The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-02
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1899
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS 8SD rBE
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want Of sustenance Less them twenty
territorial political papers started
eight years ago are now living These
papers blocmed forth with vigor
tiourished for a spell. and then sought
oblivion The field did not Justify The
effort When the Cherokee strip was
opened, new printing plants were
brought in, and two score Of papers
sprung into existence The number
has gradually growo, and owing TO the
prosperity Of the territory incident to
the opening Of the new country
the strip papers have Jared we'll Iu
old Oklahoma however, the publisher
OF partisan organ has survived by
sheer force Of grit Less than eight
years ago there was not a Democratic
daily paper in the territory There
we're few weeklies printed in the
larger towns, but every effort to make
Democratic daily pay. proved un-
avsiling. At Guthrie and Oklahoma
City, daily sheets espousiug the prin-
AkANo Va AfNAhDNiAA NEit AAuuEutls
but they were ephemeral Here in
Guthrie Democratic politicians labored
and schemed 10 devise mears to aoat
respectable Democratic daily but
their work was in vain The second
Cleveland administration made it pos
sible for a Democratic daily paper,
THE LEADER, TO be launched. and
finally made self sustaining The
Democratic federal officials appointed
by Cleveland gave their money to
plant an organ in Guthrie This sub
stantial support placed tbs DAILY
LEADER on its sea legs Since It's first
year il has not asked for nor had anv
outside support. Ia few years IL
pa sed into the hands Of company.
and has virtually been under the same
management for seven years So
soon as THE LEADER began to show
signs Of prosperity it immedi
Rtely became the target for two
or three di gruntled Democratic pol-
itieians, who having siguauy
failei as newspaper men and having
failed 60 land coveted jobs under the
Cleveland regime, imm, diatcIy began
sharpening their knives for TIM
LEADER IL was not their desire 10 |
see anything prosper. But the Dem. |
ocratic party Of the Territory was
glad and it gave The LEADER hearty
aud unstinted support TnE LEADER
prospered and grew strong. Within
three years 1t was not only the Leader
newspaper hut THE LEADER book
manufacturing, binding and job plant
The office vas equipped wi new and
improved machinery and became one
OF the largest printing and binding
plants in the southwest From a
handful OF employees its payroll finally
showed thirty.tive men.
THE LEADER for four years has paid
out more money for labor than auy
other business 10 the southwest. with
one exception 1t is doing a big busi-
ness ana it is prospecting 1t is this
prosperity together with the fact
that The LEADER stands for Demoe-
raey aud not for any clique or set Of
men, that maddens several self-consti.
'nted politicians. The same fellows
who cursed THE LEADER eight wears
ago are still cursing il. Bat Tur
LEADER thrives on curses. II is
vocation this newspaper
publishing business, and curses are
sometimes as necessary 20 the internal
economy as taffy and cash From the
very first THE LLADER has been
against seli'adjustod political Buhka,
dors, class Of men who are eteruallv
'rying 20 use the party 20 advance
their own selfish Interests. Tur
LEADER being party paper. has ,
warned the party Of the Vaccinations
Of these B1hkadors and hence basip-
eurred the ever'increasiug and ever.
lasting eumity OF the latter.
One Of these briefess bulks tr.as
ooider than the rest after having =,
been denied by knowing publisher
has finally succeeded In wheedlipg r.
some space from the hen pecked glm e
ets who lately leased the pink Regis n
Ter from the Republican committee d
IN this space be assails THE LEADER. d
Every nine months this Bunk testers. il
wells up becomes sore aud bursts
incidentally he has a pal aiding him. a
whose desire for Office is so intense O
hat he refuses 10 tester, hence he is d
simply bonadde wart. In the pink ri
londescript the Democratic renegade y
narges TIE LEADER with crimes un- ?
inm oered. The charges are general n
lone specific, the chief allega ion ii
icing HE LEAIER's refusal to truck d
o gang Of JOB seekers Of his ilk. He II
eeks 10 have the people believe that p
he Democratic party is disorganized a
nd On the rocks that IL has been b
undered by the Reufrow admins p
ration and federal Office holders and te
battered by iuternecine wars. The o.
emo-racy Of Oklahoma is stronger n,
'day than ever before; true, there are M
me factions, but the man who bawls cl
disorganizatian 10 the ranks is the Az
ny person who aids in Eeeplng ID q