The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-10-29
lannon's VISIT
ST|RS UP'STORY
Lawton Man Seeking Every Secret
Recess For Counter Charge to
Make Against Gore.

Lawton, Okla, Oct 29.-Simultan
eously with the advent of honest elec.
tion Jake Hamon into his home town
the other day there was circulated the
rumor that special agent of the de-
partment of the interior was here in
terviewing purchasers of lots in the
Gore addition as the preliminary to a
searching investigation of the methods
by which the lots were obtained. The
reporter failed to find the man that
was making the investigation or even
to learn his name. Nor did he give the
names of any lot-purchasers that were
interviewed.
Senator Gore did not enter into a
conspiracy with Jake Hamon to de-
fraud the government in the purchase
of lots in the Gore addition. In the
heat of his testimony before the con-
gressional investigating committee at
Muskogee, Hamon, humiliated and
chagrined by the direct and indisput-
able testimony of Senator Gore,
searched the hidden-most recesses Of
his memory for a counter charge
against the blind senator and further
degraded the reputation the senator's
testimony had established for him by
convicting himself of a conspiracy to
defraud the government.
Hamon appears to think that one of
his principal duties as an honest cleo
ton official is to continue a fight on
Gore. He enters Lawton with a -four
ish of trumpets declares McNeal is
greater man than President Taft, pre-
diets victory for part of the republican
ticket, and circulates rumor that his
and Cores actions are being investi-
gated.
Hamon After the Dollars.
Jake Hamon long ago lost all inter
est in the welfare of the common peo-
pie. He is after the dollars that flow
from the system and he's thoroughly
a system" man. The system" is
for the standpat republicans. The Ok
lahoma republican organization is of
that character, therefore Jim Harris,
Joe MeNeal, Jake Hamon and other
spotlight republicans are attached to
the system" The three republican
81 ! E..
congressman in Oklahoma are stand
patters and therefore System" men. |
Corporation Joe McNeal is system
man to the core. Neither he, nor Har-
ris ever entertains a progressive idea.
The System" seems to have demand
ed that, in Oklahoma at least, the cam
paign consists of deriding the party |
in power without Offering single |
remedy that smacks of a reform idea
The Oklahoma farmer doesn't care
a rap about the Haskellism cry. He |
knows that the first Oklahoma admin
istration has been an excellent one. He
knows that nearly every dollar of his
taxes arel evied by his cnunty COM
for improvement purposes.
What he is interested in are that great
er questions that effect the price of
his farm products, the price of his
labor, the price he has to pay for lum-
Der and coal, and the freight rates
with which he is burdened. He gets
not word of hope from the republi-
can party this year.
Mcclure Double-Crosser.
Every republican congressman in
Oklahoma has been a double-crosser
pure and simple Take MCGUIRE, for
instance. His platform in 1908 de-
clared for free lumber, free wood
pulp, and for commission" Here is
part of his record later, as given by
United States Senator LaFolIette:
I'm the contest over the revision Of
the tariff, BirG Mcclure, reactionary
republican congressman, displayed no
of his identity with Bird
progressive republican can
didate. On every vote he stood un-
swervingly for higher duties, for spe
cial interests. He voted against the
amendment to strike out the