The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12
EFF MEN WORRIED
Don't Know What Their Can
didate Can Talk About.
EXPANSION WILL NOT Do
For Flynn Can Make a Rattl-
ing Expansion Argument :

homes viii occupy only part OF Flynn.s
time in public addresses, that opposition
is worried more than ever.
In the first place Flynn's statehood ad-
vocacy is worrying the Nen crowd.
Every body accepts 1t as a fact that If
statehood is TO come soon it must be
started in the next session of congress
and If Flynn gets small majority Re
publican congress will not listen to IL
How TO answer this the Neff followers
cannot determine.
And the Neh following is also worried
over the bold way Flynn goes into the ex-
pansion business. He is an eXpansiolist
through and through and when he talks
about it he hits right out from the Shout
der Nearly every Okiahoman knows that
the Kiowa and Comanche Indians did not
want to take their lands in allotment
Every Oklahoman also knows that the
opening of that country TO white settle
ment is for the best. best for Oklahoma
and the Indian. If Nef goes to talking
against expansion and the necessity OF
getting the consent of the governed, the
mind. of the average Oklahoman will turn
at once TO the Indians.
If Bob Neff grows eloquent on the
consent of the governed" all Flynn has
to do is to grab the image of Geronimo
by the naDe of the neck and hold it be-
fore the eyes of an Oklahoma audience.
The laugh that would follow would drive
Neff out of the territory.
That Flynn can handle expansion and
statehood ably is shown by his speech at
Guthrie after his denomination. Among
other things he said:
1--WE have now talked about statehood.
I deny that the reform forces expect
statehood in Oklahoma for the next eight
years. Why? Take their platform: The
allied parties of Oklahoma demand imme-
date statehood for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as a single state Now, fellow
citizens, let me say this to you about
statehood: When anybody tells you they
are for statehood and they don't want
statehood unless it includes Indian Terri
tory, ask them what they are going 10 do
with the agreement recently made with
the Chickasaws and Choctaws of the In
dian Territory where the government
agrees they wouldn't change their status
or lines for eight years to come. Our
proposition is this: we are for statehood
with the Indian Territory if We can get
it. We are for statehood with anything,
any kind of a boundary that we can get
first to help ourselves. / believe in the
right of self government. Don't you
suppose if we had statehood now with
two United States senators and two or
three members Of congress that we would
/ be given respectful hearing throughout
the world. Don't you suppose the ones
! in congress would have TO listen to the
votes as well as the voices of the repre-
sentatives from the state of Oklahoma?
AS it is now, all we can hear from the
allied and reformed forces Is, We de-
nounce Dennis Flynn and the Republican
party Let US get statehood and give
/ them a chance TO denounce three or four
other fellows in the senate and in the
house.
! II am sincere in the belief that the peo-
+ pie Of Oklahoma, the greatest territory
that was ever organized, have right TO
/ be admitted into the sisterhood of states
and I viii say to you now that the ma
4 jority that we get this fall for the Re
| publican ticket will speak stronger than
| any statistics when you knock at the
/ halls Of congress and demand admission
| 1T used to be said that II was neces-
/ sary for a territory to elect a man who
was in sympathy with the administration
/ That was the howl Of the opposition for
+ years. Who is there Of sane mind who
/ believes that there is going 70 be Z
change fri the administration Of national
affairs for the next five years to Gomez
We are not only in sympathy with them
now but ny judgment IS the people Of
1 this territory intend TO stay in sympathy
with the party Of progress. with the
party OF patriotism, with the party Of
/ prosperity and plenty. Up to the time
I that the paramount issue was put In the
/ Kansas City platform, we were told that
! the Republican party vas the father o.
trusts. People loved to stand up and
grind under their heels az they swing
round as a sweet morsel that the Repub
T ican party by virtue Of the protective
tariff is the father Of the trusts Fellow
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