The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-10
INFLUENCES BROUGHT
TO BEAR AT PRIMARIES
Exposure Made Of Peculiar
Tactics by FIynn's
LieutenantS


Special to Daily Leader.
Lawton, okla, July 1O.-way down
south the darlSies have a son Get on
the Dummy Line" It would now
seem that the Republicane OF Conan
che county got ION the dummy lile"
when they voted for Roberts in the
Enid convention. Ard more, 1t is now
known that Flynn and his man FIJI
day, Ferguson, sometimes governor
of Oklahoma, were turned to the wall
when Bird Mcclure was nominated
a. Enid.
The truth, like the proverbial good
man, is hard to keep down. It keeps
on coming up to the surface. And a
plain, unvarnished fact has JUS come
ont II is that Flynn was against Bird
Mcclure There can be peithsr cplb-
bling nor denial for the statement
came frcm the chairman Of rhe tern.
tcrial Republican executive coamit-
tee. J. d. Maguire, and is over MS
own signature II is in the shape Of
a letter written by him and sent out
To the Republicans OF Comanche
county June nth, just prior to the
Republican congressional convention
And in the letter. which is printed in
full, he urges the Republicans TO stand
fast for Flynn and says that the can
didatcy Of Mcclure is antagonistic to
Flynn and his friends.
And then as to the dummy line This
letter was sent TO Republicans in Co
manehe county-Robbert home
county and yet Roberts name is
not mentioned in the entire letter,
hut that Of Flynn is very prominent.
This language could only mean that
Roberts was to be a stalking horse
for Flynn. and over Roberts back
Flynn was to be put IN office
This letter shows something else.
Up to yesterday when tl.c last offic-
la statement was issued and publish
ed in the Capital, the mouthpiece OF
the Republican party in Oklahoma
hr. Flynn has persistently claimed
that he was for Bird Mcclure, and en-
tirely satisfied with his nomination.
Yet this letter. written by the terri
tory chairman. who picked a deiega-
tion for Comanche county by reason
Of a fake telegram, when he was not
even a resident Of the county. says
that McGuire's candidacy is "antagon-
istic to Mr. Flynn"
This letter was sent out broadcast
and is literary gem showing how
Mcclure, the machine chairman, re-
CARDS a few of his Republican breth-
renal residents OF Comanche coun-
ty-and that harmony Is not with him.
Read the Letter and be convinced.
Mr. J d. Mcclure, over his sigma
ture, says;
There will be a primary held in
your city on the 10th, st in the a.
ternoon TO select eight delegates from
your township 10 attend the county
convention at Lawton on the 18th,
who In turn viii select twenty-five
delegates 10 Enid, Oklahoma. on the
25th of June
u VIII expect to see you come with
delegation from your township
There is an effort made by a few dis
credited persons TO so manipulate the
township meetings so as TO preclude
fair show 10 the Republicans who
desire to participate.
There never was an organization
Of the party In the county SO far. nor
cannot be until the county conven-
zion IS called, but in the meantime
one Rhoades, was appointed chairman
Of the county. by the territorial chair.
man TO act. and ne, the said Rhoades.
has appointed township committee
men. who are, as ! am told. pledged
10 him 10 bring IN a delegation for one
Joseph McNeal a banker in Guthrie
and IN many Of the townships they ave
calling the primaries at p. m. insteal
of 2 70 4. as ordered by the territorial