The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-30
LOCATION OF ;
THE CAPITAL
That issue Will Figure in Elec-
ton to Congress
WORKS AGAINST JONES
Guthrie Must Be Satisfied
with What She Has.

Guthrie, O. T. April 29.-It is every day
becoming more evident that the capital
| location is going to figure in the election
of delegate to congress. This feeling is
more pronounced in GutArie and the coun-
try adjacent to the city and it will prove
detrimental to the candidacy of Edgar
! Jones.
/ Many of the best workers in both po-
IiticaI parties in this city are already
| saying that Guthrie must not try to hog
the congressman, but must make friends
by supporting men for that position in
some other part of the territory. It will
surprise a good many people TO learn
that there is probability that Guthrie
and Oklahoma City will get together on
this capital location business.
1t is every day becoming more certain
that Oklahoma City will not figure as d
candidate in the capital contest. The big
Oklahoma town aspires to be the COM
mercial center of the new state. and
many of her business men are already
saying that the removal of the capital
vii hurt Guthrie and it would not help
the men who aspire to make Oklahoma
City the commercial center of the new
state have broader views recently and
they concede that great commercial
center must of necessity have large cities
around it, and that the prosperity of the
commercial center does not depend for
success on making Guthrie, Shawnee.
Chandler, Norman, Kingfisher and FL
Reno mere villages.
There is well-defined opposition among
the farmers and the people of the smaller
towns of the territory against making Ok
lahoma City the capital of the new state,
and this opposition extends into Okla
hOma county. 1t is not necessary now to
name the reasons for this opposition but
they are the same that would cause the
people of Kansas to oppose the location
of their state capital at Kansas City,
Kan, or that would cause the people
of Missouri to oppose st. Louis as a capt
of Illinois to oppose Chicago.
The Logan county Democratic conven-
ton today named delegates to the terri
torial convention for Edgar Jones, but at
the same time the feeling here is pretty
nearly unanimous tfl3t the Democratic
nominee will not be taken from either
Guthrie or Oklahoma City. There is no
politics in business in Oklahoma, but
there is a very large amount of business
in politics, and the business end of the
Democratic convention is very liable to
run up against the political ambitions Of
Edgar Jones. of Guthrie, and William
Cross of Oklahoma CITY.
1t is believed that the Democratic plat
form this year will be the same as the
Republicans have adopted on the state
hood question, and if Bob Neff can be in
duced to keep quiet in the convention
there will not be any radical resolutions
on the school land suestion Many of
the leading Democrats see the wisdom of
the Republican convention in passing this |
matter up to the state legislature, and if
the Democrats are wis enough to do the |
same thing the campaign will be fought /
on strict party lines.
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