The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-10-25
PILL, THOUGH BITTER,
MUST BE SWALLOWED
Washington Correspondent
Sweeps Away Opposition
10 J. Sharp Williams

snecial Correspondence TO The Leader
Washington, ID. e.. oct 25-An
this talk about Hon John sharp
Williams not being elected the floor
leader Of Tie minority ID The sixtieth
Congress is mere mooushine and poll
tical twaddle aud only shows the ig.
norauce of ihe writer of alleged poll
rical topics The enemies of My WI
rame. and NJ has some and ! wouid
not give the burnt end of p brom-
straw tor o man who has not started
n last winter before Die close of The
Ffiynmih Congress. to defeat him
and they ieli down badly They hrsf
tried TO get Champ Clark. than whom
there is no better man on Democrat
IN Congress. Go make the race against
Mr. williams and he would have had
4 Formidable following but be was
tie actixe fgicnd and lieutenant Oh
Mr. Maliams aad h refused to lend
his name 10 the scheme The oppo-
sitiOn then took up Judge DeArmord
also OF Missouri. who was q willing
Barlds, but they lost ont on him.
Judge DeAmond IS one of the ablesi
men in the Congress The trouble
with him Is that he is the poorest
mixer in Cougcess. He refuses 90
get acquainted with people. especial
ly Repablcaus just SO he can hate
them personally. He has "a buzz saw
voice and a rapid intellect and his
stinger ALWAYS Is out for trouble. He
s. = human wasp and whenever a Re
pubiican rims 10 70 his orbit there Is
going 70 bar whole Dassel of trouble
for the aforsald Republican. He Is
one OF lhe ahlest dehators and would
nuke one of me poorest leaders IN
Congress Knowing that fact as we'll
as ] do the members refused TO follow
his lead and one hundred ont OF one
hundred and siXty-aye Democrats i'm
the next House signed au obligation
10 vote for Williams for the caucus
nominee for Speaker which distinc-
ton carries with So the floor leader
ship Therefore Williams win he the
next Democratic leader and he VIII
be as brilliant as hitherto aud maybe
more So The Republicans fear him
more than amy man on the Demucra-
tic Side and that Is the greatest COM
pliment ihat can come TO him from a
Democratic standpoint
Teddy ihe baar hunter is back
from hunting M bear in his native
lair in h rua ahIls OFT Louisiana
Let us non b 80 VIII NOT
make hw lo $500 thing and
that is ne .oc.aul4un bringing "a
Democratic State into the Union, the
new S atc 0f Oklahoma. was satis-
fed he would not have the nerve or
the political idiocy TO refuse fo issue
thai proclamation lie knew ID wouM
make one OF the biggest issues ina
the nest campaign and h dared not
do Go, Cnr thar be is. Lis opinion
Of the new State constitution OF the
new State may be unfit for publica-
tion, but DE could NOT say that it was
h9t giving that neR state a Repuhli-
can form ol government and that o.
did not conform 10 The constitution
81 lhe United States. $50 he had 90
give in and do what was the only
thing he could DO under the circum-
stances. acquiesce iu the decision OF
the people of Oklahoma and let them
come in whou they win have The
right 10 govern themselves and no
lmgcr remain under Federal carpet
bag government lt was a bitter pin
for the Republican administration %
swallow it was a swat In thf jaw and