The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-08-09
oRUsHrNG OF rHE ADMINBrRArIoN

For tie thlrd time In rev months
Governor Barnes administration has
been the victim Of either fool friends
or subtle enemies. Yesterday the ad-
ministration encountered jobb,r-
wock so impregnsble that the average
person has begun to ask what re-
lation the Barnes administration
bears to the Republican party Of Ok
lahoma? What element of Republi-
csnism makes the party record in the
territory? The powers OF the execu-
tive of Oklahoma and the legislative
branch are coordinate, yet neither fg-
ure in the equation of territorial poll
tics and according to the voice Of the
territorial convention which met in
this city yesterday, one is forced to
believe the party record is confined to
Washington and is what Delegate
Flynn desires to make it.
In the most representative con-
convention ever held in the territory
during which ID. I. Flynn was for the
congress by acclamat'on, 322 delegates,
representing every county in the terri
tory, arose is one man and spat upon
the administration of c. NJ Barnes.
Through the method of negation it de-
nounced the administration as being
incompetent, corrupt and rotten, ex-
nrio ipd
branded the governors messages ss
picture books from which no benefits
accrued to the territory.
This representative convention went
further: it villifed the Fifth legisla-
tive assembly, and bore out the LEAD
ER's assertion that that body was dis
honest, extravagant and blot on the
territory.
While it is admitted by bis adher-
ents that Dennis Flynn is the
only issue Of territorial Repub-
licanism, party policies in state
campaign? cannot be merged into per-
sonalism, Republicanism is as much
responsible for the birth and uurtur-
ing of the Barnes administration and
the majority element of the last legis-
lstrre as it is for the persona lity of D,
T. Flynn. Mr.. Flynn cannot make up
the party record in Washington, not
withstandiug the fact that he car
come to Oklahoma and dictate what
that record shall be. The Barnes ad-
ministration is directly responsible to
the Mckinley administration, and as
he.offspriug of McKinleyism it must
stand sponsor for all the ills that have
been heaped upon the taxpayers of
Oklahoma. While disciple Of Nc
Kinleyism, Flynn is not directly the
product thereof. He was begotten in
his own incubator. He has had no
voice IN making Republican laws for
the territory and the legislative cam
paign cannot be made up of the whim
Of Flynn, but must bear upon the acts
of the men who, elected to the legis-
lature under specific promises, be-
trsyed their trusts.
Therefore, whether dominated by
the hypnotism of Flynn or acting
with sense of right, justice and SIM
cerity the Republican party of Okla
homs, through its valid representa-
tives in convention assembled, has
made up the record for this campaign.
1t is not obligatory on the reform tor-
ces of Oklahoma to question the mo-
tiv' Of Republic convention. In
ternal party dissension and personal
jealousies do not figure in campaign,
and the censure of a newspaper or the
criticisms Of set of men in reference
70 the ACTORS of convention which
unanimously sounds the keynote of
the campaign, can have Il weight
with sensible people wuo determine
the attitude of parlies through the ul-
timstums set forth in regularly called
and properly constituted party as
semtlies.
The territorial Republican conven-
tiou which met in Guthrie yesterday
made up the record with which it
hopes to enter this campaign and re-
tain it's ascendancy.
This record is one of deceit, treach
cry, dishonesty and corruption
Through process Of negative &C
quiescence the Republican party o.
Oklahoma has shown the people, wha'
they hav long known, that its Off