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Show HASKELL IN DISGRACE. Governor Charles N. Ha6kell of Oklahoma Is by this time beginning to count the whelks on his body where contact con-tact with the "big stick" left sore spots. When he was named as treas- urer of the Democratic national campaign cam-paign committee in the last election there was something said about his connection with the Standard Oil crowd. He denied the charge and doing do-ing so involved Theodore Roosevelt In the controversy. The President accused ac-cused Haskell ot improper relations with the big oil monopoly and pointed out some of tho governor's misconduct in land transfers. Haskell issued long statements swearing to his Innocence and accusing President Roosevelt of sinister motives in aB6aillng him. Now comes the federal grand Jury with indictments in-dictments charging Haskell and half a dozen of his close associates with fraud. Haskell, since the first day he essayed es-sayed to obliterate Theodore Roosevelt, has had reason to regret that he ever was so simple minded as to believe he could overawe the chief magistrate magis-trate with a show of bold defiance. Were the governor of Oklahoma and the senior senator from South Carolina Caro-lina to have a heart-to-heart talk, they both would admit that they knew not heartaches until, presuming upon their greatness, they had sought to discredit dis-credit Theodore Roosevelt, |