The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-10-29
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fion ciOIey Otaia. l)klahOma City,
okla.
Valued Fri ad am continuing
70 nope you win snd me the remedy
iyr sleep'essAess for which | wrote
you recently.
Your neF position on he statehood
question and Incidentally my anxiety
about you is made the subject Of dis
cussion among my friends and ac-
quaintances Some Of them say that
I over-a- innate your integrity and
patriotism Tha, You a.e built upon
he principle Of slot machine and
tina. re ults can only be secured from
you by depositing money in the slot.
This, I insist can not be true. I say
TO them tha if they had met you in
Washington working for OklsIoma
as many years ago as / have; years
ago when mere was no money for
opening Oklahoma, but plenty f
money to prevent its being opened;
years ago when ! was a candidate
for congress and met men involved ia
grazing interests in Oklahoma on the
borders of my Kansas district; men
who were voters in my district; men
who admitted their Democracy to M,
and admitted to me that their graz
ing interests could be best subseryed
by their voting the Republican ticket
to counteract what you were doing lu
Washington, that it would be impos-
sible to believe /. true. l can not
and will not believe it true. Let me
remind you mat you did not succeed
until Democrat became president
supported BY a Democratbc house
ana the Republican majority in the
senate was so meagre that you were
able to overcome it, and Oklahoma
was opened 10 settlement
Under the title of the "Harpoon
Rammed In, / fad what appears to
be an attempt on your part to say
something abou. she beginning and
the end Of my open letter regarding
your Kingfsher speech. in a Guthrie
Republican paper
Now ii seems to me that the begin
ming and ending Of my letter is Of
very little interes, 20 the public, and
if this ie all it had contained, my
letter and your "Harpoou" ought TO
have been consigned to The waste
basket before they saw the light OF
day in the public prints.
Now the fellow who uses the har-
poon is not usually to be feared as
an opponent, but the sneak who has
stileto up his sleeve is most dan-
gerous when he smiles. "As an ex-
pert in political polemics," I surren-
der the palm 10 you. without a strug-
gle. have not been in congress. l
have been only with my class, tho
plain people, where plain talk is the
rule and not the exception.
You say. Il must confess ] do
not fully understand the manner in
which you regard the statehood is
sue" / could not expect you TO un-
ders,and il II you did not read the
center and life Of my letter
Your harpoon missed the whale and
monkeyed among the harmless min
nows.
Thas you may os enlighteaVd ]
will say I am for single statehood al
the earlies. possible moment, but any
kind OF statehood IL this can not be
secured. This is what favored a.
the Shawnee statehood convention in
1894 or 1895. where / met you and
you agreed with me.
Our county statehood conven ion
which ! thea in part represented had
Instructed us 10 so represent them
No one sdpocated ANYTHING else.
The Hoa. Geo. W. Viokers made
single statehood speech before the
county copvention ana upon The
strength Of MS speech ] gave fiek
ers one OF pocket full OF proxi
entrusted 10 me When WE got e
shawnee. "tha shunliEg par'y man
ayers Repuhiicansl pui hook g
lthe noseo OF the Hon G. W v "aad
yanked him about 70 suit their se'hsf
purposes" Yickers voted for double
lgatehood