The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-19
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1904
PARKER ON REPUBLICAN WASTE.

ENANlIn at EfnNlAHf HAAhkk AAA' iNNitNRAt
cans IN one OF their most vulnerable
points-their signal mismanagement
II The federal depar ments. and the
riotous expenditure Of public money
and rank corruption incident there
unto.
Il was the declaration in the Refub
lican platform that the party has dis
played "a high capacity for rule ana
government which has been made
even more conspicuous by the inca
pacity and intil,aity OF purpose shown
BY its opponents" which formed the
text Of J.dge Parker's arraienment.
lie said.
Fortunately we have eight recent
years Of Democratic administration Of
the executive depar tent Of the GOV
ernment which we snail gladly "nm-
pare with any similar period since
1860.
The comparison VIII snow that un-
der Democratic control the admihistra-
tive purity Of the fathers who obseiv-
ed in tho conduct Ct the government
that no one of it's deparimen was
pcrmeated as Of late with corruption
riYaling the days of Inc Star Route
frauds: that successful efror was
made TO check the growth OF expendt
ures; that it resulted IN each instance
in cutting down the expenses within
the control ot the executive depart
ment OF the government below that or
the preceding admipis ratlons. Dusine
Mr. Lieveland's FIRST term the average
annual expenditure was about two
hundred aud sixty-nirc millions. Fer
the past hree years It .as be2n abou
1--WE hundred and nineteen millions.
The governmental expenditures las
year amounted up to five hundred AMI
eightytvo millions. which is not equal
ed by any year since the civil war,
with the exception OF the year OF the
Spanish war T.aIe is an inevitable
result to such extravaganza. Instead
OF surplus ia The annual receipts OF
ahont eighty milhons. which the pres
ent executive found on Assuming con
troll. there Is now a defci Of iorty-two
millions
Reform Is 'eccssary; ayel far more
necessary han in 1876 in the scale OF
public expenses. ard wtien convinced
OF this you will do less than your duty
II you faii to rake the people under
stand it. The challenge Of the Repul.
liean platform. permits you O comrare
the details. the everyday life, so %
speak OF the Democratic administra.
lion with both predecessive and sue
cessiye administrations end you will
not shrink from II
The sturdy honesty marked ability
and thorough devotion TO principle Of
all those in nieh places during those
Democratic Administrations may with
out hest alton he placed alongside OF
the qualifications uf similar officials
In any and all other administrations.
Who, l psay you, would hesitate to
compare the members OF the cabinet
OF those years wi h the present one
or with any one. Is The fame OF BAY
ard. Manning, Fairchud. Icndicott
whitney, Villas and Dickinson, Garland
members OF the 1854 caninet and o.
ney, Carlisle. lamont, smith Francis
Herbert. Bisse,i Wilson ana harmon
of that OF 1892 iwarfod VIXEN con
trasted with the cabinet officers Of to.
day?
In view of tAe recklesF manner In
which recent Republican CONGRESSES
have thrown the public money TO the
birds; ard the amounts expended for
tire personal qualification OF rresiden,
Roosevelt he Republican oampaisp
managers viii md this Impossible a.
answer. Tie memory Of corruption IN
the nostoffice and interior department
IS slll toe fresh In the minds OF the
people Tor he Republicans 10 dare %
dwell nprn this important Issue; ara
yet ihoy are under the Recessily, of at
tempiiaS "a exglam e. nevertheless
Tho people are irod Of such extrava
gance ami mis'Wle and for lhe las
Two years nave been CRYING ont for a
reform 10 administrative eXPenses.
IA Judge parkers plea Ser absolute
harmony within he ranks of he par >
he touched urop ane essential differ
ence be Neen tie tWo great political
organizaticns "The Democratic Par
~" he said rs aot a machinei X is :
body Of "itisens who believe in funde
mental priEciEles.' u NE party Ter'