The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-06-10
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aud the means Of communication are
poor But the people out there have
heard tina, Greer is posing as a saint
and here follows what the official
paper Of D county has to say OF the
Seay-Grecr bank book steal After
reproducing the table compiled from
the official returns OF the suip aud
Cheyenne country counties, showing
the comparative financial condition
six months immediately following the
opening, Editor Pettyjohn says:
As there are few Individuals
backbitin. Governor Ecnfruw ba kcd
~ by broNen backed ilepubii an news.
paTers, as well lvw weak En.ed
Democrat t3) newspapers. we would
refer them with emphasis 10 the above
table BY a careful perusai Of it any
many, woman or child endowed with
an iota of common sense, can easily
comprehend the significance of IT,
Where did the uHgrdteful alta J; on
/ Governor Reufrow cmanatc?
it eua ed in the jealous brain Of
/ Frank Greer first
Why?
You will uoticc that under the Re-
publican administration, the State
! CAPITAL received over nineteen thousand
! dollars for blank work furnished the
eight Republican counties. The total
! Indebtedness for those eight counties
| for the first six months was over sixty
! I ossaud dollars, of which amount
one publishing company--headed 10y
! Frank Greer received twenty-siX
! thousand dollars, leaving q balance OF
| a little over thirty thousand dollars TO
! defrny all other expenses. There was
no particular fight made on Governor
Scay because his official paper only
raked in twenty. six thousand on blank
/ work.
When the Cherokee Strip opened
! (under Democratic administration
with seven large counties, we lind AT
the end of six months they have a pop
uiation of over one hundred thousand
people and an indebtedness OF only
twenty. seven thousand dollars. OF
this Indebtedness only fourteen thous-
and dollars was required to furnish
blanks and records for seven counties
with nearly five times as great popu-
lation as tho eighs Republican counties
/ aud vet the cur-like howl goes up that
Rcnfrow was interested in the "Chcro-
kee Strip blan" book steal" The
very men that printed the rcpubli-
can counties, with population OF
only twenty eight thousand people,
for twenty-siN thousand dollars, are
the identical men who are today send
ing MP curses against Renfrow.
The Leader Printing Company did
the blank work for the Cherokee STRIP
counties, which is the direct cause OF
! Rcnfrow telug harrassed by few
pin headed individuals, who would
swim across HI on a rotten log to de
their fellow man an injury
one thing Is quito evident. NOu
may go into Lhe records bimks, etc,
In the strip counties, and find neat
creditable work, but just run your oyt
over the buuks stacked up in oul
court house. % county, and you vii
dnd that nearly one half OF them ar,
old Kansas !urm aud were worked OF
on the honest people of this country
for legitimate blanks
Notice the difference in the indebt-
edncss per capita, Republicans s.. Il
per capita; Democrat: 30 cents pei
capita. And yet, newspapers who oNt
their very existence TO the liberaiity
Of oklahoma Democracy, show theu
ig orau-c Iy joining In Republican
war-dauce over one of the true,t Dem
ocrats in the United states and he e
/ Governor Rcnfrow whp graees the eN
ecutivc chair, at the head OF "a success
ful territorial government Let thos,
sposhy newspapers slop over, show
their ignorance and which end thei
head Is on, and when the inal rounC
up shall come. they will be gathered
in and branded "soup" in big letters