The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-07-27


country after we had succeeded in
knocking IL out telling the people we
must have got Doodle for so doing. DO !
YOU know OF any Doodle fund that the
farmers and laboring men of this
county have? Did You ever know OF
farmers boodling n man for doing them
and the taxpayers generally good?
Now, fellow citizens, ] come to an
other feature Of this great excitement
that is sought 10 be raised over the let
ting OF the county printing First let
me say that do not nor never have
approved Of the letting Of the printing
90 the Leader at this time, but should
have suraly let it 10 any other paper
before that of the Oklahoma Repre-
sentative had been commissioner.
And why? We now come down to last
spring in our history, and we find a
few men notified TO come to Guthrie
To help bulldoze the county commits
sionevs into letting the county print
ing to the Oklahoma Representative
az a price that II other things were
raised in like proportion would throw
our county into debt beyond redemp-
iion Most OF the men present on that
occasion were men who helped sell ont
Cleveland county two years ago last
winter. A part of them got the four
dollar day positions as walters upon
the legislative body. Another portion
os the men who were in that meeting
last spring were men who tried in ev-
cry way To get house bill liz passed,
taking off the taxes from the rich.
! The populist county commissioners,
| Atherton aud Stprgls, were sent for
and brought before that august body
] .,,l told htf
luton. passed by that body, that they
were, hv their votes, to become a party
To his great scheme of "sugaring' the
Representative. They both refused,
and then having become frightened as
TO the motives governing the Repre-
sentative proprietors, they refused to
let them have the county printing for
"A longer term than three months A
probation, so to speak.
That probation has expired. The
Vincent Bailey Publishing company
have had three months in which 10 re-
deem itself Has it done il? Let us
see. | hold in my hand a copy of the
, Representative Of June IL aud July ~
Each OF these copies has what purport'
to be a copy OF the records of ths
county commissioners proceedings IL
. it. Let us look at the law in the cas-,
under which the printing was let anC
. how il was To be paid for.
Now friends the law says that tel
lines is a square. / have searched tn,
r statutes through and have failed I,
, find any law that directs the county
q printer to divide line into three parts
A line is line and know of no Law
that makes the part OF thing tn
equal of the whole of it The Populis
platform makes no deviation in its de
mands. 1t is tangent so TO speak. !
seeks TO elevate each and every one. 4
benefit all. 1t is the nearest lint
from destitution upon the one hand l.
b prosperity upon the other.
2 1t is the Office OF the reform press u
!. practice reform as we'll as to talk II
A newspaper claiming to be the orga
Of party land that party asking 70
refarm) must hold itself Us strictly i
o line as IL would have the officials OF al
y adverse party do.
We hear of Populists who claim tina
If we turn down Vincent that we tur
{ down the party. On this proposition
| have this TO say: II the principles O
= the party are To be of ihe Omaha plat
form nature on paper only, while !
q practice they are to be like they hav
/
, up and collecting for the county print
ing, forty dollars extra on every sixt
dollar bill, then tho sooner the Popu
list paaty is knocked out the better
Every man who goes up and down tn
street upholding the doings of lie
Vincent is dragging down the Populis
party. ! want you To gaze on the co
umns Of his paper.
Look well to the width OF the co
y umn. Now ! hold in my hand "a co
umn OF the above matter set up as
:, ought TO be. set up as the law says
y should be, You see that this colum
is only three-tfths as long as the on
= in Vincents paper.
: Now square is ten lines. Ten line
!. is 70 cents and every fractional pal
< of square is by law square. lo
q will see by glancing at yonr pape
that Leo has worked things fine. tn
figures 1894 or 1898 are always occupl
. ing line by themselves insteU OF b'
ing placed on the line above whel
there is plenty of room. Now one lin
'e quite often in measurement rams ov,
the square, hence becomes fractio
= and the fraction by law becomes
- square, SO that the figure 1894 bring
- Leo, quite often, IS cents. The con
missioners have allowed, | believ
x something over 81, 500 of printing (,
~ the re ,ord TO the Vincent Bailey Pu
y fishing company, and IL the steal a
the way along has been the same
is shown in the two papers ! have b
= fore me Leo Vincent should disgorI
- between 5000 and 500 To the county
W Fellow citizens, have now qui
~ thoroughly gone over the field With
- the confines Of your city is printed Il
- Oklahoma Representative Its edito
Y no doubt, has made many mistakes
~ his life. This is one OF them.
IA In the Representative of last Thu
~ day ! was assailed by Leo Vincent |
,e in that paper stated that there was
room for me TO answer in his column
mr. and then writes cards TO the Lead
ry and Capital asking them TO publi
an nothing on the case lie has not on
IA denied access TO his own paper To she
So up this double-dealing, but he h
10 called upon the press of our city
.s keep hands of. This great, brail
editor, after refusing me access To i
paper, asks of the press OF the city
help him In his cowardly work by
fusing to assist me- In getting you. 4
people, To assemble here and listen