The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-08-27


tics should be as sacred as in any other
business Of life. have had no sympathy
with the school Of statesmanship that
proclaims honest methods in politics 10 be
an Irldescent dream
ut has been my aim and purpose 10
advance the standard Of republican prin-
clples. and OF republican methods AMI re.
publican policies in Oklahoma to So high
and so broad a plane that large ma
jority of our people would agree with us
that the best welfare OF the common
wealth, the best interests OF all our citi-
zens lies in the success of our party ana
that when we come to form a state con-
stitutlon, It will not only be republican
in form, but will be republican in princi
pie and in substance.
1T is. therefore, with much regret and
with great reluctance that / reach a con-
clusion that good party methods and pcli-
cies have been made subordinate to per-
sonal. factional strife for control and lead
ership to such an extent as to justify and
demand public criticism, but when It goes
so far that O. trusted leader, one whom I
have Loyalty supported by voice and purse
every time he has been a party nominee,
when in pursuance Of a declared purpose
to discredit the territorial republican a6-
ministration in the mind of a republican
of departments at Washington, to the end
that he may be dictator of the disposal of
federal patronage in the territory, 1 say
when such a man stoops to unquestioned
to influence the action
OF a republican convention, it would be
cowardly to pass it by in silence. When
Mr. Flynn went before the committee en-
resolutions and represented me as having
said to him that it was my wish that
nothing should be said or done in regard
to the territorial administration, he gross
ly misrepresented anything that 1 ever
said to him, or to any other man. I had
talked to Mr. Asp and Mr.. Greer shortly
after the Enid convention; 1 talked with
Judge Strang, Mr.. Fison, Mr.. Ewing, Col.
Frank Thompson, Judge Boles, and other
reputable gentlemen just before the Guth-
rie convention, and I feel sure every one
of them will bear me out in the statement
that my position was substantially this:
THAT felt that the Guthrie convention
would be absolutely controlled by Mr.
Flynn, that whatever resolutions he wish
ed adopted would be adopted, and what
ever resolutions he wished rejected would
be rejected. and that so far as I was con-
cerned 1 should take no part in the con-
vention and should not ask or demand
anything at its hands, and this is wha5 I
said to Mr.. Flynn at the only conversa-
tion 1 had with him upon this subject
How that statement can be distorted
into the language and purport related by
Mr.. Flynn to the committee on resolu-
tions. that 1t was my wish that nothing
should be said or done in regard TO the
territorial administration, is beyond my
comprehension, upon any other theory
than of deliberate intention to miseal
some Of the delegates. and to influence
tions endorsing the national and terrific
rial administrations and the enac.ments
OF republican legislature and upon
careful reading OF the resolutions consert-
ed to by Mr. Flynn and adopted by the
l am constrained to believe
that the refusal to endorse the federal adj |
ministration, the failure to endorse the
magnificent and matchless administration
OF President Mckinley. was intentional
and with deliberate purpose upon ;ha
part of Mr.. Flynn, and his lieutenants IN
reouke the president for the fed an
pointments he has deemed wise an1 ex-
ped ent to make for Oklahoma. His crit-
clsm of the president for the federal m.
continents made for this territory ba.
oeeh open and notorious here in Oklaho-
ma Tor the last four years, even going so
TAR as to publicly characterize ana .t,o.
matize some of his appointees as "c,r-
pet baggers' and some of them as \ NOR
sonal insult
"Mr. Flynn cannot escape the resnonsf-
| 'uty for the acts of omission, as well an
Tor the acts of commission of this con-
vention. resolution proposed in COM
nittee by Mr.. Greer specifically endors-
ng the splendid achievements ana admin
Of William Mckinney. in behalf
of the republican parry, was, laid aside
ana resolution presantcl by Mr. Doug
lass Of Oklahoma City, ignoring The name
ot the president, was accepted in rs stead
1t Is curious platform upon which 20
place a great political parry before the
people and ask their suffrage. 1t men.
lions Mr.. Flynn's name seven times ana
rails TO mention the name of the presi-
dent or of any other republican, even
once. 1t places Mr. Flvnn ,,nOn q niotforr,
Of gratitude and statehood the same