The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-01-03
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
VIEW OF PEOPLE AND THINGS
THE MEAT TRUST TO RECEIVE ATTENTION
Governor Haskell May Make Official
Inquiry Into Packing Industry
Senatorial Aspirants are Plentiful
Gossip of Other State Affairs

That Thomas Pryor Gore will not
be reelected to the United States
senate without great opposition is a
certainty. The field will be against
him, and various combines for his
defeat are now under way, though
none of them points Enthusiastically to
the election of any other particular
candidate. Opponents OF Gore urge
that the state should be represented
In the United States senate by man
without any kind of physical handi-
cap. Thep go further by saying that
Gore has received reasonable com
pensation In two years term for
whatever service he may have rem
dered his party, and that with even
this tenure he has been given per-
sonal distinction that should place him
on easy street for the rest of his
life. He is an eloquent platform ora
tor, whose senatorial success should
give him enough publicity to enable
him to follow the lecture platform
profitably all his life
Governor G. y. Haskell, naturally
receives first consideration as a pos
sible candidate. He has large fol-
lowing in the state that believe he
could be elected for the asking. Has
kell's political prestige was never
higher than now. There has been
whispered into his ear many prophe-
cies favorable to his being a candi-
date for the democratic presidential
nomination in 1912, prospect that
might stir man even less ambi-
tious than &C. y. Haskell. AS the
pioneer governor of state pioneering
in the enactment OF laws intended to
safeguard more closely the rights and
property Of the common people, he
has opportunity for doing wonderful
things in the four years OF his ad
ministration, the importance OF which
might give him national reputation.
Ii is harder to read the remote fu-
ture than 1t Is to understand the inn
mediate present, and this fact Is said
10 have impressed Governor Haskell
with the desirability of seat in the
senate If it could be obtained in the
next two years. He Is reluctant
however, to allow anything to inter
fere with what he has planned to be
an ideal constructive administration
OF the states affairs, and would like
as a matter OF pride to remain In Of
lice until the close OF his term. An
intimate friend OF Governor Haskell
said this week that in a short time
Governor Haskell would make known
to his intimates his decision as to
whether or not he would stand FOR
the. United States senate.
With Haskell out OF the race, there
hn nj % LOT 40
TO succeed Gore NJ. l.. Turner OF
Oklahoma City is regarded practically
as a candidate. He was against Gore
for the first nomination. Roy V.
Hoffman of Chandler may decide to
enter the race again. interests that
fear Gore are seeking to induce Henry
Furman OF Ada again to become a
candidate that he may divide with
Gore, and thereby weaken the latter
the vote Of what Furman calls the
broom corn Willies, the farmer
democrats. Among these voters is
Cores greatest strength, and by split
ting up this vote at statewide pri-
maries Gore would be weakened.
The segregation and allotment OF
lands in the Usage Indian reservation
almost coincident with statehood, will
be of immense advantage to the cat
tie industry in Oklahoma. For decades
the Usage country with its miles OF
open pasture range has been filled
with cattle shipped from the fever in
fected regions Of the south. Being an
Indian reservation, 1t was controlled
by the department of the interior