The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-01
GOVERNOR CRUCE ANSWERS
THE COMMITTEES REPORT

at no stage of the game will he ever
seek advice from personal enemy
and if this policy is crime then he
pleads guilty. The statement contin-
ues:
81 have never yet sacrificed a
friend of mine because his enemies or
mine desired it, nor will / begin at
this late day. The committee seems
peeved that the governor has not
chosen to follow the recommendations
of that committee in discharging men
whom | have appointed to responsible
positions. When the time comes that
| want this committee to select my
appointees | will not hesitate to call
upon them. l am responsible for my
appointees and / say that there have
been as few mistakes made by the
appointe.S that | have given to the
people as have ever been made by
the appointees of any chief execu-
tive Of any state in this union"
1t would be as proper, the governor
| said, for the members of the legis-
| lature to say who he shall retain and
who he shall dismiss as it would be
for him to dictate to the legislature
the employees it should have on its
payroll. The committee has made the
mistake of improperly guaging its au-
thority, the governor adds, and in
stead of confirming itself to the legis-
lative field, it has undertaken to in
wade the executive department and
dictate to the governor.
Banking Boards Policy.
In correspondence between himself
and Speaker Maxey the governor says
the latter declared the committee was
not trying" anyone, but acting in the
capacity OF a grand jury. The gov
ernor says in the face Of that the
ttlltl ltS
ment of one of his appointees, that
the appointee should be dismissed
without further hearing. 1t word
be as proper, he says, for Judge
in court to sentence a man to the
penitentiary without trial.
Touching the committees report on
the state banking department the
governor says its finding that the
guaranty fund was loaned to banks
in embarrassed condition are not
based upon the facts. Since the re-
port was issued by the committee
the governor says that he investiga-
ted and finds that the banking board
made but two deposits from the guar
anty fund in banks outside of Okla
homa City. One of these was bank
in Mountain Park to the extent Of
SLABS, the bank being solvent at the
time, has been since and is today,
he adds. The other deposits was in
a Sapulpa bank in August, 1912, and
the banking board took charge of the
institution in less than thirty days.
Instead of its being a fixed pol
icy of the board to try to bolster up
banks by depositing the guaranty
fund, the very opposite has been the
boards policy" the statement says.
Further answering that report, the !
governor says that his message to J
the legislature last November called !
attention to a loss to the guaranty |
fund of more than $f,500,O00, and that |
it was to prevent such losses he rec
amendments to the bank
ing law. To the committees accusa-
ton that in a small way the governor
Dracticed the giving of unauthorized
and paying therefor out
If his contingent fund, the governor
says that the most careless exami-
nation of his department would dis
close that all the time lie had been
N office less than $50 had been ex-
pended from his contingent fund for
Ill purposes.
Cheap Piece Of Politics.
Effort Of the committee to denounce
wo members of the board of affairs,
and to be laudatory Of the third
member the governor says is cheap
,iece of politics"
In its report on the board of af-
airs, the committee said the state
would be better off if Lon Frame and
eugene Morris would resign, and
ave a paragraph in compliment of
.. B. Howard, the third member.
The governor says that he can find
n neither the report upon his de-
'artment, nor that of the board of
,ffairs, any evidence of delinquency
N the part of the two members crit
cised. Most all of the board meet
ngs where the business was transact
4 ot Ill ~,