The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-01
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION
HEARST AND ROOSEVELT CON.
sPIRE TO DESTROY REpU-
TATloN OF HASKELL
MONETT'S STATEMENT Or REAL FACTS

In q Speech a Year Ago Former Attor-
ney General Of Ohio Says Haskell
Was Always Ready to Refute the
Charge Brought Against Him Indi.
reetly
10y AUSTIN D. HUMBARGAR)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Seq 80.
Complete exposure of the falsehood
OF the accusation by which President
Roosevelt and William II. Hearst con.
spirod TO Jssas-iu1tc the character OF
Governor e.. y. Haskell is .ound in an
address delivered I'm this city one year
ago by Frank s.. Mouuctt. former at
torncy general OF Ohio. whom Rooso.
welt and Hearst quote as having
charged Haskell with being the tool
Of the Standard oil company.
The accusation against Governor
Haskell IS based on an affidavit that
Monnett filed In the supreme court Of
Ohio while attorney general. in which
he swore that : man named Squires
had approached him with an offered
brihe Of $i00, 600 to dismiss a certain
action for contempt which Monnett
had filed in the supreme court against
the Standard Oil company. The affi-
davit states that when threatened
with arrest unless he reveal the names
OF his associates, Squires had told
Monnett that another man interested
in the deal had telephoned him from
New York and had named c. N. Has
kell and several others as being con
nected with the matter. That is all
the foundation that ever existed for
the assault OF Hearst and Roosevelt
on a man whose record as the advo-
cate OF the people has won him the
bltterest hatred OF every greedy cor.
poration that has ever attempted to
do business In Oklahoma.
Now what did Monnett say about
this accusation against c.. N. Haskell
more than a year before Hearst and
Roosevelt revived the canard?
| quote below Monnetts exact Ian.
guage, in dealing with this subject in
his address at convention hall in Ok
lahoma City on the night Of Septeln-
Der 10. 1907. ! was at that time po-
litical reporter on the Daily Oklaho-
man and covered this meeting.
quote from the speech as reported In
the Oklahoman on September IA, and
will say that this report was a YER
batim reproduction of the notes OF
six expert stenographers whom | had
employed TO take the speech in re
e lays.
That there may be no question that
the Oklahoman printed Mr.. Monnetts
speech exactly as he delivered il, and
that he meant all that he said and all
that he is quoted in the Oklahoman as
having said, | want to state further
that | met Mr.. Monnett at the Lee
hotel the morning after the address
was delivered, and he congratulated
me warmly on the manner In which
had handled the speech, declared
that the report was verbatim, and as
nearly perfect as any report he had
ever seen, and asked me TO mail q
dozen copies OF the paper containing
II to his Ohio address.
Here is what Monnett said about
ihN biiiHNiA "hlNh AtblSA anu hOOht-
welt claim convicted Haskell OF being
a Standard oil tool:
Mr.. Sheets has said IL | came here
would tell You what occurred. and
] am only too glad 10 do it. He has
charged Charlie Haskell-or says that
! have charged him, through Squires
of a charge which | nave ever since
trf,l IN ,fVa hf,, no, ,,...4..t.. -
straighten out. From the very first
moment the change was made Haskell
stood ready TO s'raighten II out. lie
was ready 10 come and testify, but
Sheets told you, aad the record show
you, that the case was dismissed be-
fore he mad a chance to testify. G. n.
Haskell stood ready to testify from
the m the charge was made.
Now, this was made on the answer
Of Squires. When they asked him
who be represented he said: Frank
Rockefeller and Haskell We named
hose just as he gave them, and the
name OF Haskell appeared-Haskell
Of Cleveland, Ohio Now there Is an.
other Haskell in Cleyeland-l don't
remember his initials, but his name
was Haskell, and he lived in Cleye-
land and was often in the city. He
was connected with the Hama and
Rockefeller crowd, and 81 was very
easy to confuse the two. Charlie
Haskell was not living in Ohio, even,
al that time. He was living in New
York, and the m he heard ne
charge he offered to CONF back ana
testify-was anxious for an oprOrtJ.
nifty to come back and face the charge
and Charlie Haskell vas the only one
OF the bunch who ever has"