The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-22
BILL CROSS Al WOOD
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promise you that should be
elected to represent you, that I will
do all in my power to block such cor
r otion, to expose It, and to have re-
n oved from Office any and all officials
Sho aid, abet aud participate in such
actions.
The careful looking after of these
things viii do much to save our repu-
tation and the taxpayers from the ex-
travagance that follows in the wake
of republican carpetbag administra-
tions. Much can be done by Dem
ocrat along this line, and there will
be no backing down by me from this
position, and no lukewarm, but vigor-
Gus efforts, to supplant CORR ption
with honesty an dextfavagance with
economy. You are well aware that
our territorial taxes have almost
doubled in recent years. In these
things I will have the support Of all
good men and honest legislators,
whose attention, however must be
called to these matters. appreciate
that to achieve this result, publicity is
necessary.
The Republicans are making q
great clamor about free homes for the
people of the new country. They DO
not tell these people, however, that
our present delegate refdsed to place
fire hons clause for the people Of
the Kiowa and Comanche country in
free homes clause for the people of
it belonged there If they were then
unfriendly to the people who were to
inhabit that country, It may be that
they are unfriendly to them now, and
that they use this as a clcak to hide
their past actions. Parties, like men,
who desire to be trusted, should not
blow hot and cold. If misTepresenta-
tion was then necessary in order to
keep the new country out OF the free
homes bill, delegate of the same po-
litical stripe will have hard work TO
reconcile his position with that of the
last Republican delegate
He will find II hard work, standing
on platform that endorses Mr. Flynn
to persuade congress that he is right
and that Mr.. Flynn was wrong. They
win say to him, you are a Republi-
can and in line with Mr.. Flynn's ideas
You endorse his record He did not
want free homes for the people of the
new country down there Congress
was then in the mood to grant such
fayors. and yet the Kiowa and Co
manche codntry was left out" will
be hampered with no such conditions
, If the congress viii grant free homes
TO the new country. it will more read
iy grant them to those who have
Favored free homes than those who
have opposed them. promise you
that If elected, will put forth my
earnest efforts to obtain this needed
Legislation so justly deserved by the
stalwart citizens of the three new
counties.
The Democratic platform opposes
mixed schools. wish to go on record
as opposing mixed schools in Oklaho-
ma. for conditions here win not per-
mir of them, and their existence can
lead to nothing but aggravation
and trouble. The Democracy is far
seeing Il perceives in the negro
question one of the gravest questions
thai the wisdom of statesmen has ev-
er had to solve. The Democratic
platform absolutely opposes mixed
schools. What says the Republican
platform on the question adopted, as
that platform was. after ours was
adopted? The Republican platform is
silent upon the subject, and its silence
is such as to condemn the leaders who
framed It and who dared not come out
in the open upon this question. There
are many Republicans in Oklahoma
who favor mixed schools. With them
in power you are liable to have a mix
ed school system. Overthrow then.
and you remove this danger
Your present Republican governor
dislikes separate school law His
Republican in Blaine county, Of which
be is the editor and owner said that
The separate school law is a disgrace
and viii not stand the test Of the
courts" Every step taken to avert
mixed schools, and 10 avoid the dang
ers Of the nerrn nneslinn- has haen