The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-13
GOV. HASKELL AT REUNION
TELLS MEMPHIS OF WORKINGS
OF NEW LAWS IN NATIONS
YOUNGEST STATE.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
has the following Interesting story
ancnt the visit Of Governor Haskell
to the Confederate Reunion at Mem.
phs:
Leaving the state capital az one OF
the busiest times OF the year. Gov
Charles y. Haskell governor Of OK.
lahoma. arrived in Memphis on the
special train on the Rock Island from
Oklahoma city on Tuesday evening
and spent the day mingling with the
veterans and In the afternoon made .
speech fayorlng selection ~ Okla. .
homa City as the city for TIA" 1910 .
reunion His wife and daughter &C.
companiod him
When seen by a Commercial Ap.
peal representative az his suite NJ
thc Hotel Gayosu yesterday he talk
cd cntcrtainingly Of the workings of
the provisions incorporated in the
constitution Of the new state and IN
ciuentally touched on the town site
suits inaugurated by the government
pending against him.
The governor is brilliant conyer.
sationalist. with remarkable mem.
ory for figures and details. and now
and then in his talk would flash forth
scintillations of wit. followed again
and again by assertions forcible and
eloquent. which revealed the latent
power and personality of man ac.
customed to doing big things and
overcoming insurmountable obstacles;
man who is the dominant figure in
Oklahoma politics. who has probably
done more than any other one man
toward forwarding the commercial In.
tcrests of the unions youngest com
monwcalth and who is predicted by
many to become the successor of
Senator Owen. Oklahoma's senior sen.
ator
The people have laughed at Okla.
homa and ridiculed some Of the pro-
ldsions of her constitution as inn
practical but II you Will observe.
nearly every provision that has met
, with criticism In the east has been
taken up by other states and in a
great many cases embodied in legis.
lativc enactment.
Our banking law. providing for
the much talked Of guarantee fund
NsIf oh h,s h., - nn1ts ~ ipgiIap.
tai feature Of our financial system
, Is proving such a success that In a
little over "A year and half. on the
heels of a financial panic. deposits
in the state banks have increased
over S2iO00OOO. while national bank
, deposits have decreased $4,000 900
making net gain Of So 1000 900
, More important than the guarantc,
fund provision is the rigid inspcc
% tion of banks provision for a uniform
rate of interest by state banks and tn,
:, rigid mforcing OF the clause making
it criminal act for any officer of ;
q bank To use the funds of the institu
:, tiun for investments In private on
terprscs Depositors from adioinins
states have been attracted in sucl
, numbers that II will compel similar
, legislation in sclfdcfense on the par
OF other states.
, THE corporation commission. em
- bodying the regulation of business o
. all public service corporations, is do
ing splendid work. and has fully Jus
titled the act creating Il.
=, Another laugh went up over tn
, country when the present Legislature
passed tho bill compelling hotels an,
o., cars to provide sheets nine feet long
.. but did YOU notice Illinois has follow
, ed Texas and Oklahoma in the pass
>, ing Of this measure and will be 10
A., lowed by other states?
=, Popular initiative and referendu'
has disproven the statements critic
that II was chimerical. ! am return
ing TO Guthrie To pass on several p,
titions TO have laws recently enac
ed submittet 10 vote OF the peopl,
Constitutional prohibition is ais
ne proving u success and | believe il ha
ns contributed to the welfare OF tn
II, state There are only three town
id whore We have had any great troubl
m with yiolators OF the prohibitin
ID law"
so when asked for an expression in r.
"A. gard TO the suit instituted by the go
D. ernment against him for alleged frau
t. in townsite suits. Gov, Haskell laugl
a ed and proceeded to give his versio
in OF the controversy Il did whS
10 thousands of others did and II ! al