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Show HASKELL PEOPLE LOYAL; Great Ovation Is Given Him on His Arrival at Muskogee Muskogee, Feb. 5. Governor Charles N. Haskell was given an ovation here today when he arrived from the state capital at Guthrie to make his appearance appear-ance in tho federal court and sign a bond undor the Indictment returned by tho grand Jury, charging him, with other prominent Ok!ahonian6, with conspiracy to defraud the government and tho Creek Indiana in the matter of scheduling "dummies" in the Muskogee town lot distribution. More than a thousand persons were at the station with a brass band and the appearance of the governor was the signal for long and loud cheering. Governor Haskell and his wife were conducted to a flag-decorated automobile automo-bile and other cars were filled with prominent local citizens. With the band leading the .way and playing "Hall to the Chief," and hundred of citizens bringing up the rear, on foot, the governor was escorted to a specially special-ly reserved suite of rooms at the Turner hotel. When tho hotel was reached, the crowd clamored for a speech. The governor responded from his automobile. In his speech, Governor Haskell took a new departure in offering an explanation ex-planation of his. Indictment He declared de-clared that he had Incurred the enmity en-mity of the corporations, of President Roosevelt and of the government at Washington by championing the cause of labor and by preventing the insertion inser-tion of a clause in tho Oklahoma constitution con-stitution hostile to labor in case of strikes and injunctions He thanked his old friends and neighbors for the expression of confidence In his innocence inno-cence of crime charged and declared he would establish his innocence. Later Governor Haskell signed his bond, which already bore the signatures signa-tures of hundreds of Muskogee citizens. citi-zens. Governor Haskell held an Informal reception, shaking hands with hun- drods of persons. No date has been set for the trial |