The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-15

or the most friendly character upl
to the time you made it possible
for firm of attorneys other than
myself to secure a fee for legal sery-
ices in condemnation proceedings and
that my enmity, bitterness and at
tachs upon you dated from that event |
You know this to be lie, and you
make the statement for the sole pur.
pose of beiogging the issue and de-
ceiyng the people, and to cover upI
your own crooked graft stained
tracks
Denies Dick Employed Him.
You never employed me in eithe:
public or private capacity. You had
no authority, under the law, to EN-
ploy me or any other attorney in
an official capacity. The firm Of
lawyers Of which | was a member
was employed by the board of COR
troll J. p Connors was a member
of the board at the time Of said
employment and made the arrange
ment with my law firm to condemn
the surface right to 1900 acres of the
segregated coal lands.
eve performed the services and all
the proceedings We're approved byI
the board of control, the board fixed
the fee, and had the same paid II
received half the fee and my part
ner received the ohter half. The
transaction was open and above
board perfectly legitimate and
proper ! will further state that the
records of the state departments fail
20 show that at any time has any
other firm of lawyers been paid a
fee in condemnation proceedings for
land for penitcntiary purposes. And
you know that no such firm employ
Cd by you or anyone else has been
paid for such services. Then why
should there be any 'enmity' or bit
ternoss' on this account? You know
there was no bitterness until afterI
this investigation started and the
committee began to uncover your
graft.
your pathetic wall for sympathy
is really amusing You speak of
your friendship and my treachery,
your child-like simplicity and my
abomnable duplicity, or words toI
that effect, and then you say that
| take advantage of my official posi-
ton to inflame the public nina
against you.
Asserts He Was Disappointed.
Il want to say to you that ! was
rs disappointed as any one when
the result of the Investigations OF
the committee showed conclusively
that you had abused the confidence
of your friends, betrayed the exec
utive of the state who appointed you
TO office, and brought by your own
acts, disgrace upon yourself and
those dependent upon you
Had you practiced that rigid hon
esty and fidelity you impute to your
self, there would have been no need
of an investigation, there would have
been no enmity between us, there
would have been no need for your
pleas for" sympathy, no grabbing at
straws; the entire community would
now be your friend instead of all.
except those who have pToffered di-
rectly or indirectly by your graft, be-
ing now against you and demanding
your removal, and the state legisla-
ture would have beer disposed to give
you every assistance to build great
institution there instead of hesitating
20 make any appropriation even for
it's maintenance until assurance is
given that it will be properly safe
guarded. or some one more worthy Of
confidence be entrusted with the du-
ties of the office.
81 desire to remind you that the
legislature has already appropriated