The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-05-28
SUBSCRIPTION EATHs.
THE PASSING OF MIsRY.

A mufied report was heard IN Vkla-
homa City Tuesday faint but un-
pleasant smell loaded the circumam.
bient atmosphere, and Wisby - Joe
Wisbt, OF Guthrie-blew away like
. sad little vapor, leaving nothing but a
wrinkled slough behind.
Wisby had 5een very prevalent for
some time past
He had prevailed in many places
from Guthrie TO Kansas City and from
there to Washington and with varying
but always painfully perceptible in
tensity
He was the self-aneged head and
front Of what he imagined was a great
moral and political outburst
Conspicuous-wa wisby. He sur
mounted the situation. II was as
though they had boosted him up into
. tree and there, disporting himself
among the branches, he had thrown
cocoanuts at the multitude beneath
and chattered loudly in triumph and
delight But the altitude was too
much for him. wisby has eone down
from his dizzy perch. The men at
whom his frothing b.oviations were
directed and whom he secretly ma
ligned and tradueed have the cocoa
nuts
The incident is closed.
Altogether we think it safe to say
that Logan county and Oklahoma
have had enough Of Wisby, His was
. multivious case Of swell-head and
complicated with futility and the posi-
ton OF a jobless statesman, it reached
astAge so acute that the crisis could
scarcely have been delayed.
wisby has been allowed to run on
like matter from an old sore and every
issue which his poisonous fangs
touched rotted. For four years he has
been . hArping mundungus, a human
Phlegm, and political proiele. When
the present administration came into
power Wisby came from Missouri to
Oklahoma in search OF federal job.
Quite naturally, he failed to get it,
and ever since that period he has at.
tempted to knife every man who does
hold 4 political appointment During
the last congressional campaign he
thrust himself on the Democrats of
the territory and ran for congress. For
harmony's sake he was ardently sup.
ported by the press, and the rank and
hle of Democrats he made his cam.
paign on funds put up by ofieeholders
and in return for this favor he under
mined his sineerest supporter, wrecked
. reputation and proselyted the terri.
tory urging Democrats in various coun,
ties TO pass resolutions denouneing fed
eTal ofieeholders. having no friends
he threw himself unsolicited onto
Candidate Jim Keaton a few days az,
and successfully carried that gentle
man 70 defeat Several letters ha
Wisby written, the last being a gall
fringed bid for another eongressiona
nomination on a fusion ticket Bu
the result Of the late convention
shows the golden locks Of the are
Plugger dangling down his back.
So Wisby passes. II is uuneeessar
TO recount more Of his political ep
sodes. The people are on to him. II
has been all along a superAdity, a
exereseence he was not needed an
more than u wart is.
MeMGsters' scattering gang Of e
PeetAnt pie-chewers could have save
him for u dull season and the peop
would have been grateful AS it /
they wasted him and he became a nu
sanee. he gave as a surfeit Of II
ridiculous and all were glad when /
was armly brought down and the win
let out Of him with q pin.
He has been q great man for litt
while aud 10 that extent has proRts
by the emergency. lie afflicted b
generation, however, and the gener
ton welcomes and applauds his di
appearance. We may never hear
WA1Ay - oAhf Ahok - WY ~ ANAh
appropriate to mention him in th
ePilogue TO the history of the rise, "a
and final explosion Of political anarel
In Oklahoma The MeMasters are pc
mAnent institutions as long as v
have political and popular Cover
ment so long must we have charl
tAns and blasphemers to take Il
name OF Democracy, good governme
and reform in vain. Plug-uglies al
shysters who cannot get power al
leadership by capturing the eonfiden
and compelling the respect Of the
fellows are always ready 10 wear d
livery Of holiness in order that tn
may purloin them. The McMastel
therefore. we have with us ia secu
seenlorum. Bat Wisby is a luxurio
kuperfuity. He is the invisible spl