Show RECORDS Will I SHOW HOLTHE TRUTH Governor Haskell Renews His Charge That Roosevelt Granted Gra ted Oil Franchise ISSUE CANNOT BE EVADED i PRESIDENT RAISED IT HIMSELF L IN HIS FIRST ONSLAUGHT Guthrie Okla Okia Sept 30 Governor Charles N Haskell has written a letter to President Roosevelt in which he hf says ays 1 I lay la aside my appeal for justice to you Jou for tho the reason that I am con convinced convinced vinced that no matter how hov dignified great and honorable the office of pres president presIdent presIdent ident may be tho tim present clearly dem demonstrates the the occupant of that office may be without fairness justice or Integrity Let the People Decide You have clearly demonstrated by b hearsay dodging and vacillating from fromI one I ne charge to another by admitting that various of your charges were without foundation and therefore abandoned and yet without displaying the manhood to apologize for former untruthful statement you ou seek mother another issue It leads me to tb assert that I shall seek justice against you before the peo pee people peeDIe DIe 1 le and in a court not subject to your domination Frankly speaking I T could have arrived at no other conclusion conclusion sion than that you OU in your reckless partisanship and disregarding the rights of others would fix a court or pack a jury I am ready to meet it and amI before the conclusion the people of o America will be disgusted that they the ever over elected you president of the United States k Print the Records Mr Roosevelt I have said that you ou were vere responsible for the granting of tho the franchise franchi e to the Prairie Oil it Gas Ga company before statehood thereby jre re vested rights In that company that our state authority is powerless to interrupt You have tried in iu your our last lust statement to evade this issue You Tou have hae tried to give gie your our readers a awron wrong wron impression In the of the department d nt the records will vilI wills s speak peak as between us I say a that you granted that franchise I say that you did it at the solicitation of Senator De Dc Depew DePt pew Pt and others and that within a few days thereafter chiefly by b subscriptions subscriptions subscriptions of Standard Oil men according to Mr 11 Harriman the sum of in cash was added to your campaign fund fun Must Not Be Garbled I r challenge you to publish the rec records records records of the interior department on the subject of this franchise Mark fark me menow m menow now Mr Roosevelt you must not gar garble garble garble ble the records nor suppress any of them The public shall know the truth It may have been sufficient four years ago for you Jou to wipe out tib ti truthful statement made by b Judge Parker by b simply calling him a liar but that was four years ago and your controversy now is with a man who will not accept n a t bluff in exchange for a receipt in full ful 0 settlement In any character of state statement statement ment meat you rou make that I have at any anytime anytime anytime time during my entire fife had any an connection whatever or of any charac character ter with the Standard Oil company or any of its I am ready read to refute such statement Oklahoma Okla Constitution n nt It t is still fresh in the minds of the thc people of our state labor unions farm farmers farmers farmers ers unions and other advocates rf cf f honest and humane government that the sixteen objections you raised to our constitution struck at the very vitals of honest government Your threat to turn down our constitution because it contained provisions for jury trial in contempt cases cares is only one of the many man things that you criticised and I thank f God to this day that I had had the courage to challenge you at that tim time timeto that to turn our constitution down on ground if you dared to do so You said that your opinion of our constitution would not look Jook well in print Mr 11 Har Harriman Harriman riman and J T P Morgan said the same sam thing but Samuel Gompers said the constitution of Oklahoma was the best ever over written I expected you rou to agree with Mr Morgan and Mr 11 Harriman and of course was not nt surprised HaskeU Haskell Never Gets Drunk Morally Mr Ir Roosevelt I should not undertake to make a comparison be between between between tween you ou and me I do not get drunk on any an occasion and never did In my m life but still sUIl have your our letter of last win winter winter winter ter which I shall be glad to publish with Ith your our permission advocating your our Idea of Interstate commerce of whisky into prohibition territory It was your answer to my m appeal for assistance and would freeze the heart of any honest hon st M public official seeking to administer the 1 laws of or his state as the people by their thel thelt t votes had made the law Why Was Monopoly Given Mr Ir Roosevelt loosevelt let us not leave this Standard OH Oil company question without inviting from you ou Information that we really need You made a ruling that 1800 acres s of land was as the limit that any person or corporation directly or in indirectly Indirectly Indirectly directly could obtain under lease for oil purposes in the Indian Territory and re renewed renewed renewed the lease on acres of Osage land to the Indian Territory Illuminating OH Oil company company and you OU know that the agent for the Standard OH Oil company owned a majority of the stock Why h did tIld you ou give Ive them a monopoly on the th Osage oil lands hands Again Mr 11 the well known representative of the Standard Oil com corn company pany Ian has leases as I am advised by Mr Ir Shea of Bartlesville on a little over acres of Indian allotments In the Indian Territory and I am advised that on account of the controversy brought to your our personal attention that you know of these excessive landholdings Why hy did you do this Brings Up Paul Morton You lou criticise my directing the dis dismissal dismissal missal of the suit against the Prairie Oil Gas compary which could not have been successfully maintained by b state Tell me rue please what your reason was for directing the dismissal of the suit Bult against the Atchison Topeka San Santa Santa Santa ta FE Ff railroad being prosecuted by Jud Judson Judson son Harmon and special counsel when the facts disclosed that a member of your cabinet Paul Morton was being un uncovered uncovered covered as the prime offender Answer this will you ou Mr 11 Roosevelt you ou cry out for pur purity ity ib You say sa you ou did not four years rears ago know where the corporation fund was coming from to secure your our elec election election tion until the testimony of two to years ago disclosed the bargains and sales be between between between tween Mr Cortelyou and the corrupt In Interests Interests interests of or Wall Vall ahI street You have known that fact for two years and Mr 1 11 Cor Cortelyou Cortelyou is still one of your our cabinet Challenges Chall Cortelyou Now Mr Roosevelt while you ou are reflecting on those questions will wi you YOUrI rI J justify yourself in giving faith or credit J to any an statement has come to you I from froni your political associate Mr lr Hearst I whom two years ago you branded as the theman theman theman man chiefly responsible rt for the assassin assassination tion of our late president Remember Mr 1 President If It at your next cabinet meeting you ou decide to try h tryme mo ml under any ny of ot your charges before your cabinet sitting as a jury to tg try tr an honest man that I 1 challenge ch Mr ir r Cortel Cortelyou Cortelyou Cortelyou you for cause Creek Indian Lands LandsI I You said in your our first statement that I had suits brought against me to re recover recover recover cover title to Creek Indian ludian lands 1 overwhelmed you on that statement Adopting your our usual policy poll C you ou nee from that statement without just apol apology apology apology ogy and adopt the statement st now that It lit was fl as govern goern nt at lots that you charged me with being sued for forYe forYes or Yes Ye I believe I am an a defendant as to certain government townsite lots hots in it i one of nearly suits that you tae rave had brought against as many different lion hon honorable and citizen of f this state during this presidential campaign and you will not undertake to deny that petty politics for the purpose of about Indian voters voter was your our sole motive for having those suits uiS brought and I charge you with know knowing knowing ing that there has been nO nd delay in these cases except that occasioned by b the courts deliberations taken by him himself himself himself self as much time he deemed necessary to determine whether or not there therm is merit In the petition filed by b your at attorney attorney attorney torney You say that on the land question you will see ee that I get a hearing in court Yes sir I welcome your hearing learing Call to your assistance all the power that your high office commands present your case in any form you ou like |