The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-26
Glass Houses and Stone Throwing.

Glass Houses and Stone Throwing.
The sig,.s OF the times Indicate that
the Republican bigwigs are forming a
base conspiracy to keep Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory out of the Union
until after the next presidential cleo
ton by picking flaws here and there
in what Colonel William Jennings
Bryan pronounces the best state con-
stitution in the Union. 1t Will be a
great outrage committed in the vain
hope of foisting another Republican
president on the country. The two
territories contain more than n million
citizens. among the very best betwixt
the two oceans-the, adventurous. the
industrious. the ambitious home max
ers of the LAM.
The ST. Louis Globe-D Democrat, a
rancorous Republicans paper. j,--..--.1s on
the Oklahoma constitution with both
feet in bitter and elaborate editorial
What Anglers the GID. and TIE rest OF
the Republicans b.gvigs l.; TIE fact.
now perfectly apparent. that the state
OF Oklahoma viii be overwhelmingly
Democratic, which is proaf positive of
the wisdom and patriotism OF he.. PEG
pie. So there is Elgc.l weeping. vail
ing, crashing of teeth and elset..g in
the GID. office and wherever Isnpub-
Leans congregate. Inter ALA the GID.
says:
Probably Missouri has the worst exist
ing gerrymander, but it is not intrenched
in the constitution and any legislature
can amend it. The gross injustice it
works is clear enough. Missouri's total
congressional vote last fall was nearly
600.000. of which the Democrats had a
plurality of only 1900, yet the state is SO
gerrymandered that the Democrats OBJ
tanned thirteen congressman and the Re-
publicans only three.
Most assuredly that paragraph will
astound every citizen of Missouri be-
yond measure and will cause Major
Alexander Mcdowell, clerk of the
house of representatives, to sit up and
take notice. 1t ought to cause every
decent Republican in the state to hide
his head in shame. In order to boil
ster up its argument the CD. In that
paragraph says that thirteen Demo-
Gratis and three Republicans were elect
ed to congress from Missouri I'm 1906.
As matter of fact, twelve Demo-
crafts and four Republicans were elect
ed, and every body in the state with
two ideas knows 1t. If the CD.
knows so little about the state. what
Is its opif ion worth? II it knew the
truth individually misstated the facts.
OF what value is any of its opinions?
1t can take either horn of the diIem-
ma it chooses. Major Mcdowell, clerk
OF the house of representatives, is
charged with the duty of making up
the roll of the members. On it he has,
no doubt placed the names of four
Missouri Republicans Bartholdt, Caul-
field, Coudrey and Ellis. II the CD.
Is correct in Declaring that only three
Missouri Republicans were elected,
Major Mcdowell ought to leave one i
of the four of the rolls and put a
Democrat in his place If there are
really four, then which one is so OBJ
scure as to have been forgotten by the
CD? Surely 1t could not be DR.. Rich
sAu bsieihehut, WHO keeps HIMSELF con-
stantiy in the limelight by yelling for |
peace at the top of his voice and by
just as constantly voting for every
for war 1t could not be |
Ellis OF Kansas City, who discovered |
the Missouri river lust before the cleo
ton. Perish the thought. It must
therefore be Coudrey or Caulfield. The
cd. certainly pays them a baekhand-
ed compliment.
OF course it Is charitable to assume |
that the CD, made mistake grow