The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-14
Tulsa, Okla, Sept. %. 1910.
)norable C. E. Creager,
Republican Nominee for Congress
Third Oklahoma District,

h6DuUllCdn ANOulnCC lOA SCAASt S~~
Third Oklahoma District,
Muskogee, Okla.
Sir: l have the honor to acknowl-
ltge the receipt of your communica-
IN of September 26, 1910, replying to
letter of September 8, 1910, and
i've read the same carefully, and in
ply thereto will say that when l ad-
essed you my communication regard
the campaign, I did so believing
lat the people should have an oppor-
Iornity to hear each of us, and If any
re atements were made by either of us
slalat were not correct the other would
40, present to correct them. Believing
AezK as ! do now, that you would
sake statements in private when l
= as not present that you knew were
Untrue. You say you remember dis
onctly what promised before my elec-
-y on to the sixtieth congress, and re-
all when the restriction bill passed
- ne house, | lodged the vote. You
q now, if you know enough to read
I. hglish, that this statement is untrue,
a nd that the congressional record
hows this statement to be untrue. If
" GU will examine the same you will
+ nd that when the restriction bill pass
d the house voted for the same, then
you will examine when the confer
nee report came up in the house to
e adopted by the house l voted pres
i, MT. because the record of the days
roeeedings will show that | was pair
d with a gentleman, man who WIFI
ell the truth and who is a republican
d politics, Honorable Edgar G. Ellis,
Kansas City, Mo. Manhood as well
S parliamentary rules forbade me
rom breaking the pair, and no gentle
lan who had given his word and pair
d with another gentleman would do
o.
This is one of the false statements
hat you circulated and permitted to
,e circulated the last three or four
lays before the election two years ago
hat | desired you to go before the
Deople and make the statement openly
20 l could show you up in your proper
ight and show you were misstating
skss, facts.
II | made any promise before | was
slected to the sixtieth congress that
did not fulfill or try to fulfill, that
S what | desired you to point out to
he people in a joint discussion, but
you decline. Why? Because you know
hat when | made a single promise
always tried to make good ever
though I was a member on the floor ol
the house of the minority party, anC
you further know that made figh
upon the floor of the house and pre-
vented the Cherokee and Creek In
dams from having $45,000.00 annual!
taken from their royalty fund to main
tain the lease and deceased land de
partment of the Union Agency at Mus
kogee.
Your statement as to my claiming
credit for the passage of the act re
moving restrictions is like your othe
statement incorrect. I claim credi
only so far as my vote and knowledg
of Indian affairs went, and as lawye
representing number of Indian cit
zens. we brought suit in the courts G
Oklahoma to test the question OF tai
alton. I brought the suit as an alto
ney and l joined in the same wit
other reputable attorneys and filed tn
case in open court and have neve
tried to quietly or secretly do an,
thing, but have always fought in tn
open.
| do not think that you can go befoI
the people and point out single prom
Use that | failed to keep. or tried
even though at that time thel
was a large majority of the hous
against me.
You also take occasion to say tn;
there is a difference between my pla
form and that of Honorable Cham
Clark's. l have always spoken what
believed and in turn I might say
YOU that there is a great difference b
tween your "Standpat Platform al
the honorables the senators of low
Cummings and Dolliver, Senator !
Toilette of Wisconsin, Senator Bri
tow of Kansas .and the Honorab
Theodore Roosevelt, the ex-preside
of the United States, and many 9th
prominent republicans who believe
working for the interest Of the peop
and not at the dictation of some m
chine, but these two are questions tn
desire to discuss with you in ord
that we might let the people know w
we are serving, but you decline, VIII
1t is true you sold your birthrig
for a mess of pottage to get on impo
ant committees in the sixty-first &C