The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-11-05
GORMAND GREER .

the history of oklahoma an institution
other than his own has asked for public
patronage and Mighty Badly -Disap.
pointed-Greer is going TO rip up crea-
ton and do several other things.
Hold on a minute. Who is this man
Greer? lie is the long-eared prohibi
tion fanatic that starved half to death
in Kansas Suddenly an inspiration
grabbed him. lie would go To okla
homa. lie came down here and told
the Republican party that alth ough
his coat was out at the elbows the stars
shown in his soul, and that If they
would but support his paper he would
supply wings and glories, and various
other attachments to the decayed car
cass of the q O. y.
lie spoke, and the R9publican party
found in him the stuff it had been
looking for. 1t took hIm up, washed
him, groomed him, fed him with a
| golden spoon, and even hoDored him
with "a seat in the General Assembly.
| lie became prosperous His lambent
auricles pricked up, his wobbly limbs
acquired n more decided gait FIRE ac-
cumulated in his eye and he began the
cheap big talk act for the party that
had made him
His concern grew. He exchanged the
Washington hand press that he brought
with him as an heir loom from Win
field and paid the difference for a bet
full of type. lie boughta a lot of sec.
ond hand things and put them around
In a show window in the front end of
his shop SO they could be seen from
the street lie wrote back 20 Ed
about the grea. things he was doing
in this strange land, and how he
thought he could make enough money
to still keep the Courier going. His
party repaid him richly for his work
bringing him meat that he might eat
and wine skins that he might drink
that is, speaking figuratively and
without any Intentional slur on his
prohibition record But marked as was
his prosperity it could not keep pace
with his avari,e, and SO even now the
wrath of riled library fund sits
straddle Of his conscience and ghost
from the plundered Cheyenne country
comes up and will not down.
TO speak more plainly. Greer sat in
- I,l. 4
voted Tn ~ the statutes should be copy
righted and the proceeds arising from
the sale be placed to the credit of the
library fund, and then quietly stole
away like thief ia the night and Sc
cured the copyright himself that he
might rob the defeuseless library fund
without conscience or mercy.
70 give figures; Greer, through his
stand in with Boss Seay, went into the
western country and piled onto the
Cheyenne and ArLpahJe land, debts
winch it will take generations to pay.
lIe tilched from Washita county alone
over so 600, the first tilch, and doubled
the amount the next time he found
chance to graft
Greer never entered into honorable
competition for anything All his So
called bidding was done in corner,
snd was simply II make.believe. His
party legged for him and all was fish
that came to his net All the public
sop went to home institution, which
was right, and 10 the party organ,
which was right. But his gluttonous
instincts were never satisfied, the
Kansas concern was still running at
an expense, and he took advantage Of
his position To sandbag the territory
and plunder the people, which was
wrong.
lie prated of printers honor and in
troduced resolution into the King
fisher convention imploring the ven
geancc of the Gods upon any newspa-
per that would cut legal rates. And
yet he never loses an opportunity to
scalp the wages of his men or cut rates
To the minimum, and the ink is
~ N"ANNAs , NN Ni y 'h ms NIlAlNn OHtl
to print the proceedings of "P' county
commissioners in the sheet that is
printed here and shipped TO Perry, for
twenty-five cents per square, or one
third legal rates. Neither the speci-
men of the genus Greer that dwells in
Perry nor the bovine-eyed calliope of
the same tribe we have with us cares
about printers rights Their relation
to professional honor Is about the
same as a stable boy with a dung-fork
bears to Venus with her trident
With the advent of the Democratic
party Greer's insanity knew no
bounds. Cunning, hate, envy, malice
were displayed and the eute-tongued
. abbtr-mouth sounded all the keys ia
the gamut of asininity. He would
some and throw hot shot nto
others. Governor Renfrow had never
been public man ana Greer thought
he could be bul!-dozed. Our executive
was maligned, misrepresented and
placed in an improper light before the .
people lie offered 10 knife some Of h 5 /
own party and did basely desert aud
oetray some of the rogues that