The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-22
THE OKLAHOMA CONSPIRACY.

The New oYrk rPess. which is Re- President some needed scraps of ad- vice and warning in connection with Oklahoma affairs, and with it pays nim some very decided left-handed compliments. After stating that Ok lahoma was Republican up to recent date, The Press adds;
 After Congress consented to admit Oklahoma as State. agents of the Federal administration went into the CTS how they should vote for their Constitutional Convention to organize their new State government. The re- suit of this interference with home rule was appalling. At the polls the Republicans lost twenty-four out of twenty-six counties. The collapse of Republieanism in Oklahoma was due to the savage resistance of the people there to the attempt of the Federal administration to run" things under torial government.
 President Roosevelt is a me"dler by nature, and he can't help it. In one sense 1t Is commendable. Undoubted- whole country and in all things that concern the public, and whenever he detects what he believes to be wrong his impulse is to interfere" and he usually yields to the impulse. MT. Roosevelt plays football every day Tn the year. He Is bound to tackle" when the opportunity offers, and above all this, MT. Roosevelt has the nature of a boss. He can't help that, either. But the Presidents impulses are dan gerous, and have involved himself and his party in much trouble. There are signs, too, that the party Is getting tired of MT. Roosevelt's meddling Have a care how the Federal admin homa. And remember that the lesson of Oklahoma will be repeated in Ohio New York and other Republican States with vengeance. Hands off!
 It is really encouraging to find a stout Republican newspaper indulging in such wholesome truths and criti- cisms addressed to the ruler of it's party and head of the government. For however much The Press may try tc work in compliments along with its lecture, it plainly shows that it looks on Roosevelts course in the Okla homa matter as unM arranted meddlins and gross injustice to the people ot the embyro State
 But The Press doesn't tell all that is reprehensible in this case. There is plainly on foot scheme to pre-. vent the admission of the new State for the present. Whether Roosevelt is the leader in the movement or only 2 willing coadjutor matters little, for fl all amounts to the same thing In the end fg Fa~
 ident to refuse to issue the necessar, proclamation admitting the new State and let the matter remain over unti after the elections next year.
 It Is politics and nothing else tha- is at the bottom of this discreditablt business. It is considered that if the new State is admitted into the Unior thls year 1t will not only cast it's cleo. toral vote for the Democratic Presi. dentaI ticket in 1908, but will also elect Democratic Senator's and Reprs. sentatives to Congress at the sam, election. By doing this 1t will aid tho Democracy and injure the Republicans and this is to be prevented even at tn, expense of justice and fairness. If i, argued that If the State can be helc off another year the Republican Part, will be the gainer at the next cleo tion and 1t is hoped that its vote vii not be needed after the election O, 1908, or else there may be a chance tC change its political complexion befor, another election.
 Of course the President and his co workers do not admit that it is poli. ties, and nothing else that is behind this discreditable conspiracy. Som, excuse must be given which will pas, with the public, so it is proclaimed that the new Constitution has sucI grave faults that 1t would be wront 1 for the administration to recogniz, 1t as d valid instrument and allow tn, state to come in under it. That f! the loophole through which the conspir ators hope to escape public censure.
 That there are faults and defects ii the new Constitution is beyond doubt The best friends of Statehood admi
 this, but as The Richmond Journa says. the same could no doubt b said with equal truth of every Stat