The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
Okla. City Man Makes Straightfor-
ward Talk to Voters in Be-
half Of the Democrat
ic Ticket
PUNCTURES PLEAS
OF JOHN FIELDS
Declares State Debt is Misrepre-
sented by Republican Candi-
date Closes by Presenting
Claims Of Williams

1t was a speech that was different,
yet it carried all the conviction, We
hemence, logic and weight OF argument
with which the customary political
speech is freighted-and a little bit
more, 1t was delivered by DIR. j. A.
Noble of Oklahoma City, at the court
house last night. in the interest Of
Judge Robt l.. Williams, and the rest
OF the Democratic state ticket.
Oratory was not attempted. the
speaker simply talking to HIS audi
ence. not In confidential manner
smacking Of the con game, but in a
way that carried assurance that the
speaker believed absolutely in his
every utterance. DR. j. 3. Eskridge
of this city introduced the speaker.
The speaker said in part: Il have
been pastor for twenty years and
for much longer time than that |
have studied government, the govern
ment of nations, states and counties.
believe | understand the methods OF
government No matter whether John
Fields cries out against the extrava-
gance Of Democratic government in
this state. have found that the Dem
ocratic government Is better than the
Republican government. John cries
out about the state debt, In seven
years of Democratic government in
Oklahoma, we have assets in state
property valued at s9,OO0.000, and II
cost s4.000.00o. II had S4.000,000 to
turn over to a man who in seven years
would make it produce assets valued
at S9,0O0,000, | would consider that he
had used some remarkable judgment
and had made some good investments.
Gov. Cruce said the other day in a
speech that with the tax money To-
come in the state debt would be about
81 ,000, 600 and believe Cruce is an
honest man. John Fields would lead
YOU to believe that the state debt is
some $4,000, 600
Fields poses as an honest man and
a reformer. | am led to believe that
John has fabricated along that line.
He is. in my opinion, the biggest dem
agogue that we have ever had in any
political party in Oklahoma. Conclu-
sive proof of this is what he had to
say in a speech in saltwater. He said
that a tenant Democratic farmer in
southern Oklahoma had written him
a letter asking If he would lay himself
criminally liable by voting for Fields
for governor in the November cleo
tion. John continued, You win smile
to think that the southern Oklahoma
tenant farmer has been taught that if
he violated his oath by voting the Re
publican ticket in November. he would
lay himself liable to prosecution un-
der the law and be sent to the peni-
tentiary. When read what John had
TO say about the southern Oklahoma
tenant farmer. ! wonder what he had
to say about the northern Oklahoma
tenant farmer when he was in the
south side. The probabilities are that
he said the same thing about the
northern Oklahoman.
when he was president of the State
Fair association and when the talk was
of. closing the horse race gambling,
Fields went to the Merchants associa-
tion and said that whenever they cut
off the revenue derived from horse
race gambling they would cut off the
fair. f
"He poses as an educator OF the
farmer, but it looks more TO me that he
4 ,arming the farmer There is not
a scrap of type in John Fields office.
There is nothing else that makes the
office in any way represent a news
paper or print shop. There is some
good stuff that gets into that sheet OF
his. but It was never born in the BRAIN
Of John Fields He is a director of
hank in Oklahoma City with a capital
OF s1,5O0,0 Every dollar he gets
goes Into bank stock.
81 am not alarmed at what John has
10 say here and there over the state.