Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-09-29
Haskell RET|RES;
TO SUE President
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR HANDS
OUT iNTlMATlON WITH HIS
RESIGNATION.
QUITS TREASURERSHlP,
FINISH RATHER ABRUPT
oubernatorIal Executive Threatens to
"Treat Hearst and Roosevelt as
Citizens, Subject to Penalties of
Law Which They Merit"

Law Which They Merit"
Chicago, Sept. 2s.-Gov. Charles N.
Haskell of Oklahoma resigned as
treasurer of the Democratic national
committee.
In telegram sent to National Chair.
man Norman E. Mack at New York
headquarters the Oklahoma executive
announced that he would retire as
head OF the campaign finances in or
der that the charges made against
him connecting him with the Standard
OIL Company and accusing him of a
record of hostility against organized
labor might not be used to CLOUD the
sky and shield our opponents from dis
eussing the real issues"
May Prosecute Accusers.
One sensational feature of the mes
sage was an intimated declaration that
Haskell will prosecute President
Roosevelt, w. R. Hearst and others
who have made vicious. unwarranted
and untruthful attacks" upon the Ok
lahoma governor. who threatens to
treat them all as private citizens and
subject to the penalties of the law
WHICH they merit"
The news occasioned little surprise
at headquarters both in Chicago and
New York. The leaders of the party
had been expecting that the gravity
OF the accusations made against Has
kell would result in an effort to tighten
Bryan and the campaign managers of
the embarrassment caused by the
charges regardless of their truth or
falsity, as the case may prove.
Resignation 10 Abrupt.
The only astonishing feature was
the abruptness of the resignation.
When Haskell called off all his speak
Iowa and hurried post-haste to Chi
cago. the general understanding was
that he was coming to hold confer
ence with Mr.. Bryan over the charges
made during the past fortnight by
President Roosevelt, W. r. Hearst.
Frank s. Monnett, former attorney
general of Ohio, and Attorney General
West of Oklahoma.
List of Charges.
The charges made by President
Roosevelt, w. R. Hearst and Messrs.
Monnett and West that were the
cause of Haskell's effacement from the
national campaign were in substance
rs follows:
/. That Haskell was party to the
100000 bride offered by Standard Oil
agents to Frank S. Monnett, who as
attorney general of Ohio was Drosecut-
ing the Rockefeller corporation.
2. That Haskell's connection with
the Prairie Oil & Gas Company. a
Standard subsidiary. led him last July
to exercise his power as governor and
to stop the prosecution of the Prairie
OIL & Gas Company In the Oklahoma
pipe line cases.
8. That Haskell was one of the or,
pany.
A. That Haskell has been a bitter
enemy of organized labor and that in
1906 he was one of the charter mem
bers of the Citizens Alliance of Mus
kogee, which was formed to fight labor
unions.
s. That Haskell has prostituted the
State university of Oklahoma to poll
tics.
That Haskell's name has appeared
IN various suits brought by the gov
eminent to keep certain of the Creel
IndianS from having their lands fraud
ulently taken.
Z. That Haskell. was in the earl
'90s the promoter in Wall street of tn
ill-fated Detroit & Lima Northern, tn
Lima Northern and the subsequen
companies under which these prope,
ties were known during course {
Ave bankruptcies.