The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-10
FLYNN HAD A
SMILE BUT NO
INTERVIEW
Little Shy on information
About That Scandal
INVOLVING Mr.. JENKINS
Secretary Grimes Puts Him
Above Suspicion.
Is NOT A SORDlD MAN
What He Did Was for Good
of the People.

Mr.. D. T. Flynn. delegate to Congress
from Oklahoma, was at the Santa Fe
depot for ten minutes yesterday. return
ing from Washington. He made flying
visit to the National Capital in the inter
est Of friend who. by the way. is not
an oklahoman. Mr.. Flynn looks well
and he was feeling as if he had done his
friend some good. He enjoys nothing
better than helping another fellow.
He did not seem to be troubled any by
the situation in Oklahoma. When asked
for utterance relative to charges against
Governor jenkins he said: 81 have been
out Of the Territory for more than a week
and l don't know what the bays are say
Ing about them. / presume you know as
much about what IS going on down there
as 1 DO.
But what about Washington. What
are they saying about the charges there?-
Mr.. Flynn turned that famous smile Of
his on the reporter as much as to say:
1 haven't heard the subject mentioned
Since I left Oklahoma.
b.
jumped on the moving train saying. ride
down to the crossing with me and I viii
tell you all I know
As the crossing was only a few hundred
feet the assumption is that he didn't know
much about the subject.
Mr.. Flynn was accompanied TO Guthrie
by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Murdoch who
will be guests of the delegates family
over Sunday
Two hours later Territorial Secretary
William Grimes was seen at the Rock
Island depot en- route to Kingisher to
spend Sunday. He seems to think that
nothing can possibly come out of the
charges made against Governor Jenkins.
If the Governor actually admitted to
me that he was into an Illegal or i'm
proper transactions in the sanitarium
matter I would doubt him." said Mr..
Grimes. Mr. Jenkins is absolutely above
suspicion so far as I am concerned. He
IS incapable OF sharp practice such as
that With which he is charged. Those who
know the governor know well that he is |
not sordid. Had he been disposed to act
in the interest Of his pocket he would not |
have left the secretary's office after four /
years, practically without dollar. He |
barely saved enough to pay off a few |
little boom debts he owed in Arkansas |
City. And the Governar is not a spend |
thrift. Nobody has ever known him 10 be
extravagant. His wife is generous in her
little charities among the poor of Guthrie,
but she is by no means eXtravagant The
idea of Governor Jenkins going into the
so-called sanitarium deal in the interest Of
his purse would seem to you, if you
knew him, to be the essence of absurditv !
The truth is that Mr.. Jenkins did what he
did in the Sanitarium matter absolutely
with an .dea Of benehtting and improving
the condition of the unfortunates. believ-
ing at the same time 70 be acting in the
interest of the people"
Mr.. Grimes. when asked about natural |
conditions in the territory stated that
Oklahoma was never in such excellent
shape. in financial and business affairs
The country banks are overfiowing with
money. The farmers are prosperous and
their outlook for the future year is very
bright IN the new country conditions are
very satisfactory with the single excep-
ton that there is an apparent inclination
there to treat the negro unfairly. Some
IF them who drew land legitimatelv un-
4tA litS At1NttA5 pan nave httH llNllul- /
lated. but 1 am satisfied the government
wiz protect them in their rights as citi-
.ens and homesteaders."
About statehood, Mr.. Grimes repeated
I do not think Oklahoma Will be admit ,
ed at the coming session of Congress.
rhc situation in that respect is complex I
There is probably enough show of logic ,
n the single statehood proposition 10 give {
Use to objection against admission of !
Oklahoma alone and not enough. perhaps
onsidering the civilization of the two ;
ections TO justify the immediate creation
4 a single state. Congress VIII probably ,
.esitate and I doubt if any action will be
aiken although I believe that Flynn's bill. c
f n9ssed. would be the solution OF the an I
molous relations of The two territories" J
Col. Boles. of the Guthrie land Office, j
no Postmaster Crawford of Perry were
lso in town and went down on tne 4:5c j
ANITA Fee. Mr.. Crawford said that Perry O
5 progressing steadily in the expansion Of
IS commercial constituency. He says it
raws trade from a long distance and that
he business OF the town wss never more p
table -Four years ago the income Of the
'crry postofhce justified salary of only i
.7a0. now it is S2.Soo This exemplifyes.
ltnough not adequately. the increased f
9siuess OF the town.
FIDDLER MAYOR IN.