The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-22
MID-ROADERS ARE SCORED
B M.COFfMk OF WOODS
COUNTY TALKS.
TELLS SOME PLAIN TRUTHS
The True inwardness OF the Haukins Move
ment ENposed--Tells How itWss
Worded In Many Places
nyron. o. T.. oct l1th. lsas

Byron, O. r., Oct 18th, ls9S.
Joseph Porter, Cleo. -
Dear Sir: rec ived your letter dat
ed at Alva the 5th inst, al the mid |
road headquarters OF Vickers a Towne
sitting hat you had launched in the !
field middle-of the road ticket for
the various county offices and assumed |
the responsib ility to use my name,
you say, upon recommendation OF my |
friends, for county susveyor, but | |
don't consider any man or set OF men |
my friends that would associate my |
name with such a class You also say |
you think | am true blue mid-r, ad |
Pcpulist. To this / will say that ] am
a mid road man from principle, and
never sold my principle for mess OF
pot age as you have done Now, POr-
er, will assign few reasons for not
asso iating with you and your ward
hcelers. few years ago we pulled
you out OF a sand bank near Gloss
mountains and elevated you to one of
The highest offices in the county, an
office we felt should be filed by an
honest man, but alas, our hopes we're
blig hted. Before you had been in
stalled in office three months you be-
gan to feel your keeping. Your head
began to swell. You showed your in
competency and treachery by taking
sides against Oxley, claiming he was
Ineligible and saying all sorts OF bad
things about him. You were again t
the commissioners when they were
trying TO rent county offices Later on,
through the advice of your Republican
counselors, through trumped up
charges, you tried to disgrace your
brother officers, backed up by Repub
lican money, and judging from your
letter you are still in the employ OF
the Republican party to tear down the
only gopulist party In the county. You
also say am against fusion. You
have me down right, am no fusionist
for office, but il the other fellows come
my way and vote my sentiments
party to its political grave, or as you
say, fuse it to death But feel am
justified in taking them by the hand
and say, Come on brother, our senti-
ments are the same, we will vote to-
gether. see nothing wrong in this.
You say the course our party has taken
viii inevitably lead us into fusion in
1900 and will end the life OF our party.
What do you call "our party?" You
are no pop, yon are no free silver dem
ocrat, you say you are no republican,
then in Gods name what are you?
When you unfurled your banner TO
. the breezes as free silver banner II
was under the advice Of such men at
}. Greer, Grimes, Buchanan and Nicker'
& Towne, who have buncoed this terri
tory from stem to stern TO inaugural,
this great mid-road party of yours anc
q have selected Mr. Hankins as YOU
e standard bear5r. (Yod can't stuff /
down me that you are a mid-road pop.
Is see from the Review that Hankni
p is working to give Woods county L
10 Flynn, and his wife and daughter
ie a-e wearing Flynn badges ] see N
v pop in that. This vigorous camp ign
lie your man is making seems to be 70
the other fellow. The large crowd
lt you are drawing are like the Review
al de cribed your convention, Wher
r you selected me you had three mel
presen and held your convention II
is the brush. Now, think your crow
't are all in the brush, and after tn
ne sth day Of November you will b
ashamed to show yourselves again.
n Now. Mr. Porter, you may get you
ne names on the official ballot but don
al think it will give tie election boar
e. much trouble TO count your votes.
Is A few words for that great muc x a
muck, sleuth hound, bottle sucker
s. party breaker, educated liar, A. Town
We who has at all times been your guic
ing star, now cones ont as grea
'h refor,Aer, and has launched anothe
he paper in the field, which for lies an
ca hypocricy out Herods old Herod hin
self, with lies rom start TO finish, az
All cusing honest men Of things Of whic
n they are not guilty, and for no othC
al cause than he has sunk himself SO
'r- below the level OF respectable me
ne they would have nothing TO do wit
NJ him. Drunken, debauched, boa tin
Of being a Populist, but from the hr
We day be set foot on Woods county SO
no he commenced his dirty work tryr
IN 10 disrupt the party. He run his pap
more in the interest Of the Republics
'r- party than the pops, in fact the r
"a publican Off and the Review Off
are one and the same.
" his great hobby was to slander m'
who were his superiofs, and m'
-" whom the voters Of Woods coun
~ sh ould stand by for the honest admi
" istration given them This great !
former is charging Jesse j. Dunn vi
extravaganza for pu ting in his c
pense account Cor going to Guthrie
- the tax case. Hs forgot to say an
~ thing about his claiming for the sar
=, thing when he was chosen by you
assist in some tax case. lie don't o