The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-30

Iontitdi duu private Edln, refusing
even their own state accountant access
to the books and have failed and refus-
ed TO prosecute the guilty embezzelers
of funds and those who have made false
entries in bank books.
They have paid large sums of money
illegally to Democratic state officials
in excess of their salaries.
They have kept the public funds of
the state in banks outside Of the state
in violation of law and good public
policy, and have deposited same in
am"unts in excess OF the limit Of the
law in banks within the state.
They have expended many thousands
of dollars illegally for the hiring of
private attorneys, detectives, statisti-
cal agents, and others.
They have violated the spirit and in
tent of the initiative referendum by
enacting and amending laws relating
thereto so as to make them a
farce
They have prostituted the educa-
ional institutions of the state into DO
litical machines, and inaugurated there
in an administration OF mismanage-
ment and extravaganza until the people
OF the state can no longer have conf
dence in them, and are sending their
sons and daughters to outside institu-
tions Of learning.
They have violated the terms of their
own constitution repeatedly, openly
and defiantly.
They have inaugurated a system of
mismanagement, extravaganza and
incompetency in the Public Land De-
partment, using the sacred school
funds OF the state in violation of law.
to hire an army of useless employees
They have outraged the rights of the
lessees in every way possible, harassing
them by exorbitant rentals and unfair
appraisements, denying them hearings
and refusing to abide by even their
own rules.
They have continued the liquor dis
pensary system after the people have
declared against it, and mismanaged
the same so as to increase the burden
Of taxation and bring disgrace upon
the state.
They have brought reproach upon
the fair name of Oklahoma at home
and abroad, driven capital and immi-
grafton from the state, injured our
credit so that private and public se-
curities are drug on the market.
They have manipulated the 5000.
600 school fund to further their per-
sonal interests have failed and re-
fused to make any public report ac-
counting for the same. and have with
held funds from distribution among
the school districts of the state.
They have interfered with the work
of the courts in order to thwart justice
and stopped the proceedings of grand
juries in order TO save Democratic off,
cials from prosecution for crimes com
mitted.
They have failed and refused to make
proper public reports, or to allow the
public to have access TO their records.
BY political manipulation and CHI
canery they have taken the Board of
Agriculture out of the hands of the
farmers of the state and used it for
political purposes.
They have enacted election laws
which seek to prevent a free and un-
trammelled ballot and fair count,
denying the minority representation
upon election boards, and affording
every opportunity to manipulate the
count and defeat the will of the peo-
Pile.
They are attempting to set up test
OF suffrage for the negro which they
dare not submit TO themselves.
They have created multitude of
new Offices and sent over the state
swarms of officers to harass our people
and eat out their substance, and are
continuously and illegally paying out
in addition large sums OF money to
personal and political henchmen for
services rendered against the best in
terests of the state and the taxpayers. T..
These are but few of the acts of
incompetence, extravaganza. misman-
agement, bad faith, and violation of
promise and pledge for which the
Democratic administration of Okla
Continued in next issue)