The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-14
MONDAY MAY IA, 1900
THE CAPITALS POST MoRTEM EX-
PLANTATION.

The State Capital, Sunday morning,
broke it's Sphinx-like silence on terri
ttrial matters long enough to venture
corrosive and jejune explanation of
how Greer and the territorial admins.
tration were turned down at the Enid
convention. 1t was the worst, grilled,
cooked up effort to square existing
differences seen for many days, and
very Justly excites the contempt and
derision of those delegates who we're
on the ground at Enid and witnessed
the game of shuttle cock and battle
door as played by c. II. Thompson,
and has deputies, aided and abetted by
Grimes, without the consent or dicta-
ton of the alleged political leaders
from Logan county. Mr. Greer's eff
forts to square himself after throwing
down the men to whose interests he
had sworn allegiance, will not carry
weight. If the plain, unvarnished
facts are to be stated, the administers
tion forces repaired to Enid with the
studied purpose of coercing an en-
dorsement of Gov, Barnes acts in the
convention. The Logan county dele
CATION was mixed, and while some
delegates favored the election of Nc
Neal as delegate, they were opposed
to supporting all moves toward endors-
ing the administration. Rather than
precipitate an open rupture in the del
egation the Barnes delegates, who
were luke-w as to McNeal's candi-
dacy, agreed to support McNeal.
When all the delegates were assem-
bled at Enid, the strength of the ad-
ministration and anti-forces was
about evenly divided. Instead Of per-
sonally experimenting the move
ments of his own forces, Gov Barnes
placed the management in the hands
of men who, for the most part, no later
than two years ago. were his sworn
enemies. Barnes is a fighter and com
promises are distasteful to him. He
had force enough at Enid to put up
fight that would have either won or
disrupted the convention-and the
later exigency would look better
than the bellying to the will of
enemies. The fellows who man
sged Barnes interests were also
managing their own interests, and
since it is their practice to always play
in with the supposed dominant faction
they devised a scheme for placing Me-
Neal on the delegation at the expense
of the administration. The Barnes
crowd was caught mapping and was
unwittingly made the victim of COM
promise; whereas, had it demanded |
the presentation of resolutions con-
tanning an administration endorse
ment in the regular order, it could
have precipitated a fight
broken county instructions and |
caused sufficient turmoil to in
Anence Grimes into calling for quar-
ter. Grimes is secretly knitting Flynn.
The new Thompson. Grimes Jenkins
combination has outlined a Flynn |
drama With Flynn surreptitious y |
dropped out. But Grimes cannot af- |
ford to run counter to Flynn's wishes
at this stage OF the game. The ad-
ministration fellows know this. The |
committee on order of business was
controlled by administration men.
Had the administration endorsing res
olutions been sprung in the regular
order and before the selection OF dele
gates, McNeal's candidacy could have
been utilized as a whip to beat the
Grimes adherents to cover. The
springing Of Flynn's letter to Grimes
in which he requested that McNeal be
placed on the delegation, and which
letter finally secured McNeAl's cleo
tion, might have been flashed to good
advantage. A threat to expose Grimes
treAchery to Flynn, would have open
ed the eyes OF the delegates and
nothing this side of Mafeking pre-
vented . triumph on the part of the
Barnes forces. Since the governor
failed to direct his own battle he was
buncoed. His sycophAntic supporters