Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-04
DEMOCRAT Defends
Street RAILWAY
ATTEMPTS TO RELEASE COM
PA\l FOR RESPONSIBILITY
OF ACCIDENT.
A REASON FOR II ALL
Evening Paper shows II, Hand ~
the subsidized Ngcnt or the
Street Car company.

Apparently acting as the paid
Spokesman Of the Tulsa street Rail
Wa, and inspired by ITS usual desire
to J. align and misrcprcsont the sim
plo truth in an inspired news story,
the Democrat last night attempt
ing to place the responsibility OF the
accident at the bail park last Tues.
day afternoon. went all around the
facts without once telling the PLAIN
unbiased truth incidentally i tT"d
TO leave the impression that The
World was in some vague manner re
sponsible for tho whole affair II
totally failed to state that three days
before the game was played In Tulsa
the editor Of the Democrat In person
called up Mr. Tad Reese over long
distance telephone at Joplin. at his
expense, and demanded n hundred
dollars for allowing the game to be
played in Tulsa. lie stated to Mr.
Reese that he had been Informed
that he had contracted for hundred
dollars worth Of advertising with The
w
for the remaining three days. Mr.
Reese informed him that arrange
mcnts had been made for all the ad-
vertising that he felt the attraction
would require. but that ne would
stand a touch up from the Demo
crat for $25 aud that was more than
he felt its circulation and influence
a. AN,
the phone Subsequently Mr.. Reese
was again called up by one of the
parties in Tulsa who was helping him
stage the game and it was arranged
with the business manager Of the
Democrat to pay him s25.
For long time it has been com
mon talk that the Democrat Is in
some manner being subsidized by the
street railway company but this IS
the tirst time the company has gone
so far as to have its organ openly
charge the citizens Of Tulsa with ul-
.,erior motives in their efforts 10 com
pei that corporation to give the city
an adequate ear service. Now that
the superintendent Of the company is
Haunting the charge that the Com
mercial club and other citizens arc
actuated by Interior motives in their
criticism OF the service the company
Is giving the city. and that The World
was trying to get even" with II for
not making an offer TO open lts park
for ball attraction which The World
was originally interested In trying TO
bring TO this city, and seeks 10 crawl
from under the criminal neglect into
which II has allowed its ball park to
fall. the public spirited, fearless citl
zenship Of Tulsa may have an oppor-
tunity to measure a real scrap and
the Democrat will be given chance
to see II It can earn It's retainer
Many fair-minded people have been
Of the opinion that there was really
no one on whom the responsibility
for the accident at the ball park
should be placed but the scurrilous
and Infamous manner in which the
company has sought not only to evade
its responsibility but to besmirch 9TH
ers leads them 10 believe that the
studied Indifference with which the
concern persists In treating Tulsa had
its most flagrant example in the care
less manner in which they throw or
the management Of It's ball park The
statement that it aid not profit a
nickle's worth from the attraction
and was really opposed to having the
game played here because II would
further cripple the rotten street car
service which Il was pretending TO
give to the Dry Farming congress.
which by the way only ran within
half a mile of the exposition proper.
and II It had not been FOR the Frisco
railroad the exposition would have
been practically without transporta-
ton facilities. incidentally corrobor- |
ates the charges which the CONNER !
clai club has made against tho con
cern.
The World is perfectly willing for |
old man striker to tie up with this |
foreign owned outnt and go his
length in being its creature. but FOR |
itself prefers to back up the Commer-
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