The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-08-07
Republican Politicians
Are SOreIy Distresse

the hope of individual political careers
the Republican party in Oklahoma is
distressed in formulating plans for a
statehood campaign in congress next
winter.
The statehood plank in the last Re
publican congressional platform is the
cause Of much Of the present trouble.
Certain party leaders would like to
rescind that section Of the platform.
but dare not do It. The separate. or
double, statehood Republicans are IN
willing, however. to restrain their zeal
in giving publicity to the protests
against single statehood
The Statehood Plank.
The statehood plank in the last Re
publican platform reads. I'VE in
dorse the Flynn statehood bill which
has passed the house and now pends
in the senate. and we urge upon con-
gress the necessity Of the passage Of
this bill at the earliest possible date /"
The Republican separate statehood
agitators declare that this plank did
not commit the party to single state.
hood.
The Flynn bill reads: provided.
that the constitutional convention pro-
vided for herein shall, by ordinance
irrevocsble, express the consent Of the
state OF Oklahoma that congress may
at any time, or from time to time, at.
tach all or any part Of the Indian ter
ritory to the state of Oklahoma after
the title to said lands is extlnguished
in the tribes now claiming the same.
and the same assigned in severalty
and subject to taxation" This plan
was ia accordance with the views of
the national Republican party, and
remains so at this day.
The separate statehood advocates
among Oklahoma Republicans are
committed personally to an opposite
course. BY uncompromising persis-
tency they succeeded in dominating
the territorial committee at its meet
ing held here a few weeks ago and
forced several members against their
Wills to indorse a long list of fesolu.
tions offered and read by J. B. FerP
son of Enid, and prepared. presumably
by H. e. Havens. The committee even
authorized the calling Of a Republl-
can statehood convention Then a
committee was appointed to address
the Republicans of Oklahoma on the
subject of statehood This commit
tee, composed of c. NJ. Cade, chair.
man OF the territorial committee. H.
E. Havens, c. NJ. Barnes. A. ]. Seay
and c. p. Lincoln, has made its re-
port. and many persons will be in
terested in comparing it with the plat.
form doctrine to which the party is
pledged. Generally the report Is de-
voted to discrediting single statehood
and to eulogizing separate statehood
as the only plan of political ISOLATION
for the Republicans and, incidentally,
the people Of Oklahoma
Here are a number of extracts from
the report:
"The policy Of single statehood ad-
vocates therefore. is to obstruct and
hinder measures to immediate state
hood for Oklahoma and defeat her ad-
mission. until conditions are such that
congress can consolidate the two ter
ritories into single state
THE motive that prompts the lead
ers of the Democratic party in Okla
homa. IN their policy of obstruction
and delay is the hope Of securing po-
lltical supremacy by final union with
the Indian territory Well knowing
that conditions are such as TO make
the passage Of a single statehood bill
al this time practically impossible and
hopeless they endeayor to, entiee Re
publicans into alliance with them. and
to hold their own reluctant and impa-
tient followers in submission, by per
sistsnt representations that immediate
single statehood can be secured.
THE Indian territory has no grant
OF lands for any purpose. and cannot
have. Her lands all belong to the In
dians. and congress cannot appropri-
ate them for public uses She has no
public lands or funds OF any Kind
and her lands, all owned by the In,
dians, are not even taxable. Single
statehood means that the lands grant
ed to Oklahoma for the purposes
named. must be divided up aud shared
equally with the Indian territory, thus
increasing the taxation Of Oklahoma
people, especially for school purposes
very materially. Half of our school