The San Francisco call., 1908-10-01
Incorporate EpistIe Charges I'M
fairness and FeebIy At
tempts Justification
Alleges Townsife Lot Cases is
Republican Scheme to Catch
Indian Voters
Addresses Whimpering Appeal
to People OF Oklahoma and
Asks Financial Assistance
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

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GUTHRIE, Okla. Sept. 3o.-Gov-
ernor C. N. Haskell as had his pen
in hand all day. In edition to an in
temperate and abusivs, letter to Pres
ident Roosevels he 5Sldressed an ap-
peal to the people 81 Oklahoma-a
| wlimpering appeal--oleading with
them to stay with llis.a and to donate
money to his private purse. He claims
to be a poor man, fighting everything
wealthy and powerful that is backing
Hearst and Roosevelt, and then
makes his plea for money as follows:
II want to be frank with every honest
man in Oklahoma, and in that frank
ness it is proper for me to say that
not only want your moral support, but
some small financial assistance to pay
the expense of this great conflict. I ask
] for your assistance, not in large
amount. A few thousand dollars will
be ample.
His letter to the president, issued to-
night. is as follows:
1 lay aside my appeal for Justice to
| You for the reason that [ am convinced
that, no matter how dignihed, great and
| honorable the Office of president may
| be- the present clearly demonstrates the
fact that the occupant of that office
may pc without fairness, justice or In
1 i.tegrity.
You have clearly demonstrated by
hearsay,- dodging and vacillating from
| one charge to ;enosher, by admitting
| that various of yVar charges were with
/ out foundation ard therefore aban-
doned. and yet vi. aut displaying the
untrutHful statement vou seek another
issue. 1t leads me 10 assert that shall
seek justice against stst before the peo-
domnaion dor a 81 Fancy Fpar o aAsag Z csaid
have arrived at no other conclusion
than that you in your reckless partisan
ship and disregarding the rights. of 9TH
ers would pack court or fix jury.
CREEK INDIAN LANDS
You said in your first abatement that
! had suits brought against me to re-
cover title to Creek Indian lands. /
overwhelmed you on that statement;
adopting your usual policy, you fee
from that statement without just apol-
ogy and adopt the statement now that
it was government townsite lots that
you charged me with being sued for.
Yes. / believe I am a defendant as
| to certain government townsite lots In
one of near 1000 suits that you have
had brought against as many different
honorable and high minded citizens of
this state during this presidential cam
paign, and you will not undertake to
deny that petty, politics for hon the pnr nGo
l
Indian voters was your sole motive for
having those suits brought.
charge you with knowing that there
has been no delay in these cases. ex-
cept that occasioned by the courts de-
| liberations, taken by himself as the
time he deemed necessary to consider
whether or not there is any merit in
/ the petition filed by your attorney.
You say that on the land question
you will see that / get hearing in
court Yes, sir, welcome your hear
1 TN ColI 20 G. M oil hn
/ power that your high office commands,
present your case in any form you like.
am ready to meet it, and before the
conclusion the people of America will
be disgusted that they ever elected you
president of the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt. have said that you
were responsible for the granting of
! the franchise to the Prairie oil and gas
company. before statehood. thereby Gre
ating vested rights In that company
that our state authority Is powerless to
interrupt.
SAYS ISSUE EVADED
| You have tried In your last statement
| to evade this issue. You have tried
] to give your readers wrong impress
| sion In the Office of the interior de-
partment the records will speak as be-
tween us. / say that you granted that
franchise. | say. that you did 1t at
osese ahe ena That within few aans ana
thereafter, chiefly by subscriptions of
! Standard oil men, according to Mr.. Har-
riman, the sum Of s26000o In cash was
added to your campaign fund.
1 challenge you to publish the rec
! ords of the interior department on the
subject of this franchise, and, mark
you now, Mr.. Roosevelt. you must not
garble the records nor suppress any of
| them. The public shall know the truth
1t may have been sufficient four years
ago for you to wipe out the truthful
| statement made by Judge Parker by
simply calling him a liar, but that was
! four years ago and your controversy
| now is with a man who Will not accept
bluff in exchange for receipt in full
ment you make that have at any time
during my entire life had any connec-
tion whatever or of any character with
the Standard oil company or any of it's
subsidiary companies. / am ready to
refute such statement
| 1T is still fresh In the minds of the
people of our state, labor unions farm
ers' unions and other advocates of hon
est and humane government. that the
16 objections that you raised to our
constitution struck at the very Witals,
\ of honest government
THREATENED CONSTITUTION
Your threat to turn down our consti-
| tuition because 1t contained a provision
| for jury trials in contempt cases is
cny ae Of and hf than ahdEs aod Is that M oy
4 that I had the courage to challenge
you at that time to turn down our
constitution on that ground If you
- You ~M s said that your opinion Of our
constitution would not look we'll in
| said the same thing, but Samuel Com
pers said the constitution of Oklahoma
was the best ever written. I expected
yoI to agree with Mr.. Morgan and Mr.
| Hartman and, of course, was not sur
prised.
Morally you challenge Mr.. Roosevelt
| should not undertake to make com
/ parison between you and me. do not
| get drunk on any occasion and never
! did in my life, but still have your letter
/ Of last winter, which / shall be>Elad To
publish with your permission. advocat-
! ing your idea of Interstate commerce of
whisky into prohibition territory. 1T
| was your answer to my appeal for as
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