The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-09-29
REPLY BY HASKELL.
Dklahoman Charges President With
Wilful Misrepresentation
pose of Republicans.

Guthrie, Okla, Sept. 23.-GoV.
Chas.. y. Haskell tonight issued a
statement to the Associated Press in
REPLY to President Roosevelt 5 letter
to VIM. J. Bryan. dealing with four
specific charges, against Mr.. Haskell,
/ namely: that he is SUbservient to
I Standard Oil: that he vetoed child
, labor bill: that he dealt extensively IN
Creek Indian lands and that he had
allowed politics to dominate IN the
removal Of members Of the faculty OF
State university and the appointment
of others to succeed them.
Gov. Haskell took up the four
I charges as dwelt upon by President
Roosevelt in turn, dealing with each
in a characteristic manner.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company
charges Gov. Haskell declared to be
a "joke on Roosevelt's stupidity, :"
) asserting that he had done nothing
} which would confer upon the STAN
dard Oil subsidiary company more
authority than it already possessed
under a franchise granted it by Sec
retary Hitchcock.
s'I assert that it is fair for me to
assume that if my case was to be
dignified by an all-day cabinet meet
1 ing 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 cases Of 1899 and finding abso-
lutely nothing reflecting on me, the
president tried to wave his charge Of
last Monday aside by saying he Will
| make no allusion to that. He drops
this subject because Lis original state
ment was untruthful and he must
know from what he knows and tried
l to find in Ohio that I spoke the truth
when I said that I never in all my
life had any interest in, connection
with nor service for that company.
'sI 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 I would spell it in fewer
letters than 'falsehood.'
"Mr. Roosevelt, I hope to speak in
Ohio soon. May I hope to divide the
time with some partizan Of yours or
Prince William, who will deferd your
action in this instance?
"President Roosevelt comes to
Oklahoma and finds a substitute for
his Ohio failure, does he, in the case
of the State against the Prairie Oil
and Gas company, which he complains
I compelled to be dismissed!
eyes, T did have it dismissed. We
all know that the Prairie company IS
a Standard Oil offspring, and don't
/ forget the president claims to have
known this also, and I charge that
the political allies, Hearst and Roose-
velt, both know that I acted properly.
:First, the Prairie Oil company got
kits franchise in our State, not from
me, but from Roosevelt's secretary of
interior, long before statehood began,
and had its main line built and oper-
j ating, and congress in our statehood
bill was careful to declare that our
new State, when organized, must re-
spect all such vested rights and ex-
isting franchises. That was all | did
and the federal courts stood ready to
call me down if I violated the Roose-
velt territorial franchises.
"Now, Mr.. President, why did your
! secretary of the interior grant what
YOU knew to be Standard Oil pipe
! line franchise in our then helpless
territory and fasten it on our new
State by a permanent statehood bill?
VIII Mr.. Hearst or the president
! please answer? will also remind the
president that the company tried to
enlarge its rights so as to include a
gas as we'll as an oil privilege. This
I defeated, and even last April, Mr..
President, your secretary Of interior
tried to help the Standard Oil to get
g,S r-.1iiegs against nv ro:'>; by
actually granting them franchise to
4 Law an interstate gas line also. [ no
titled the secretary that with state
hood your days Of giving valuable
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