Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-25
OIL FAlixcAse ftDERM act
Setting Aside Of injunction Against
Oil Company Necessary to Comply
at Univers.ty-Expiains Actions.

Tcp!S ~ PECSiCPh' ttOoStN ~ : - - :.
to W. ]. Bryan. G"a.ing "i'h 'o"r
specific charges n "a Nj Haskell
nameiJ: that he - sub, w. -; e
Standard Oil; thi. II" N"'D..i 4 ..E'ld
labor + a: that H. .isll; extensively
in Cree: Indian lArts al ia he hal
allowed politics - .i2nir,'e I'm in
the removal OF m A,nanrG II tL- t..u'-
~ of the state un'.". ,:'y a'ii lac Az
EIintme mt OF OIhe'S q .:c"',i 'tH:r.
Governor Haskell tnGH ii the four
charges as dwelt Il. a ~ i'r'hii'n;
RoOsev.;t in turn. I"l!i: Z. MEh tsth
III characteristics .na,;i"r.
Th. iiaaiie OH 4. Gas Co.,, any.
charge. Governor Haskell declared /,
be a Joke on Roos avelt's stupidity"
asserting ihat he had done nothing
which would confer upon the stand
ard Oil subsidiary company more
authority than it already possesseI
under franchise granted 1t by Sec
rotary Hitchcock.
Il assert that it is f?ir for me to as
sum that. If my Case wa.s to be digni-
fled by an all day cabinet meeting.
that beyond question Mr.. Hearst anc
his campaign associate. President
Roosevelt. lefta no stone unturntd
to blacken my character. That be-
ing trur they certainly raked Ohio
fore and aft concerning the Ohio Stan
dard Oil cases of 1899. ami finding
absolutely nothing, reflecting on me.
the President tried to waive his
charge Of last Monday aside by say
ing He will make no allusion to that
He drops this SUBJECT because his
original statement was untruthfui.
and he must kncw from what he
knows and tried to find il Ohio.
that | spoke the truth when said
that l never in all my life haG any
interest in connection with. nor ser
vice for that COMPANY
Inputes Feisehood to President
Il said the President knows now
that my statement is true. and l re-
greet that he tries to brush 1t aside
without doing me candid justice.
Were | to adopt the character of ian
guasc SO commonly used Icy the Pres
ident. woul spell it in fewer letter.
tan .falsehcod'.
Mr.. Roosevelt, hope to speak in
Ohio soon. May hope to divide the
time with some partisan of pdnrs or
Prince William who vii! defend your
action in this instance?
president Roosevelt comes to Ok
lahoma and finds substitute for his
Ohio failure, does he. in the case OF
the state against the Prairie Gil 4
Gas Company. which he complains i
compelled to be dismissed? Yes I did
have it dismissed. We all know that
the Prairie Company Is Standard Oil
offspring. ard don forget tho Presi-
dent claimE to have known this also,
and I charge that the political allies.
had acted prope rly.
Carried Out Federal Law
First the Prairie Oil Company got
it; franchis, in our state. not from me
but from Roosevelt's secretary Of IT.
terror. long before statehood began.
ami had its main line built and operat-
irg. end congress in our statehood
bill was careful to declare that our
new state. when organized. must re-
spect all such vested rights and exist
ing franchises That was all I did.
and the federal courts stood ready
to call me down II violated the
Roosevelt territorial franchises
Now Mr.. President why did your
secretary OF interior grant what YOU
knew to Re a Standard Oil pipe line
a franchise in our then helpless ter
ri;ory. ard fasten II in our new state
By a permanent statehood bill? VIII
Mr.. Hearst OF the President plea"
anSwcr. I will also remind the Presi-
dent that company tried to en.arge
its rights SO as to include gas. as
vel as an Oil privilege. This I de-
feated. and even last April Mr.. Presi-
dcns your secretary Of Interior tried
TO help the Standard OIL gas ,privt
leges agains: my protest by actually
granting the m a franchise to lay an
interstate gas line a'so. I notified
thu secretary that with statehood
your days Of giving valuable fran
chiees in our STATE has passed. and !
re listed laying the pipe line only after
you Welded and cancelled your Gniaw-
full act
I u again assert that my act in ina.
case was not osly required by what
federal authority had been unable to
+, cur own people. based on conditions
SlCWihS O1t OF your ostxiu1i sp'Viaa
,fsvcr TO the Standard OIL COMPANY.
In granting that franchise. required
ne TO pursue that policy in ths cas-
you criticiss.
Child Ishor eiu Veto.
Tho Prestdcnt comes 10 the local
affairs e or state arj as ala M
fer yp:o.ng child ia,or bin.
"Tru' I did 81. g!mply b1~ause the
BIZ vcut io1 far ard included things
nc, desired by our people. Union
labor representatives approved nv
veto. topc the President viii sur
,Iy' this VITO cf q local bill and pcr.
at rs 10 run our local affairs.
Few Charges N Faculties.
Tho Prpsid~n' co.nrlains mat &c
removed certain prrfcssorI from o"r
state university - civil cnfvrp -