The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-11-05

land is unde. a government incum-
brancs. For six successive years the
Republican party has refused to give
Oklahoma free homes, and yet, with a
brszen gall that hardens with years,
the local leaders are renewing the
howl The Republican party nev-r in
tends to give the people free homes.
Every Republican leader is agaipst It,
and most Of them on record The en-.
tire Republican side, with but four OF
Eve isolated exceptions voted against
| the bill in congress Nearly every
| speech made against the bill was made
| by Republicans, the Congressional
Record shows. Congressman sherman,
who led the fight against the bill last
March, when it suffered defeat, is a
| Republican. Not only this, but he is
| personal friend of Dennis Flynn. The
measure was defeated in a Republ can
house by Repul lican votes after it had
passed the free silver senate. The Re.
publican leaders openly say they will
never pass the bill, and it is only few
ward politicians in Oklah Ina, like
| Flynn and Grimes, who insist on de-
|
| Of the Republican party. The vote
| and speeches on the free homes bill
| when it was defeated by Repu blicans
last spring is cone usive proof that u
free silver congress elected in sympa.
thy with the people OF the West and
| South, is the only possible hope for
| fee homes.
The evidence tf Republicans is all
| 81. fa 20, J.
| Following are extracts from speeches
| delivered against free homes by w O
Republican leaders when the measure
was pending as an amendment TO the
Indian appropriation bill. MIR. Grosve
nor repr sents the administration in
the house, and both scof the idea OF
ever passing a free homes bill. Every
Republican of prominence spoke in a
similar strain against the measure, and
| vet here are the political bunco men,
| Flynn CT al back here trying TO work
the old confidence game on those who
| have been their victims for six years
| The extracts follow
Extract from speech delivered by Mr..
Grosvenor in the house Of represent
atives, March 10, 1898, and reported
in the Congressional Record Of that
date:
MIR. Grosvenor-Now, l call your at.
tention, those Of you who are sought
to be driven off your feet by this tall,
about pla forms, to that little plank
of the st. Louis platform which bears
an its face the evidence that 1t was
promoted for some special purpose.
Who ever heard of great political
party, before that time, singing out u
L .s.,.N .tsl. "a.
vision OF relief for a few settlers upon
few acres Of the public donna n, and
making that a great plank in great
national platform? 1t went in there
under circumstances that Wi not re.
fer TO, and it went in there under cir
cumstances that were limited, and cx-
pected to be limited, in their opera
| tious in the presidential election then
| lust about to come.
"rhen came the loading Of that bill
on the senate with all the multifarious
| Jobs. / do not use the term lob Of
fensively. Then the bill came back To
| the house OF representatives,, where il
suffered death, as 1T ought TO have
done. Nobody was afraid TO vote
against it, even right in the midst Of a
pres idential election, aud nobody was
/
| IL came covered as IL was with the OBJ
jectionable features to which 1 shall
now briefly refer.
Mr.. Morris-There never was any
vote on il ia the house
" Mr.. Grosvenor-There never was
any vote in the house. There could
have been IL anybody wanted 10 hav,
one. II could have been voted foi
when on the speakers table, when i
came back here. But nobody Offered
such proposition.
! CHE time referred TO here by Mr.
Grosvenor is when the bill came [,
the house with the senate amendment
during Mr. Flyun's last term in con
gress, when Flynn refused TO take an,
action and allowed it TO lay on tn
speakers table until II was dnall,
p aced at the foot Of the calendar
Mr. Dalzell, March 10, lsgs, and re
ported in the congressional record o
that dete-Free homes.
Mr.. Dalzell-"This is said 10 be
part Of the homestead policy inauRu
rated by the Republican party. I dc
ny e."
"There is no gentleman on the foo
} Of this hOule who will not recall tina
when these lands were opened to ef
try men fell over each other in cage
haste 70 make entry upon them. Why
down in Oklahoma we had TO organiz
a special police ,1rce 10 keep me
from killing each other In their desir
10 become settlers upon these lands
settlers upon the lands at the priC
paid for them by the government
: They went there and voluntarily a
! sumed, gladly assumed, 10 pay III
! price aud endure the hardships d
Z settlers. The character OF The 'lant
! and the circumstances surroundin
] them, tho climate, the possibilities
hardshiPs, all these things they kneg
and all shese .hings hey assume,
\ and now, that contract, ,-vOluuteri
? made by thera--you are asking 10 1
, pudiate. Why Because Il is said III,
Z are poor.
3 SIS not that a startling Dropositit
= 70 be heard or he floor OF this hou
4 -tnst w put ourselves in the positi,
. OF .aking mo4ey from the feder
4 treasur- % relieve the poor, that '
4 are 10 tax the whole country TO n
: nish free farms 10 men Ia Oklahom
4 l deny stherlght OF this congress
4 tax the farmers OF Pennsylvania, WI