The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
(Adverti.sement,)
SIMPSON REPLIES TO DlSBAR.
MENT CHARGES.

Nearly nine years ago, cast m
lot with the citizenship of Grad
county not With the BOOTLEGGERs
GAMBLERS, THUGS AND BUNS
but with the good people of thi
county, with the people who stanc
for right, morality, clean govern
ment and for the upbuilding o
homes and schools and churches, ant
with them l am yet standing. On
Wednesday there was carried in the
columns of this paper, petition
filed in the supreme court of Chick
asha, attempting to disbar me from
the practice of law and to this pc
tition wish to address these re-
marks.
In their petition they charge me
with having signed certain state
ment last September, wherein
agreed not to practice law in the
State of Oklahoma, but they failed
to give to the Supreme Court the
facts and circumstances under which
this was signed, thereby attempting
to mislead the Court and the pub
lie, by Withholding the main sub
stance of said agreement. I signed
that article as stated before in my
statement in this paper, under the
firm and binding contract made with
these same parties, who are now at
tempting to hound me out of the
practice, entered into by them and
my attorneys, Judge Riddle and
Judge Roland under the advice Of
my attorneys, they believeing that
any agreement made them would be
respected. The terms and condi-
tions of said agreement under which
/ signed this statement were as fol-
lows, towit:
That the cases then pending were
to be first dismissed against me,
whereupon I. resigned and went to
Washington to enter military SER
vice, and they thereby agreed not !
to bother me from so doing, and not |
to take any steps to further dis
bar me or to prevent me from prae-
ticing elsewhere; said agreement
was to be forever kept secret and
inviolate unless | violated the terms
of same and entered again in the
practice of law in this state. They
did not keep the same, but before
my tracks had gotten cold in Grady
county, they violated every term of
the contract under which the said
agreement was signed and published
same in the papers of Grady county.
AS stated before, they bounded me
to Washington, to keep me out of
the service of my country, and
me to the state of Arizona
where l attempted to secure a
license there, and now they are at
.empting to make it appear to the
Supreme Court and to the people
lere, that l was the one who violat-
d the terms thereof.
! did come back after they had
lone this and have opened up my
aw office and am at this time prac-
icing law. What else could one do?
rhe other evidence filed against me
omes from, in great part, bootleg
,ers, and gamblers whom | had pros I
cuted since being County Attor-
ey, and whose places Of business I
ad closed, who these same attor-
eys had defended with but little
uecess, so what more can be expect
d from them.
am charged with permitting
manuel Reed to operate his place
business in Grady County for
honey, when the facts show that at
le time l went out of office last
eptember, 1918, l left three cases
n the docket against Reed, and
lat the same have been settled by
le present County Attorney and not
Y me.
1 intended to send Reed to the
where he should be
ow, but instead thereof he is at
berty. These same attorneys, Bare
'ot and Carmichael defended him