Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-25
and his campaign associate, President

| blacken my character. That Delne
true, they certainly raked Ohio fore
and aft concerning the Ohio Standard
| Oil cases of 1899 and finding abso-
lutely nothing rejecting on me, the
president tried to waive his charge OF
last Monday aside by saying he will
make no allusion to that. He drops
this subject because his original state
ment was untruthful and he must
know from what he knows and tried
to find in Ohio that 1 spoke the truth
when l said that 1 never in all my
life had any interest in, connection
with nor service for that company.
II say the president knows now that
my statement is true and 1 regret that
he tries to brush it aside without do
| ing me candid justice. Were l to
adopt the character of language SO
commonly used by the president, ]
would spell it in fewer letters than
| 'falsehood.'
Mr. Roosevelt I hope to speak
in Ohio soon. May I hope to divide
the time with some partisan Of yours
or Prince William, who will defend
your action in this instance?
president Roosevelt comes to Ok
I.lahoma and finds a substitute for his
Ohio failure, does he, in the case Of
the state against the Prairie Oil and
Gas company, which he complains l
ha
Yes, I did have it dismissed. We
all know that the Prairie company is
Standard Oil offspring, and don't
forget the president claims to have
known this also, and I charge that
the political allies, Hearst and Roose-
veft, both know that I acted properly.
First, the Prairie Oil company got
its franchise in our state, not from
me, but from Roosevelts secretary Of
interior, long before statehood began,
and had it's main line built and ope-
rating, and 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 did and
the Federal courts stood ready to call
me down if l violated the Roosevelt
territorial franchises.
Now, Mr. President, why did your
secretary of the interior grant what
you knew to be a Standard Oil pipe
line franchise in our then helpless
territory and fasten it on 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 it's rights so as to include a
gas as we'll as an oil privilege. This
I defeated, and even last April, Mr..
President, your secretary of interior
tried to help the Standard Oil to get
gas privileges against my protest by
actually granting them a franchise to
lay an interstate gas line also. no.
tilted the secretary that with state
hood your days of giving valuable
franchises in our state had passed
and 1 would resist laying the pipe
only after you yielded and cancelled
your unlawful act.
II again assert that my act in that
case was not only required by what
Federal authority had been unable to
do, but that the public interest Of our
own people, based on conditions
growing out of your original special
favor to the Standard Oil company in
granting that franchise, required me
to pursue that policy in the case you
criticise.
"The president comes to the local
affairs Of our state and assails me for
vetoing a child labor bill.
True, I did so, simply because the
bill went too far and included things
not desired by our people. Union la
Dor representatives approved my veto.
| hope the president will survive this
veto of local bill and permit us to
run our local affairs.
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 impet-
uosity and reckless disregard of 9TH
ers, misstates the facts. Less than
one-ffth Of the faculties are chang
ed. All changes were for good cause
other than politics and done by boards
Of regents and not by the governor.
The president complains that there
are savera, suits pending against me
to reclaim Creek Indian lands. The
president should have gone further
and said that l was not dealer in
Indian land and only came in as a
subsequent purchaser and was only
incidentally a party without personal
interest at all, and especially 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 politi-
cal chicanery, which the president
can better explain than I.
I'm short, the president and Mr.
Hearst picked the wrong man and are
now driven into ward politics rather
than surrender like men.
THE president assumes that all
Oklahomans are grafters just because
his territorial associates justified the
name: that all ex-railroad contractors
are bad just because Paul Morton
needed his protection; that we all in
Oklahoma violate the civil service law
just because Mr.. Roosevelt removed
the best United States marshal we
ever had, the only reason being he
voted for a good Democrat instead of
bad Republican and then the pres
ident appointed his cousin to fill the
vacancy
"As to the reports of labor on q.
child labor bill, and my work in the
interest Of labor, Mr.. President
please remember, with me, it's doing
things. With you it's talk only. You
are the same president who threat
ened to turn down our constitution
because it provides jury trial in GER
tain contempt cases. Don't forget
Mr.. President. l fatty dared you to
make that objection But as the price