Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-30
READY TO GO FAR
REPUBLICANS DESPERATE IN EF.
FORT TO KEEP CONTROL,
Seek to Prevent the Admission Of
Oklahoma Into the Union Ee-
cause II Would Be Demo
cratic State.

Conspiracies are becoming epidemic,
and c~onspirators seem determined to
ruin the Republican party. 1t is only
a few days ago the country was start
led by the statement from the White
House that a conspiracy, capitalized
for $5,0 00, 900. was on foot to urge the
candidacy of Fairbanks or Foraker or
some other eminent republican as the
candidate for president. This was re-
garded by President Roosevelt as a
plot against my policy" though hith-
erto it has been considered no crime
for any combination of men to urge
candidates they desire to be NOM
mated.
Now another conspiracy has been
launched to prevent Oklahoma from
being admitted into the Union, on the
ground that the referendum and the
powers of the railroad commission fol
which the new constitution provides.
are not Republican in principle, but
are presumably too Democratic to
suit the Republican bosses. The real
opposition to admitting Oklahoma by
the Republican managers is the fact
that the people of the state will elect
Democrats as state officers and per-
haps a solid Democratic delegation to
the coming congress at the election
on August 6 next. And worse still
for Republican prospects, the voters
of Oklahoma will undoubtedly elect
seven electors at the next national
election who will vote for the Demo
cratic nominees for president and vice
president. AS those seven electoral
votes may have the deciding voice as
to who shall be the next president, it
is no wonder the Republican manag-
ers are Matching up a conspiracy to
defeat the admission of this Demo-
cratic state, and that their railroad and
trust allies are ready and willing to
help them. Representative James E.
Watson of Indiana who is the Repub-
lican whip" of the house of repre-
sentatives, the active agent of the
co~nspirators, thinks the Oklahoma con
stitution is un-Republican and says the
chief objection is to the initiative and
referendum system whereby the peo-
pie of Oklahoma are given the power
to do "all sorts of mischief" That
conclusion must be reached IN the
Hamiltonian theory, that the people
are unable to govern themselves.
Then, again, these Democrats of
Oklahoma have had the audacity to
provide in the proposed constitution
for the real control of the railroads
and trusts, which, of course, is viewed
with alarm by the Republican leaders,
and their opinion u.s." says Mr.. Wat
son, that it is not a constitution, but
rather a. conglomeration of statutes
based upon populistic IDEAS" all of
which shows the way the wind really
blows in the Republican camp on the
issue of controlling the railroads and
curbing the trusts, and how little can
be expected in that direction of the
coming congress, controlled as it is
by these Republican leaders. Presi-
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these Republican leaders to join in
the conspiracy to keep Oklahoma out
of the union by declaring, under some
technicality, that the new constitution
does not provide for a Republican
form of government. AS the conspira-
tors are the "reactionaries" of the
Republican party, who r also con-
spring to defeat the nomination Of
the candidate for president whom
President Roosevelt selects, it is hard
ly possible that he will pull the CON
spirators' chestnuts out of the fire by
joining to defeat the wishes and as
pirations of the pee } of Oklahoma.
When the Democrats swept Oklaho-
ma last year, it was a surprise to the
Repr blicans. Then the conspirators
met and agreed that any and all means
must be used to keep Oklahoma out
of the union. Speaker Cannon and
Vice President Fairbanks are conspir-
ing to accomplish this, just as they
really are conspirators against Presi-
dent Roosevelt, whether to defeat him
for a third term, If it should come to
that, or to nominate Taft or anyone
else that would perpetuate his poll
cies. Therefore conspirators and con.
%spiracies are plaguing the Republican
party and may be its undoing.