The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-24


acter- That being true they certainly
raked Ohio fore and aft concerning the
Ohio Standard Oil cases of 1899 and find
ing absolutely nothing reflecting on me-
the president tried to waive his charge of
last Monday aside by saying he will make
no allusion to that
Simply Lie.
He drops this subject because his origi-
nal statement was untruthful and he must
Know from what he and Hearst tried to
IND in Ohio and failed. that l spoke the
truth when | said | never in all nv life
mad any interest in connection nor SER
vice with that company
Il say the president knows now that
my statement is true and / regret that
he tried to brush it aside without doing
character of language so commonly used
by the president / would show il in fewer
letters than falsehood'
Mr. Roosevelt, l hope to speak in Ohio
some partisan of yours or Prince Will
liam, who will defend your action in this
instance?
The Oklahoma Case.
president Roosevelt comes to Okla
homa and finds substitute for his Ohio
failure, does he, in the case of the state
against the Prairie Oil & Gas company.
which he complains L compelled to be
dismissed?
yes. 1 did have it dismissed. We all
KNOW lndl the company is a STAN
dard Oil company offspring, and don't
forget the president claims to have
known this also. and l charge that the
political allies. Hearst and Roosevelt.
both know that l acted properly.
First, the Prairie Oil company got its
franchise in our state not from me. but
from Roosevelt's secretary OF the inter-
Tor, long before statehood began, and had
its main built and operating, and congress
in it's statehood bill was careful to de-
clare that our new state when organized
must respect all such vested rights and
existing franchises. That was all | did.
and the federal courts stood ready to call
me down if 1 violated the Roosevelt ter
ritorial franchises.
r Poser for. Roosevelt.
Now, Mr.. President. why did your sec
rotary of the interior grant what you
knew was to be a Standard Oil pipe line
franchise in our territory. and fasten it
on our new state by provision of the state
hood bill? VIII Mr.. Hearst or the pres
ident please answer?
Il would also remind the president that
the company tried to enlarge its rights so
as to include a gas we'll as an oil privi-
lege. This I defeated, and even last
April, Mr.. President, your secretary of
the interior tried to help the Standard Oil
gas privilege against my protest by ac-
tually granting them a franchise to lay
an interstate gas line also. l notified the
secretary that since statehood your days
had passed. and l would resist laying the
pipe line only after you yielded and can
celed your unlawful act.
Il again assert that my action in that
case was not only required by what fed
eral authority had bound US to do, but
that the public interest OF our people
based on conditions growing out of your
original special favor to the Standard Oil
quired to pursue that policy in the
case you criticise.
Child Labor Bill.
1.-THE president comes to the local af-
fairs of our state and assails me for We
toing a child labor bill
True, L did, simply because the bill
went too far and included things not de-
sired by our people.
Union labor representatives, approved
my veto. / hope the president will survive
this veto of a local bill and permit us to
run our local affairs.
1.-The president complains that we re-
moved certain professors from our state
university. our three state normal schools
and preparatory school in violation of civil
service rules. That is, the president in
his usual impetuosity and reckless disre-
gard of others, misstates the facts. Less
than one-fifth of the faculties are changed
All changes were for good, and for other
than politics and done by boards of re-
gents and not by the governor.
No Interest in Indian Lands.
1.-The president complains that there are
several suits pending against me to re-
claim Creek Indian lands. The president
should have gone further and said that
l was not a dealer in Indian land and
only came in as a subsequent purchaser
and only incidentally, q party without
personal interest at all. and especially
he should have said that it was apparent
land cases claim to be and apparently
are, victims OF political chicanery which
the president can better explain than !.
I'm short, the president and Mr. Hearst
picked the wrong man and are now driven
into ward politics rather than surrender
like men.
A Body Blow.
1.-The president assumes that all Okla
Romans are grafters because his theo-
retical associates justified that name;
that all ex-railroad contractors are bad
just because Paul Morton needed his pro-
tecting arms: that we all in Oklahoma
violate the civil service law because Mr..
Roosevelt removed the best United States
marshal we ever mad, the only reason be-
ing that he voted for good Democrat
instead of a bad Republican, and then
appointed his cousin to fill the vacancy.
las to the veto of a child labor bill
and my work in the interest of labor, Mr..
President, please remember with me it S
do things-with you, it's talk only.
The Same President.
you are the same president who threat
ened to turn down our constitution be-
cause it provided a jury trial in certain
contempt cases Don't forget. Mr.. Presi-
dent. / fatty dared you to make that OBJ
lection. But as the price of your APP
prevail you did compel us to cut out the
prohibition. of removal of personal injury
cases against foreign corporations from
state to federal courts, and several other
good provisions that would benefit hu-
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