The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-09-12
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
EDUCATION'S FRIEND
Platform Pledges Main
tenance of Present SyS.
tenn Of Schools

Under the head Of Menace to the
Normal. the Alva Courier tries to
scare the people Of Alva with The
statement that no money viii be
available TO pay The expenses OF the
Normal school at that place for ten
long moaths " the constitution ahOuld
carry The land office organ says
further
IT may have 10 close down for all
we know and from the temper of
the Indian Territory Democrats we
are inclined to think il Win Not only
this. but iof the same period there
viii not be a dollar 10 pay for the
keeping OF the insane nor the con
vlcts in the penitentiary. Kansas now
has charge of these convicts ana
under the conditions this constitution
viii engender Kansas VII ia all prob
ability send our conyicts bnck TO as
and each county Will have 30 take
care OF those sent np from her courts.
This IS another thing We have just
discovered about this socalled consti-
tuition aihl is another reason why the
people should vote a. down.
The real menace TO the Alva Nor
NAL school and in fact TO everY other
instittion OF higher learning in Ok
iahoma is moi from the constitution
and the Democratic party under state
hood but IL lies In just such partisan.
lying misrepresentation as the article
from which the above extract rs TAX
en- and the fact shas the educational
institutions OF the Territory under Re
publican control have become hot
beds for partisan intrigue and pension
carpetbagism and undue favoriiism are
the political bosses of the Territory
Tho presidents of several of these
territorial institutions are Republican
politicians and legislative Dbbyisis
first and educators afterward and
carpethagsm and undue favOritism are
as much IN evdeaee here as in ans
other OF the misgoverned department.
Of our bureau of government
One of the crying demands Of the
Intelligent thinking classes OF olsla.
homa As constitution and state
government that viii have the power
andfthe purpose to purge these pub
JIG institutions of their political
abuses ana organize them along the
lines which they We're intended "a
follow These schools belong to the
state and not 10 the politicians wha
have been using thm 10 support theil
impecuniOus relatives.
On the day when the people ol
Oklahoma are emancipated from Ter
rltOrial carpetbag bondage the
higher institutions OF learning within
the state viii have their partisan
shacllles stricken off and be allowed
10 emerge from the condition ol
political Feryitude that has DELAYED
their Development and crippled theii
usefulness.
The Democratic party believes III
the public school system and has al
ways stood as the consistent defend
ers and champions OF non-sectariar
nOn-pOlitical conduct of this citade
and bnlwark OF onr liberties aud tn,
acknowledged recruiting ground fol
she lovers or freedom and self gov
eIament The Democratic platform
says this abont ogr schools and insti
ultions of learning
We recognize the education of ths
people as absolutely essential to tn.
Development of the state. and 10 IN,
continuance of the supremacy Of fb.
Democratic party We pledge tht
party 10 vigorously promote IA ever,
reasonable way onr public schoo
system. SO that this state shall stanf
in the 'front.' rank in the educationa
column
I'VE believe that the present stat'
schools should be maintained anl
that other necessary schools and stat,
institutions should De established
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