THE HORNING OREGONTAN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1910
CONSPIRATOR
SAYS
RUSH OF HASKELL
Attorney Declares Governor
Sought "Wilfully to Defraud
Government."
QUICK SALES ALLEGED
Persons Who Xartirs Had Been
Falsely Entered, Surprised to
Learn They Owned Land. Soil
on Easj Term. He States.
ST A LESTER. Okla.. Spt. tT.-ler1b-irtg
.Governor C- If. Haskell a a "con
spirator who sought to defraud the
United States Government." Assistant
Attorney-General s. Tt. Rush, of Omaha,
todar formally presented to a Jury the
Government' charges In the town-lot
cases.
Mr. Rush's declaration was In the
form of an openlna- statement to the
Jury. He said the prosecution w
prepared to show that Governor Has
kWl "knowingly and willfully entered
Into conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment and Creek Indians and to vio
late the regulations of the Department
or in interior.
Lota Sold at Half Price.
Mr. Rush said It would be shown
that by fslse registration Governor
Haskell and others Illegally secured
about (00 lots In Muskogee at one-half
of the money they should have paid.
The regulations of the sal had pro
vlded that not mora than two lots
should be sold to any one person a
one-half the appraised value, and this
should apply only to such persons aa
held occupancy right.
To defeat this arrangement, the
prosecutor said, the Government would
how Governor Haskell and Ms asso
ciate falsely registered the names of
persons living In various states. After
the patents to the land had been issuea
to these persons. It was et rortn. uov
ernor Haskell notified the new owner
and offered to buy the deeds for
nominal sum. Most of the people did
not know their name were registered,
It was alleged, and. not having been
put to any expense, readily accepted
Hie money.
In this way. Mr. Rush said. It would
be ehown deeds to about 00 lots were
turned over to Haskell and his assocl
tea.
Trading Company Orf-anlied.
To carry on the conspiracy. Mr. Rush
declared, what Is known aa the South
western Trading ft Contracting Com
pany was formed. Haskell wa made
president: Charles Duffy, of New York.
vice-president, ami the treasurer, w,
T. Hutchlnss. an attorney', and Walter
R. Eaton, secretary. Hutching and
Eaton are co-defendant In the present
trial.
Some of the people whoee names haJ
been used by Governor Haskell and as
sociates had refused to turn their prop
erty over after Haskell had procured
the deeds for them. Mr. Rush said, and
these persona were call4! as mltnesses.
To csrry out the alleged conspiracy
against the Government. It waa asserted,
the defendsnt had operated tinder the
name of a development company.
. government Approved, Says Crnce.
A. C. Cruee. counsel for Governor Has
' kell. contended that the manner In which
the defendants secured the property
was known to the Department of the In
terior and the department had approved
of It. To Investigate complaints. Presi
dent Roneevplt, In ISO, had sent Willlai
Dudley Foulke to report on the' subject,
said Mr. Cruce.
Mr. Foulke made an elaborate report,
but In spite of this, the manner of
scheduling for property followed by Gov
ernor Haskell and his associates was
still approved by the authorities at
Washington. It was asserted.
Judge Marshall overruled an objection
to the Introduction of any evidence
against Haskell on the ground that a re
cent decision of the Circuit Court of
Appeals nullified the charges against
the Governor.
Eastern Witnesses Called.
Summonses for about BO witnesses liv
ing In Ohio. Michigan. New Tork. Vir
ginia and other state were issued by
District Attorney Gregg tonight. Among
those summoned are Judge Clement
Smith, of Hastings. Mich., and James
King Duffey and Charles H. Duffey, of
New York City.
Judge Smith, according to the Govern
ment s opening statement to the Jury,
mas falsely registered by Governor Has
kell as a claimant, and then was asked
to turn his deed over to the defendants
It was Judge Smith, it was charred, to
whom a letter waa addressed advising
him that If he did not know it. he sud
denly became the owner of Oklahoma
property, for which he was offered a
fee for a quit claim deed. J. K. and
C. X. Duffey are alleged to have been
officers of the company that handled
the land deals.
aa to the policies which should hereafter
guide the destinies of the Republican
party."
Letters Are Read.
Mr. Woodruff then read the letter he
wroe to Colonel Roosevelt August 17.
the day after his committee Indorsed
Vice-President Sherman for temporary
chairman, declaring he did not know
that the Colonel wanted the fcost. He
then read the following reply from Mr.
Roosevelt, dated August 10:
"You seem to me to be under a mis
apprehension In the matter. I was not
notifying anybody about the matter and
neither Grlscom nor I had any idea that
the question was to come up at this
time. Some of the gentlemen with
whom you were acting on Monday
evening announced that It was going to
come up. and made the announcement
on the specific ground that It was to
head off the movement for me. because
they did not believe In the principle
for which I stand. I have never want
ed the position, but merely said that I
would accept it If It were desired that
I should do so. If the Vice-President
Is correctly reported as to his position,
and if you agree with that position, you
are only right In having him, and not
me. make the speech."
Meaning; Commented On.
"Colonel Roosevelt manifestly meant
that he desired to oronound the doc
trine of'the new Nationalism," said Mr.
Woodruff.
"In accordance with the Instruction
of the date committee. I nominate as
temporary chairman of thl convention
James S. Sherman."
There were cheer for the Vice-Presi
dent, and Joseph Hicks, or Nassau
County, who. In a short speech nomi
nated Colonel Roosevelt for temporary
chairman.
The convention broke into wild
cheers and -continuous applause, dele
gates waving their hats and clapping
t.ielr hands while ' the band, played a
fanfare.
Abraham Gruber of New Tork, who
had been selected to fire the broad
sides of the "old guard" against Colo
nel Roosevelt' e lection, wa recog
nised and made hi way to the plat
form.
Gruber Is Canstlc.
Mr. Gruber said in part:
'Twelve years ago, on thl platform.
I warned a Republican convention
against turning the executive mansion
Into a shooting gallery. My advice
was not heeded. Since that memorable
day. the man who has ever since been
shooting has seen his party organisa
tion divided In every state, his party'
candidate overwhelmingly defeated,
business depressed, and the Intelligent
and honest worklngman without em
ployment and hungry.
"Looking for other field for (hoot
ing practice, this man is now shooting
at the courts and the Judges. Himself
posing as a lawyer, who never had a
case or drew a brief, he now finds
sport In holding up the courts and
Judges to the scorn of the mob. But
this Is not a new symptom. -It Is an
old disease.
"Working men of the I'nlted States.
do you recall that when Haywood and
Mover were on trial for their lives,
this same shooter, with all the power
of the President of the I'nlted States,
sought to Influence the Jury by holding
up these leaders of labor as undesir
able cltliens.
Lungs, Not Brains, He Says.
A French King once said: 'I am the
state. No sane men may ever say 'I
am the United States." The lungs of the
country are not Its brains. Men who
few months ago believed now dis
believe, men who worshiped then now
execrate, and throughout the country
the business men as such are facing
panic and as lovers of their rights and
liberties are fearing revolution. From
ir to Napoleon, from Napoleon to
the American Jack Cade.
"When given power to shoot the
trusts, he drew a line between the
good ones and the bad ones. The steel
and sugar trusts were the good ones,
those which Would not help along the
shooter's political schemes were the bad
ones. And now those who cry Vive le
Roi' are good Republicans, and those
who are putting patriotism above all
else, and therefore will not Join the
cry are bad Republicans.
hile under the table I touch Cox's
feet, I cannot with Lo rimer sit down
and eat. Fellow citizens of New York,
has the correspondence with Harrlman
passed from your minds?
Prevention Is Needed.
GRAFT IS ASSAILED
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Roosevelt Delivers Speech to
New York Republicans.
LIABILITY LAW IS NEEDED
Ez-Presldent Also Gives His In
dorsement to Direct Primaries as
Method of Making; Nomina
tJons to Pnblio Office.
SARATOGA. N. Y., Sept. 27. Chairman
Woodruff, amid thundering cheers, an
nounced that Colenel Roosevelt was duly
elected temporary chairman and named j
Vice-President Sherman and State Super
intendent of Prisons Collins as a commit,
tee to escort Colonel Roosevelt to the
chair.
' Mr. Sherman came smilingly down the
aisle snd shook hands cordially with his
successful opponent, congratulating him
on his victory. The Colonel whispered
something In the Vice-President s ear
while the convention shouted and cheered.
There waa a volley of cheers when Vice-
President Sherman Introduced Colonel
Roosevelt, saying briefly:
"Gentlemen, your selection for tem
porary chairman. Colonel Roosevelt:"
Colonel Takes Chair.
The Colonel took the chair and gavel.
He looked straight out In the auditorium.
his face streaming with perspiration and
his Jaw firmly set.
"Republicans of the State of New
York." he began. "I thank you for the
honor that you have conferred upon me, I
and me connaence you have displayed In
me and all of my power will be exerted
so that you shall not have cause now or
hereafter to regret what you have done.
"We come here feeling that we have
the right to appeal to the people from
the standpoint alike of National and
state acnievemeni.
Many Laws. Enacted.
"In the last IS months, a long list of
laws, embodying legislation most hear
tily to be commended as combining
wisdom with progress, has been enacted
by Congress and approved by President
Tart.
"Turning from the Nation to the
state we find that during the term of
office of Governor Hughes an extra
ordinary amount of wise and good leg
islation In the Interest of all the people
has been put upon the statute books
and the standard of business Integrity
and efficiency in the management of
the several state departments has been
steadily raised.
"Of course, with a party as long in
control of Nation and state as ours
has been, there have been Individual
Instances of misconduct and corrup
tion. But there Is no need of any
other party raising the cry of Turn
the rascals out!' for we have turned
our own rascals out.
Parly Believed In.
"I believe in the party to which wa
belong because I believe In the prin
clples for which the Republican party
stood in the days or Abraham Lincoln
and. furthermore and especially, be
cause J believe In treating these prin
ciples not as dead but as living. Empty
giorincatlon or our past amounts to
less than nothing If we put It forward
as an excuse for not doing our duty
In the living present. We can de
serve the confidence of the people only
by proving in deed as well as in word
that we face the problem of dealing
with political and business corruption
and of working for social and economic
Justice and for the betterment of the
conditions of life and the uplifting of
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There is beauty and refine
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THAT'S WHY THEY ARE
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Our boys and children's
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falllag. to mee( by proper legislation
the changed conditions brought about
our people with the same fervor and JE growth of our gigan
sincerity that Lincoln and his follow
"Every generation gives opportunity
to the patriotic and brave to keep our
ship of state headed in the right di
rection, and all of us. business men.
farmers, laboring men. professional men
nd. yes. even the women of this coun-
ry. may now. If they will. Join in
the great fight begun in the convention
to prevent a third term or something
worse.
ers brought to the great tasks allotted
to them in their day.
"Corruption in every form is the arch
enemy of this Republic; the arch en
emy of free institutions and of govern
ment by the people, an even more dan
gerous enemy than the open lawless
ness of violence, because it works in
hidden and furtive fashion.
Honesty Best Attitude.
"Let no man say that this is an as
sault upon the honest business man.
In short, our attitude Is merelv
that we stand for honesty as well as
tic industrialism.
Workers Must Be Protected.
We must see that, by far-reaching
legislation, the workman who Is crip
pled and the family of the workman
who is killed in Industry, are compen
sated, so that the losses necessarily
incident to certain Industries shall be
equltabel and fairly distributed, in
stead of being on the shoulders of
those not abel to bear them.
"We must make It a matter of obli
gation by the state to see that the con
ditions under which workingmeo and
women do their work shall be safe and
of the Astoria Southern Railway Com
pany's road, purchased supplies from
the Ross Htggins & Co., amount
ing to $797.85, which the plaintiffs
were compelled to pay, also that they
advanced to the defendants and divers
other persons small sums of money
amounting in all to $133.30 and sold
him two draff scrapers for $17, mak
ing a total of $947.85, for which they
ask Judgment.
No one enjoyed Gruber's speech more I 'r progresslveness and for efficiency; I healthful. So far by legislation as is
T. R. TRIUMPHS ON FLOOR
fCnnttnaed From Fimt Pace.
meeting of the state committee to the
Summer capital at Beverly. There he
made known not only hi desires, but
also his apprehension?
"To allay these apprehensions, what
more natural than the selection to
make the keynote speech as temporary
chairman of him who has been sent to
speak for the administration to all
parts of the country, even Unto the
President s own state of Ohio, the Ice
President of the United States. James
B. Sherman?
Precedent Held Wise.
"A precedent for the designation of
the Mce- President aa temporary chair
man of the convention by the state
committee at its meeting last night.
Mr. Woodruff continued, "was wisely
established two years ago, when Sen
ator Root, then premier of the National
Administration, wa selected at the
meeting1 or the state committee, held a
jnonh before the convention.
"As chairman of the Republican State
Committee, no one had suggested to
me. or. as far as I know, to any other
member of the committee, the name of
any other person than the Vice-President
as temporary chairman, nntll Mr.
Griscom. sitting In the committee aa a
proxy, moved to substitute another
name for that of Vice-President Sher
man after the tatter's name had been
properly presented. What was the ob
ject of thl action?
"The correspondence between "Colonel
Roosevelt and myself Jest after the meet
ing of the state committee shows more
clearly than can otherwise be presented
that his opposition to the selection of
Vice-President Sherman wa not based
n any per. S grounds, but because he
.Jslrd an opportunity to present view
than Colonel Roosevelt, who chuckled
repeatedly. The delegates hissed Gru
ber's statement that It would be found
hat two-thirds of Roosevelt' strength
the convention came from federal
office-holders.
Mr. Gruber concluding. Controller
Prendergast. of New Tork. waa recog
nized to speak for Colonel Roosevelt.
Mr. Prendergast congratulated Colonel
Roosevelt on Mr. Gruber's speech. He
said he knew of nothing better to show
the line of cleavage between Colonel
Roosevelt's friends and other people In
this convention. The speaker assailed
the action of the state committee last
night.
State Chairman Woodruff, of Brook
lyn, an old guard leader, was one of
the first to feel the effect of the "pro
gressive" victory In the state conven
tion today. Delegates from Kings
County In the Third Congressional Dis
trict tonight retired Mr. Woodruff, aa
state committeeman and elected Al
fred E. Vase to succeeed him.
that we believe both business men and
politicians should be Juet and upright
and honest as well a wise, courageous
and farsighted. We are against crook
edness In the small man. but we are
against It Just as strongly In the big
man. w e Judge each man by his con
duct, and not by bia wealth or his
octal station; and we hold It to be our
bounden duty to strive steadily to make
and to keep this great American com
monwealth as a true 'democracy, and
steadily to endeavor to shape our leg
islation and our social conditions so
that there shall be a far nearer ap
proach than at present towards equal
ity of opportunity among men.
"The corporation must be paid, must
be given Its rights, but it must be pre
vented from doing wrong, and its man
agers must be held In strict "account
ability when It does wrong, and . It
must be deprived of all secret Influence
In our public life. We must strive
to do away with the social and eco
nomic Injustices that have come from
possible, we must strive to give to the
worklngman laws to achieve and main
tain a high standard of living.
We who come together to set the staiT-
dard of our party have a grave responsi
bility to that party and to the public.
Democracy means nothing unless the
people rule. The rule of the boss is the
negation of democracy..
'We should at once introduce in this
state the system of direct nominations
In the primaries, so that the people shall
be able themselves to decide who the
candidates shall be, instead of being lim
ited merely to choose between candidates
with whose nominations they have had
nothing to do."
Dolpb Payne Is Sued for $947.85.
ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 27. (Special.)
A suit was filed In the Circuit Court
today against Dolph Payne. The com
plaint alleges that the defendant, who
had been awarded a sub-contract by
the plaintiffs for grading a portion
Vancouver Library Needs Fumigator.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 27.-(Spe-cial.)
That a dry fumigator should be
Installed in the basement of the city
public library is the opinion of Dr. R.
G. Black, city and county health of
ficer. As the books circulate in their
rounds through the hands of those who
may be affected with different dis
eases they may on their second trip
convey the disease germs tq those
reading them.
Man Says He Loves W ife He Accuses
To prevent his wife from securing a
divorce from him, Juluis" W. Knispel
filed In the Circuit Court . yesterady
his answer to Selma W. Knispel's com
plaint. He does not ask a divorce him
self, although he accuses his wife of
threatening his life, of throwing a
sugar bowl at him, of unfaithfulness.
He says he married hoping his wife's
conduct would Improve, and that he is
not ready to leave her, as he says he
still loves her.
CANALEJAS TO BE OUSTED
Catholic Papers In Spain Declare
Premier May Soon Go.
MADRID. Sept X7. The Catholic
newspapers here are filled with stories
of cabinet dissensions, and freely pre
dict that the manifestations to be held
next Sunday will foroe Premier Canale
Jas to retire on the eve of the assem
bling of the Cortes on October 3.
The President of the Chamber of
Deputies win succeed Premier Cana-lejas.
BENSON STARTS FOR HOME
Acting Governor of Oregon Leaves
California Today.
SAN JOSE. CaU Sept. 27. Acting
Governor Frank W. Benson, of Ore
gon, who was nominated at the Oregon
primaries Saturday for Secretary of
btate, left for hi home today.
Railway Mail Clerks Named.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Sept. 27. William T. Austin
and E. A. Deuber. of Portland, and John
C. HugilL of Gervais. have been ap
pointed railway man clerks.
Catholic Committeeman Prosecuted.
BILBAO. Spain. Sept. 27. The nres-
ident of the Catholic committee, of this
city, has been prosecuted for his vio
lent manifesto In connection with the
proposed demonstration next Sunday.
DAMAGED PIANOS
FOUR PIANOS
One Ivers & Pond, worth $525, and
three. Dajenport & Treacy, ranging in
price from $400 to $475, were damaged
in case work in shipping. We have
been authorized to sell them for. what
they will bring, and the railroad com
pany will stand the difference. The
interior of the pianos are not-hurt in
the least, and the cases can be repaired
so as not to be noticed. If you want a
nice high-grade piano at less than fac
tory cost, now is your chance, but you
will have to act quickly.
HOVENDEN PIANO CO.
106 Fifth Street
Next to Perkins Hotel
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The Malay Peninsula produces about 65
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announce that we have sold 810 tons out of the 900 we agreed to sell
at that price. We are making our deliveries to those who have or
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this office, or telephoned, that they were exceedingly well pleased
with the quality of the coal.
If you wish to take advantage of two tons of the remaining
amount, you will, naturally, have to act at once, and plaase remember
that we will only sell two tons to each customer, and that the CHECK
OR CASH MUST. INVARIABLY ACCOMPANY EACH ORDER,
for the reason that we are selling this coal at what it costs us to
" mine and deliver it to you.
We have our own mines and are merely advertising with this lot
of 900 tons that we may very quickly get 450 coal users in Portland.
We know that when you once use this coal you w:ill continue to do so,
and please remember that we will always be under the other fellow's
price on the best grade lump coal.
If you will call at' our offices we shall be' glad to show you samples
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