The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-25

Washington. Sept. 23.-President
Roosevelt, in his reply to WI. Bryan,
says:
THE White House, Sept. %, 1905
Dear Sir: In your telegram you speak
Of so much of the charge against Gov
ernor Haskell as dealt with his rela-
tions, while in Ohio, with the Stand
ard Oil company, you omit the charge
as to his relations with the STANDARD
Oil interests, as shown by his action
while governor OF Oklahoma this very
summer, this action being in part
taken while he was at Denver, where,
as you state, he was by your wish
made chairman of the committee which
drafted the platform upon which you
are standing. In my statement pur-
posely made no specific allusion to the
Ohio matter and shall at this time
make none, in spite of its significance
and in spite of the further fact that
Governor Haskell's close relations
with the Standard Oil interests while
he was in Ohio was matter of com
mon notoriety. In Oklahoma it is a
matter OF court record. By this court
record it appears that the attorney
general of the state, elected by the
people, obtained an injunction to pre-
vent the Prairie Oil and Gas company
from building pipe line and that
Governor Haskell found this out while
he was at Denver, as appears by the
representations for the dissolution of
the injunction made in his name on
behalf Of the state before a court of
superior jurisdiction to that which
issued the injunction. In this the gov
ernor states that the acting governor
in his absence mad asked that the
hearing be postponed until he, the
governor, might return and have an
opportunity to investigate the contro-
versy. The governor sets forth in
his petition that he is the sole author
ity to determine such matter and the
attorney general and the judge of the
lower court represented an 'encroach-
ment by the judiciary The attorney
general opposed the dissolution of the
injunction, stating that the Prairie
Oil and Gas company was foreign
corporation, which had not accepted
fha nrouisirrc Of ho it,,ti
plicable to such corporations and that
without authority Of law it was en-
ploying great force of men and
teams to dig up across and into vari.
Gus highways of the state for the pur-
pose of laying its pipe lines. The gov
ernor prevailed, the injunction was
suspended and the pipe line company
was permitted to continue its work,
to use the words Of the attorney general
without any color of law I call
your attention to the fact that the
question is not whether or not the
judge erred or whether the injunction
was proper. The point is that the
governor was alert to take out of the
hands Of the attorney general what
the attorney general felt was his
sworn duty to prevent, an alleged in
stance of the breaking of the laws by
this particular great corporation.
GAS far as / have seen Governor
Haskell has not even attempted any
thing which can be called defense of
this action of his 1t thus appears that
his action was as ineXcusable as it
was wanton, except on the theory that
in defiance of the attorney general of
the state and at all hazards he attempt
ed for some reason of his own to pro-
tect the interests Of great corpora
tion against the law. 1t has been sug-
gested that on his behalf that after all
he did not favor the Standard Oil com.
pany, but merely the Prairie Oil and
Gas company. This claim is disposed
Of by the testimony of the Standard
Oil company itself, taken in the latter
part of 1907, in the suit now pending
before the United States court at st.
Louis against the Standard Oil com.
pany. In this testimony the Standard
Oil company upon being requested by
the government to put in list of all
companies in which it held stock, or
in which its subsidiary companies