The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-06-11


but rather than being power for
peace. 10 IS provocative to war The
hoy who can fight the best .Fsualiy
does more fighting than amy lad IN
The neighhorhood The laborer who
has good tools likes to use them The
nations that are prepared TO hshl aud
incidentally have good tools, VIII al
50 be sure to use them The nations
are sure 10 fight. sooner or later, IN
til thoy cease facing each otner with
guns in their hands The nation
should disarm and ''let us have peace
Knox the First in the Field
The state Pennsylvania has put in
the field as a Presidential candidate
on the Republican side Philaudcr G
Knox Mr. Knox is HOW a Senator Of
the United States In the past he
has enjoyed a great corporation prac
tice as a lawyer In a biographical
book the people represented in whi,b
usually write their own biographies
he describes himself as representing
many large corporations including
the Carnegie Steel Company. As the
last entry on he Republican side
Mr. Knox. the attorney for the Steel
Trust seems to have a fair chance in
The cunning He meets only Taft,
the brother of the owner of all the
public utility corporations of Cincinna-
ii, Fairbanks, who. stands as the can
didate Of Wall Street and all that
that neehbcShoad Tepresents; and
joe Cannon whose platform is no
reduction in taxation but everything
for the protected industries Senator
Knox has accepted the kindly express
sions IN mis- behalf hy the Pennsylya-
MIA convention Why shouldn't he?
1t Seems apparent that the Repuhli-
can party Is going 10 put into the field
some thoroughly reactionary and con
| ervative' candidate Senator Knox
would be as good man OF this kind
as the parts could f-ld. unless by
some chance 1t should select a states
man like Senator Plat or Senator
Depew, Senator Aldrich, or even Reed
Smoot Of Utah That Pennsyl.
yania should have declared in his
| favor Is not surprising Pennsylya.
MIA Is a state Of politics and politi-
clans The politicians intend TO have
AN opportunity 20 60 10 the next ma.
! tional convention Of the Republican
party with a candidate upon whose
! standing they can trade. That they
really believe that Knox with his no
t0rious corporation associations could
be nominated or If nominated could
be elected. is incredible But here
IN Washington the belief IS that they
! will give him the delegation "a order
to swap votes for the man who ulti
mately viii get the nomination This
~ 4 az . ia fafaIl IA
TO the great intellectual ability ol
Senator KnoN There are few mel
( in The Senate who are his intellcc
! tual sup, riors There are lew mef
in WASHINGTON omtsido OF Mr. RoOse
vclts cabinef who are quite 50 tho
roughly allied with the dangerous
forces OF American pMtocracy today
SO we have the list OF Rep hlicar
! Presidential possilt tlities Taft and
aud Fairbanks Knox and Foraker, no
oue brit stands as the representative
of consolidated capital Of corporate
aggression OF the trust power tina
nag within the last i've years increas
cd the cost Of living in this connirl
thirty per cent There are Repfibll
cans not allied with the money power
but we have not found ne Presidcn
i applWidng them, nor do We hnd re
/ publican conyentionS urging them ie
the Presidential nomination Whei
some Republican Organization o
newspaper urges the name Of on
Robert NJ. LaF0llette. Of WiscpIsii
for tho Presidency, IL win be posslbl
I to believe That bhc Republican part
has not gone entirely over 70 pluto
cracy.