The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-02

+ OF Oklahoma You viii accept one O
+ tho other Of these propositions. not
outstanding all OF your clamor L
the contrary You are perfectly awar,
/ that up to date | have not said ;
sine le slanderous word against you
unless your official record in the
senate and your personal Interest
clearly connected with that recorC
and the things that YOU have in yom
own literature put in issue are call
ed slander. and while You were pre-
tending personal polteness aud dig
nifty you We're inspiring the most in
famous and untruthiul slanderou'
statements concerning me and art
employing enemies OF Democracy tC
circulate your ISLANDERS. and not even
Of recent date but for more than two
years YOU have been part Of the
Influence that promoted and propell
ed the slander mill
Senator Owen, the remarkable
thing Is that You approve practically
every Official act that ever per
formed in the Constitutional Conven
tion and in the governors Office, in
deed you have claimed credit for in
spirlng me to do most of these things,
sAiA0 wv NiiAAt 9Ou hfilltt lHN WI IA lfl
The interest of the people Was good
you say that ! am a very bad and
dangerous man
In Your address before the bar as
sociation at Muskogee last December
YOU said
The recall Of judges provided for
in Okiahoma constitution was so
good and SO efficient that Oklahoma
needed no further provision for the
control of It's judiciarY by the people
and vet in the next breath you say
Haskell is opposed to the recall
There is no use TO ask you to
harmonize Your contradictory state
ments because Won contradict your
self so often that you would not have
time TO do so. The people OF OKLA
homa are entitled to have represen-
tatve in the United States senate
who has no selfish interests to CON
flict with the needs of the common
people
The indian land tax question should
have been settled four years ago
All questions pertaining 10 Indian
pro eriv in the five nations should
have been settled years ago and
would have been had not your per
sonal interests stood in the way of
your official duty
The subordinate federal judiciary
should have much of their civil iur
isdction taken away aud restored to
the state courts elected by The people.
and on this subject Notwithstanding
Nour campaign literature. YOU con
eurred In the passage Of the new fed
eral judiciary blil IN February nine.
teen hundred and eleven. wherein the
federal courts were given greater
jurisdiction than they had ever had
before
70 make the election Of United
States senators q question Of merit
il is absolutely necessary to shut
money out OF such elections, and yet
yoL on your own motion. and by
Your own vote i'm the United States
senate. helped to destroy the policy
adopted BY the legislature and gov
ernor of the State of Oklahoma and
II make the continued purchase of
seats In the United States senate and
congress possible
Great Wealth
Senator owen. you build mp pre-
lt1ttt1 ~ lAl54tlfs iiiAt = 1T J
criticised YOU Tor being rich. That is
"a matter between you and your own
conscience and therefore, when yon
made your statement in your Holden
Vile speech that IL the people want
ed 10 know what your standing was
they could find il ia Bradstreet and
Dunn financial reports you We're
giving your audience to understand
that | had said YOU were not man
Of great wealth. ! had said nothing
Cf the kind; on the contrary | could
see that You we're probably worth two
roillion dollars but had never men
toned the fact nor cons dered it n
matter of discussion. If }radstreet
and Dunns financial reports see ut
iate you at from three to four mil
lon dollars | assume they are better
posted than ] am and shall not dis
.pute anything they say but do as
sert, Senator owen. that while it
miGht be possible for a man OF many
millions to be in sympathy with the
mass of the people yet | assert that
great wealth alone is not conclusive
evidence of human sympathy: there
fore. I DO not care TO discuss the
Question of what standing you may
have in Bradstreet and Dunn. / much
prefer the approval of the good peo-
rle OF the community wherein we
reside.
/ await your answer. Shall we
submit the facts. the records and
proofs to the Democracy of the Ok
iahoma, in joint debate or shall we
submit them to the Honorable w. j.
Bryan, or do YOU insist that the peo-
rle be kept in the dark? Respectfully
yours, G. \. HASKELL.