The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-01
DELEGATES
SELECTED
Sub Committee Has Picked
Men to Aid Mcclure.
TALK OF A CROWD
Three Hundred Citizens May
Move on Washington.

Guthrie, 0. T., Nov. S0.-At the recent
conference of prominent republicans, held
IN this city for the purpose of selectin!
a committee to so to Washington to as
sist Delegate Mcclure in his statehood
fight. a subcommittee consisting OF
Chairman Cash -Cade, of Shawnee, Secre
tary Vernon Whiting, OF Enid Secretary
William Grimes, of this city, and Gel
Harrison Z. Havens, OF Enid, was NAMED
TO correspond with the county chairmeI
of the party, and from among the name:
suggested in the replies, to select the
Washington COMMITTEES.
From a perfectly reliable although IN
official source, it was learned today that
the subcommittee hal selected the fol
lowing delegation:
Ex-Governor c. NJ. Barnes, Joseph w
McNeal, Frank H. Greer Governor T. B.
Ferguson and United States Attorney
Horace Speed, of this city, Ex-Governor
~ j. Seay, Of Kingfsher, Col Ii. Z.
IIaveus and Judge Milton CARRIER, OF
Enid. Dick T. Morgan and Mayor G p.
Lincoln, of FL Reno, and Territorial
Chairman Cash Cade, of Shawnee.
There is also some talk of getting up
an immense committee, three hundred
OF more and moving on the national capi-
tai at a latter date. If this latter scheme
is carried out, there will be a statehood
convention called, and the big delega-
ton viii be selected there.
Regarding the selection Of commit
tee TO go to Washington 10 get separate
statehood, Governor Tom Ferguson says
editoriaIly in his paper that a cimmittee
with q stand-in is not needed, but rather
one that knows how to butt in. He says:
IF the committee recently appointed to
select delegatipn TO go 10 Washington
TO work for statehood desires effective
work, care should be taken to select men
who will go there and put in the time
with an energy that knows no such thing
as repulse Much hot atmosphere has
been used by the wise. ones about this
man and that man, who has pull who
stands in at Washington who is ac-
quaInted and can do something, who is
a friend of Senator So-and So etc, etc.
Well. IT'S all bombast. The stand-ins'
at Washington are Ike some of the
great speeches which appear III the re-
cords but were never delivered. The
writer once went TO Washington 70 be
hold some of these men with stand
in doing business upon their native
health The 'stand-in' never works at
the o;ty on the Potomac.
The gentleman with the 'stand-in,'
the personal friends of Senator So-and
So had to wait for days for an audience
with their dear. personal friends, the
influential Senator's So-and So. and
when the day came it was a hurried Of
fetal audience as cold as the icicles at
the north pole. The writer. who had
never had a 'stand-in at Washington,
was amazed at the manner in which the
influential senators so-and 50 played
horse with the Oklahoma 'stand-in' The
Oklahoma 'stand-in' was net in it. In
fact, the Oklahoma 'stand~in' loses its
identity in crossing the Mississippi. 1t
IS very good thins 20 use TO play
20 the galleries at home but it is 4
stranger by the time It ge;s to Wash
fngton.
Those influential senators are almost
rure to take it down the srid-iron like
thep assing of a college senior with n
pig-skin. The, only kind of a stand-in
that counts at Washington is energy, and
perseverance. Instead of sending men
with a stand-in, send men there who
can w6fk-men who can analyze these
conditions and act accordingly. Instead
OF sending Washington 'stand-ins.' send
Oklahoma 'butt-ins "