Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-02-18
OKLAHOAIA'S
MISFORTUNE

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ma when she thinks of her Corpora
tion Commission, presided over by
Jack Love, a giant in stature, pig
my in wisdom. Jacks stock in trade
has always been bunk, and he is still
dishing it out, evidently content to
believe that the voters of Oklahoma
are such .fat-heads that they never
will get wise to him. With us, the
STRAW that broke the camel's back"
was the exhibition he made of him-
self when he appeared before the
Legislature the other day to urge an
appropriation to keep up the fight in
the courts for the two-cent railway
fare.
Here are some of the gems of wis
dom that dropped from Jacks lips
on that OCCASION:
eff the job were such that
kid-gloved. fine-haired gentle
man could handle it delioately.
/ would not be a member of the
commission.
OF course. the main trouble
we have had here in Oklahoma
with rate matters has been with
these imported Federal Judges.
There is no doubt about rates
standing up before anything
like an honest court. If they
don't stand, there's something
wrong with the court.
That proposed appropriation
OF $25,O00 is joke. You ought
to give the attorney general
s250,000 and tell him to go af-
ter them. The people are saving
$4,000 day. while the two-cent
fares are in effect and the longer
the trial lasts the longer that
saving Is assured. Tell the boys
back home that the appropria-
tion is to fight the corporations
and they will all approve ii"
Now, II that is not disgusting, COM
ing from the head of the Corporation
Commission of the great State of
Oklahoma, pray what pould be? We
have always been led to look for dig
nifty and respect for law in high
places, and TO beware of the man who
would drag them in the dust The
Corporation Commission is a quasi
judicial body; and here we have it's
head casting the most malignant as
pensions upon another. and the most
sacredly guarded branch of the gov
eminent, the judiciary. And why?
Because, perchance, it may, in its
Cd q
intellectually. the Honorable Jack
Love.
And here is sample of Jacks bus
iness philosophy. Regardless Of the
justice of the case, Jack says It is
good business to keep the case in the
courts, if It meant giving the attorney
general $250.0O0 more to spend, be-
cause "the people are saving $4,000
a day while the two-cent rates are I'm
effect" Jack neglects 10 tell "the
boys back home" that it is the city
chaps, the statesmen Of the big whole
sale houses and corporations, and
the tourists. who are saving the
$4,000 per day; not the boys bacl;
home. who must help dig up the
$3.50, 900.
But here is the gem of gems, the
jewel par excellence, from Jacks po-
litical junk-shop: "Tell the boys
back home that the appropriation is
to fight the corporations and they
will approve IT," There. boys, you
have the Hon. Jack Loves estimate
Of your intelligence, his opinion Of
your sense of Justice. Don't you feel
flattered? And yet you have been
vOting as often as you got the chance,
many Of you. to put in office such
fellows as Jack Love. whose only plea
for your support was on the ground
that they were "agin the corpora
tions. damn theml" and would put