The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-08-19

Poor Russcll ditto Kclley and Good /
rich
Machine was well oiled. The LEA
DER outlined the program faithfully
on Saturday morning.
Tandy nominated the chief Offices.
The boiling darkies, like the cat,
come back.
The convention filed THE LEADER
full OF good stuff, but lack Of time
prevents its use.
And Perkins is right.
The Resolutions.
We reailirm our faith in. and our al
legiance TO, tho,principles Of the Re
publican party as announced IN the
Oklahoma City platform.
We tender to the country gener-
ally our heartfelt congratulations that
! the administration pf Grover Cleveland
has almost half passed away. and not
withstanding its record Of dishonor
distress and bankruptcy which pres
ages two years more of hard times,
suffering and national shame, yet we
can look forward to the certainty of
the dawn of better day, and re-
turn to the principles of good govern
ment under . Republican administra-
| ton.
o. We congratulate Oklahoma upon
tho fact that after two more long and
weary years of waiting she can soon
chase the carpet baggers back to
! Georgia and regain her independence
ana her selfrespecL
4. We congratulate the Democratic
"a l.
ing, as King Grover says, il is party
periidy and party dishonor." they have
after thirty years of whoop and howl
for free trade, and of denunciation Of
the reduction of the Republican prin-
ciples of protection as "legaizizod rob
berry" at length begun TO see tic error
OF their ways and have given TO the
country as good protective tariff bill
as Democratic stupidity, backed by an
abundance of sugar could frame
3. We demand high protective tar
i'll on foreign silver bullion and the
free coinage OF the American silver
product, that the currency may sub
stanlally expended commensurate te
with tho needs OF the people
g. We declare that all foreign
criminals paupers, and undesirable
elements should be prohibited from
our shores and that labor of Ameri-
ca may be preserved for Americans,
and that the socialistic anarchistic
and communistic theories of Europe
may not be transplanted u this couu-
try to undermine our institutions and
threaten our peRce and good order
+. We declare that the Democratic
party now in congress by the adnis-
sion OF Mormon Utah and of New
/ M..-fsg al 4 A,-s.
territories being sparsely settled am
overwhelmed with public debt, and
being peopled largely with foreigners
who disregard our language in their
business vocations and ia their public
schools, while ignoring the petition Of
Oklahoma for statehood with its 25O.-
600 people truly American and Sl0O,
600, 600 90 OF taxable property, TO be
partisan, narrow ana unjust, u httlng
evidence of the methods of the Dem .
cratic party. We demand immediate
statehood in the quickest possible way
We denounce the pension policy
OF the Democratic party as being unjust
and unpatriotic aud we congratulate
the people Of the United States on
having risen in their indignation, coin
pelling Holse Smith to withdraw his
ruling whereby thousands of honest
pensioners were declared criminals
without trial and uncercmoniously
suspended from the pension roll.
o. We condemn the act on of the
county commissioners in plunging Lo-
gan county i'm debt bevond the four
per cent limit fixed by the act of con-
gress, as crime gainst the people of
tho county and we demand that il
shall be made felony for any board OF
| a. &
county clerk or any other municipal
officer to contract any debt or issue
any warrant in excess Of the ( per
cent limitation without having first
provided the funds wherewith to pay
such warrants or Indebtedness.
10. We demand a law providing for
separate and specific levies for the pay
ment OF officers; for the payment Of
court expenses; for the payment Of
rents; for the supper OF the poor; and
for miscellaneous expenses; that each
levy shall be for the purunse
named. and be kept in n separate
fund, aud that IL shall be made a felo-
ny for the county commissioners or
the county treasurer to transfer any
money or credits from one fund to
another or 10 use any money in one
fund for any purpose other than that
for which il was levied aud collected,
or TO draw any warrant upon any fund
except for the specific purpose for
which the levy was made.
IL. We denounce the action of the
Populist commissioners of Logan
county in attempting 10 dislrlnchise
four townships for political purposes
as "A fraud and an outrage worthy of
the Democracy OF Arkansas or Geor-
gia, and on par with the outrages in
those states Of which the Populists
themselves SO bitterly complain
! ~. We favor the election of honest
men for county commissioners aud we
deem II wise and eNpedient that we
have board OF county commissioners
who are not controlled by the banks
and warrant dealers
] "a The expenditure by the Logan
county board of county commissioners
of SIS, lG7 d5 for county expenses in
the year Just past Is a shining example
OF Populist and Democratic misrule,
dishonesty and incompetency that has
ruined everything the party has ever
! touched or controlled and ought to be
sunicient recommendation 10 an honest
men TO secure the permanent retire
ment Of these parties.
a. For scme time past the revenues
FROM liquor licenses have been held IN
salary fund 20 pay the salaries OF Of
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