The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-24
LEE CRUCE
TELLS OF WORK
As GOVERNOR
WRITES eoveRNoRELEcT CAP
PER OF kANSAS-WHO ASKED
GOVERNOR CRUCE TO GIVE HIM
SOME POINTERS.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. 23.-Lee
Cruce has been governor of Oklahoma
for four years. He will retire in less
glad that the end of his term is at
hand, He has said that, and his atti.
ideas that are worth much to others
who are about to assume the respon'
of other states; and one, at least, OF
these knows this and seeks to profit
by the experience of the second Okla
homa governor as such.
Arthur Capper, governor elect OF
homa to the northward, has written a
polite letter of inquiry to Governor
and items of interest as to the bust
ness of being governor. Capper Is a
new illtll II' IN an anu
wide-awake man. He believes in learn
ing. And he is not oversensitive
about admitting that there are things
which he does not yet know.
When Governor Cruce received the
letter of inquiry from Governor-Elect
Capper. It Immediately occurred to the
press men about the former high
school building that serves Oklahoma
as capitol that the reply of the Okla
homa governor would be interesting
kindly consented to ask the Kansas
governor-elect if the letter might be
given out. Mr.. Capper, being a news
paper man and consequently, willing
for the people to know, Immediately
everybody know anything about the
governing business that he could as
certain.
SO Governor Cruces ideas as eX-
pressed in letter to a man who will
begin governing in the other state
Just as the Oklahoma governor quits,
are here made available:
Governor Cruces Letter
my Dear Governor: ! have just
received your letter of the 18th, and,
complying with your request, | am
mailing you under separate cover a
copy of my inaugural address and mes
sage to the first legislature under my
administration, and message to the
legislature two years ago. The com
positor. in setting up the type in my
first message and inaugural address
in one or two places got it badly mix
ed, but ! presume you can gather the
sense intended.
AS to giving you my experience as
governor, it would be quite a task to
do so. ] have had a pretty strenuous
four years as governor of the state,
but ] attribute it largely to the fact
that we are just beginning state gov
ernment here, and have so many con
hicting opinions to deal with, that it
makes it much harder on the eXecu-
tives than il would be in an older
and more settled state, like Kansas.
Il have found that the man who
does his duty as governor by the
good people of the state, is sure to
meet with opposition of those who do
not want good government; and in
my case / met with the opposition of
a large majority of the active poll
ticians of the state. In the admins
tration of affairs ard in the appoint
ment of officials have given no more
attention or weight to the recon-
mendation of politicians, no matter
how powerful, than | have to citizens
of the state who take no such active
interest in political affairs
Politicians Loud in Disapproval
'In pursuing this course. find that
the business man. the farmer and the
laborer, who are satisfied with the
way public affairs are administered,
go about their regular business and