The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-05-01
His Statement at Muskogee as Con.
tradicted BY Affidavits Of
Cruces Friends Here.

NkNCe EEltuQs mere
Considerable controversy has arisen
as to what Haskell said about H. B.
spaulding Of Muskogee in his speech
here. The stenographic report Of
Haskelrs speecE at Muskogee quoted
him as follows:
| EROM HASKELL'S SPEECH AT
MUSKOGEE.
"a few days ago, when / turned
into Chickasha, Indian Territory, to
make a speech, found there man
who was unable to escape two terms
in the penitentiary, and the man who
defended him and finally got him out
to meet me in debate. | talked an
hour on the constitution, and no man
will say that / criticised any other
candidate, or mentioned his name. A.
G. Cruce followed me with fifty-fve
minutes time, fifty minutes Of which
he spent in roasting me. | got twenty
minutes to reply, sixteen minutes Of
which / took, and offered him the four
minutes left to get up and deny my
statements if he wanted to, but he
said he didn't care to talk"
"The next thirty minutes found
thirty-three Cruce buttons torn from
the breasts Of coats and hurled at my
feet | brought them away, not as
sacred tokens, but as evidence Of con-
doIence."
"There is one thing in the report Of
that which affects a citizen of Mus
kogee, and therefore want to men
tion it. In the course Of his remarks,
"A. G. Cruce told this internal lie oh
me about opposing labor and he
said got my information from H. B.
Spaulding, Of Muskogee did not
mention Spaulding'a name in reply,
because I believed that Cruce was
liar as | knew he had lied about his
other statements"
when I got home here to MusEo-
gee, | found that when he saw he
could not get thousand votes in
Chickasha, he thought he would do
the next best thing and buy one in,
Muskogee, and so he wrote Mr..
Spaulding a letter, saying that | had
|villified him. I want the day to come
soon, when H. B. Spaulding, "A. G.
Cruce and myself can meet face to
face, and | will choke the internal lie
down his throat"
AFFIDAVTTS FROM CRUCES
FRIENDS
In reply to HaskeIl's statements,
Mr.. Cruces friends secured the fol-
lowing statement and afiidavits:
AFFIDAVIT
We, THE UNDERSIGNED citi-
zens Of Chickasha and vicinity, state
that we were at the u. s.. Court House
on the evening Of April 8, 1907, and
heard the speeches of A. C. Cruce and
G. N Haskell. In Mr.. Cruces speech,
he stated substantially, hat he had
been advised that the mass meeting
which nominated Mr.. Haskell for
delegate to the Constitutional Conven-
tion in Musxogee also nominated
republican as a candidate for one Of
the delegates from Muskogee. That
afterwards, the Democratic Conven-
tion in Musbogee offered to nominate
Mr. Haskell as a delegate, but that he
declined to receive the nomination.
MIR. Cruce stated that he had no per-
sonal knowledge as 10 whether these
matters We're true or not, but that
they had been reported to him by
the Honorable H. B, spaulding, who,
he said, was reputable citizen of
Muskogee, and had one time been
Democratic National Committeeman
When Mr.. Haskell got up to reply to
Mr.. Cruce, he stated that he was sur
prised that Mr.. Cruce would quote
H. B. Spaulding that spaulding was
SO infamous in Muskogce that nobody
who knew him would quote him. That
Spaulding had fought him, Haskell, /
and had tried to prevent his election
clear up until the close Of the polls. +
We do not undertake to give the exact
language used by these gentlemen,
but the foregoing is the substance Of
what they said.
G. w. Barefoot, insurance agent.
T. r. Major. LAWYER.