The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-08-27
IMMEDIATE STATE.
HOOD FICTION.
sFrltless Attempts OF Mcclure to Pull
Wool.

A great many Republican papers
are glibly reciting the silly fiction
that Bird Mcclure and Republican
machine want immediate statehood,
and thar McGnire's election means
immediate statehood. says the shaw
nee Herald Let us see. If there is
any dependence to be placed in Re.
pnblicAn promises, Dennis Flynn will
get the omnibus bill through al the
short session and there will be moth
ing left for Mcclure If he is elected.
except TO take the oath of office on
March 9TH, 1908. apply TO the ser
geant at arms for an advance on his
salary. and come home and take part
in the first state election But does
any sane man believe that the Repub-
iicans have any idea of carrying out
their pledges in this statehood mat
serY Does anyone believe that Judge
Burford. Governor Ferguson, Secre-
tary Grimes, Attorney General Rob
bests. United States Attorney Speed
and the six other newly commission
ed and re commissioned judges with
the army Of smaller federal appoin-
,itees. are 80 anxious to give up their
fat jobs and throw themselves on the
mercy of the voters? II you do be
Iieye Il your credulity is 50 great that
you ought to be locked up for safe
keeping. Aud yet McGulres man
ayers and the Republican papers ask
you not only to believe that these
men are anxious to throw away posi-
tions with salaries ranging from five
TO twenty thousand dollars year,
with no possible hope that they could
even be elected to the Office Of justice
OF the peace or coroner in the future
in order that Oklahomans may have
the privilege OF voting for heir sue
cessors. Was there ever such idiotic
swaddle Offered to rational men as an
argument in support Of candidate?
On the other hand the Democrats
smarting under the inequalities, par
tisan prejudice and corruption OF a
carpetbag and machine made admin
isration; brought face to face with
the reckless extravaganza OF politt
cal plunderers who in FIVE years have
doubled the gate Of territorial taxes
and trebled the bonded Indebtedness
of the territory on valuation three
times as great as it was in 1897 the
Democrats, Notwithstanding these on
erons burdens and alarming pros
pects. have stil the patient loyalty
and clear PERCEPTION Of the future
that impels them 10 take their stand
Tor statehood which win when ac-
eompllshed better the condition OF the
people and tax payers Of Oklahoma,
and not hand them Over bodily TO the
corporations, the spoismen and the
taNeaters.
Before We throw of The wise limi'
tations provided by congress that
holds down the amount OF bonded IN
debtedness that may be created, we
want the taxable wealth OF the new
sta.e doubled by the union Of the TWO
territories. We want the expense OF
4 .,,.a,,,nnnt and maintenance
Of the public institution to be divided
with our rich and populous sister Ter
riiory. and while We struggle TO mat
end We want our fellow citizens IN
that territory TO have an equal Voice
In the formation OF a state cons'itu
lion aud their fair share Of the public
insutotions. We believe that the ON
nibus bin is as dead as the ohieS
holdlpg gang in Oklahoma want i %