The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-14
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Nef's Defeat Is No Longer
Concealed by Managers.
POT1 AND GREER COUNTIES
Only Ones He Has Any Chance
of Carrying.
POT1 AND GREER COUNTIES

Oklahoma City, o. T., Oct. 13.-"It is a
landslide for Flynn. We have heard
from the homestesders and know, from
.Pawnee to Greer Neff has a show in
only two counties, Pottawatomie and
sGreer, and ne may lose those. Washita
county and Custer county, which we ac-
counted for Nen because of heavy INNS
grafton, are for Flynn. He will carry
them. In Kingfsher, Blaine, Lincoln and
Garfield counties the Populists are not
standing by Neff, their candidate The
polls show that they are for Flynn, more
than our Democrats are. These are facts.
1t is nonsense to say that Flynn has
the territory by 5000 or 10000 or 1900, for
it can reach 2O,OOO as easily and probably
win. All we can hope to do IS to keep
on lighting tidal wave which grows
great of itself. Our only tactics now is
to whoop and howl that Bryan is 60
ing to carry the nation; that the Repub-
lieans in the states concede his election
and try to re-awaken party spirit in the
people of Oklahoma. And we will try
that without hope"
The above statement comes from mighty
near the Nef territorial management
from a Democrat who believes that a
fight could have been put up against
Flynn which would have defeated him.
He continued in a conversation in this
city last evening.
''Neff's campaign has lacked coherency,
when coherency is the only thing which
could have won. His cue and his only
cue at the beginning was to seize upon
one strong dominant idea, an idea that
would appeal to the national political
bias Of both Democrats and Populists Of
Oklahoma, and stay by it night and
day. morning, noon and sppper time.
What has he done? He has sprawled
around over everything and succeeded in
winning no one. Neff hasn't the brain
to see his mistake. Flynn has but one
vital issue so far as he is concerned
that of free homes. The minute he got
Neff to making a campaign with the free
homes issue dominant, Neff was doomed.
Neff's only card was to put up his own
issue and made his campaign on it, pass
ing the free homes question over pleas
antly, saying that it was not an issue,
p longer, that Flynn was responsible for
free homes and that he, Neff, in common
with all homesteaders, was grateful to
Flynn. but that greater issues were pres
sing.
.'Nef didn't do this. His organ, the
Newkirk Herald, ripped out the first
thing making fun of "the gratitude" Of
the homesteader and denying that it ex-
listed. What effect did that have? Let
a young man do his sweetheart a favor
and then let his rival go to the sweet
heart and tell her that she ought not to
be grateful; that she has nothing to be
graceful for and see what will happen.
Let the rival add a lot of senseless abuse
and see what that sweetheart will do.
'"Fo start with Flynn was an almighty
hard man to beat. The people were pre-
pared to hand him the election, but when
1 went into this campaign for Neff 1 did
not expect Neff to furnish the silver plat
ter for the people to offer the election
to Flynn on. Abuse was not the weapon
to fight Dennis Flynn. Watch the vote
In Logan county and see what Leslie
Niblack's abusive course toward Flynn
will do to Neff. Neff's nomination was
mistake. What the Oklahoma City con-
vention really did was to pay Flynn the
compliment and do him the favor Of
nominating a weak man against him.
When he goes down to Washington with
1900 majority, he will be considered one
of the biggest figures in the west, and
will have more power than If we had not
nominated anybody against him, and
elected him unanimously.
IL I'D
myself into a trance and go into lot
of insincere boasdng about Neff's
chances. They do not exist. Neff's
mana cement is disheartened and without
hope. They can not do anything with
blunderer towards handling a delicate
sitnatfnn and they realize it"