Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-10-01
TEDDY IN A HOLE
Gov. c. N. Haskell Puts Roose-
welt In Ananias Clue.
SOME CENTER SHOTS.

says Prairie Oil Company Wa.
Forced on Oklahoma When "a Ter
ritory by Roosevelt's Secretary of
the Interior and He Had to Obey.
the Law.
Thursday night at Guthrie. Gov
ernor Chas. y. Haskell issued a
statement to the Associated Press
In reply to President Roosevelt's lei
ter in reply to w. J. Bryan. dealing
with four specific charges agains,
MI Haskell. namely. that he l.
subservient to the Standard Oil; tha,
ne vetoed child labor bill; tina;
ne dealt extensively in Greek Indian
iahds and that he allowed politics
TO dominate him in the removal of
members of the faculty of the State
University and the appointment of
others TO succeed them.
Governor Haskell took up the foul
charges as dwelt upon by President
itooseVelt In turn, dealing with each
III a characteristic manner. Tha
Prairie Oil and Gas COMPANY charges
Governor Haskell declared to he g,
Joke on Roosevelt's stupidity" as
serting that he had done nothing
winch would confer on the Standard
On subsidiary company more author
lty than ii already possessed undor
a franchise granted bv Secretary
| Hitchcock.
An ntruth; Waived il Aside.
assert that il is fair for mo to
assume. if my case was to be dignI.
ned by an all-day cabinet meeting
that beyond question Mr.. Hearst ana
MS campaign associate. Presidenr
roosevelt. left no stone unturned to
blacken my character.
Ihat being true they certainly
raKed Ohio fore and aft concernin,.
the Ohio Standard Oil case of 1Ser
dnu' hndlng absolutely nothing ra
meeting on me. the president tried
10 wave his charge of last Monda,.
aside by saying he will make no al.
lusion to that
He drops this subject because
MS original statement was untruth
iul and he must know from wha,
ne knows and tried to find in Ohio
that | spoke the truth when said
that | never in all my life had any
interest in connection with. nor
service for. that company.
could Spell IL With Three Letters.
say the president knows now
that my statement is true and re
gret that he tries to brush il aside
without doing me candid justice
We're TO adopt the character of
language so commonly used by the.
president would spell it in fewer
letters than 'falsehood.'
MIR. Roosevelt, hope to speak
in Ohio soon. May /? hone To
divide the time with some partisan
OF yours, or Crown Prince William.
who will defend your action in this
instance.
President Roosevelt comes tc
oklahoma and finds a substitute fol
his Ohio failure. does he. in the cas-,
of the State against the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company. which he com
plains compelled to he dismissed
Knows He Acted Properly.
Yes | did have il dismissed
We all know that the Prairie Com.
pany is Standard Oil offspring. and
don't forget the president claim
to have known this also. and
charge that his political allies. Hears
and Roosevelt. both know that | act
ed properly.
First the Prairie on COMPANY
got its franchise in our State. no
from me. but from Roosevelt's sec
retary of the interior. long befor,
statehood began and had its man
line built and operating. an,
congress in our statehood bill wa
careful TO declare that our new
state. when organized. must respec
all such vested rights and eXistin.
franchises. That was all did. an,
The federal courts stand ready to ca
me down if | violated the Roosevelt
territorial franchise.
Questions to Roosevelt.
"Now. Mr.. President. why di
your secretary OF the interior gran
what YOU knew TO he Standard o.
pipe line a franchise in our the
| our new State by a permanent stat,
| hood bill? VIII Mr. Hearst or tn
| president please answer
I II will also remind the presider
= that the company tried to enlars
q its right so as to include gas a
= we'll as oil privilege. This do
3 feated. and even last April. Nj
a President. your secretary of the ii
a terror tried to help the Standard o
g gas privileges against my protest b
V actually granting them a franchi-
r to lay an interstate gas line also.
Q notified the secretary that wit
9 statehood your days Of giving val,
able franchises in our State ha
. pa ssed and | would resist laying II
II pipe line only after you yielded an
! cancelled your unlawful act.
/ II again assert that my act
/ that case was not only required l
o what federal authority had been III
l. able to do. but that the pnblic inte
ct nj your own people, based on co