The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-30
uNoALLEp-roR ABusE.

Inc Onhnuier NEWS OF ihhl week uc-
votes considerable space to the FRISCO
railway extension enterprise and incl
dentally takes occasion to needlessly
abuse Guthrie and vilify Col. E. Il
Brown. Among other things the
News says
The Guthrie Leader grows very sar-
castle in speaking OF the great elation
of Chandler ana Oklahoma City over
the visit OF the Frisco railroad officials
who, il says. were only on a "hunting
trip" Yes. they we're on hunting
trip, but 1t was business they we're
hunting for. They were hunting for
the best route on which to extend
their road and the part OF the terri
tory whose business would be worth
most TO st. Louis. And they found
what they were hunting for. II any
one doubts that they did he should
have teen the pleasure and satisfac-
tion with which they noted the big
piles OF cotton and the busy people
and crowded stores and the interest
with which they collected facts and
figures about our products and about
where we marketed our products and
where we did our trading and hauled
our goods from But it would have
given our Guthrie friends severe
chill IL they could have heard Presi.
dent Robinson and Manager Yokum
discussing their plans for turning the
business Of this county toward st.
Louis and relieving the people of Liu-
coin county from all further neces-
sity of paying tribute TO the village
on the Cottonwood. OF course we feel
elated, and we don't care who knows
H. But say, speaking of being elated
over visits OF railroad people, didn't a
little one. horse railroad contractor
named Brown visit Guthrie recently?
And didn't the Guthrie dailies an
nounce the fact under three column
scare headings? And didn't even the
bootblacks and popcorn vendors sign
their notes for few hundred TO help
raise that wonderful $3.50 900 bonus?"
And wasn't the great city OF Guthrie
"elated" at that time? Perhaps not,
but she was near IT., and IL some
real, genuine, bona fde. responsible
railroad officials should pay her a visit
and walk her streets and praise her
resources and compliment her business
activity aud talk about when she
would get new railroad we fancy
that Guthrie would be almost beside
herself in the delirium OF her Joy and
would order out the First Regiment
band and General Rosenbaum's militia
10 help her enthuse. Yes, we are some
what elated, and we think we have
good reason for 1t. Chandler will not
only have a railroad OF her own, but
will be the queen city OF the big East
Side, and don't you forget it,
The News is not serving the cause oi
Chandler by lending itself to the
whims and vsgaries OF one Gristmil
Jones. Guthrie has the kindliest feel
ings for Chandler and has not, and will
not, place any obstacles in the towns
path to prosperity. II Chandler car
secure the Frisco road, well and good
but Guthrie should not be misrepre
sented and placed IN false light ri
regards the proposed enterprise.
AS to Colonel Brown, the comment
Of the News is grossly unjust. Mr.
Brown is not wildcat railroad
schemer, but a solid business man
There is q vast difference between
Brown and Jones. Mr.. Brown hal
built four railroads. He talks but
little, but his deeds count. On the
other hand Jones has done nothing tc
command the confidence OF the public
lie is a four-ply, triple-plAted, blAtan'
blowhard, who bummed around st
Louis and made life SO unbeRrable I,
Robinson and other Frisco officials tha
they made the trip to Oklahoma II
EalN AafrnUn fnha
never be built The Red Fork-Guth
rie road is dead certainty. Fourteen
miles Of this extension have been com.
pleted. and Immediately after the
action Of congress touching charter
the extension win be pushed to early
completion. Chandler gains nothing
by acting ugly towards Guthrie.
The News should lay of few days
aud think seriously.