The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-11-25

statehood. we
must strike quick |
aud strike hard |
against the Chick |
asaw slice scheme.
Having successfully inveigled the
reader into the snares and pitfalls Of
a capital idea, we will proceed to hold
up in true CooLesque style, train-of
fulsome thonghts-with this cheerful
observation:
why this decided change of
heart?"
Why does the Capital descend from
geological discussion OF a non-par-
tisan question TO bypcdermical
treatise of an alleged "slice scheme?''
If in favor OF statehood in any form,
why speak OF irretrievable losses,
should congress, daringly disregard
ing the wishes Of the Capital, make a
state of Oklahoma and portion of
the ChiclSasaw country nearly as
large, and containing more arabic
land than the Cherokee strip?
Why, then, oh why, if caring not
does the Capital slosh around in bay
Of fanciful tears and charge the terri
torial officials with trying to plug up
Democratic state?
The answer is easy. The Republi-
can powers have been closeted-they
have labored and brought forth an
iridsscent, copper-eolored idea. In
this instance one ID. I. Flynn and A.
j. Seay were the powers. While in
confinement, Flynn and Seay, or Seay
and Flynn, (pay your money and take
yc ur choice), discovered that the ques-
tion of statehood could no longer he
! ba fiied: the in combatible fact dawned
upon their rugged, JASMINE minds
that the people-the whole peo-
4 ple-unmindful of partisan surround.
/ ings, were in favor of statehood for
I Oklahoma The thought also struck
/ them amidships that the recommends
( tions OF ;he Dawes commission would
1 likely be adopted by congress
groveling in these mud covered
/ thoughts, ;heir sentiments were sut-
denly twisted and guarled. For, be it
known, that Seay and Flynn have
| these many years been unalterably
! opposed 10 single statehood that is,
one state composed of the two terri
tories. Seeing that the territorial
officials, as wcll as the people, favored
making state of Oklahoma with the
major portion of the fertile and valu-
able Chickasaw country thrown In,
and doubtless cogitating that all OF
the five nations could not be brought
in at the coming session of congress,
the Republican bosses hit on the
measure of heartily espousing state
hood for the two territories, in contra
ven ntion to the Dawes report, thinking
doubtless that such course would
keep them iI touch with their party
and apparently opposed to scheme
to them snacling OF Democracy. OF
course. the Seay Flynn scheme is
guazy, in fact, all fol de rol.
But to return TO the Capital. During
the time the powers. were giving birth
to a rebus-Greer was here founder
ing around in chop house soup and
filigree up to his win d-pipe, agitatiI z
statehood in any form, reveling in
dervish dreams Of avarice, dreams
that placed hAlos on his head and
criuolines on his brother Ia Winfield,
who, being public printer of Kansas
could pool patent plate issues with his
brother, who was public printer of the
new state of Oklahoma. Yea, these
dreams swelled aud expanded to sucf
degree that Brother Greer saw his
impoverished fortunes grow, and wa'
exceeding hot; he set mp button anC
dreamed OF peaeocks' feathers, and the
corners of his italicized eyes erept up
ward toward his sleek name. But al
last there came the rift within th'
lutte, the aching void that bIggars all
our dreams of opulenee.
Immediately after the conference OF
the powers" Seay came to Guthri,
and tuning his voice to six octave
above the Yaw pitch, conferred will
Greer
And llre'r Greer OF the Capita
despite the fact that he falls short o
being one of the powers, understood
seay and at FIRST protesting for hi
dream s-sake. at last relented 70
party's sake, and was exceeding wise
Neni, vidi, We'll
And thus do the readers understand
the discrepancy Of the two paragraphs
reproduced above.
All Sin Greer does not tell-diselos,
the story Of his change of heart 6u
allows canker and riKgworms 10 gnas
. at his lower-case heart-strings as h
double-leads his distrust OF Demo
cratic territorial officials and thei
) proposed chielsasaw slice scheme"
Flynn has publicly declared tha
he viii fight statehood whether or no
while Seay seay God symDa
lhize with him, Is struggling wit