The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
LANNON'S VISIT
ST|RS UP STORY
Lawton Man Seeking Every Secret
Recess For Counter Charge to
Make Against Gore.

Lawton. Okla, oct 29-Slmultan
eously with the advent OF honest elee
tion Jake Hamon into his home town
the other day there was circulated the
rumor that a 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
hy 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, Inundated and
ehagrlned by the direct and indisput-
able testimony of Senator Gore,
searched the hidden-most recesses Of
his memory for counter charge
against the blind senator and further
degraded the reputation the senator's
testimony had established for him by
oonvicting himself of conspiracy to
defraud the government.
Hamon appears TO think that one of
his principal duties as an honest elee.
ton official is to continue a fight on
Gore. He enters Lawton with a flour
ish OF trumpets declares McNeal is a
greater man than President Taft, pre-
diets victory for part of the republican
ticket, and oirculates 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
system" man, The system is
for the standpat republicans The Ok
lahoma republican organization is Of
that character, therefore Jim Harris,
Joe McNeal, Jake Hamon and other
spotlight republicans are attached to
the system The three republican
in oklahoma are stand
patters and therefore system" men.
Joe McNeal is a system
man to the core, Neither he nor Har-
ris ever entertains 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 smaeks of reform idea
The oklahoma farmer doesn't care
4 rap about the Haskellism cry, He
knows that the first Oklahoma admin
Istratiou has been an excellent one. He
knows that nearly every dollar of his
taxes arel evled by his county com.
missioners 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-
her and coal. and the freight rates
With which he is hurdened he sets
not a word Of hope from the republi.
can party this year
MCGUIRE Douole,crosser.
Every republican congressman in
Oklahoma has been a doubleeroSSer
pure and simple. Take Mcclure, for
instance. His platform in 1905 de.
elared for free lumber free wood
pulp. and fer commission" Here is
part Of his record later. as given by
United States Senator 1.aFollette
I'm the contest ever the revision Of
the tariff. Bird Mcclure. reaetionary
republican congressman. displayed No
recollection Of his identity with Bird
Me6uirs, progressive republican can
didate On every vote he stood nm.
swervmgy fer higher duties, for spe.
eisI interests He voted against the
Tawney amendment to strike out the
duties on lumber He voted sgaiust
the DeArmoad amendment providing
for the admission free Of sN lumber
nom all countries OF the Western
Hemisphere. He voted ssainst the
Clark amendment for free lumber and
sgainst every ether amendment pm
vidins free lumher or for q reduction
az duty on Mmees. snd Ia victims Zoe
the tariff biQ On pssSsse Ne voted in
violation of his platform pledges, aDd
without protest for s duty on palp.
"MeGuire's only participation in the
tariff discussion was plea for 3uty
on hides He dodged the ron can on
The motion 10 strike cut the counter
vsiAng duty on oil. but On every other
roll can Of Importance in the tsri6
contest he adhered strictly 70 his real