The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-12
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Over at Ft Smith. Arkansas. the
people take great interest IN Oklaho-
ma and whatever pertains TO this
state. Before the days OF the Indian
tribal dissolution the Federal authori-
ties neld forth there and for many
years TT Smith was The trade capital
icf the East side Aps ap8icaH.e rela-
tions still exist. ThetBsVthre& Amer
3can has been a careft1 Investigator OF
the fight made against Gover1or Has
sell and has arrived at the corclusiou
the outfit -assailing the governor ought
to carry the pedigree along 30 that
strangers may understand all of the
particulars and form some idea of why
the governor has made 50 many bitter
enemies in this section # the came
does not apply in other parts. OF the
country Says the American.
Now they have Bert Greer. Of Mus
kogee. attacking Governor Haskell in
the public prints. AS a class. Che fell
lows who have bitterly attacked the
governor in the public press have all
had a past Greer is not an exception
of this class Fer several years he
was under Indictment for fraud up In
Illinois. and the courts there We're
clamoring to have him extradited from
Indian Territory, but through friend
" Federal Judge they we're not per-
mitted to get at him. Greer sold sew
eral thousand dollars worth OF Indian
| Territory town lots to the ccnfiding
| Illinoisans to which he had no more
| title than a rabbit No less than eight
or ten OF the men who have been fore
most in their attacks on Haskell in the
public press the past year or two have
either been tried or convicted for
penal cffense and in most cases it was
! the latter. This does not establish
/ Haskell's innocence of all the things
| that have been charged to him, but it
/ shows from which direction the wind
has been blowing. And the president
of the United States has stopped so
low as to parrot the charges Of some
of these men to the American public.
and to use their names as authority.
| At the Hearst meeting in Columbus.
! Ohio, at which the Foraker-liaskell
charges were made, it has since de-
yeloped that the chairman Of the meet
| ing and tne independence candidate
| for congress who introduced Mr.,
/ Hearst To the auulenCe ~ an tA-toil-
vict. He was recognized hy prison Of
ficials in the audience, and when later
confronted with his prison record adj
mitted It, but claimed he had been
'railroaded' into the penitentiary.
7 How many of these captains are in
the class mentioned by the American
/ The Leader can not state, as The gen
eral average of the attacking squadron
was so bad on general PRINCIPLES the
public would not heed the charges or
requests hence no one ever took the
time to go further into details. Ger
tain II Is that Oklahomans are as free
from needing advice or taking sug-
gestions from the motley force as
mortal can be.
And while It's not always true that
when you find one OF these bitter enc
mics OF the governor you also find one
who has either had his head buried In
some graft or was trying to get one TO
bury in. II is a fact that the .erge ma
iority of the assailing squadron can
be listed in one or the other af these
seekers for profit without rendering
any service therefor.