The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-31
DIR. JOHN FEE
SKINS FLYNN!

lhcn lel every hepNpilcan vote Tor Mr,
Keatou.
II Dennis Flynn and Webster Davis
can turn down for Office Republicans
OF forty years in the harness, men who
stood up for the Republican party In
It's infancy, who upheld the arms OF
Seward, sumner, Stevens, Loyeioy,
Giddings and Lincoln when there was
not an Office In the gift OF the party,
when there were no millionaire givers
Of bribes and largesses; why should
not the old Republicans Of today re-
fuse to vote Tor the man who stabs
them in the back whenever the oppor-
tunity presents9
Has Webster Davis ever done any
man wrong POLITICAL, wheuy il is a
fact that goes without saying that bis
principal industry during the last four
years has been that OF stabbing in the
back old Republicans, and old soldier
Republicans especially2
In Kansas City he has been perfid-
ious to such men as Major Warner,
Col. Connover, General Duval, eK-
mayor II c. Kumpf and to scores OF
others from The private soldier to the
genera and the victims TO his politi.
cal treachery can b. found in every
county in the state OF Missouri.
The letter above copied shows that
Dennis Flynn has fallen under the
hypnotism of Webster Davis, that he
has become believer in the inno-
cence and virginia. purity OF Webster
Davis, and has apostatized from his
con fessional and creed OF nineteen
centuries, anu has set up the new her
esy Of the idola,ary and infalitility OF
Webster Davis
Is such man, who has gone daft
and become demented over such an A.
p. A. idol, fit to be the congressional
delegate OF an intelligent people?
But let us study this idol tet up by
Dennis Flynn, this Webster Davis, who
has been imported into the territory
with much pomp and ostentatlon,
and so much pRgeantry TO strut before
the public In behalf OF Dennis Flynn,
aud who will be the de facto delegate
in case of his election. Webster Davis
is political adventurer who came in
to power out OF obscurity by re-echo
ing the cry OF "Rum, Romanism and
Rebelliou" and his snccess in obtain
ing the meyoralty OF Kansas City was
due to infamatory and defamatory
speeches to the passions and bigotries
which ought TO have been relegated to
the fifteenth century. Later on, near
" three years ago, when his thirst
for office holding had been greatly in.
teusifed, he appealed to the Know
Nothing, or A. +. A. party, which was
then in the height OF success, for its
support for the nominate n for gov
eruur of Missouri. Webster Davis then
and there before Know Nothing con
vention made a speech before that
body aud took up its long platform,
read each plank seriatim, com
mended each plank with praise,
and then, adopted it as q whole which
NJ pealed to the patriotism OF every
patriot for its approval. When, there
fore, the Know Nothing party, or Ma
tive American party, or the American
Protective Associat on, OF Kansas City
resurrected the old Know Nothing
party which had lain in the grave dur
ing forty years, Web ter Davis stood
as high priest u welcome it's second
coming, and perfumed the revified
corrse with unctious blaudishment,
with mosaic Of his choicest adject.
ives, and with his most artful periods
OF gra diloquence. Yet he Is the as
sociate, she controlling mesmerist, the
idol and hypnotist OF Dennis Flynn
l heh Sbut ItduNAt II lOu hlt hhb-
uralized citizen, and can recall the in
dignitieE TO your countrymen, the
crimes inhicted on them forty years ago
in the streets Of Baltimore, ST. Louis,
Louisville and Cincinnati and even
elsewhere, when they were stoned,
brick k-batted, bludgeoned and hred on
with revolvers on the streets and at
the polls in those cities by the progen-
itors Of this A, z. A. party. Can you
bestow your ballots on Dennis Flynn
who is now the associate, the co
worker, the co conspirator, the psalm.
lst Of the high priest OF the progeny of
this Know Nothing party OF 1884? Can
you forget your nativity, your hered-
ity. that blood is thicker than water,
and bestow your ballots on u man who
idolizes the man who was high
priest in that party which received
with opprobrious epithets, riot and
bloodshed your eountrymen when
! they first landed in this country
| Yes, IL the A. u. A. could have its
way, of which Webster Davis has said
| OF is platform: That It appeals TO the
patriotism OF every u ln for iA sup
! port" you would now be denied the
right 10 such religious worship as your
conscience might dictate, 10 such
schools as you might desire and the
right TO cast your vote without moles
tation or duress; or even you would
be assaulted and bludgeoned on your
approach 20 the polls. Yet Webster
Davis has herded with this political
rabble, this rump, and this canaille
for votes; and Dennis Flynn says that
me, Webster Davis, never intentions
tiona ly did any man wrong
While Webster Davis was imploring
was cajoling, was coquetting with the
IA T. A in Kansas City he had a con
. frere and helper no less distinguished
than himself, but who was an A. 7. A
specialist with a peculiar mission
which WAS 10 abuse the Catholics H'
. denounced the priests as harlOt mas
ters and the sisters as harlotB and 81
I un be.raDle became the TRADE OF abus
, by .his man Mcnamara that at the In
stigation Of one OF the nuns he was ar
rested. He was thrown In o jail, bu
Webster Davis admirers and adher
1 ents went on his bond which McNsm
. ara forfeited and then escaped iron
S the city. A writ In the Times
a journal Of this city says, "Webste
b Davis could not haze been an A. T., A
Y because he had a recommendation I
o the President from B shop Ireland,
! but why did he not get the recommer
= datio Of the Rev. Bishop John HC
and Of Bishop Glennon, Of Kansa
City, Of Bishop Fink, Of LeaVen worth
= and from the bishops OF ~. Louis
d a change Of venue Is a moral cOnfei
g. eiOu Of guilt. There Is no man WI