The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-25
HASKELIDLAMES
FOR FAvORs GRANTED TO ORE
TRUST IN OKLAHOMA.
Declares That Secretary Hltchcock Fixed
<. Up Permanent Ftanehises Before
statehood BeKen-Feeis Honered
to ne subject or Cabinet Meeting.

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to ne subject Or Cabinet Meeting.
GurRnIx, Okla, Sept sl-Gov. C.. N.
Haskell early to-day gave out his reply
to President Roosevelt In the Standard
Oil affair. u ~
The following was Haskel's statement.
President Rooseyelt's letter 10 before
me, and while this IL the first time In my
life / have been made the subject Of q
Cabinet meeting I am thankful for the
distraction and L wish 70, express my
high regard for the once Of the President
and my profound respect for the wisdom
OF our fathers In making u : ossibie to
change the occupant Of that high Office
every four years without the right
granted TO a Grown Prince TO succeed
the King.
Il assert 1t Ii fair for me TO assume,
IL my case wal to be dignified by an all
day Cabinet meeting, that beyond ques-
ton Mr., Hearst and his campaign as
s~ociate, President, Roosevelt. left no stone
unturned to blaoken my character.
1They raked Ohio fore and aft concern
ing the Ohio Standard Oil cases Of 1889,
and finding absolutely nothing rejecting
on me- the President tried to a his
charge Of last Monday aside by saying
be will make no allusion to that. He
drops this subject because his original
statement was untruthiul, and he must
know from what he knows and tried to
ind in Ohio that I spoke tho truth when
I said that I never in al my life had any
interest In, connection with Of service
for that company A.
: Il say the President knows that my
statement Il true. and I regret that he
tries to brush IL aside without doing me
candid Justice. We're ! TO adopt the
character Of language 30 commonly used
by tho President I would spell It in fewer
letters than 'falsehood.'
sMr. Roosevelt. I hope to speak In
Ohio soon. May I hope TO divide the
time with eome partisan Of yours or
Prince william who viii defend your
action In this ~instanoe2 i4
president Roosevelt, comes to Okla
homa and finds q substitute for his Ohio
failure, does he. In tho case OF the State
against the Prairie Oil and Gas Company.
which he complains ! compelled to be
sYes. i did have Il dismissed. We
all know that the Prairie company is .
Standard Oil offspring. and don't forget
the President claims to have known this
also. And / charge that the political
allies, Hearst and Roosevelt. both know
sFirss~The Prairie oil company got
its franchise In our State not from me
but from Hoosevelt's Secretary Of the
Interior long before Statehood began
and had It's main line built and operating.
and Congress in u Statehood bill was
careful to declare that our new State
when organized must respect all such
That Was ali / did, and ths Federal courts
stood ready to call me down IL I violated
the Roosevelt Territorial franchise.
aNow. Mr.. President. why did your
Secretary OF the Interior grant what you
knew TO be Standard Oil pipe line fran.
oiiseA In our then helpless Territory and
ssstsS y Sn s SHs ns VII sts Ne. he KsaERs sr@ oa int
President please ansWerf
"I also will remind the President that
the compsny tried TO. enlarge Its rights
90 as 10 include q gas a we'll rs an oil
privilege. This ! vetoed, and even last
April. Mr.. President. your Secretary Of the
Interior tried TO help the Standard Oil
actually granting them a franchise TO
lay an Interstate gas line also. I notified
the Sscretary that since Statehood your
DAYS Of giving valuable franchises in
our State had passed and ] would resist
laying tho pipo line only after you yielded
and cancelled your unlawful act
Il again assert that my act n that case
was not only required by what Federal
authority had been unable to do but
that tho public interest Of our own people.
based on conditions growing out Of your
original special favor 20 the Sta1aiard
OIL Company In granting that franchise
required me 90 pursue that policy In the
case You ar tioise
The President com plains that we re-
university. our three State normal schools
and preparatory schools In violation Of
civil eervics rulcs. That 10, tho President,
In his usual inipctuosity and reckless dis
regard Of others. m~isetntes the fncts. Less
than one-flfth Of the faculties are changed.
All changes were for god cause other
thanspolitics. and done by boards OF re-
gents and not BY tho Governor.
The President complains that there are
several suits pending agalnet mo TO re-
claim Creek Indian lands. Tho President
should have gone further and said that I
was not q dealer ! n Indian land. and only
came In ss u subsequent PURCHASER and
only incidentally. WITHOUT personal inter-
said il Ia quite apparent that those Who
are being sued In those land cases appear
TO be and apparently are the victims OF
political chicanery which the President
can better explain thsn l.
I'm short, the President picked the
wrong q n Ia now driven into ward
politics rather thar surrender like a man.
The President Hssumes that all Okla
Romans are grafters just because his
territorial associates justified that name;
that all former railroad contractors are
bad Just because Paul Morton needed his
protecting arm: that, we all In Oklahoma
violate the civil service law Just because
Mr.. Roosevelt removed the host United
States Marshal wc evcr had. tho only
reason being that he voted for d good
instead OF a bad Republican.
and then the. President appointed his
cousin to all the vacancy
as to the rights OF labor In q child
labor bill and my work In the interest
OF labor please remember with me It's
do things. With you tsstnlk only. You
are the sarme President, who. threatened
TO turn down our Constitution because
Tempt cases. Don't forget. Mr. President.
/ f,atiy dared Won to make that objection.
But as The prioe Of your approval, you
did compe. US to cut out tho prohibition
OF removal OF personal injury cases
against foreign corporations from State
10 Federal courts Ind several other good
that would benefit humanity
and curb special interests. Not content
With your own threats against our Con-
stitutfon, you SENT Secretary Taft here
To speak In our campaign q year q to
induce the people to votc to turn down
the best Constitution ever written. We