Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
S. sc. C. MAKES
STRONG DENIAL
JOHN AUSLEY SEEKS TO PROVE
FALSE STATEMENTS APPEAR
ING IN LAST WEEKS NEWS
calera, Okla, Sept. 2. 1918.

Calera, Okla, Sept. 2, 1913.
Editor of Weekly News, Durant, Okla.
1t is unjust to mislead any one by
false representation, to say the least,
and l was truly glad to read the edi-
tors not at the beginning Of the erti-
Gle that was published last week in
your paper by certain w. II. Oat-
hout, regarding the Southern States
Cotton Corporation in Arkansas. This
same gentleman. who when the corpo-
ration took out permit to do busi-
ness in Oklahoma made application for
State Secretaryship for the Corpora
ton, and falling to receive same, he
has been busy since attacking the
Modus Operandi of said Corporation
and trying to use the farmers to sup
port him in his Crouch, for not, 1 sup
pose, being appointed to said office.
He gives as his author the Farm
Bulletin, believe printed at Arling-
ton, Texas. which poses as the official
organ of the f. Il. & c. N. of A. for
Texas and Oklahoma, and who were
very much in evidence at our state
meeting held at Shawnee August 49,
p last and was told in plain language
tc retract the statement they had pub
lished and give the true facts in tho
ease or their paper would not be re-
cognized In Oklahoma. Now here, Mr..
Editor. are the true facts in this mat
ter, as published in the Arkansas Ga
zette of August 18th. The letters of
the Auditor and Attorney General are
as follows:
VIM. L. Moose, Attorney General.
Dear Sir: Through the newspapers
the statement has gone out that /, as
auditor and insurance commissioner,
have refused to issue permit to the
Southern States Cotton Corporation
to do business in this State under the
provisions of the act of March 2Sth,
1913, commonly known as the Blue
Sky Law. In some instances it has
been stated that permission has been
revoked by me. These statements
have probably grown out of the opin-
ion rendered by you on the applica-
tion of II. S. Mobley, President of the
Farmers Union Since your opinion
addressed to Mr.. Mobley concerning
the contract of the s. S. c. c., have
received many inquiries about the
matter. To all these inquiries | have
stated that | had not issued a permit
nor had permission been denied Said
corporation under the act. No appli-
cation has been made to this office by
said Corpoi alton under the provisions
OF the act mentioned. The records OF
the office of Secretary of State show
that the 8. s. C. c. was incorporated
under the laws OF Alabama, that It
complied with the Incorporation laws
of the state on Nov. list, 1912, and on.
that day the Secretary of State issued
his certificate reciting that fact. I am
informed that it has been doing busis
ness in Little Rock and through
agents in various portions OF the State
contracting with the farmers %.
In view of the many inquiries and
Jas matter of general information, l
request your opinion as to whether
the business proposed to be done as
shown by proposed contract and Scrip
A and B is in violation of the act Of
March 2sth, 1913. Copies of the con-
tract and scrip are attached.
AS the impression seems to have