The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-17
POLITICS AND POISON
Dust, dust, yes, its here.

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Beaver county has a copper mine
that is turning out good ore,
Arkansas man has sold 10. 900 bust,-
els OF corn at 22 cents a hushel,
The poet OF the Stroud Star is billed
FOR passage on the irst boat down the
Arkansas.
big rush to Oklahoma from the
Northern and Eastern states this fall
is expected,
The festive circus agents have again
entered the territory, and will soon be
followed by the real thing. Boys,
save your quarters.
That was said under peculiar sur
roundings, and IL is unfair for a Re
publican journal to nib Tom about an
old thing like that
We believe that even Governor
BarpeH will yet learn that Tom Reed
was right when he said that 1t pays to
be middltng honest. Times ournal
The New Jersey trusts are trying
| TO resurrect Grover Cleveland as an
'em oalmed" Democratic candidate for
president. He has been dead too long
The base ball clubs Of the territory
are initiating Republican harmony.
and unless they quit it. patched up
agreement for peace will be the next
requisite.
Woods county farmers wife has
put up 40 gallons Of canned plums, is
gallons Of plum butter and 10 gallons
of Jelly The Woods county plum crop
is great institution.
The Hutchinson, Oklahoma g. Gulf
railroad Is known as the "hog" road
while the initials of the Denver, Okla,
homa & Gulf railroad add dog" TO the
territorial menagerie.
Over in Washite county there is a
newspaper editor who feels badly and
his sensibilities are terribly aroused
when anyone refers TO him as Re.
publican without putting the prefix
BLACK" TO il.
over near Arapahoe two young men
met stranger IN the road aud play
fully addressed him as "our uncle "
They found out that he was no kin to
them after he had wiped up the earth
with their bodies
The editor OF the Mountain View
/ 40 N NHH ffbhih AAhG lAADlG
thinking in this country. That's lust
what played hob With Republican har-
mony IN this territory, and for that
reason the Leader seconds the motion
Of the Mountain View editor.
The Perry Enterprise Times il
warming up under the collar. and
accuses Register Boles OF the Perry
land office OF starting another paper
and putting his son in charge Of it,
in which TO print final proof notices
in order to keep the money in the
family 1t indicates that "pa and
sonny are rushing the growler for al
there is ia sight Tor pa and sonny. ="
The Okeene Iegls. an administration
paper, don't see the wisdom Of lighting
the trust concerns. 1t says that while
they are multiplying they are being
incculated with dry rot which will
cause their downfall, when their accu
mu ations will be scattered among the
people The Eagles remedy is too far
in the glimmering future to be practi
cable.
, It's hardly believable, but it's really
so. Captain William Whitworth, late
OF Company b, oklahoma National
Guard, whom Gov. Barnes frightened
INTO running away by presenting him
commission as lieutenant in the vol
unteer army then supposed to be
bound for Cuba, has actually recovered
and enlisted at Fort smith, Ark, In
the Thirty second volunteer infantry
for service in the Philippines.
The Enid Wave persists in misrep.
resenting Judge I. J. Lowe on the
money question, Judge Lowe is not
given TO rushing into the columns OF
the newspapers TO air his views except
when the occasion arises, but in ius.
tiee TO him it is only fair for the
Leader TO state that be has ALWAYS
stood squaroly upon the Chicago plat.
form, and IL that don't make him a
free silver man at the ratio OF l6 to F,
then the Wave don't know what the
platform stands for, or the platform
don't know what the Wave stands for.
"And that do settle it," Over in
Texas, where the editor OF the News
came from, there are three kinds of
Republicans. The lily white Republi,
cans and the black and tan Republi
cans The lily white Repub blicans are
the respectable white republicans, the
black Republicans compose the lower
class OF negroes, while the tans are
the respectable class OF negroes and
those whites who associate with them
for office. Wright Cuny was one OF the
tans, and would not associate with
the black Republicans. Cloud Chief
Beacon.
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