Beaver County Democrat. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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Beaver County Democrat
C. M. PARR, Receiver
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Beaver, Beaver County, Oklahoma, Thursday April 27 1< 11
Vol. 5 No. 48
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Mensitfrer's Art
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What will the Circuit
Court Do With Jack
Love For Bis Attack
Upon It.
For Fine Ptctcgraphs ?rd. Y'tr fork
Fmuf Gitifs f r;rc'fiiy.
The Neatest and Best equipped Up-
To-Date Studio in the Southwest.
Permanently ( cried in Beaver
City, Okiali'/ ^av
From The Lawton Daily News.
Jack Love, chairman of the
state corporation, attacked the
i federal courts, Judge Hook in
rights and that public hasn't any
business knowing what a corpo-
ration is doing will always decide
against us. A corporation gentle-
men is a body composed of no
souls or consciences.
"The constitution of Oklahoma
gave the commission more power
than any three men in the United
States ever had before. You
must use therefore great care in
the selection of men to hold these
offices, that they may be fair to
both sides.
"Wo three members of the cor
poration couuu.fc* \ ii uidn'tknow
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Take Subscription For Any Per-
odical at Publishers Prices.
particular, the corpoiation«, the ! anything about public service
boomer and commercial clubs in ! corporation* or their rates when
general in & speech before the we were elected, but we ^id loiow
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city council last night which last-
ed until after midnight.
"Ladylike is an adjective never
used in describing Love. He
went right after the opposition
to the corporation commission.
Judge Sanborn and other federal
judges he called "pinheads."
Judge Hook he accused of being
a grafter and gave details. The
metropolitan newspapers of the
state he accused of withholding
news of the thingsjthe corpora
tion commission was doing, the
builder of railroads and floater of
bond issues he accus ed of being
parasites.
Before the Santa Fe and M. K.
and T. railroads got their injunct
ions against the two cent fare and
lower freight pates they paid the
firm of Hagerman and Hook of
Kansas City $200,000, Love de-
clared. The junior partner of
this firm is the son of Judge
Hook, who granted the injunction
he said. This he found out, he
told the council with the aid of
detectives. "You remlmber
gentlemen that the Frisco and
Rock Island di 3 not get their in-
junctions as soon as the Santa Fe<
and Katy." Why? Because the
Frisco and Rock Island objected
to payincr Hagerman and Hook
$200,000 but they did it before
they got the injunction. The Iron
Mountain refused to do anything
at all and as a consequence that
road is still operating under the
two-cent fare."
Judge Hook, he said was tho
same man who used to lobby for
the Santa Fe at Topeka, who was
later made a Santa Fe attorney
and who finally through SantaFe
influences, was put on the Feder-
al bench. \
"Gentlemen the corporations]
of Oklahoma have got to play
their cards on top the table," he
declared. "We are going to pro
tect every cent of honest money
invested in the state but at the
same time we are requiring that
every corporation to make an ac-
counting to us—in other words
that we know as much about
their business as they do.
"We have had a fight on our
hands and we still have it. We
have been beaten in the federal
courts and still will be, The fed
eral judges educated in the idea
that property rights are above
human rights, that the corpora-
enough to hire men who did
know it. The railroads are try-
ing to get our rate man our sec-
retary and especially our ac-
countant away from us. They
got all the experts ol the Texsis
commission away from them by
paying higher salaries.
Colonel Love asked his audien-
ce if any one of them had ever
herd of the fight the commission
had made on the express rates
and the telegraph rates. No one
seemed to have hoard of it. "Of
course ycu haven't" 'he said.
"Your metropolitan papers don't
print what we do. There are
only a few instances "
At the latter end of his talk he
invited questions from the house
Jake L. Hamon was one to take
up the offer. "While I have great
admiration for you and the com-
mission personally, don't you
think," aske: Mr. Hamon, "that
the commission has been given
the greatest arbitrary powers
invested in any partisan body in
the history of civilization, and do
you not think this has discourag-
ed the investment of untold mil-
lions in the state?"
Love said yes to the first and
no to the latter, declaring that
more miles of railroads had been
built in the state since the crea-
tion of the corporation than ever
before.
Dr. Hammond wanted to know
ho>v many miles had been built
and Love enumerated the new
ro&ds. Dr. Meade asked how
Lawton should vote on the repeal
of Article 9, Section 9.
l^ove was very positive that
Lawton and everybody else
should vote against the re peal.
TOOT! TOOT!
he landed in Beaver county. Hav-
ing never seen a rood before how
can you expect him to do a job of
road builcliug to suit everybody,
in this, his first experience.
You Kj>oak of the grading be'ng
only i:> feet wide from ditch to
ditch, it is easy to see why ho
has done this, it will leave a nice
strip of 25 i feet on each side < *
the ditch, this will be cut up into
farms thereby aiding many a
poor devil to a nice little home.
These ditches eighteen in V" s
deep you rave about are also to
serve a purjwse, everyone krnn. s
it rains once in a while in Bra-
ver county, and if the*^ ditches
did not run directly through and
across the section lines, the wa* -
er would not hav*j an outlet and
thsre would be {Treat danger to
crops from overflowing water
Again we all know that it would
only take one half the time to
grade fifteen foot that it would
take to grade a thirty foot road,
or one third the time it would
take to grade a forty live foot
road. This you see is a savihg
ol time and labor, he will be able
to grade tho roads over his entire
territory, thereby getting the
reputation of going over more
gronnd than any other road boss
in the county.
Again we &t e living in the age
of style, not convenience, these
roads you are condemning are'
certainly stylish and as we are
all great on style, we onght to be
wtll pleased with them. You
say, "what would we do if we
were to meet each other* with
horses four in abreast on these
grades?" This difficulty is made
easy, you all start to Floris or
Liberal at the same time, start
oack at the same time and you
will never meet each other along
the road.
Prior to this artistic (?) rond
work we were able to make it to
town in a hury, with the high
prices we were getting for our
wheat, broom corn and other
stuff, we were getting rich in a
hurry. Riches piled up hastily
never last. These new roads
will cause us to travel in a more
slow and dignified manner and
we can all appreciate and enjoy
our riches better as we lay them
up.
Now friend come as often as
you please, I am going to tako
the road overseers part, and
Oon't you forget it
Signed,
A Judgo of Stylish Road*.
Here We Come on The
Foot Grade,
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In reply to the article lit last
weeks Beaver Democrat, written
by one who signs as "A Farmer"
I am obliged to take the part of
the road overseer, who has done
this work. It is all right Mr.
don't
for
Farmer to hit a man, but
kick him when you get him down
To bepn with, the
Urn ts % child ol UW I rofer to neror hotoro
r
Notice.
The season has now come
hunting.
I forbid any min hunting on
my place. I want them to kec«>
off. If thoy don't want to p.iy a
fine.
14,12 t p. R. McFarland
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