The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-19
ARDMORE OKLAHOMA.FRIDAY EVENING JULY 10 1912

lieutenants attempted to play good
God and good devil thereby bring.
ing about his defeat"
The speaker said he had written
one of the important pianks in the
democratic platform. This plank,
he said he had taken the precaution
to have printed in the Oklahoman OF
issue of June a. He did this so he
would let the people know he did it.
There is a man going over the
state telling the people that | never
do any thing"
The speaker stated that his sue
He spoke of the seniority rule in the
senate whereby the oldest senators
are appointed to the most important
committees "On the fourth of March
will be one of the ten oldest sen
ators and will be entitled to a place
on the ten most important COM
mttees.' The new senator's get
places on the least important COM
mittees.
In speaking of his present race
for reelection the senator said that
he was not rnnning on the de-
merits of his opponent that it had
ever been his honest endeavor to
to refrain from speaking evil of his
competitor, but he felt that he must
answer some of the charges against
him; charges, the senator said
which were based on falsehood.
II do not believe in answering
charges George Washington, the
father of this country never answer
ed evil charges, but my friends advise
that | do"
The first charge the gentleman
said, which he would answer, was that
he had introduced the drainage bill
because he owned 7l,000 acres on the
Clear Boggy. "a voice from the audi
ence. "One million and seventy thou
sand acres.') This bill was introduced
because the Oklahoma legislature had
memorialized congress and asked for
the passage of this bill and now he
says that | introduced it for vile pur-
poses
The senator stated that he had
ceased to be stockholder in the
company which it was charged bene-
fitted by the Flora Hilr' bill, nine
years ago. He did introduce senate
bill 6339 and said that many of his
constituents misunderstood the true
import of this measure.
The gentleman said that he favor
ed abolishing the Indian agents. They
have outlived their usefulness. He be-
lieved that all lands, save homesteads,
should be taxed
Referring back to the charges made
against him he stated that it had
been charged that he had abused his
frank. He said that he had used his
frank freely in sending out his speech
es to show what he had done. This
is what the government grants the
frank for-to enable the senators to
inform their constituents what they
have done.
poison has been spread against me
all over this state, but not one word
has been said against my votes"
Referring to the negro letter" he
said that he was now and always had
been a friend to the negro. His father
was a Confederate colonel and believ-
ed that his mother should be called
a Confederate general, because for
four years she had remained in
Lynchburg making clothes for the
Confederate soldiers, "and she was
the last to surrender
The senator said that he had known
the negro all his life, that the negro
had worked for him and stolen from
him the same as he did from all other
southern men. Douglass Russell, he
said. had written to him stating that
he was the editor of a negro demo-
cratic paper and asking him to write
his views from the viewpoint of an
educated negro on the grandfather
law" This he did and tried to make
the letter as he thought an educated
negro would have written it. The
letter was given a false meaning by