The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-09-29
! EDDY I'M A H0LE.
Gov. C. %. Haskell Puts Roose-
vett ia AnaAias Club.
SOME CENTER SHOTS.

Says Prairie Oh Company, Was
Forced on oklahoma When Ter.
ritory By RooseveEt's Secretary OF
the Interior and He Had to Obey
the Law.
| Thursday night at Guthrie, Gov
ernor Chas. N. Haskell issued a
statement to the Associated Press
in reply to President Roosevelt's let
ter in reply to W. j. Bryan, dealing
with four specific charges against
Mr. Haskell, namely, that he is
subservient to the Standard Oil; that
he vetoed child labor bill; that
he dealt extensively in Creek Indian
lands and that he allowed politics
to dominate him in the removal of
members of the faculty of the State
university and the appointment of
others to succeed them.
Governor Haskell took up the four
charges as dwelt upon by President
Roosevelt in turn, dealing with each
in a characteristic manner. The
Prairie Oil and Gas Company charges
Governor Haskell declared to be a
"joke on Roosevelt's stupidity" as
serting that he had done nothing
which would confer on the Standard
Oil subsidiary company more author
ity than it already possessed under
a franchise granted by Secretary
Hitchcock.
An Untruth; Waived it Aside.
IL assert that it is fair for me to
assume, if my case was to be digni-
fed. by an all-day cabinet meeting,
that beyond question Mr.. Hearst and
his campaign associate. President
Roosevelt, left no stone unturned to
| blacken my character.
"That being true, they certainly
raked Ohio fore and aft concerning
the Ohio Standard Oil case Of 1899
and, finding absolutely nothing re-
fecting on me, the president tried
to wave his charge of last Monday
aside by saying he will make no al
flusion to that
"He drops this subject because
his original statement was untruth-
full and he must know from what
he knows and tried to find in Ohio,
that I spoke the truth when said
that never in all my life had any
interest in connection with, nor
service for. that company.
Gould Spell 1t With Three Letters.
"I say the president knows now
that my statement is true and / re-
gret that he tries to brush it aside
without doing me candid justice.
Were I to adopt the character OF
language so commonly used by the
president l would spell it in fewer
letters than 'falsehood.'
"Mr. Roosevelt, l hope to speak
in Ohio soon. May /? L hope to
divide the time with some partisan
of yours. or Crown Prince William
who will defend your action in this
instance.
president Roosevelt comes to
Oklahoma and finds a substitute fol
his Ohio failure, does he, in the case
of the State against the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company, which he COM
plains I compelled to be dismissed
Knows He Acted Properly.
"Yes, I did have it dismissed
We all know that the Prairie Com
pany is a Standard Oil offspring, and
don't forget the president claims
to- have known this also, and
charge that his political allies, Hearst
and Roosevelt, both know that l act
ed properly.
First, the Prairie Oil Company
got it's franchise in our State, moi
from me, but from Roosevelt's sec.
retary of the interior, long before
statehood began and had its main
lire built and operating, and
congress in our statehood bill was
careful to declare that our new
State, when organized, must respect
all such vested rights and existing
franchises. That was all I did, and
the federal courts stand ready to cal
me down if I violated the Roosevelt
territorial franchise.
Questions to Roosevelt.
Now. Mr. President, why did
your secretary Of the interior grant
what you knew to be Standard Oil
pipe line a franchise in our ther
helpless territory and fasten it ir
our new State by permanent state
hood bill? Will Mr.. Hearst or the
president please answer.
Il will also remind the president
that the company tried to enlarge
it's right so as to include gas as
we'll as oil privilege. This | de-
feated, and even last April. Mr.
President, your secretary OF the in
terror tried to help the Standard Oh
gas privileges against my protest by
actually granting them franchise
to lay an interstate gas line also.
notified the secretary that with
statehood your days of giving valu'
able franchises in our State has
passed and | would resist laying the
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