The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-09-29
REPLY BY HASKELL.
Oklahoman Charges President With
Wilful Misrepresentation
pose of Republicans.

|reply to President Roosevelt s letter
to VIM. j. Bryan, dealing with four
specific charges against Mr.. Haskell,
namely: that he is subscrvicnt to
Standard Oil; that he vetoed child
labor bill; that he dealt extensively in
Greek Indian lands and that hc had
allowed politics TO dominate in the
removal Of members of the faculty of
State university and the appointments
Of others to succeed them.
Gov. Haskell took up the four
, charges as dwell upon by President
} Roosevelt in turn, dealing with each
i'll a characteristic manner.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company
charges Gov. Haskell declared to be
a "joRc on Rooscvclt's Stupidity,'
} asserting that lie had done nothing
which would confer upon the Stan
dard Oil subsidiary company more
authority than it already possessed
under franchise granted it by Sec
retary Hitchcock.
"I assert that it is fair for me to
assume that if my case was to be
dignified by an all-day cabinet meet
ing that beyond question Mr.. Hearst
and his campaign associate. President
Roosevelt, left no stone unturncd to
blacken my character. That being
true, they certainly rakcd Ohio fore
and aft concerning the Ohio Standard
Oil cases Of 1899 and finding abso-
lutely nothing rcflccting on me, the
president tried to wave his charge of
last Monday aside by saying he will
! make no allusion to that lie 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 I spoke the truth
when [ said that I never in all my
life had any interest in, connection
with nor service for that company.
81 say the president knows now
4 that my statement is true and I re-
7 gret that he tries to brush it aside
without doing me candid JUSTICE
Were L to adopt the character of
language so commonly used by the
president I would spell il in fewer
letters than 'falschood.
"Mr. Roosevelt, I hope TO speak in
Ohio soon. May I hope to divide the
time with some partizan Of yours or
! Prince William, who will defend your
action in this instance?
"Prcsidcnt Roosevelt comes to
Oklahoma and finds substitute for
his Ohio failure, does he, in the ease
of the State against the Prairie Oil
and Gas company, which he complains
I compelled to be dismissed!
eyes, I did have it dismissed. We
all know that the Prairie company is
a Standard Oil offspring, and don t
forget the president claims to have
, known this also, and | charge that
the political allies, Hearst and Roosc-
Welt. both know that I acted properly
''First. the Prairie Oil company GOT
bits franchise in our State, not from
Bmc. but from Roosevelt $ secretary Of
interior, long before statehood began
and had it's main line built and opcr-
ating, and congress in our statehood
bill was careful to declare that our
new State, when organized, must re-
spcct all such vested rights and cX-
istin@ franchises. That was all I did
and the federal courts stood ready to
call me down if 7 violated the Roose-
welt territorial franchises.
"Now, Mr.. President, why did your
secretary Of the interior grant what
You knew to be Standard Oil pipe
line franchise in our then helpless
territory and fastcn it on our new
State by permanent statehood bill
Will Mr.. Hearst or the president
please answer? | will also remind the
president that the company tried TO
enlarge its rights so as to include 4
gas as well as an oil privilege. This
L defeated, and even last April, Mr..
President, your secretary Of interior
tried to help the Standard Oil TO get
gas r:.>iicgc aoains! nv no: -. by
actually granting them a franchise to
! lay an interstate gas line also. I no.
titled the secretary that with state
hood your days Of giving valuable
I franchises in our State had passed
/ and I would resist laying the pipe
4 only after YOU yielded and cancelled
your unlawful act
"I again assert that my act in