The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-27
FORMER CRUCE MAN FLOPS TO
MURRAY: GOOD lob GUARANT TEEO
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Lured from The path Of ostensibIe
loyalty 10 Lee C-1ce by the ea'icing
offer Of a joo under the next admins
,ia,on. In case BIl Murray should be
ne governor. Hardy Dial Of s.aT-
nee has gone INTO the ranks of the
Murray contingent. This sudden Top
Is made ln ne face Of such words
Of announcement as these, which are
contained In letter from Dial 70 Ar
Cruce. September Il, 1903.
Now. Lee. ! want you 70 consider
me one NJ your confidential friends.
] long 10 get home 70 work. am
With you night and day until you are
nominated governor and electe! and
my friends shall be your friends.
o. they are not friends 70 me-
Numerous other letters, e1cerD,z
from which are given in "a statement
given on, yesterday by Mr Cruce.
revealed Diars loyalty 10 the Ard
more man
Forgetful Of the kindness that Mr
Cruce had bestowed 10 financing Mr
Dals share IN the Union Review
Publishing company 10 aiding Dial
ir crises when his money was lO1
and his wife ll. and IN permitting
the making Of a note and an over
draft. neither Of which has ever
been paid, Dial turns his back upon
Lee Cruce and permits Murray's man.
ayers 10 send Lroa least statement
that Dial Is for Murray aud giving
certain reasons why.
An affidavit made by g. f. Hook
OF PottawatomIe county, which is
appended TO Mr.. Cruces statement
contains these statements:
Il said to him: Mr. Dial, were
you not formerly supporter Of Lee
CruceT and he replied that he vas.
/ then asked him II he had not
formerly opposed Bin Murray. He re
piled that he had. | asked him what
evidence he had OF Murray's conyer.
sion lie said none only he thought
he was the best man in the race.
! asked him what had converted
him TO Murray He said 'Confiden.
TALLY, Murray's election guarantees
me job for the next four years.
Mr.. Cruces Statement
Mr. Cruces statement follows:
have just read a letter written
| by Hardy Dial on July II, 1910
which undertakes to make "A state
ment on loan Of 1000, made by
hls wife to the Union Review Pub
fishing company There is not on,
syllable OF truth in all that he says
except that his wife made a loan OF
81 900
/ will state the facts in the case:
The Union Review Publishing com
pany went into the hands of a rd
ccivcr in the fall of 1907. Hardy DlaI
and his brother. w. II, Dial, came 20
Ardmore soon after that and incor
porated a company with W. II. Dial
/ j X. Armstrong and j. 4. Taylor a.
directors. It was proposed to take
/ over the plant. relieve the receiver
ship aud continue to run a Farm
/ crs' union paper I'm Ardmorc. To do
/ this required a cash outlay of 81 800
/ Tac arrangements, they claimed, had
/ been made TO borroy this money IN
/ Fort Worth, through a friend of Har.
/ dy Dial When the time came to
/ Consummatc the deal. however, the
money was not forthcoming. Mr.
Dial then came to me and stated
/ that hc was willing to loan $1,000,
/ that " the bank would loan 81 800
/ In addition to what We already had
/ In the plant. that he was willing 10
/ let his money go into the Uauslc
/ ion and be subject TO any Zen thai
We cared TO secure the banks stock
At that time the defunc: company
owed the bank something oyet 81 500
It required several days to %
through the formalitics and relieving
| tho reCcivcrship. Mr.. Dial ana his
brother both insisted that they haI
no time to spend in Ardmorc until
these formalities had been gone
through with, and asked lhat ac
ccpt the money OF Mr. Dial as
trustee and pay It over on the debtt
cf the publishing company when
was ready to turn over the Sl,5oO thc
Tank was to put n. This did strict.
/ j. according to instructions.
First Money Loaned.
The agrcemcl. between MIR. Dial
and all parties was that flst mort.
/ irgo was to 5c given t. the com
r1ny that had s)'d the puums plant,