The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-07-31
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the organ OF POpulism, ana rs printed
in Guthrie, Logan county. He Is a
quantity, also a self-cons tituted
thesmothete OF Populism. Whether or
not he has apologized to himself for
being all he is, we do not care TO state,
but that he has systematically pulled
the fleece over the eyes of Populists,
while cutting the treasury Of Logan
county by his misbegot.en schemes,
we know full we'll; so do the taxpay-
ers know, and also the county commits
sioners Vincent came TO the terri
tory less than two years ago and |
started the Representative BY chi |
canery and misrepresentation he Sc
cured the county printing and imme-
diately established himself on throne
and labeled IL Vincent ], King OF the
| Pops" The crisp, sharp, rust-effacing
gall OF the man completely hypnotized
Regent Pulliam and his crowd, and by
pleasing inuendoes ard promises they
iled procession behind the Vincent
banner. But Vincent looked after
nothing but Vincent, and launched
himself on a sanguine bilking tour
During the last campaign he caused
hard working members, OF the Popu
list party TO bring vegetables to his
office, ostensibly to help the Beaumont
fund, but these he converted to his
own use, while simultaneously he
fastened his fangs into the board Of
county commissioners, and knitted the
friends who stood by him. He fed at
the public crib, and kept his paper
from dying by feasting on the funds
paid into the county treasury by
taxpayers. Commissioners were hood
winked, legal squares were outrage
olsly stretched and all county work
was correspondingly padded. All the
2 time he held the county printing he pro-
fessed loyalty to the commissioners,
who have so far given us a clean busi-
ness administration, and saved thou
sands of dollars TO Taxpayers This
loyalty was assumed and snake like
, however, aud never was opportunity
: missed by the redoubtable Vincent to
plug them in the back. The commits
= sioners finally caught onto Vincents
tactics and bravely disclosed his high
n handed robbery. They demonstrated
A with him, but he, being king, grew
= angry and gave the majority OF tn c
board to understand that they were
Populists; that they ware elected by
:. Populist votes; that he was their spon.
}, sor, and "that ali was fish that came
q 10 his net" The commissioners very
properly failed to see IL in that light
and true to the people and to theil
l. trust, they quietly, but firmly removed
II King Vincent from the public feedinl
s trouth.
At the last meeting of the board.
the commissioners, knowing that TIL
'r LEADER could give the county the bes
s. service, designated this paper as th
Us official organ OF Logan county.
a Then Vincent whined, fumed an,
roared. His feed being cut off, and hi
;" paper in danger of being shell-roaded
Vincent with one long. banshee yowl
appealed To the Populist county cen
tral committee TO meet and take actor
- on Commi ssioners Sturgis and Ather
ton, With one or two exceptions thi'
n committee were well pleased with tn
:. work Of the commissioners, who acted
in accordance with law, but Vincen
had issued his edict and they, perforce
alt,..tn., Ntn.apt A., 40 d Al
'e t1inkin e
a. These sixteen membe RS OF the con
ir mittee met in star chamber session
and there followed the most ludicrous
diabolical and damnable seance q
n. treachery, usurpation and skulldup
ly gerry ever recorded in the annals @
III political history. II was no more O
~ less than a gathering of anarchists
n bent on overthrowing the laws of tn
country, break down the barriers q
right and justice and through COZ
ne spiracy and rank treason to party an
at liberty, to blk, pillage and plunder
n order that the voracious publ
rh teat appetite Of coward
"a poltroon might be satiateC
It.was a brazen, unparalleled attemT
TO suborn and intimidate the count
u commissioners public officials, wh'
~ at the time OF the meeting, were
~ their own rooms discharging the duti,
" lawfully mapped out for them-and b
se dire threats of personal injury caus
them TO resign their offices simply b.
10, cause one man-King Vineent-fe
:. aggrieved that his rations had bee
- cut OFF. Does the county prosecute
=. need better evidence TO indict thos
- sixteen men. who by their actions COZ
:" victed themselves OF conspiracy, an
a., made themselves amenaole to the pei
itentiary offense Of intimidating pul
lie officials?
no While this affair is serious it is
ty damnably absurd as to call down u
ar. supreme disgust and contempt OF a
is honest loyal, liberty loving Populis
ed in the territory --and there are man
nv such Who authorized the count
nj. central committee To court-martii
a Commissioners Sturgis and Alberto
aud say whether they we're Populis
or not? The central committee sure
alt is not the Populist party. and the COZ