Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-25
SN0WST0RM CAUSE OF BAD
WRECK IN THE MOUNTAINS

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pose of fighting the demands of union
labor in Muskogee, Okla, three years
ago. Haskell recently denied the Cit
liens Alliance had ever been organ
lied.
Editor In Open Letter.
Kansas City, Sept. 25.-I. T. Russell,
the editor of the Ardmore (Okla.)
Morning Democrat, who is in Kansas
City, gave the Associated Press last
night an open letter to Bryan in which
he calls attention TO the fact that the
charges made by Hearst against Gov
ernor Haskell relative to the COVER
nor's connection with the Standard Oil
company had previously been given to
Bryan, who refused to read them.
Russell also gives what he alleges to
be proof of HaskelFs intimate rela-
tions with the Prairie Oil & Gas COM
pany.
Saw Telegram Filed.
This letter sets forth that last spring
before the oil company began laying
its pipe line he met A. Ledbetter, an
attorney for the company, coming out
of HaskelPs Office, and accompanied
him to the telegraph office, where the
attorney filed telegram to the COM
pany's general attorney at St. Louis
that he had seen Haskell, and that ev-
erything was satisfactory. Russell
says the company Immediately after
began the construction of its line.
Also that. Haskell few days before
the supreme court handed down its de-
cision. printed in his own paper
| long document on the matter, and that
| he tRusselD saw a letter from the
company's general attorney agreeing
TO pay for and circulate 10000 copies
of that paper.
HaskelI's Open Letter.
Guthrie, Okla, Sept. Ex-Governor
| Charles \. Haskell, treasurer of the
democratic national committee, yester-
day issued through the Associated
Press an open letter to William Ran
dolph Hearst, taking the New York
editor to task for his attitude in the
present campaign. The letter in full
follows:
| ITO William R. Hearst.-Sir: You
claim that there is need for new po-
litical party, and have sought to organ
iZe such an organization, and have
formulated a platform.
Below you will find every declara-
tion of state principles IN your plat
form, and you will also find that in
levery instance, except one. the democ-
racy of Oklahoma in framing the con-
lstitutfon and acts of the first legisla-
lures session, have covered every
thing you recommend You will also
find that the Denver platform covers
them, with only two exceptions, as in
dicated below:
do" Versus "Tall.'
You will observe, Mr. Hearst. that
the progressive democracy of the south
west actually does things, while you
are devoting your life to simply talk
ing about that which might be done.
: Il also beg to remind you that last
winter, when congress was in session
Oklahoma, through Senator R. l.. Owen
in the senate and Scott Ferris, member
lof the house of representatives, intro
| duced proper resolutions providing fol-
amendments TO the constitution of the
United States, among others the fol
lowing:
"ta) To elect senators by popular
vote.
"(b) To legalize national income
tax.
"(c) To constitutionaiize an employ
lers' liability act (Which you know, &C
, cording TO the supreme court of the
limited States, cannot be enacted un
der the present constitutional limita
tions).
I'D To allow the states the righ
, to prohibit interstate commerce ship
; ments of convict-made goods into state:
where by state law convict labor i:
/, prohibited from competing with free
: labor.
Loud Talker. Poor Actor.
9 Il wrote you when these resolutions
were introduced in congress and ap
lpealed to you for your official and edi
torial assistance. You ignored both
Your services might have been yer.
beneficial on that occasion. Such thing
:, as these leads me to believe that yo1
: are a loud talker, but not a reliable
q factor.
'If Oklahoma democracy has done il
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