The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-03-14

Quite naturally the aftermath Of
the Fourth Legislative assembly APP
pears in the evening Capital OF this
city.
The Capital is sore.
True to his asinine sandbagging
policy Greer, CRATER and al-round
poltroon, seeks to throw diseredit on
thelegislstiye assembly just adjourned
He waited until the Lawmakers left
town, before he sprung his attack.
For sixty days the evening sheet ut
tered not q word OF censure-every-
thing was praise, relative to she legis-
lRture.
True, also, to his record as a
contemplate coward, Greer, the day
following the close OF the assembly,
fills his mediocre and unreliable sheet
with gruesome blovistions and blatant
charges concerning the lawmakers.
He does not even spare the men OF his
own party, bnt rings in Vickers, who,
while member Of the Third assembly
made it possible for Greer TO live the
last two years
On last Monday Greer said in the
Capital that "the legislature is doing
we'll and will prove credit TO the ter.
ritory Conservatism prevails and all
the laws passed thus far are benef.
slAl,
Last evening he declared the "Iegis.
lature was monstrosity;" that "all
the laws enacted were fakes" that
"every law passed is the result OF o
lobby and that the members Of the
Fourth assembly were "eraters and
boodlers.
What occasions this raw oatb ca on
the part Of the Capital man?
Revenge
Revenge, born OF soreness, pure and
simple Greer started out IN an at.
tempt to coddle the legislature. He
wanted his printing CRAFTS prolonged
and sought to cajole free silver law.
makers into giving him recognition
Not content with living onlpublic phat
for years and bilking the territory a
every jump in the road, he entered
into combination with soreheads L
steal ali the meat the late Assembl,
had TO give out. Greer cared not
continental what the assembly did o.
did not do just so he was not driver
from the trouth. His combination
dragged along from day TO day, with
ont garnering fruit Somehow it faile
to work; but Greer was mute, hopin
against hope up TO the eleventh
hour that his ship would land
The ship failed to land-henee, Gree
is sore. lie now essays TO make caI
ital out Of his soreness. It is tn
same old Arspahoe-Cheyenne stor
over again, only the tune is different
His legislative censure is rot; it doe
not reflect the sentiments Of ten sci
sible people in the territory, regArdlei
OF politics. Had the doings of Ii
assembly been SO aagrant and did
graceful as the Capital now claim
every Republican paper in the terr
tory would have raised howls ungodl
and the Capital Of this city would hay
been forced 10 register a roar. 81
during the session no roar was re-
istered. The Assemblys ac.s we
praised by the Republican papers Al
but little criticism was offered
The late assembly was not iufallibl
II made mistakes aud some OF the 7
forms promised during the campai,
were not carried out, but taken all
all, the members performed their wo
judicIously aud honestly During 4
session honest newspapers pointed o
mistakes made by the different mel
bers and in most instances the erro
were rectihed.
IL remained for a revengefal. ban
rapt sheet to cast odium on the Assel
bly-and that too, after the membs
had gone home.
Yes Greer, OF the Capita, is sore.