The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-07-26
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ION spec er Is looming up in the dis
.ance aud all efforts OF the admiuistra-
ion machine TO extinguish the light
have proven iaeffectual The fact OF
the matter is, tersely put, that ID nnis
T. Flynn and his carbuncled cohorts
will exercise every bit as much |
prominence and activity In the coming /
congressional campaign as they have
done in the past. This fact doe not |
alarm the free silver forces as much |
as IL does the Barnes administration
and it's warty appurtenances.
aThe reason for this is discorered in
the unre'uted argument that Flynn
and Barnes will once more cross bats
and harpoon for supremacy n the Re-
publican conventions. Quietly seated
ia his bungaloo In Washington, Dennis
T. Flynn is keeping the wires hot aud
the mails choked up with messages
and letters pertaining TO the coming
campaign. lie sees chance to get
even and land decisive upper cut on
his Arkansaw antsgonist, the domino
governor On the other hand the gov.
ernor, we'll aware OF Flynn's icicled
prowess, has oiled up his " sic transit
gloria mundi Slot machine and with
she aid Of the score or more Of marion.
cites, relu family fed from the admin.
istration garbage pile, proposes to
meet the attack OF Flynn's rapid firing
guns with postofiiee smile and a
board Ct regents serenity.
All told, it's going 10 be merry,
pulls atiug war, hemstitched on the
edges and befrilled IN the crotch.
Fiynns oats Of ambition and revenge
are not empty, not by long shot, and
his chief desire now is to make the
Barnes administration feel and look
like thirty cents. Flynn mas grown
in strength ever since the Barnes
naturalization has been doling out
the Offices. AS is well known all the
Fiyon disciples were uumercifully
turned down. Moreover, many can
didates who had been " original Me
Kinley, Barnes or bust men ever
since the governor tabled his amb-
tions, have been given the Forpaugh
-four ply somersault. To the Flynn
men and defeated candidates alike
land the latter are legion) Barnes has
appeared in the light Of an Aguina
self appointed dictator who held
his alignment by the distribution Of
patronage. All this has been weari-
some, lonely and green-goggled TO the
bulk Of Republicanism, hence the con-
templated revolt
From now on the Barnes admins
tration will be obliged TO hurtle tro
chas and carry barbed wire shippers
in its retreating advance. Even At
torney General Cunningham will be
forced to shell-road his land tax case
fer the nonce and command McCabe
to whip recalcitrant niggers into line.
Flynn has a machette four and a half
inches long up his raiment and he in
tends to y,eld 1t with al the energy
he had left over from the stock which
he uti lied in bringing about the de-
feat of free homes.
Flynn is a political chump but he is
not dawdler. lie has we'll defined
plans and when he reaches the dia
mond the bleachers will howl AT the
toss.off he will go TO the bat at the
81 Reuo convention and make a sacri.
fee hit for b II Grimes-corpulent.
sour-stomached, non-thinking but
mechanically acting Bill Grimes.
Flynn champions Grimes congres
sional cause-so does McNeal, so do
Walker, Greer, Roberts, Burford
ollie, Seay, Asp, Shartell and all the
lesser Flynn satellites-they are all
for Grimes for congress, Grimes
nomination (of course there is no
chance of his election) will be a vie.
tory for Flynn.
Gov. Barnes hates Grimes. He could
eat him at one throw, and use Flynn
and Walker for sauce, with Harry Gill
strap on the side. The govern would
rather toss an Office de post, throttled,
into the ethereal ambient, than 10 see
Bill Grimes get his sky-piece above
water again. Re would rather invert
hades and plant caulihOwers on it's
crest, aud auction it of with oily
Ewing dramatically believing the
sale, than see Grimes name mentioned
in connection with a graft Flynn
knows this Sc does Grimes, likewise
Barnes. Hence the he'll
The governor has given il out Dat,
stamped officially aad Internally. that
II Grimes is made the Republican
nominee for congress he will mount
the stump personally and campaign
against him. Moreover, in order to
offset the Grimes boom he has sprung
the war shiboleth, and will make an
effort to deck the laureled brow OF
Rough Rider Bobby Houston with con
gressionAl honors. The Republicans
may take to Houston, but again they
may not. Flynn's fangs stick out like
an octopus, aud nothing can shave
these teDRcles il their business ends
are we'll greased-and Flynn's "A
greaser.
So there's the situation, aud one
that the Democrats and Populists can
enjoy. Simply because G n. Roseu-
baum has left the territory Is no sign