The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-08-23
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anu NVihlhhtiOh III b'htANo oi' iN'fN+'
sihle for the greatest injury Guthrie
has endured.
That is tho slogan OF the Democra'-
ic county platform.
Tile CAPITAL attempts to conceal this
attitude. however. by arguing that it
absolute secrecy OF the fac should
be maintained there would be no dam
aging results, and condemns Ths
Leader FOR the meagre publicity IT has
given these facts.
This qualification carries with t.
about as much honesty, honor and re
as tenabiliy Il is pc
culiarly fitting to the general incon-
gruous and culpable policy Of that
gangreuous and grating institution. Z,
sodain's reputation might today bear
the scent Of roses we're ii not for pub
licity. and yet Lott has some admir-
ers. immortality and indignlty would
never disgrace the classroom, the
bench. the pulpit. or revoiutionize So
ciuty were It not for publicity. and
yet his publici is the very su12e
of purity.
The Leader, and the self respecting.
non-office seeking, non-papsucking
people o. this community erred only
for the sake of Guthrie's reputation
abroad.
ice Folk and the Democratic party
of S Louis and Missouri did no hes
itate on account Of the injury that
might accrue TO st. Louis or Missouri
real estate or prestige when rotten.
ness and corruption were unearthed.
The result is that nowhere IS there 4
city so generally respected for the
purity Of it's administration, and no
where IL the Democratic party grand
er or more highly respected. And,
II tho indignity. indecency and dis
honesty of the Iooting gang who hsye
been buying themselves in.o Office in
Logan county through the medium OF
corruptible negro Republican conven-
tions land who have been declaring
to the world their political equality
with the negroes whose offices are
from the same suffrage and are ac-
uuired upon the same ticket had not
been regarded as disgrace mex
horable in general knowledge regen
Grafton would long since have taken
place. Instead Of concealing for
shame these ulcerous conditions We
would have been singing to the world
the purity. honesty and unimpeach-
ability of our local government.
From its sordid cesspool Of dosen-
crate ideas the state Capital tries to
broaden this blame in Sundays edi-
torials as follows;
Then he has advertised the alleged
number Of negroes in Republican con-
ventions until the people who do not
know vould imagine this to be mig
ger settlement"
And il he" had told the whole
truth there would be greater reason
for drawing this conclusion. Not on
account of the number OF negroes in
this county. but because a large per
cent Of the more self respecting peo-
pie OF the county are ceasing to take
interest in the Republican party.
They have not been consulted amt
their desires in Republican conven-
tions have so long been disregarded
by the negroes, office-seeKers and pap
suckers that they are gradually turn
ing the PARTY over to that element. n
Is due to his fac. that in the recent
Republican county convention the ne
groes we're in the majority.
The potent reason, however, which
forces the conclusion abroad that
Guthrie is a negro settlement" lies
in their elec ion 10 Office. White peo
pie do not elect negroes to Office as
rule There are places IN the south
where negroes hold office, but # is
solely by their own ballot That is
why the outside world draws the in.
( ference that dis rs a negro commun-
liy They cannot comprehend con-
iitlon or exigency that could give
rise to The election Of negroes to Of
fee 10 a white community
The self respecting Republican OF
the south cannot coun enance such a
thing No matter how grea a fscto-
the negro may be his avarice for pub
lie OFFICE OF printing gratis lead him
10 no such alliances.
No. Il isn't secrecy. or dishonesty
or sriltihca ion, or misrepresentation
that Gu hrie neede but the uprising
Of her more respectable elements ahe
the everlasting purging-without VII
cious negro hatred or inclvihty-oi
our community Of this 70. .tenness. ane