The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-11-07
WHERE FORREST BELONGS.
Next Year He viii Report Elsewhere.
An office ne Must Have

wsatherford. Okla. Nov. 7-Col r.
Forrest. OF go Reno has hnall,
shown the nen5crats Of oklahoma
that he is traitor BY taking the
stump in opposition Go us candidates
lie has the eR5sntery 10 go bcfora
his old frieuns aud supporter and
make a spsech to them against the
principles and party thai he has al
ways profcssed 10 them to love and
serve. In his speech az watonga he
presumed 10 make the charge against
frank Mathews "tllat Ia 1896 Matthews
was openly. unreserveily opposing the
election of Callahan and was doing It.
for the sole reason that Callahan wae
or had been a f'opulst Mathews dill
not reserve his derupciations OF the
Democratic party for nominating a
Populist That he bolted the Dem
ooratic nominatinn on that occasion
and voted FOR Fvnn. the Repubtcs
nominee
Col Forrest a the time he mad
this statement knew that II was
false for Mathews in the campaign os
1876 spoke on the same platform with
Caashar ir Greer county ana advo-
Gated his election in Greer county
notwithstanding ;he fact that the only
opposition 20 the Democratic county
ticket a. that time of Greer county
was Popuist county ticket Fur
thcr Col Forrest from a personal
conversation had with Mathews him
self at }he convention in Oklahoma
City. when Robert A. Neff was nom
mated Cor congress, knew that Ma.
tnews personally and the Greer coun
~ delegation in that convention sup
ported AIr Nef for the nominaticn
and voted tor his election Col FOR
rest went personally to H.r Mathew,
and endeavored tc have the Gre
county deleeation and Hon Frank Ma
thews to support Democrat as
against a TOpu!ist. and put it upon
that grounf saylnI to Mathews al
that time, "the Greer county dele
gates @ill not support a Popmst for
this ncmiuation in preference TO d
: Democrat viii they?" and Mathews
replied to HIM az that time that Greer
coumv was going to cast its vote for
the aonlitaiion Of Robert a. Nefg. a
Ponlist notwithstanding there were
J ( Demot rats heforc the convention. be
cause it was a Pupuists turn tc have
tho nomination.
Ccl Forrest himself has always
been opposed to the Popullsts and
Demccrats afTillating with them. For
rest ,lways fought fusion and all tho
Populists and Democrats Of the terri
! Tory who were in the Oklahoma CITY
convention when Bob Men was nom.
mated will remember that Col For.
rest Withdrew his name in oousidera
tlon because he was opposed to a fu
sirn with the Pop'dists in that con
3 veutIop With this fact so well known
/, inrouehout the territory it iii become
I Col F0rrcsr Nho has so often asked
fa-ors and received tum AT the
hands Of no Democrats to come cur
at this umc as a rank traitor to the
party AMI its principles It has been
/, well said that every ulan has his price.
but little Gid the neno"rats of the
southwest who have fought under the
banner Of Col Forrest when he was
asking fayors in pemocrauc con
vention ever believe that his price wa
SO chea9.
Possibly the fact thai Col. Forrest
, has always failed in his ambition in
, this line causes his present soreness
and perhaps has something to do with
{, MS prcseat deplorable position IN op
, position To ihat party. but we venture
the assertion that yhe '~"~ 1rer " the
, Republican camraian committee could
+, give stronger reasons We're he to tell
what he knows about Chls conyer-
sion
} Il is sad spectacle 20 contemplate
J "a man who has stood so high in the
rarks OF his party and had their re
speot aud confidence brought to Col.
! Robert 4. Forrest present pitiable
b condition politician without par
/, ~; a statesman without principles
a LAWYER Wi,hunt cases Even the re
d publican papers fail to compliment
) him and speak OF him in language
which would be the grossest Insult
70 q man VINO retains any Of the finer
j. feelings
IL is M cid Republican trick "a
, have some weak. vaeillating proselyte