyll of today is the Mr. Hyde of forcement of law, were made by our
the things which he is advocating, the tomorrow, you have in such a person' dictator to declare that such unwar
leading exponent of centralization of , dangerous to our free institutions, r,lnu,d act m„ thelr u,sal approval,
governmental authority which he de-1 since we know from his official life „nd today. iaid away in the vaults of
Clares to be the predominating issue. that his every inclination Is to usurp that great tnm l8 the a88urance of
Attacks Republicanism. power and destory liberty. Immunity from i rosecutlon for that
The governor went further than to "if comparisons convince the mind, unlawful act drawn by un attorney
we know that Jefferson, possessed of; general and approved by an executive
a refined and a gentle mind, was th«' to whom our people had trusted their
embodiment of statesmanship; that sacred rights.
Roosevelt, possessed of a coarse and ; "If, forgetting these and numerous
selfish mind rises not above the digni-1 others equally flagrant though le
ty of a politician. magnitude, I could look back over hiF
Jefferson had Implicit faith in the \ eleven years of official opportunity
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10 preserve the good morals of their I
community. I insist that if saloons
are to be located In any community I
that it shall be without disfranchising '
seventy-four out of every one hundred
voters.
Again the bill provides that about
fifteen days are required to ii.e a peti-
tion, pull off the election and ascer ,
tain the result. If the town votes dry I
another election can be held within 1
fifteen days. If it goes dry again an- j
other election can be held within fif-
teen days, and so on Indefinitely as
long as the vote goes dry, but just
as soon as they have worn out the
dry voters and carried the election
wet then It shall remain so for at least
five years and thereafter until there is
an election voting dry, but there Is no
provision for that election and you
must depend upon future law makers
to provide for an election. This Is
snap Judgment that should condemn j l,()P© of the republicans in their fight
the law itself. i to prevent the grandfather clause, or
Another feature that we add to negro disfranchising amendment, cut
NO JURISDICTION
SAYS THE COURT
Handing Down Its Opinion From Guthrie Wednesday After-
noon the Federal Court Holds That it Can Not
Take Jurisdiction in the Sims Case.
LAW WILL BE ENFORCED OVER STATE
Judge Brown's suggestions. That Is,
suppose the town votes dry, any man
can go just across the town line, take
a tract of land, say as small as five
acres, plat it Into ten lots, pick his
own crowd of citizens, locate them on
these ten lots, incorporate the town
called Boozevllle, for an example, and
vote to establish a saloon In Booze-
Quthrie, Okla., Nov. 1.—The last trickery will be permitted to operate
the disadvantage of the honest vot-
ers of Oklahoma who have adopted
our constitutional amendment aud
entitled to have them favorably en
forced."
ting off 14,000 of their negro voters
next week, vanished here this after-
noon when the three federal Judges
presiding in the test case argued ut
Oklahoma City yesterday decliued to
issue un interlocutory injunction
against the operation of the initiated
ville. It is an Incorporated town with ;lc** c°urt held that it had no
ten voters in it. The city that It may J jurisdiction in equity.
adjoin and the surrounding country ' 'l he oplnlou. the shortest ever hand
are utterly powerless to have any
voice in the question and thus a sa-
id down in the federal court here, is
loon
established
sepa rate
included in the order und was signed
town adjoining a city and which is 'W Walter A. Sanborn, senior circuit
not even subject to the police author- judge of the Eighth circuit; John li.
* * + + * 4* * 4- * * + 4- * + + + 4- *
ity of the city. The town of Booze
ville would elect its own officers, prob
ably the saloon keeper himself would
by mayor and his clerk would be mar-
shal. I submit that while we have a
great man^jgood citizens who hell
In Local Option and High IJc
• that
Cotteral, district Juuge for the West-
ern circuit of Okluhoma, and Ralph
E. Campbell, district judge of the
Eastern district.
The case was that of Daniel Sims
vs. Election Inspector Finch of Guth-
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
PREDICTED BY HASKELL
Holds Informal Levee in Hotel on Ar-
rival, Visits and Praises the Fair
and Makes Speeches.
GOV. HASKELL
ON PROHIBITION
analyze Rooseveltism. He took issue
with the principles for which the re-
publican parfy as a whole stands.
The new postal savings bank system,
he avers, is a means toward the con-
centration of power and cash, and he
championed the right and authority of
a Btate to conserve and develop its na-
tural resources independently of fed the growth of the popular mind and conversation had even here
eral aid or supervision. , intelligence, making it strong and re- 'here a slight effort at actual con
The governor's speech In full fol sistless in Its power for self govern- nervation, 1 would find myself con
lows: ment. fronted by a record utterly blank
SOME EXTRACTS FROM HIS
SPEECH MADE SUNDAY
NIGHT AT NEWKIRK.
Sunday evening, October twenty-
jn i third, Newkirk, Ok) thoma, at union
service of the city churches held at the
City Hall, CJovernor Haskell addressed
people. His policy was to promote 1 discover that all his vast volume i ,,l8 {jiudience on Prohibition and th
"It required the war of the revolu "To Roosevelt It has never occurred
pending so-called Local Option and
High License Amendment proposed to
the State Constitution. A few of the
paragraphs from Governor Haskell's
Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Okla-
homa, accompanied by Mrs. Haskell,
Thomas l\ Smith, Se< i^tary of State;
Kred P. 1 hanson .chairman of the Ok-
lahoma Slate Democratic Executive
Committee; Col. Sidney Suggs, edi-
tor of the Ardmore Ardinoreite, and
wife; Otis B. Weaver, editor of the
Ada News; Hon. W. B. Anthony of
Marlow, member of the legislature;
Hon. Jerry Scully of Muskogee and
William Martin of the Governor's of-
fice, arrived here yesterday morning
I If I hey will examine the pending bill I He. Situs is a negro ex-slave who ''"d, T'Ll.'Tn vlslto™
they will And it so crooked that It con cannot read nor write, aud who will , °n° ° !
.lemns itself. The name "Local Op- he disfranchised. The republican ! ""
tlon and Hfgh License" Is abused state committee was back of the suit. .ii(j !' ,!* u')on ' 10 (,®n"
r«nd!;naPP"ed th® 8ub8tanoe "f th" '>'lmt portion or the order which! ||| y.slcrday urtrriiuo'tL"a "the"result
pending measure. . mBy bu considered the opinion, Is as'f a severe attack or Indigestion.
They say that they are selling more follows: ,.,hnn
beer and whiskey In Oklahoma now. u 1s ordered that the plea In ,„d ,Zy !!S" UalUs at i" "
than they would If prohibition was re abatement (filed by Attorney tieneral
pealed, then tell us why the brewer West) be und the same ia hereby
ies and dislilleries are spending overruled 011 the ground that the de-
thousands of dollars in sending strang fuidant does not cease to be inspec-
ers into our state to Influence our lo tor until his successor is choseii and
cal affairs. Are they really trying to i,Us qualified.
reduce the volume of their own busl
ness and paying out thousands of dol
1,1 Hl*U(0 "V '1^ business I junction be and the same is hereby j and W. J. Carden went to Fort Worth
,iit" ' ti.of 'iT .not on the ground that Sec-i« n one of the early morning trulna for
lion 4 of Article 3 of the constitution Mlie purpose of meeting the visitors,
of Okluhoma, voted for at the election j but missed them. Unlike his visit la
as to the public welfare, but filled 8Pee°h were as follows:
tion to free our country from the dic-
tates of monnrchy abroad.
"It required the battle of the ballots
in the year eighteen hundred to free
our country for the time being of the
inclination to centralize our govern-
ment at home.
"History warrants our appreciation
to advise with the people that they
with efforts at personal aggrandize
may govern themselves, but on the j meDt- destruction of the popular will
contrary to. lead the public mind Into j (Continued on Page 8.)
submission that the will of the die- '
tator may reign supreme.
Teddy a Dictator.
"Jefferson taught that our govern-
ment must maintain three co-ordinate
of the high character and integrity of branches, each operating within the
President John Adams, but history sphere of its own privilege, free from
likewise teaches us his Ideas of gov- 1 the aggressions of the other.
eriiimnt lay straight to centralization.! "Roosevelt demands that the execu-
the stepping stone to Imperialism. It; tlve head shall humiliate the judiciary,
was but natural that the men of that dictate to the legislative, and reign
day with the memory of monarchlal supreme over all.
ACf Of FEDERAL
COURT IGNORED
Highest Tribunal Refuses to Consider
Injunction in Fare Rate Suit.
a. in., yesterday they were met at the
pasaenger Btatlon by a large receptloa
committee, headed by Frank P. Hol-
land, W. L. Nason, and J. E. Over-
beck. (ieorge a. Harmon, a relative
of (Jovernor Harmon of Ohio; l'rea-
"And it is further ordered that the I Idcnt Johnson of the Texas-Ohio club,
application for the interlocutory in- ludge Curtis 1*. Smith, R. Corridoa
hibit. That is true, and no criminal
law has ever prohibited the ofTense
that It penalizes. What we need
(Continued on Page 6.)
DEMOCRAT CALLS
dictation fresh in their minds, should
have promptly revolted against cen-
tralization and by the election of
Thomas Jefferson emphatically stamp-
ed it with their disapproval.
"Jefferson believed that government
should limit its activity to the pre-
servation of personal
rights, the protection
Intemperance destroys a man's intel-
ligence and his physical ability to sup-
port and educate his family and to
discharge his duties as a peaceful citi-
zen. It is, therefore, against the pub-
lic welfare to tolerate the whiskey
traffic.
The talk of saloons benefiting
trade of a community is nonsense.
losing business will no more make a
community prosperous than It will
make an individual wealthy, and a traf-
fic that takes money out of a commu-
nity and leaves no assets of lasting
value In Its stead must be a losing
business. Saloons in a community do
,, . "ot Increase the earning capacity of;
Washington, Oct. 31.—The supreme ltle ;|lIe :l Kjnt.ie dollar On the: w„... <>
and Property Hined 'lo r'at ul"^lm,''<1,h>„ t- mSuItr^and^rnh^'captcUrThere K l",'dwln' '"oerallc nom-
the weak , tlon I)f th«, Ukiahoma federal court. for„ i% governor, sent a letter to-
day to Former President Roosevelt In
reply to the recent letter relating to
Judge Baldwin's stand on certain lab-
or legislation. The letter says, in
part:
"I have received your two answers
• both undated) to my letter of Oct.
24; one written before you received
Attorney (.eneral West, who is in it impoverishes the home, and it | it and the other w ritten after you
o'i 'i i 'Zef V W^ nofM' ,n in August, A. D. 1910, is not violative 1900, the governor was yesterday un-
/ ?,rk Pb,'" "r '"o constitution of the United accompanied by a military staff,
another step forward, and the remain- .... I ..... ...
ing step must be taken In Congress at °n ""I f°le 8rOUn<? """■
Washington. Oklahoma has a good Ub°Ugh l"e coa" alnanl ""v
Colonel Asked to Retract Statement
Regarding Connecticut Judge.
.ludge
11 WUh "lelr """Woval. against the strong, the promotion of which Issued temporary Injunctions T *here lw" """"" onrmi for
"New Nationalism." intelligence, the conduct of essential agaln8t the enforcement or the wo 'he percentage of legitimate merchan-
"Jefferson was the man of the hour, public affairs, and that too much gov ,.(Mlt farp n . v.,rimiR «rrt .,c 8 wages they do earn are
one whose every thought was the pub- ernment might easily be a detriment igKued hv state ofrw i-iU ti.p vnii'.ii.v necessarily divided between the sa
.... ... ..i.ti .. . isbuea oy state omciais. lhe validity innn nnd th« ah™
, „ loon and the shoe, the clothing, or the
of these orders is now in litigation provision store. I am against the sa-
i loon because it impoverishes the indi-
vidual; it impoverishes the commu-
lic welfare-and whose every belief was to the public welfare; that to have
confidence in the right and the ability a government within the control of the ( jn the Oklahoma court
of the people to conduct a government people, their affairs properly to be
of the people and by the people. So administered by the states, should not
thoroughly did the teachings of Jef- be dominated by the general govern-
ferson become impressed upon the j ment. .Oklahoma City arguing the "grand- destroys the husband and father as a had read it.
Holds Informal Levee.
Immediately upon his arrival the
medy at law iu this court for the I party were conveyeu In automobiles te
j deprivation of his vote, this court has the Oriental. Until luncheon the gov-
i no jurisdiction in equity to grant him | ernor held an Informal levee, hundreds
I the relief he seeks from his threat-1 of former acquaintances und friends
' ened deprivation of that right underleasing to see and greet him. At I
| the decision of the supreme court In I o'clock he was taken to the Fair
tllles vs. Harris, 189 U. S., 475," fGrounds where he was the principal
speaker at the Ohio Day exercises.
LAW TO BE ENFORCED. ,'aHl night he was the honor guest of
large banquet at the Oriental.
kiefer nn0 xw , r, Gov* Haskell appeared In splendid
Hlefer, Ok a., Nov. l.~(,overno, ,,oi„lltlon and In response to numer-
causl' san" "n Kr""' """
clause t-aid. lhe supreme court o! f(.jt beltrr in jl|s ,ife ..
our own state has passed upon th- , „ls , ountry." he said, "Is like Ok-
new sec ion of our constitution n , am glad
ently adopted known as the grand , ,.ome ,.w,
,.Ur8B ?"*>r'y.uf ' have a good excuse. I have been
here twice before to the State Fair."
minds of the people that a full cen-i "Roosevelt asserts the right to com-1 i tcaBe" before the federal court, «t companion for his wife and chll "Apparentl
tury had passed before all other ques- bhlo the ,)OW(.rs of the nation in lts '"formed of the decTsion of the dren-
tlons of government have paled again | chief executive and to usurp the local [ , bttt,e 8UPremt> ^urt, declared A to the
in the presence of the paramount' privileges of the several states under '' ''ol'rt Pr°b"bly would grant amendment to
question of imperialism, less obnox federal control under the guise of a requested writ later, and that the ^ould he opposed to It if I were In
ious perhaps, but synonymous under minimum of local benefit, but a max- ('ec'slon today did not effect the valid favor of Local Option and High License
the voters of the state and the Judg
ment of that court will be my guide
In any official act for me to perforin
wherein I have the duty to direct the
conduct of subordinate officers. The
people passed this law and our su-
preme court has sustained It and I
shall therefore insist upon its en-
forcement.
'I regret that here and there we
you
have mlsunder-
' communication.
Predicts Democratic Success.
"Am I talking politics now?" he re-
plied with a smile to an interrogatory
"Well, I do take occasion once in a
while to speak my mind upon certain
Mibjects," and the smile broadened.
"We are going to control the next
house of representatives and Okla-
homa is going to do her share. Out of
I stood the point or
pending bill for the | <.you hHVe B(at)
the Constitution 1 «t0((k tho vIew that |t waH comi)0tem
not to be compensated, if he lost his
- -, ,,m. .. .. , life and limb In that occupation.' I
the name of 'new nationalism.' imum of disaster to free government. \ f th,° cafie* f k«!. A® ^ <lraWn Uor a for ,he workman, when driven to m
"Many men of other ideas, many Danger Foreseen. According to the ruling of the court 8,1 e . . J™8 d,*aW1' bJ lhe at tor- oept any employment, to bind hlm.m
measures of other Import, may seek "If proof Is wanting that centrallz- " ca8<: m'lsl K" lllrou«l' the > or « breweries and dlstiHeries have denied that I ever took such a
to share public attention but the old atlon is the danger of the hour, 1 point Hnd bc i!,„ ,V. W , v,ew- 1 "ill add that I hav
question of centralization is lhe para to the growing revolt between the Ald-
llnd a man who is advlBlng tliose who ihe five congressmen from my state.
mount question o. the hour, and unless r|( h ideas of the east and the LaFol
It Is met by Ihe stern hand of the letes of the west, both starting as
people the victories ot Washington political declples of that grand Abra-
wlll have been In vain and the teach- ham Lincoln, they with their respec-
lngs of Jefferson will have faded tlve followers have drifted asunder
away. until separated by a distance that lead-
"Government must never depend ers may retrace but the mass of their
upon the peculiar fitness of Its Immt followers will refuse to ignore.
diate administrator nor the whims ot "Roosevelt, with the shrewdness of
his peculiar mind, nor even sterling political ambition, recognized this
integrity or generous spirit. Its foun- condition after the last African lion
datlon must be so firm that succeed- had given up the ghost and the last
ing administrators operate within well king had gratified his vanity.
defined lines so that he who would not "Roosevelt's invasion of the west
serve the people well may operate with the approval of the insurgents ,
within lines of restraint which in no . upon his lips, but the purpose of bring-,
way would embarrass the best of men. Ing them back bound hand and foot
tried next in the circuit coyrt of ap-
peals. Should the appellate'court up-
hold the decision rendered by Feder-
al Judge Hook,
ask for a writ of certiorari.
Had the high court granted the writ
creasing their trade without regard to been
the public protection.
Judge J. L. Brown
many not be entitled to vote under
in public that I ,he law to ,nal8t "I>« voting regard-
less of the law and even to employ
force if necessary.
"I call attention of those who give
such advice to the fact that the law
of our state provides a severe penalty
of both fine and Imprisonment for
those who violate this law and also
qually severe penalt
most
four, and
ertalnly
long
Oklahoma
- — . "ot unaware of the constitutlmml
state will again hoa ,n circulation a pamphlet (unifies in
ably analyzing the pending bill, and I
recommend that all of you read it
vor of the principle
I workmen's compensation acts (though vvho others to violate the law
and
applying it In this
ominated to
ilif
to which you referred (the
the case could have appealed forth carefully, Just a feature or two of th«i 8hipi b
with to the supreme court and trial bl" as mentioned by .Mr. Brown. You i-gisiat'ion in Its platf<
In the court of appeals would not vobserve that the Federal census | „„w '
have been necessary. shows that the population of the State j retract thi-statc me
-f Oklahoma is twenty-six per cent in p|alJ, j ask
party w hich called for sue
CATTLE HIDES AS
COURT EXHIBITS
Muskogee Men Charged With Theft
Are Held on Bond
28.—Bony
Roosevelt a John Adams.
into the stand-pat fold In his heart, i Starr, a former deputy sheriff of Mus
•Government cannot depend upon i !jad t'ie. 1,!8t<T diamond to-; kogee county, and Bob Davis, both
. cio.wi. .. i ■ frtn .i .. U|„„... U...I '"ay, but stood under the cloud of sus whom are
the Incorporated towns and cities and to onP t0 whom h,
seventy-four per cent In the country.; |avv y,,r la of VB|ue
This bill proposes to allow the people interest of truth "
of the towns only to vote on the ques
tlon of having saloons, therefore a ma
jority of twenty-six per cent, say four-
teen per cent of the entire population
of the state properly distributed can
vote a saloon into every incorporat
request th;
lent, of which
a matter of fa
reputation as
s well as In ti
GOVERNOR HASKELL
AGAIN SCORES
the slender thread of a single human
life, no matter how noble that life
may be. If I am light that we are
to again be called upon to resist the
encroachment of centralization that
the continued supremacy «>f the peo-
ple may be assured, 1 dearly see the
presence of a John Adams in Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and trust in Almighty
Ood that
a Th< mfi
J*
nintry ma?
ifersou,
a in Inn
fo
ssert
elt of toda
more dangerous ?>d-
allzation than John
hout the fullest as
measure of Integrity
light have tempend
town or city In Oklahoma and the
wealthy land owners 11 v- other eighty-six per cent would be left
picion on.the morrow. There was no , ing in the southwestern part of the helpless b-caus, s.,., ,, per r, „i
purpose In his flattery or the hungry county, were today bound over on a live in the country and uould have i
Insurgent other than to carry him back charge of stealing cattle and cadi vote. We all know that the peopl.
bound aud helpless into the standpal placed under a 4,000 bond. Evidence who live In the country surrouudliig
vsas Introduced to show- that Starr each Incorporated town are the sup-
d Davis started out one day and port or the town, it is their production
mmenced cutting out the best that furnishes the trade upon which
return of Roosevelt to Saratoga. Their steers they could find in tanners' the town live
prayers went up that the principles he herds until they had secured a car one hundred votes in th
had espoused at Ossawatomle might load, rushed them to an isolated point towns th-re is an avert
"--vail In the Ktnpire state. Roosevelt | where a stock car was In waiting and hundred votes In the coi
rounding the town and th'
"With the proud approval and long
ing hearts the insurgents watched the
i and prospers. To every
f three
had pledged himself to Invade the | shipped the cattle to Kansas
stnndpat camp, rout its forces and where they were sold at the stock much Interested in the pe
spread insurgency from ocean to yards. (irder of lhat town wh(,r
ocean. The shout that went up do- It was the check from the commls- and which they support
hiring "Roosevelt has won out at ; ston house In Kansas City that led to v bo live Inside the < r:
Saratoga." but when the platform was j the arrest of Starr and Davis. A feat- and yc t out of au-b four
thei* Written, turned to cohl ashes, Ure of the preliminary examination nrty-one in the town cat
i' r the) tln n knew that he had "sold j was bringing the hides of cattle from saloon ;;nd the iemainii
Saratoga. The price of per-1 Kansas City and Identifying them as voterB in town and the
nunity sur-
are just as
e and good
they trade
s the men
•ate limits,
ndred men
establish a
forty-nine
entire three
i tfovernor Haskell's second •instail-
I merit in his serial, "Building a State."
pours another broadside into the hyp-
ocrites who ore preaching, "More Bus-
iness and Less Politics."
Incidentally, it is shown why Joe
Mc.N'eal wants to be governor. That
combination of Guthrie bankers to
compel the sale of state warrants
below par, and which was defeated
by Governor Haskell with the rein-
forcement of Oklahoma City bankers
who ottered to purchase such war-
rants at par, makes it plain what Jug-
gling with state funds would follow
ind particularly to this latt
who advise and incite men to vote
regardless of their rights that the law
will be enforced against them all to
i lie full limit.
"When the people of our state enact
a law or when they adopt an amend-
ment to our state constitution, it is
the duty of every public officer to
enforce tho same. I am not favorably
impressed with the attempt of those
who have waited until the last source
to seek to test the law in the federal
courts. The proclamation of the gov-
ernor proclaiming tho adoption of this
constitutional amendment could eas-
ily have been delayed until too late
for a legal test of the law before
election day, but desiring to give any
one who cared to test the law In court
ample time to do so, I issued the
proclumutlon several weeks ago
promptly upon the completion of the
canvass of the vote, so that If Utlga
tion In the federal court was desired
by any one, ho had ample time to
bring his case to hearing without
waiting until the last day when he
temp
will send at least
have a good fighting
chance for the other fifth member.
"Our state democratic ticket is good
for anything from 40,000 to 45,009
maority. I think Truce would have
gotten a bigger majority than I did,
even without the grandfather* clause,
but with that he will get over 30,000
more.
" J his fair is « • -rtairily a splendid
proposition no that the people may
well he proud of. It is as good as
there is In the wii< country. I have
been here twice before to the fair, i
that some very handsome and sul>-
'tantial improvements have been
ma
>ln<
visit."
Oklahorr
Gov. Haskell is
of the adv una
the lines of bot
progress. In ta
recounted the
which existed a
mltted to state!
He called
■ •t that tiuu
order that
orshl
on of McNeal to the
on
govern-
clover wouldn't
ch a bunch of
i the people
the bars
spiring bank
inds.
)( this state \
> them, but
a's Problems.
-igorous expounder
of Oklahoma in
i material and social
king of his state he
complex conditions
the time it was ad-
ood and the tremen-
ii' h its people faced,
ion to the fact that
admitted Oklahoma
mlation than some
< been organized for
1 five thousand miles
t it was at that time
"tluciiii state in the
the eastern half
ieh was the old In-
had been under the
>f laws, while the
ch had been the Ter-
ma, had been under
. He also called at-
fict that the popula-
•awn from many dif-
1 each brought with.
0 dominant ideas of
tin; from which he
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