The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-07
coMoRANr suowN IN AGNIN.

tONtkANl NioMN VI AtNlN.
The stat. Guide, the official organ
of Kay county Rcpublicauism,is is venti-
latng the commissioners of that coun.
ty and is also showing up She methods
of the unscrupulous manager Of the
Capital Printing company of this city
The Guide charges a. NJ. Thomas, a Re
publican commissioner, with being a
boodrcr Of the ranSest type and that
through the chicaucry OF Thomas.
Greer by altering warrants and boost.
ing bills, bilked Kay county out of
$4,000 The Kay county commission
ers are Republicans, with the eNcep
tiou of Hugh Owens, who is honest
aud fairmiuded, and allowed his com
panious to run riot in order to place
them on record The Guide says the
county is now over sos, OOO, 900 in debt
aud the people are up in arms. In
speaking of Greer's duplicity and dia-
bolical business methods the Guide
tells nothing new; everybody is ac-
Quainted with the Greer brand of lar
ceny and his robbery of the c. and A.
country and his recent legislative steal,
are fresh in the minds of all The Kay
county steal shows 60 what lengths a
disreputablc.luan will go to attain his
ends and the people are not surprised
to read in the Guide "that Greer got
commissioners groggy and they then
O. K'd. his bills, which he subsequently
raised" The Guide addresses the fol-
lowing to the people of Kay county;
You are being robbed 10y the pres
ent board Of county commissioners,
/ Mr. Hart is not party in it, Mr..
Owens is not party through dishon-
csty or Doodle, but merely TO build up
the Democratic party by exhibiting
the record OF the Republican party
which will show mp most damnably in
1896
The State Capital, published out
side OF Kay county, presented bills
amounting TO Sl4, 100000, mainly for
blanks 10 matters not what IL was
for. Everything was billed up three
hundred per cent The bills OF al
papers in the county did not exceed
slOO. The home papers accounts
were cut down 10 a minimum, Will,
the Capitals bills were, for the mos
part, q. KID At the rate OF eNpendi
lures for the past four months, If
will take ten thousand dollars tC
80 the county printing and furnist
record books The Guide proposed I,
furnish the board with all necessar,
blank books, blanks aud all kinds O
,tatiuuary requisite in the count.
ticc~ for 1000 per annum, and thu
ave - 600 per auuum ON printing
1t course there was no Doodle or rake
1H, hence o. was not accepted. vii
he tuNpaytr of Kay county submit L
this worse tnan highway robbery
, county central committee, sit idly b
' aud see the e.. O Z. sunk into obhvio
- by men of doubtful character, who's
e sole object is rake-off2 II SO, the
purity in politics is damnable fare
and good old days OF Republican glor
are numbered with the past Thre
thousand tax payers In Kay county Il
p day are unable 70 pay their taxes.
IS thousand hungry, starving women an
o. children are starving for bread, an
: vet the county is being bankrupted b
- those in power How lCng will tn
be endured? How long will the dowl
S trodden taxpayer of Kay county su'
), init 10 this? How long will the pc
Pile OF KAY county. whose children Al
crying for bread, submit 70 bcir
> robbed bv jobbery Of county suppli
X and county printing