The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-04
.HASKELL'S LETTER TO JOHNSON
Governor Of Oklahoma Calls Upon Minnesota Executive
TO Use His Efforts for Advancement Of Organism.

this great leader. TOu have accom-
plished mGsh in your advocacy Of
BiYanism in your great state We
have aided as best we could IN our
state The people Of your state, of
my state yen Of ali the states in the
union have commented every instance
where Organism was put in actual
operation Those who seek the sup
port OF the people are not today cour-
ageous enough 10 openly oppose
Organism. ! care not what political
parry they may represent Shall we
then commend the created principles
and discard the creator of these prin-
ciples? No bettor illustration of hi
inflated and supplicating aristocracy
has ever been found inan that of Sec
rotary Taft seeking the presidency OF
ihe United States by yielding to and
advocating Bryanism Witness the
example; Twelve years ago this same
Stcretary TAFT was a federal Judge.
not by the grace of the free voters.
put by the appoiatiye power. Read
his own language, contained in the
count reportg-his decisions. Like a
monarch OF old. heartless ana con-
scienceless, greedy to apply in its
greatest severity the law that would
enable him to win the smiles OF the
CrCseus by the abiect humiliation and
ppression OF the honest toilers.
.Rsad his language. I say. and then
tell me was he simply enforcing the
law made by others, or was lie grasp
ing the law with easerness to give it
its most severe Interpretation?
4 s,,
the days when Organism was in It's
infancy. Today we see Judge Taft
seeking the presidency cf the United
States. lie needs the votes of the
common people The boarded gold
Of his old-time friends may be used
as an aid but the hand Of honest labor
must cast the ballot Has Bryanism
worked a reform in the mind of
Secretary TAFT: Today the secretary
apcligizes for his judicial decisions
when he says Others made the law
and / was compelled to enforce it,
+ beg to remind the secretary that he
not only carried the law to its sever.
cst limit but It required the conces-
son Of the exercise OF unlimited dis
c etion in the federal Judge to have
w 'anted or sustained his conduct.
OncS again Organism found its most
unwilling convert IN Secretary Taft.
Even L August. in political speech
AT Oklaho- City. Secretary Taft de-
ciared the initiative and referendum
to be destructive o. cur form Of gov
efnment. He aid The people We're
incapable OF exercising such extensive
power as the initiative and referen-
DUN would give them. That govern
Iment must be administered By the
chosen few. He said that the powers
of court to summarily punish those
who might offend the court were es-
sential to the safety of government.
He said that the con titution of Ok
lahoma. which gives the people OF the
state the r. 20 regulate corpora
4 ms, the pr cg 20 levy taxes equally
the great as we'll as tho small,
would embarass the captains of in
dustrN and We're sufficient reasons to
condemn our constitution, but Bryan
ism is still working on the heart Of
this born aristocrat and today he con-
cedes the errors OF his Oklahoma
| City speech of nine months ago and is
willing now TO adopt Organism as the
means of securing the presidency.
Governor Johnson ii this aristo-
crat has been brought to his knees
before the suffering people by the spi-
rit of Organism. applied to govern
ment shall We cali this defeat Of
lprinciplesY Nay, il is victory for
Organism. In the presence of this
continued progress shall the army
lighting in defense OF the peoples
rights forsakke its leader? Shall this
army destroy its power by dssension
and disintegration?
Success in the battles for prin-
! lciple only Justify but one resolution,
/ that Is, onward with renewed vigor."
Following the leader until not only
The principles for which he stands,
but the man himself, shall have PROV
len victorious
II the time has come when Bryan
1sm Is so universally approved his
own spirit his own ideas. and adopt
the principles which We're heretofore
unknown TO him. we must expect just
such Efforts as We have before as to-
day Those who profit by graft greed
and monopoly see no hope TO defeat
the principles of democracy as adyo.
Gated by Bryan unless they can in
wade the camp of Bryan and en-
ice his worthy captains and patriotic
followers away from the standard OF
the leader, nor Is this "A new method
of inveighing against the advocate Of
reform and honest government"
superintendent Bryan, of the live
stock inspection department OF the