The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-25
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Enid Eagle: However, the criticism
Of Guthrie offered by this paper was
not on account of the calling of the
early convention in particular, bu
principally because the Guthrie poll
2 tieians are beating the bush in the
/ interest of the entire tightwad pro
! gram, using the city OF Guthrie as. a
! club snd doing all in their power tc
I assist in the movement to close the
J gates against all aspirants to the Re
publican congressional nomination ex
: cept MCGUIRE Fairness was all Tn
. Eagle asked, and snap conventions arc
never fair. The machine would no
| consider holding the convention any
where else than in Guthrie and solely
. because Mcguire strikers are more
numerous there than anywhere else
! Pos IDLY Mcclure is the choice of tn
Republicans of the First district bu
his nomination by snap convention
! If be is nominated, will not prove II.
! Time should have been allowed 70
!, the people to size things up, and Sc
who they really do want Is McGuir
! afraid to give the people time do this?
|, And now, after the snap convention
called. the Guthrie tightwadders an
. the Guthrie Capital are tearing thei
shirts for Mcguire, declaring that
will be nominated by acclsmation, an
carrying the backing of their city int
what can not he fairly called more
than factional Republican movement
The Capital poses a. a great Republi
can paper, and The Eagle has heipe
1t maintain that attitude. The elito
of The Eagle IS a strong persona
friend of the editor OF the State Capt.
tai, and has repeatedly spent his tim
and money in assisting Frank Gree
and his paper. SO have other Eni
men. Enid has been friendly to tn
Capital and to Guthrie. Yet here -
Guthrie, at a time when Enid has 2
candidate, who represents move
ment for cleaner politics, allowin
herself to be dragged by a bunch
her politicians into an attitude unfai
to Enid unfair to the Republican PA
! ty. ana In opposition to that policy OF
fairness - greatly priced by a free
people. Here is the Capital, prost-
tuting its sphere by assisting a fac-
tional machine movement. Enid hS 5
no strings on Guthrie. The temporary
capital is her own oyerseer. But
among people as intelligent as those
who inhabit Oklahoma, public sent'-
ment IL often slow to form, and ono
formed, takes long time to change
Guthrie may not realize this now, bu
the chances are that she will later on
Possibly she prefers to let her htue
school of amateurish slip-easy politi
clans have their way to fencin
against 1918 This is not a threat, bu
il is straight to the point, and neithe
side-stepping nor offended dignity vii
cut any ice II will be just as well to
get down to brass tacks now as later
and Enid is waiting for Guthrie I
show her hand aud indicate what he
policy is TO be when the interests Of
/ this section are at stake. This is n
time for compliments or honeyet
words Guthrie has many friends n
Enid, but they are not adopts at turn
I ing the other cheek The people Of
Enid do not ask Guthrie TO turn down
a friend, or to give them the best of
It. All they ask is that Guthrie show a
spirit OF fairness, and not lend herself
TO such disrepuable schemes as are
engineered by tac tishi wad machine.
rhe writer personally knows that the
more upright people in Guthrie who
take part in politics are opposed to
such practices. and that strong anti
machine sentiment exists there. Why
mot lay down the club which othrrs
are holding over these men-the Iay-
McGmre-forthe-l91 racket
and let them stand out for what thsy
know to be better and cleaner poll
ticss The Capital knows that the
sentiment against Tho methods of the
tghtwad machine is strong in all part
Of the district. and thGt the machin
viii 60 down and out II the people OF
each particular section realize that th
prevailing local sentiment is also
general Therefore the Capital is
working overtime 20 convince the peo
pie that there Is practically no oppo
sition to Mcclure This Is done tc
keep any opposition movement from
coming to head. The only safety
Cor the machine Is 70 make enough
noise between now ana August 2Stl
10 prevent the dormant majority from
organizing. Political machines ar
but temporary az best and the tight
wad machine. being rottener than AL
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