The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-10-20
Accusation that Ferris Was Missouri
Republican Candidate Refuted
in Affidavit from "ShoW Me"
State
ADMITS MADE CHARGE
BEFORE HE HAD DOPE
Misrepresentation of Republican Can
didate Flayed in Statement
Issued After Charge En-
tirely Cleared.

Oklahoma City, Oct. 20.-Declarini
that j. w. Harreld, republican can
Gidate for the United States senat
was' resorting to methods tina
would shame ward politician" Can
Campbell, chairman of the Stat
Democratic Campaign committee, to
night declared that 1Iarreld haC
proven himself unworthy of the sup
port of any honest, fair minded citi
zen.
1Ir. Campbell said, "For severa
weeks Mr.. Harreld has. been making
false assertions and misrepresenting
the facts, apparently having uttei
disregard for the truth. In all of his
cpeeohes he has as't rted tia, Scot
Ferris had been a Republican in
Missouri When confronted with an
absolute denial of the charge at
Tulsa Monday he 'wiggled and
wabbled' and said he made the
statement on the authority of III. G.
Carpenter of Okmulgee where he
spoke Saturday, October 16. Who is
Mr.. Harreld's authority for the same
charge which was made in this
81 eech prior to last Saturday?
"Mr. Harreld's charge has been
without reservations. He now admits
that it was based upon a statement
made to him after he had asserted
Inc faIsehooa for several weeks. This
admission alone is enough to dis
credit him in the eyes of fair mind
ed, honest voters.
'Mr. Harreld could easily have as
oertained the falsity of his charge
hut evidently preferred to spread the
malicious canard without regard to
It's truth.
81 give below a signed statement
from the chairman OF the Democrat
ic Congressional and County Commit
tees Of Neosho, Missouri, where Fer
RS was born and reared previous to
settling in Oklahoma:
"Neosho, Mo-, Oct. 19.-To the vot-
ers OF Oklahoma--We emphasize de-
nial of any statement implying that
Scott Ferris was ever Republican
or ran for office as such in his
county here in Missouri. He was al
ways a clean, straight Democratic
voter from twenty-one up while in
Missouri. Any statement to the con
trary is absolutely false.
(Signed.) IL. e. Mitchell, chairman
Fifteenth Congressional District OF
Missouri.
Fred G. Hubert, Secretary New
ton County and Fifteenth Congress
sional Democratic Committee of
Missouri
"This is only one instance in
which Mr. Harreld has utterly dis
regarded the Truth in his frantic eff
forts to switch the attention of the
voters from his vote to allow Victor
Berger to sit as a member of Con-
gress after the Socialist leader had
been convicted and sentenced to
prison for treason to his country. 1t
will be remembered that the Tulsa
World on January 18th, 1920 editor
tally flayed Harreld for that vote.
The World, of course, did not know
Mr. Harreld would be a candidate
for the United States senate when
it condemned his sympathy for a
traitor to America.
"In his speech at Mnskogee rec
emily Mr.. Harreld made the abso
lutte statement that Scott Ferris was
absent on the vote to allow Berger
to retain his seat The falsity of this
statement can be ascertained by
looking at page 1899 of the Congress
sional record for the Goth Congress
second session June 10, 1920. Mr.
Ferris was present and voted against
allowing Berger to retain his seat
Mr. Harreld was present and was
ore of the six who voted to allow
The disloyalist to Sit in the congress
of the United States.
In several of his speeches Mr.
Tiarreld has made two other direc
false statements to which we have