The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-01

CTS DelleNe that lHuldn 1elrlloIS WdS then conducting it's own government and that only parts of the same were Indian reservations.
 MT Roosevelt, you know It isn't true; you know all the land was h. dian land without county township or territorial government, What halo or integrity surrounded you last week, like the mist has faded away and the interior department holds the record which conVicts you.
 Tn the office of the interior depart ment the records will speak as be- tween us. say that you granted that franchise, say that you did 1t at the solicitation of Senator Depew and oth- CTS and that within a few days there after, chiefly by subscriptions of Standard oil men, according to MT Hartman, received the sum of $2G0,- 900 In cash for your campaign fund.
 You charged me with having at tempted to bribe the attorney general of ohio. That was presumably nine years ago. You have abandoned that position Charles P. Taft says through his paper that no evidence was ever produced that would convict me of the charge.
 In touching upon the state uni- yersity question you pretended to quote from the Outlook magazine, but how dishonesty you enlarged on the magazine article. That article charged me with substituting democratic for republican professors for political purposes have shown that state ment to be false, but I charge you with trying to enlarge on that maza- zine article and give the world the impression that we were improperly using the money appropriated to con duct that institution.
 Your charge that l vetoed a child labor law you have not apologized for, notwithstanding you knew that l did 1t with the approval of union labor and that our state constitution which you said was so bad your opinion of 1t would not look we'll in print, con tains more detail and child labor leg islatlon than all you have recom- mended to the New York legislature as governor or to the congress of the United States as president. and that I had approved li acts of our legisla- ture passed at the solicitation of union labor,
 You said in your first statement that I had suits brought against me to recover title to creek Indian lands, I |, at, ,i tu Ae,,, Adopting your usual policy, you flee from that statement without just apology and adopt the statement now that it was government town site lots that you charged me with being sued for Yes, l believe I am defendant as to certain government town site l lots In one of nearly II GOO suits that you have had brought against as many different honorable and high minded citizens of this state during this presi- l dential campaign year and you will 1 not undertake to deny that petty pol- ties for the purpose of republicaniz- ing about 2O.0oO Indian voters was your sole motive for having those suits brought; and charge you with know ing that there has ben no delay in these cases, except that occasioned by the courts deliberations taken by himself as time he deemed necessary to consider whether or not there Is any merit in the petition filed by your ! attorney
 You say that on that land question you will see that I get hearing in | court Yes, sir. 1 will come to your | hearing. Call to your assistance all ! the power your high position com mands, present your case in any form you like l am ready 10 meet it and | before its conclusion the people of America will be disgusted that they ever elected you president of the 1 United States"
 You have come to a trinlng matter at Muskogee and say that firm D, ! lawyers have sued me for a $500 foo and obtained judgment. There is no such judgment and am convinced | you knew you were repeating false statement when you said SO.
 You have a new story about op- pressing union labor. Mir, Roosevelt, will nllow my record of two years as a public official to be compared with your record of two years as public official, and will submit to any union judge whether I have not only done more things in the intrest of labor than you, but that my word has never been found wanting when given in that behalf Your threat to turn down our constitution because it contained a pro. vision for jury trials in contempt cases Is only one of the many things that you criticised, and I thank God to this day that had the courage to challenge you at that time to turn down our con stltulion on that ground, if you dared to do SO You said that your opinion of our constitution would not look well in print. Mir. Hartman and ]. r. Mor- gan said the same thing, but Samuel Gompcrs said the constitution of okla homa was the best ever written. ex- pectcd you 10 agree with Mr Morgan and Hartman, and. of course, was not surprised
 "Mr Roosevelt, let us not leave this Standard oil question without inviting from you information that wo really need. You made ruling that i,sOO acres of land was tho limit that any person or corporation directly or lndI- rcrtly could obtain under lease for oil purposes In the Indian Territory, and renewed the lease on 6SO,000 acres of Oeage land 10 the Indian Territory H. lumlnatng oil company, and you know that the agent of the Standard oil company, owned 2 majority of the stock Why did you give them a monopoly on tho Osage Nation oil lands2 Again, Mir. Barnsdall, the well known representative of the Standard oil company has leased, as am ad- Nlaed hY Mir Ghen of RnrilnaNllle a