Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-09
CHARLES PAGE SAYS
HE BRIBED TWO
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| $500 each. and so he decided he wouid
get these men Off the commission ana
get others to whom he would't have
ITO pay anything: who would be willing
to do his bidding for the privilege o;
drawing the salaries attached to the
offices.
Browbcats Walker.
lie browbeat and bluffed Walker
into resigning-the resignation being
written In Pages own office. rheii
he turned on Younkman and de-
msnded that he get out. But Younk-
man did not get out; he's still In: not
bribe money, Younkman says he Is GO
| ing to remain in the office to which
the people elected him.
But Walker took the orders so sub
missively-he himself admits Page
forced him out OF his job-that Page
thot Younkman would follow him in
the same mock manner.
SO with two prospective vacancies
on the commission, Page set to work
to oust Commissioner Funk. or course,
he could not claim he bought Com
missioner Funk. so he went at that
official in a different way.
knowing that Commissioner Funk
, doesn't care snap of 4 finger for
the Job. that he has repeatedly said
so, and that he dishkes the strife and
criticism of public life 10 such un ex-
tent that some months ago he ten
dered his resignation ana was only
prevailed upon to hold the police
commissionership when hundreds OF
and begged him to remain. the
machievellan publisher turned his
reptile press on the department over
which Mr.. Funk presides.
knowing that he could not spring
anything on Funk's character or in
tegrity or even hint at questioning II
that anybody would believe, rage he
gan n systematic attack on Funk's s
force, hoping in that way that the
commissioner. in another fit Of dis
gust with public life, would resign.
Riot OF Fabrications.
This explains the gross, unJustifi-
able and conscienceless attack Of the
Page papers on Commissioner Funk $
administration of the police powers.
Almost daily for the past two or three
weeks the columns Of the Page publi-
cations have been n riot of misrep-
.resentation, abuse and fabrications
directed at the men directly under
Mr.. Funk. They have been held up
to the people of Tulsa as grafters and
thieves and the TULSA police depart
ment" has been held by Page to be
responsible. Always the insinuating,
libellous questions asked If the "rulsa
police department'--over whom Funk
presides and for which he and he
alone is sponsible--harbored and
were In collusion with automobile
thieves and grafters.
This explains the desperate, reck-
less activities OF the Page publlca-
tlons in their assault upon the integ-
rity of the present city administra-
tion, their endeavors to besmirch the
police department with the odium OF
petty graft-while their owner by his
own boastful confessions. was pois-
oning the streams of honest govern
ment in Tulsa with his dirty dollars
The people of Tulsa are thus in
vited by Page to a contemplation Of
him in the role OF savior" OF good
government, while sending his menials
on visits to offices of the peoples
elected representatives with insulting
orders to come to his office and II
they do not respond that he will
ruin them"
Funk Talks.
Commissioner A. l.. Funk did not
confirm The Worlds diagnosis for the
cause of the Page rabies when a
World reporter called upon him to ask
lOI TtSdl ulllS Tie IdEt
assault upon his administration Of the
police department. Neither did he
question 1t. He simply said that he did
not know the actuating reason but that
it was inexcusable and the attacks
wholly uncalled for and without any
foundation"
II have tried to improve the police
force and give the city good admin
istration. 1 believe l have and / be-
lieve the people think so from the
hundreds of assurances they have CIV
en- me since the attacks commenced"
he said.
Mr. Funk made one statement that
may or may not be pregnant with
meaning.
II have NJ money to invest in news
papers," said he. 1--WE got more bus
mess now than / can attend to-"
Is Page desirous of turning loose?
Has de decided that his dream Of be-
coming Tulsa's Hearst" is an rides
cent one? And has he concluded the
people of Tulsa are "onto him" and
that It's no use?
Pressed for an explanation Of his
remark. Mr.. Funk laughed and said.
mo, have had no propositions, either
directly or indirectly"
But has he heard?
JOnn ~.
prominent Democratic leader, discuss
ing the Page outbursts. said: Page
has gone off half-cocked; there's moth
ing TO what he has been publishing
and everybody knows 1t. The Tulsa
police force and the city Of Tulsa is
cleaner today than 1t has been In
years.
If it's politics Page is playing he's
attacking three times as many Demo-
Gratis ss he is Republicans when he
attacks the police force. for there are
three times as many Democrats on the
force as there are Republicans" said
Mayor John II. Simmons.
What simmons Thinks.
ut appears to me that the police
are doing good work and from what !
hear the people say they think so, too.
Commissioner Funk has made an ex.
cellcnt police commissioner. lie has
tried to keep an honest. efficient force
and | think he has done so. He should
not be made the victim Of such un-
warranted attacks; he doesn't deserve
them. They are unjust, unfair, un-
kind. unpatriotic, and 'un-Tulsa.'
'The people Of this city don't like
much mudslinging. They are loyal to
Tulsa and they feel that such publica-
tons are bad advertising for the city.
That is what / think"