The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-08-20
LITTLE JOE
Comes to Life and lndltes a Few
Lines to His Pa.

N'NNiN iNf AUS Aas b'hI its since
YOU, by mater advised me to leave
my Beaver county domicile and come
TO Guthrie to study political and so.
cial conditions. I have piled up sever
al era es or experience. Pa. This is
.9 very warm capital of a hot territory.
Every since ] began the study of po-
litical economy as practically applied.
In this territory. have caused myself
20 be waylaid with lachrymoslcal sur
prise. have seen as many as TWEEN.
tyone different species OF poltogue In
two weeks. You remember Pa, how
we. you and l. used to gather toge her
some behind the old granary and
talk over the chances OF Dennis Flynn
and free homes. Well PA. dadbast
my luck, IL Dennis amt getting ready
to spring some more free home
measures relative to the Kiowa coun-
try, I'm a goat Dennis isn't saying
much now. He's just laying back,
giggling over the plight Of Governor
Jenkins whose health rs abnormal.
BY the way, papa try as hard as
can, cannot eovetail my political
theorums with the governors actions.
have every reason TO believe ne Is
a good man at heart, possessing
Quaker instincts, bosomy ambitions
and chesty desires but he seems to
have gained his political experience IN
a morgue Not that he Is necessarily
a dead one, but he is so stir and
cold TO his own harmonious welfare.
He has torn the Republican party
asunder and is allowing a few hench-
men to cash in the sundered frag-
ments Ament came over from Alva,
put the butt con into him and thereby
caused a nasty smell, then he wab-
bled up affairs at Edmond by anolnt-
ing Rankin and halo-ing Umholtz.
He put hokeypokey on Murdaugh, but
the stun didn't take and Murdaugh,
having called out the sena orial re-
serves Is on the firing line good and
strong with zesty line Of talk, which
he intends TO make good After fin
ishing this chaotic smear, the COVER
nor atoned for all his sins Of omission
by turning the school land mill into
sort Of Vallejo smelling works and
allowing 1t to be mined by a gang Of
in the Kicwa country hunting Indian
grave stones and using the data there
on for school land apraisement rec
ords The job only costs the territory
$4,000 but It bears down hard on the
fellows who are forced to do the work.
/ expect to hear roar from a dead
Indian at anytime OF course, pa,
you have heard all about the two
normal boards-each wants a meal
ticket. The governor sCcked gaff
into the creation Of former Governor
Barnes. and then turned it around.
The blow would have almost killed
you, father And the gov sang Dora
Gray" and wen. back into the Pyra-
mids Dear father | want 20 tell you
that my study Of politics in the capital
has reached the point whore courtesy
is embalbed grammer crucihed and
where principle and harmony go
humping down a sliding scale which
has no terminal Politics here gives
one a headache which bromo can't
soothe. may be mistaken, but 1
verify believe several politicians here
are in politics for the money and that
only.
Apropos, Of ambitions pa, wan
to tell YOU Guthrie IS q hummer You
have to be an able bodied knocker TO
&c, along he,e Pa. its the greatest
town You ever saw for schemes Al
most every body IS fun Of em and the
schemes pay big until some one
flashes a subscription list and then al
most everybody closes mp like an
oyster Nearly every man IS afraid
the her man win achieve personal
profit II scheme goes through; so
while everybody is schemy no
schemes so. PradoxIcal, but true.
All the railroad enterprises have gone
gllmmering on that account. What is
needed here pa. is a Richard Occur
de Lion, or a modern Perseus. who
viii forge self interests long enough
10 help the town, which Ike lovely
Andromeda IS chained to the rock Of
jealousy and knockerlsm, and is
threatened with destruction by the
terrible octopus, the Rock Island rail
road. More anon Little Joe.
4. j. Lowe representing the Mutual