The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-06-28
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Administration Shoots hot shot into
Correspondents.

/ tGcv Ferguson ir., in Shawnee Herald)
Guthrie, Okla, June 24.-There has
been some fun at the capital city dur.
ing the past two weeks. The news.
paper correspondents have been rev.
cling in what they think is a political
sensation.
Your correspondent is accused OF
iavlng an office in the room occupied
by the governors private secretary
and that he gets on" to state and
political secrets that are denied other
correspondents.
The story about the Office in the
state house is a myth and emanated
from certain newspaper correspond.
ents who put In more time sitting
around with their feet on their desks
than they do in trying 20 secure the
news for the papers they represent.
Your correspondent for time, in line
with the other correspondents, visited
the various offices 10 secure official
AANWof anu CD mas ONEM AiC NuSiOIl Ol
these correspondents for years, would
secure an item Of news, sit down In
the office where 1t was obtained and
prepare it for publication Finally
vacant desk vas utilized in the office
Of the private secretary, a typewriter
borrowed and for several days your
spondent with other correspond
ents used desk and typewriter in pre-
pairing matter Tor the papers. Your
correspondent has not been the only
one who has had access to that desk
but the representatives of other pa
pers used the desk and typewriter un
iii the owner OF the machine needed
it IN his business, took Il away several
days before this great sensational
journalistic revolution broke out and
your correspondent, like some Of the
others, has had a portable Office NOV
ing about from place to place where /
ever he could lind a typewriter not
in use that could be used for the oc.
casion. This is also done by several
newspaper correspondents, especial
ly by the one who has raised such
racket over this affair typewriter
belonging to the Office of the terri |
total secretary, is monopolized SO
much by the Oklahoma correspond 1
ents that 1t can scarcely be used for
official work. That Office kindly suf.
fers this as matter of courtesy and
is often inconvenienced by the per
sistent use of that typewriter by the
correspondents who have been Great
ing Much Ada About Nothing"
IN fact al of this commotion about
your correspondents office in the Of
fetal apartments simply grows out of
jealousy on the part Of certain CORE
spondents who are too indolcnt TO get
the news until they read it in that
great paper, the Shawnee Herald.
Just why so much sensation should
result from the article recently pub
lished in the Herald is hard to un-
derstand. Three Kansas City dailies
have gone into Mysteries over L. even
carrying the controversy TO the edi-
torial page. The ol1lahoman's CORE
sopndent, as a result Of it. has Sc
we're attack Of cramps from which he
has not yet recovered.
The latest addition to this journal
istic revolution was Frederick the
Great, otherwise known as the ''Barde
Of the Sanitarium Odes," Whose des-
tiny seems linked with an evil star.
The fact that this Star correspondent
butted in after the sensation had
spent i.s force, had subsidized and was
forgotten shows that he
was lacking in the instincts OF a news
paper man, and II is no wonder that
ne howls. and cries Correspondent in
governors office" because some one T
has beaten him in a matter Of news.
This same Star correspondent was one .
week and half behind time with his j
sensation" but his old time venom
,eeps out OF every line I
The same venom caused him to S
make a personal attack on ex-Gover- @
Tor Barnes all during his administra-
ion and resulted IN the ex-governor Z
.iapping his face at Enid on the eve e
ling after Mcclure was nominated.
This Star correspondent the mighty q
had much TO say about the
eoent article in the Herald stirring
ip strife in the Republican party ana
minated that your correspondent re-
eiyed his inspiration from the Cover
Ior Of the territory, The facts are
hat the important features Of that
were derived by your
from the Star man him
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