The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-16
HORACE SPEED
is CHOICE OF
PRESIDENT
May Be Governor of 0kIaho-
ma IF He Likes
JENKINS TRIP NO GO
Asylum Scheme Has Already
Played Hob.
JENKINS TRIP NO GO

Washington, Nov. I5.-The Oklahoma
governor situation. as rounded up to date,
finds the president in possession of a re-
port on charges against Governor Jenk-
ms; this report made by a special agent.
Upon this report he made up his mind to
act and has acted.
Horace Speed was his choice, and so he
informed certain parties who have his
confidence.
If Speed win accept the place, the pres
ident may appoint him before congress
convenes. President Roosevelt has not
communicated with jenkins. and shows no
disposition to do so. He is ready oact
and is in process of acting right now.
Should Jenkins come here he might be
Vble to get an audience with the presi-
dent. In such a case it is 100 TO that
the carpet would smoke and the fire de-
partment would be on the alert to save
the white house.
The new governor Of Oklahoma viii be
given general order No. ! early in the
game to break mp the plan of declaring
dividends from the asylum scheme. Some
financial sidesteps are booked early in the
game.
Topeka, Nov. 15.-Governor ". NJ JeDlI-
ins of Oklahoma, while on his way ii
Washington, stopped off here this morn
ing and spent the forenoon with some of
his political friends. He was sloseted
with NJ A. Low for some time. After
which he spent an hour or so with Cyrus
Leland. Low and Leland are both friends
of enkins. and have promised to render
him what assistance they can. if il is
necessary, in his fight TO retain the gov
ernorship of Oklahoma. However. they
do not pin much faith in the reports from
Washington, TO the effect mat jenkins
IS in immediate danger Of losing his Off
cial head ley believe that he viii be
able to make a satisfactory explanation
of the charges filed against him, and that
il win take no outside pressure to retain
him the job.
jenkins has a very reasonable explana-
tion of the charge that he is financially |
interested in the sanitarium which has
the contract to care for Oklahoma's in |
sane" said one of his Kansas friends /
after talk with him today. He doesn't
own dollars worth OF stock in the insti- |
tuition. and never did. After the contract |
had been awarded TO the sanitarium the |
governor heard that there was still $4,000 |
in stock of the concern that could be /
purchased He told the promoters that /
he would like 10 have some personal /
friends in which he had the utmost conf /
denee interested in the concern. inasmuch /
a sthe territorial administration would 1
be held strictly responsible for the /
treatment of the insane. The promoters |
then said that that was a reasonable re- /
quest and sold the last block Of $4,000 In /
stock to his friends. While the territory
had no asylum of its own, the governor /
wanted TO bring the private institution, /
which had the contract into as close /
relations as possible with the administra-
ton. so that he could see that the insane
were being treated right"
Governor jenkins himself declined to
discuss his troubles in detail He said
that he had received unofficial information
that charges had been fled against him;
that the scene Of battle had been shifted
TO Washington, and that he was going
there TO suraighten things out. He took
no stock in the story that Horace Speed
was TO succeed him as governor. He saws
the people of Oklahoma are opposed TO
having the Indian Territory hitched onto
them for state purposes. but that congress
seems 10 think single statehood is the
only thing available and that Oklahoma,
rather than dose out entirely, would lay
aside IS objection