Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-09
Checks for $500 Slipped to
Younkman and Walker
by Self-Appointed
Dictator.
Scheme to Dominate City
Discovered in Attack
on Police.

Charles Page, publisher, "rcformcr"
and philanthrOpist. who Is howl!ng
nightly thru his muck raking jour.
nals ,at members of the Tulsa police
force whom he does not dare mention
by name for alleged connection with
fC>sed ibc-givcr who paid $1,000 of
his own money. in his own office, To
two city commissioners OF Tulsa, ac-
co:ding TO Pages statements made to
many persons of this city in private
conversation.
Page. who crccts n charitable insti-
tuition and poses as u rcformcr and u
champion of honest government for
the purpose of covering his secret de-
baut l;cry Of the peoples representa-
tiycs. rails loudly thru his columns at
Unnamed policemen for taking bribcs
from automobile thieves, himself
/ biibcs city officials much higher up
and in much more responsible posi-.
lions than the police force.
That the people of Tulsa may get "a
still kccncr insight into the ultcrior
motives that actuatc this Jckyll-Hydc
rcformcr- -bvibc- -giycr-according to his
own statcmcnts-Tiic World has tho
statements of various wcl-knOwn
| citizens of the city whom Page told
that he had byibcd City Commissioners
/ \. ID. Walker and {. 5. Younkman.
paying each $500. In return for their
| support of his desire to purchase the
baseball park.
At the time Page paid this money
and before he paid 1t. as he claims, the
| city commissioners had already de-
cided to sell him the park, so that APP
pears a flimsy reason for Pages
bribery. II he did bribe anybody.
News TO Younkman.
Commissioner Younkman says Page
never bribed him and never attempted
to. and that he never heard of this
| sensational charge until he was ac-
quainted with 1t last night by repre-
sentative of The World.
Commissioner Walker admits, II is
claimed, that Page did give him some
money, thus confirming Pages asser-
| tions that he is briber of public Of
ficials-and apparently proud of II.
| Walker, however, denies that he used
any of the money himself. Who did
use it and to whom Walker turned 1t
over will be a most appropriate matter
| for Pages grand jury-when he gets
| IL called, and every good citizens of
Tulsa should now JOIN in the demand
I and see that it is called, to probe to
| the bottom not only the matter OF
what became of the $500 Walker has
admitted Page gave him, but an in
vcstigation also of Charles Pages
activities In bribing the elected repre-
sentatives of the people of this city.
The statutes of the state of Oklaho-
ma make II a felony for any pubin
| officer TO accept bribe, and II makes
il felony for any person to sl'v
such a-bribe, or even to offer 1t.
IL Charles Page has corrupted two
city commissioners of Tulsa, the peo-
PIE of this city should know 1t; Il
grand jury should know it and the
courts should take the action the law
has provided
Citizens OF Tulsa have observed
from Pages peculiar career here tha,
he never opens his mouth thru his or
gans TO fight a disinterested battle for
the public welfare. They have OBJ
served that he always has an ak to
grind.
Wants Control.
Here is the explanation. according to
tC tnOSt WHO KNOW IdSt anu
stand him and are acquainted with his
vaulting ambitions:
Page wants to get control OF the
Tulsa waterworks. the street railway,
gas. electric. and all other public serv-
ice franchises In Tulsa. and he also
wants to control the mediums OF pu'''
licity. What he wants with .iein
the people of Tulsa may imagine by
, asking themselves what any seIt-con-
fessed corruptionist and bribe-giver
would want with such valuable privi-
leges-privilege worth hundreds or
! thousands, If not millions of dollars.
Page knows he cannot get these as
! long as such men as Mayor John II.
simmons. Commissioner a. l.. Funk.
and Commissioner A. w. Brink are On
| the council
So he deliberately began campaign
to Jimmy the possessions of the people
of Tulsa with a crowbar of misrepre-
sentation and abuse. aided. according
Eta his own statements. to reputable
citizens. by bald and unblusing bribery.
Having, as he says. bribed walker
and Younkman-for a paltry sl.ovU-
| he turned his traitorous guns upu.'
them and ordered them to resign or
he would "ruin them" Evidently. tno
he says he bought their support of his
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