The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-11
DIS RUNTLED ELE-
MENTS TO FIGHT
CONSTITUTION
SPECIAL INTERESTS BUSY
Threats One, Two and Three
and What They Mean

Clint WorraI said today. 81 want
readers Of The Leader to read the fol-
lowing extracts which are quoted YER
batim and our comments upon this
subject:
I Threat No. 1.
Legislation enacted by the terri
torial convention will have more than
anything else to do with future Inn
provements and changes contemplate
ed by the owners of the local street
railways. Improvements now under
way viii be made, but the outlook for
the future is uncertain Should the
present convention adopt measures
that would be a detrlment to our citi-
zens it would be doubtful If any future
Improvements would be mado. Gen
eral Manager J. w Shartell.
Mr.. Shartell represents corporations
and he has been I'm close consultation
with the Republican press bureau for
the last two weeks b4 Guthrie.
Threat No. 2.
1T was hardly to be expected that
the Guthrie convention would be able
to formulate a consultation for Okla
homa that would be acceptable to any
considerable number of citizens of
the new state of Oklahoma. Another
convention is already being agitated
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Threat No. 8.
THE situation at Guthrie is we'll
known in Washington and there is an
effort being made now to secure leg
islation and an additional appropria-
ton for another election for delegates
to a constitutional convention in the
event that the result OF the work now
being done is repudiated. -Clarece
b. Douglass, Muskogee, |. T.
Threat No. 4.
Corporations have caused dis
patch TO be sent out from Washington
that the president had said that he
wcgld not ratify the consultation if
the clause that prohibited railroads
and corporations in the state from
bringing nonresident armed forces in
the state under the guise of protecting
their property, was passed"
Warning No. 5.
We are creditably informed that a
high official of the territory has been
in Washington and attempted to pois-
on the mind OF the president against
the work of the convention, and has
made a determined effort to secure
from the president a promise that he
will not approve the work of the con-
ventior.
THE feeling of unrest that is felt
in the new state as to the approval of
the construction by the president has
some foundation, as win be seen from
the above quotations from Repub-
llcan newspapers and facts that have
come to our knowledge.
The first agitation was started
when the convention by an ordinance
placed it beyond the power of corpor-
atiOns 10 bring into the state armed
thugs and mprderers. who without
warrant of law and without respect to
hgnanity, could commit depredations.
The convention, In no uncertain
terms, expressed itself that the law
lesseSs perpetrated in Pennsylvania at
Hazeltcn. in the coal riots. and at
Homestead. when innocent working
men were shot down like dogs by
Pinkerton guards, should ever be re-
peated in Oklahoma The convention
has confidence that the great state of
Oklahoma can. and will, protect all
classes Of our citizens. The Demo
cratic party being the dominant one,
welcomes all capital that win aid in
the development of the new state. and
that is seeking honorable investment
here AZ the same time the party
positively goes on record that the
lives and property Of our private citi.
zens and working classes shall be