The Glenwood post., 1908-09-26

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-President
! Roosevelt i'll his reply to w. j. Bryan,
says:
"The White House. Washington,
Sept. %, 1908.
Dear Sir:-In your telegram you
speak so much of the charge against
Gov. Haskell as dealt with his rela
tioni while in Ohio, with the STANDARD
/ Oil company, you omit the charge as
I to his relations with the Standard Oil
company as shown by his action while
governor of Oklahoma, this very sum
mcr. this action being in part taken
/ as you state. he was by your wishes
, made chairman of the committee which
drafted the platform upon which yot
are standing.
Oklahoma Case.
"In my statement. / purposely 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 Gov. IIeskcA' 5
close relations with the STANDARD Oil
atere4ts Ehile he wa.s9 on wa
matter 81 Common ncttr assl
Oklahoma, it is matter of court rec
ord. By this court record it appears
that tho attorney general of the state
elected by the people, obtained an IN
junction to prevent the Prairie Oil and
Gas company from building pipe
line; and that Gov. Haskell found this
out while he was at Denver, as ap
pears by the representations for the
dissolution of the injunction made in
hi, name on behalf of the state before
a court of superior jurisdiction to that
which issued the injunction. In this,
the governor states that the acting
governor, in his absence had asked that
the hearing be postponed until he, the
governor, might return and have an
opportunity to investigate the contro-
versy.
Haskell is Alert.
"The governor set forth in his petit
tion that he is the sole authority ia
determine such matters and that the
attorney general and the judge of the
lower court had no right in the case
and that the action of the judge OF
the lower court represented AN en-
croac hment by the judiciary The at
torney general opposed the dissolution
of tho injunction, stating that the
Prairie Oil and Gas company was
foreign corporation, which had not ae
cepted the provisions of the constitu
ton applicable to such corporations
and that without authority of law II
was employing great force of men
and teams to dig up, across and inte
various highways of the state for the
purpose of laying its pipe lines. Thf
governor prevailed, the injunction was
suspended. and the pipe line was per
mitted to continue its work, to use th'
words of the attorney general without
any color of law / call your attention
to the fact that the question is moi
whether or not the judge erred o'
whether the injunction was proper. Inc
point is that the governor was alert u
take out of the hands Of the attorne!
general what the attorney general fell
was his sworn duty to prevent, an al
legged instance Of the breaking of thu
laws by this particular great corpora
tion.
Enters no Defense.
: GAS far as have seen, Governo
Haskell has not even attempted any
thing which can be called defense o
! this action of his. 1t thus appears tina
his action was as inexcusable as 1t wa
wanton, except on the theory that il
defiance of the attorney general o
> the state and at all hazards he in
tended for some reason Of his own t.