The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-10

robbers AID grafters who have been
Dreyirg OL their estates. From this
small amount Of money one attorney
has been employed At $500 year
and estates involving $500 have
been handled, together with lands
valued at about $3,000,000 have been
returned 10 1880 little Indian orphan
iChildren who have been robbed unril
they were pennless paupers One
hundred and thirty-four OF them
we're inmates Of the state orphan
home, being cared for by the tax
payers Of the state. Valuable es-
tates have been returned to each of
these l34 children and they have
been made self-supporting If the
robbing Of these orphan children con-
ture that IT has in the past, in ten
years the taxpayers will have to
maintain 5000 or 10000 homeless,
pennilesg Indian orphan children. At
this time there are some ! 900 chill
dren's cases in the courts and in
arbitration involving millions OF dol
/ lars Of money and OF property. OF
course, If tfr Legislature strikes out
the appropriation for an attorney the
work will have to be discontinued
and those 1000 little children will
lose everything that they have.
Attorney Has Made Good.
/ Now millions Of dollars is a good
deal Of money, and It Is easy for
the public to understand why a tre-
mendous fight is being made to get
rid OF my attorney II has been con-
tended that other attorneys in other
departments or that county attorneys
would do the work, none of these
officials have ever undertaken the
work for the Indian orphan children
during all the past years and If any
attorney should be abolished, it
should be the one who is not doing
his duty and certainly not an attor-
ney who has returned nearly four
millions Of dollars to over "A thousand
little ones in the past year
Speaking Of the efficiency Of my |
attorney ! will say he has never los
n single case. Many people are bas
ing the fight on personal prejud.ces.
but really what the taxpayers are
Interested in Is efficiency and Judged
hy efficiency nobody can criticise
man who has never lost case. The
night has been "A very bitter one and
In one Instance my life was threat
rned If | came in the county and
my attorney was shot at after he had
the county judge to resign
IN account of the CrOokcdnrss and
misrepresentation of transfer of
hese Indian orphan lands One thing
s certain, Oklahoma has suffered
rom the public disgrace OF having in
Ter midst a great ring Of CRATER
Who have robbed by the wholesale
hese children, until one OF the big
'est magazines of America two wears
lgo, wrote of this condition under
he heading of "Oklahoma's Crime.
md i Is high time the respectable !
itizens should get behind this fight
o bring about condition of decency
and to rninstate public confidence in
he land titles of certain sections Of
he state
Many Of the biggest business men
IF the east side appreciate my efforts
md have called up their senator's ard
and told them so
These men feel that when the titles
ere cleared up and madc good it
viii make it easier for those whose
and titles are good. but who must
'hare in the general feeling of suspi-
ion on account of the clouded con
lition Of the land titles in so many
sections Of the state.
Club Women Interested.
The fight has become so bitter
md acrimonious that the State Fed
ration of Womens Clubs have be-
ONE interested and Mrs. McDougal.
he state president, has named spe-
.ial committee of twenty of her best
women to cooperate in protecting the
egal work Of my department. In 9th
'r words they have extended the pro-
ection of their mother hearts over
he helpless little orphans on the
east side
Tn their efforts to break my infl,.-