The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-14

prefer W nave a bOObf PAAAN % "a AAAN--- |
her of a committee and know what to
do when got on that committee, than
to have a splendid good appointment
on a committee purchased at the price
of the interest of the producers and
of my district. | dare you |
to go before the people and discuss
with me and say that you did not do it.
The splendid cities of the third con-
gressional district of Oklahoma were |
entitled to consideration in the appro-
priations for public buildings, and the
largest city in the district, Muskogee, |
id not get what she was entitled to. |
Her citizenship, her locality and her
commercial interests demanded that
she be given large appropriation and
| was anxious to hear that she receiv- |
ed it. Likewise, Tulsa was entitled to
an appropriation and l would gladly
get her appropriation, but the third
congressional districts representative
was as powerless as babe to get any
thing other than an increased appro-
priation for Muskogee.
You say you voted for the present
tariff and its enactment has been fol-
lowed by an unprecedented year OF
prosperity DO you claim this unpre-
cedented era of prosperity is because
the coal miners have been on a strike
for the last five or six months, or is it
because strikes are going on all over
the country, or is it because God in
his infinite wisdom has sent rain to
the farmers in certain localities of
the United States. This tariff law was
one of the things l wanted to discuss
with you before the people of the dis
| trict, but you decline, why?
| assume to answer and dare you
to go before the people and deny it.
You know your declination is because
you know you did not work for the
peoples interest.
| AS to your congressional record, |
shall take the same with me and will
read it to the people, page by page,
giving date and showing your vote on
all subjects, and will not do as you
did two years ago when you circulated
matters two or three days before the
election and | did not have time to
show up the falsity of your statements.
Regarding your statements in your
letter in which you say that you as
sumo that my reference to certain
matters being circulated two years
ago with reference to certified copy
of a record at Ft. Smith, Ark, of a
murder trial in which l was defendant,
and. whiskey stories at Vinita, l will
say that you have clear conception
of what I make reference to, except
you again misstate facts. You know
that only a part of the testimony TAX
en- was circulated and not complete
certified record at all. You admit you
knew that they were to be circulated
and say that you forbade it. Do you
mean to say that your campaign man
+ ayers would circulate anything you
did not approve of. If you do, you
must have been owned soul and body
= by your campaign managers and hat
: no will of your own.
y AS you have declined to jointly dis
+ cuss the issues in this campaign l de
: sire to say that your deelination i!
= not at all a surprise to me, and judg
ing the future by the past, l though
p you might try to circulate things tha
: were untrue the last few days of thu
r campaign and | deemed best to com
[ municate with you regarding thes
q matters a sufficient length Of time II
r advance to let you know that l wa
j. willing that the truth might be told re
# garding anything in my public or pr
Z vate life and that expected the trut
r to be told, and l shall expect you
h hold me personally responsible for any
e thing circulated about you by eithe
,r my campaign managers or myself, an
v II nOld JOu ICOpOhoibl
Ie for anything circulated about ME b
either your campaign managers G
e yourself. No gentleman can object
a. this and no gentleman will object t
20 it.
e am proud to say have no apolog
,e to make for my record while in col
gress and l am not afraid to go befoI
at the intelligent and good people of tn
t. third congressional district and answe
lp any question regarding the same, an
must say that l am surprised thu
to you would hesitate to do the sam
e. Eye shall know the truth and the trut
I'd shall make you free Still you al
a, not willing to let the people know II
"a truth.
is am willing to stand upon my brar
lie of democracy and to abide by the