The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-11


that you have no hesitation in calling
all kinds of official public records de-
liberate falsehoods.
Number One.
Answering your declaration Num-
Der One, would say tnat your own
signature is attached to the Flora
Hill lease contract. How DO you ex-
plain that?
Number Two.
You wrote the Fidra Hi, laase
yourself and inserted in that lease
the statement that sne was o Creek
citizen which would make ner IN
Indian. However, if she was a Creek
freedmen or negress | cannot see that
that changes the serious character
of your offense. She was a helpless
woman no matter what color she
might have been and to have taken
her property away from her needs
more explanation than to simply de
fend yourself by saying you wate
taking the property of a neSress. |
am one of those who believe that
the negro race is an inferior race and
TO
ment of our state, but the governing
race does owe the greatest degree
Of protection to the inferior race to
the end that they may not suffer
from the intrigue or impositions of
the white race
Number Three.
assert that you will be benefited
by Senate Bill number six thousand
three hundred and thirty-nine and am
ready to show in any joint debate
| that you will consent to that you
have at least three thousand, one
hundred and sixteen contracts. leases
and deeds, that will be benefited by
such law and principles therein laid
down.
Number Four.
As to Number Fou, | am amazed
| that you will dispute the plain Ian
| guage CT the bill that you. yourself
| in.rGdLced in the senA'n to validate
| your void contracts, leases and deeds
and that language is this:
Second. When the purchase or
contract was made in good faith and
no fraud was practiced, but when the
| consideration paid was not sufficient
| TO cover the real or actual value OF
the land conveyed, Provided, That
| in this elias of cases the settlement
can only be made upon the condition
that the Indian aliottee be paid a
sum sufficient to make up the reason
able value of such lands"
know you will not hesitate to cal
every man a falsifier who exposes
your record, but, Senator, let US SET
you call that record a faIsifier wher
the world can know it's truth by sim
ply reading the bill that you. your
self, drafted and filed in the senate
You know very WELL Senator owen
that the declaration made in goo,
faith and no fraud practiced' is
conclusion in the mind of you, youl
self, when you drew those contract
with over three thousand unedcuate,
and ncipIess indians. but that yo
have covered that by saying in tn
Senate Bill referred to that if you di
not pay a fair consideration at tn
time, this Dill would enable you t.
pay a little more So as to make
passable value of the land at the dat
YOU took those contracts, and you
void contracts being recorded clou
the title and destroy the value of tn
land.
Number rive.
AS to Number Five, | call your at
tention to The speech that you deliv
cred before the Muskogee Bar Asso
citation on December 31st and late
one of your friends in the senate in
troduced it there, after which il coul,
be and was printed by the govern
mcnt printing office and mailed GU
under your free franking privilege
botn printing and postage at the ex
pepse of the government. Your denia
of this statement is as absurd a
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