Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-02

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The anxiety among Democrats ano
the confidence among Republicans
have good reason behind them. The
political complexion Of Oklahoma will
not, as so many appear to believe
long remain matter of accident OF
conjecture. Oklahoma will go Re-
puliean because it ought to go repub-
liean. The Democrats cannot help
themselves, for the leopard cannot
change his spots The next six
months will witness the most active,
the most interesting, the most wide
'open-eyed political state campaign
the country has ever seen The re-
suit will not be accidental. The
choice Of party allegiance will not
be casual or haphazard. There is a
reason for the hope within us and
that reason will be found knocking
away without let-up at the door of
every voter in the new state until
that door is opened wide.
The people are demanding to know
the why and wherefore of their bal
lot. Especially is this true in Okla
homa where for the first time we are
called upon to make definite political
alignment. The Republican party in
Oklahoma proposes to see that the
people are accommodated in that
demand. Have no fear of the out
come at the coming election. The
workingmen in the field and at the
forge will be found voting intelli-
gently as their best interests die
tate. Their conscience and their rea-
son will together point straight
to the Republican party. The miner
finds himself at odds with the mine
owners, appeals to Republican pres
ident for the refuge of square deal,
and his appeal is not in vain. The
farmer, at the mercy of unjust trans
portation rates on his products, turns
with hope in the heart to Repub-
lican Congress, finds his trust well
placed and is repaid with the pas
sage of the rate bill. The small mer-
chant and daily consumer, making
up the millions of the common people,
the rank and file of the republic, the
strength of the nation, protest
against the methods of the Beef
Trust and a Republican attorney gem
eral begins direct action at law
against them to assure the people
the right of protection in free fair
competition and an open market.
The oil operator, dependent to-day
in almost absolute degree upon
Standard Oil for whatever price the
Standard Oil may wish to pay for
his product, beholds Republican
administration bending every nerve
to the task of dragging from behind
secret doors into the light of day the
hidden plotsmen whose chief aim and
assignment of daily duty are to
stihe fair competition by brute mo-
nopoly in restraint Of trade. Thus
every Republican has the very best
reason for the hope that is in him.
The Democrats, whenever and
wherever they can be found and
made to admit their political faith
will as reason for their faith mur-
mur pitifully the names of dead
statesmen and patriots and recite
the deeds of remote past. Why,
tell, me, does the Democratic party
feign the right to be in this day and
especially in this statel Seriously
we want them to answer. The peo-
pie of Oklahoma will not be put
aside with vain boast or heraldry
of past performances. No galvaniz-
ing force will receive the people of
the new state into reasonless align
ment with hopeless, issueless, all
but leaderless cause, no matter bow
powerful the galvanic battery. II
cannot he done. Ask the Democratic
party wherefore even faint hope
fingers in their mind that the new
state may go with them astray and
they will reply, feebly, Arkansas
and Texas!' Is this not truel And
all the while the progressive body
of Arkansas and Texas citizens now
in Oklahoma are saying: "True we
were once Democrats. Democrats in
a day when the Democratic party
stood for something distinct and
worth while. To-day they say,
"we are ready to follow Roosevelt
and his kind of Republicanism any
where even to the end of the earth"
And they will do it, mark my word.
Arkansas and Texas Many of them
will be found marching to the polls
and registering their faith in Roose-
welt and Republican principles.
No fantastic arrangement of fig
ures, no fcticious invention of statis-
ties, no r,mpous heraldry of state
can possibly avert the growing real
ity of Republican predominance in
Oklahoma.
The Republican party is the party
for us as young men. The advanc-
ing youth of Oklahoma, blessed with
enterprise and will, darinr anything
in devotion to a cause. reyelling in