The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-24
HASKELL IN HOT
REPLY JEERS At
THE PRESIDENT
Declares RooseveIt's Charges to
Be a Joke on His
Stupidity.
SAYS HE HAS EXECUTIVE
NOW IN A TIGHT HOLE
Prairie Oil Company Got Fran.
chise from a Roosevelt
Cabinet Officer.

GUTHRIE, Okla, Sept. 24.-stung to
fury by President Roosevelt's attacks
or him. Governor Charles N. Haskell,
of Oklahoma, has written a caustic re-
ply. in which he jeers at the President,
says he has him "in a hole" mi denies
the charges seriatim. He insists he Is
innocent of connection with the Stand
ard Oil Company.
The Governors statement is in re-
ply to President Roosevelt's letter
to William j.. Bryan, dealing with
four specific charges against Mr.. Has
kell, namely, that he is subservient to
Standard Oil. that he vetoed a child
labor bill. that he dealt extensively in
Creek Indian lands, and that he had
allowed politics to dominate him In the
removal of members of the faculty of
the state University and the appoint
ment of others to succeed them.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Company
charges Governor Haskell declared to
be a Joke on Roosevelt's stupidity"
asserting that he had done nothing
which would confer upon the Standard
I'll 6uDSl0ldly COfIlPdny duthoi iAy
than it already possessed.
The statement is as follows:
eff President Roosevelt's statements
are correctly quoted, he has crawled
into a hole which is scarcely big enough
for him to turn around in, and before
he gets through with me 1 will plug up
the hole.
"Roosevelt, In his attempt to butt into
practises used I'm ward politics, has
placed himself just where 1 want him,
and 1 will make him sorry for II.
Beyond question. Mr.. Hearst and his
campaign associate, President Roose-
welt, left no stone unturned to blacken
my character. The Presidents orig
inal statement was untruthful, and he
| must know that I spoke the truth
when I said that I never in all my life
had any interest in connection with nor
service for the Standard Oil Company.
IT say the President knows now that
my statement is true, and I regret that
he tries to brush 1t aside without doing
me candid justice.
"Were I to adopt the language 80
commonly used by the President 1
would spell 1t In fewer letters than
sfaIsehood.'
"Mr. Roosevelt, I hope to speak in
Ohio soon. May / hope to divide the
time with some partisan of yours or
Prince William, who will defend your
action In this instance?
Says He Acted Properly.
I'm the ease of the State against the
Prairie Oil inc Gas Company the
President complains I compelled 1t to
be dismissed.
Eyes, I did have It dismissed. I
charge that the political allies, Hearst
and Roosevelt, both know that ! acted
properly.
1.-THE Prairie Oil Company got Its
franchise In u State not from me, but
from Roosevelt's secretary of interior.
"Now, Mr.. President, why did your
secretary of Interior grant what you
knew to be a Standard Oil pipe line
franchise in our then helpless territory
and fasten 1t in our new State by a
permanent statehood bill? Will Mr..
Hearst or the President please answer?
I 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.
"The President assails me for veto
ing a child labor bill.
True. I did so, simply because the
bill went too far and included things
not desired by our people. Union labor
representatives approved my veto.
1.-THE President complains that we
removed certain professors from our
State university, our three State nor
NAL schools and preparatory school In
violation of civil service rules. That is,
the President, in his usual impetuosity
and reckless disregard of others mis-
states the facts. Less than one-ffth OF
the faculties are changed. All changes
were for good cause other than poll
tics, and done by boards of regents and
not by the Governor.
"victims of C~hicanery."
THE President complains that there
are several suits pending against ms
to reclaim Creek Indian land. He
should have said that it is quite ap-
parent that those who are being sued
in those land cases appear to be, and
apparently are, the victims Of political
chicanery, which the President can
better explain thai /.
1.-THE President ssumes that all Ok
Iahomans are grafters Just because his
territorial associates justified that
name: that all ex-railroad contractors
dTe Ddu just DcCduSC Idui VI IOii
needed his protecting arm; that we all
in Oklahoma violate the civil service
law just because Mr.. Roosevelt re-
moved the best United States marshal
we ever had, the only reason being
that he voted for a good Democrat In
stead Of a bad Republican.
LAS to the rights of labor in a child
labor bill, and my work in the In
terest Of labor, Mr.. President, please
remember with me It's to do things.
With you it's talk only. You are tho
same President who threatened to turn
down our constitution because 1t pro-
vides a jury trial in certain contempt
cases. Don't forget. MI. President, I
fatty dared you to make that objection.
But as the price of your approval you
did compel us to cut out the prohibit
ton of removal of personal injury cases
against foreign corporations from State
to Federal courts, and several other
good provisions that would benefit hu-
mainly and curb special interests. Not
content with your w threats against
our constitution. you sent Secretary
Taft here to speak in our campaign a
year ago to induce the people to vote
to turn dow the best constitution ever
written.
w remember thnt we preserved
Mr.. Taff's speech. u differs widely