The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-05-09


Your aunt Mary Lease has prevailed
again. When your aunt Mary is not
prevailing she is absent-minded. Aunt
Mary is a surging swirl Of human emo
tIons. IL is heS desire now to become
involved in newspaper fight and have
her name inserted in stock ultimatums
and iung TO the world. She writes an
open letter to THE LEADER, which is
published in the Wichita Eagle OF
Saturday. 1t is characteristic Lease
epistle and ladened with bile end
vitriol Mary Yellin' somehow stayed
at home long enough TO gain the ILL
founded Impression that THE LEADER
has impugned her honesty. Tue
LEADER has done nothing of the sort.
Far from it. Mrs. Lease explains her
own false impression In her own open
letter, but fails to mention the fact
that after liquidating psltty 81 hotel
bill in this city she charged around in
avery unwomRnly manner, lam basting
the Perkins fair association for making
her trouble and causing her an outlay
OF one dollar which should have been
liquidAted by the association. On this
occasion the good dame was allied TO
the gunnels with imprecations which
she hurled with savage ferocity
at her poor driver. For 1--WE
minutes she furnished interesting en-.
tertRinment at the hotel office and
scored decided hit as vaudeville
soubrette in tragic roles, finally retir-
ing TO her room muttering curses on
Oklahoma aud all its people, and de
claring she would nevermore set foot
on Oklahoma soil So therel Mrs
Leases censure OF take correspondent.
is eminentlY proper. She can't dc
enough OF it to suit Oklahoma. But
she tcvertaxes human endurance IN
recklessly rushing into print with an
offer Of SlO0 TO flood sufferers IL THE
LEADER will furnish proof that she
ever bilked kotel or got two punches
in one hole on a pie-ticket Th'
LeShsf is willing to undertake slmos
p'1ny task to obtain suceor for hooc
victims, but when Mrs. Mary asks tn,
Leader to comb the hotel registers o
the union In order to ascertain
whether she ever bricked trunk. Gu
dido on fire escape or hghtensd
her waist in order to squeeze a rebate
on regular board bill. we fear hooC
sufferers will have to go shy hundred
plunks. Not that the Leader believer
Mrs. Mary has done any OF thes,
things Perish the thought Blu
these wo men reformers who allow thei
heads to run to tongue and go gaddinI
about the country day after day talk
ing for publication, when the bric-a
brio At home is being sold to pay TO
the daughters music lessons, are sub
ject to all sorts OF vagaries in thei
haste to catch the train for the mex
town. Furthermore, In the cas-,
of Mrs. Lease, THE LEAp4R refuses u
accept she $500 offer, sineel we have n,
tangible evidence that she ever con
tracted hotel bill legally. In he
ten years travels, she'has obtaine,
little more than mere shelter at
hotel, and that costs nothing In ne
campaign of reform Mrs. LepaN be
lieves that too much taking Is impos
sible, hence she talks when sh
shoald eat-And talks in her sleep. Il
making a continuous performance o
her blubber, she eH5sss none of tn
comforts OF hotel Gneither do tn
guests in her proximity, and hence
cannot legally be taxed for what sh
does not get
No, Mrs. Lease may keep her 500
tongue money, wrung from the han,
Of wrinkled toll and plutocratic scor
pions at 80 much per wiring. We cal
do nothing for her There are to
many hotels in this country and b
the tine the search for the proof wa
ended all the nood sufferers would b
self-sustaining and the 500 OF no use
Moreover, we believe there is a strinl
tied to that 500.
Mother Lease is too prone 10 ttep 4
front Of herself. She should make
bed Of her curses. lie down, and thin
horizontally for awhile or eIbe let on
her think-b Either remedy is rest
full