The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-18

| The 'oren mind of the New YORK
World touching things political and
pending has awakened hope in tnVse
Democrats who love their country.
who think and feel; in short, who are
Democrats in the largest ana truest
sense.
These do not all live on the other
side OF The Alleghenies and the Blue
Ridge. Some of them yet abide IN
the East. II seems, however. incred-
ible-speaking of voters dwelling IN
the South and West-good Americans
every one of them--bave not only no
newspaper in the great city Of New
York adequately TO represent them In
this national campaign. but that in
most a. he metropolitan new spapers
whore they are not msreporrr1 they
are blacllisted
The preiext' for this poor quality OF
craftsmanship and journalism is
single name; one man. admittedly pa
tGotic, upright and clean. Yet New
York lives and thrives off the West
and South; makes outcry against
freight and other determinations; is
occasionally moved to a humor which
locks very like jealousy of Chicago
and st. Louis. Why should this be
so? Obviously because eitner OF
some dissonance of sympathy-for
there are not wanting plenty of corf
non interests--or the lack of breadth
OF grasp and sagacity of vision. Iae
iron-clad partyism of the Tribune may
he dismissed with the tag Taken for
Granted The proprietary pranu OF
the Hearst organs is too ever-present
To have itself seriously considered.
But the cosmopolite Indifference OF
the Herald. the pert cynicism of the
sun and the toplofty turgIdity OF the
Times-liot to mention the frisky
p)mp of the Evening Post, whics
seems sill TO be edited on the Heav-
en- side OF Jordan-bode nothing less
than New Sectionalsm. This is OF
menace alike TO New York and the
country at large,
II was the South which sought 10
rule, and did rule FOR season,
through the oligarchy of African
slavery. The bottom fsh ou. OF a
tub too tull Of self-induigence, OF mis-,
directed opulence and pride; and yet
the splendid manhood of the South
came perilously near to dragging fnc
temple into the vortex of its own ruin
An unequal system of taxation has
piled up in the East fabulous riches
he aristocracy of slavery at the
South is succeeded by the aristocracy
OF money in the East.
Fifty years ago the moral nature OF
the North reyolted against African
slavery. II refused to concede any
Virtue to the peculiar institution" OF
the South, just as to-day the workers
on the farms and in the mills are
coming 20 stigmatfze all wealth as
predatory wealth and to give this an
Eastern trademark. hugging its con
stitutional rights to its bosom--lts
ruffle-shlrted Josom-cne South re.
fused TO look beyond. Hugging its
special privileges to It's Dosom--no,
all OF 1t throbbing with the philan
thropy avowed by Mr.. Hartman anc
Mr. Rockefeller-the East, through its
newspaper oracles, refuses to see any
thing in the protest OF the West and
South bnt ignorant clamor. and. de-
rouncing Roosevelt is preparing to
follow TAR upon plan of battle fac.
ing two ways; for, if TAFT be not
/, Roosevelt, his pretensions are fraud
ulent; but if he be Roosevelt, the in
tegrity OF the public policy, which is
the interest of the people and the
fountain of an good. we're safer with
bryan.
This is not air epigram, but fact,
very easy ~ exposition.
IL.
, Let as clear away the brush heaps.
Party promises count for little
, party snlhboleths mean nothing. Had
the Democrats remained true TO their
Hedges OF 1852 the sectional war
h might have been averted. Had AR
Cleveland stood firmly by the pia,-
e form on which he was elected IN 1892
p the Democrats might be in power 10
I day with a tariff for revenue only
h settled long ago, the industries OF the
/ country adjusted TO il ana everybody
r satisfied. One finds in Mir. Roose
o Nelt's policies" nothing OF anteced
!. ent Relublicanism; Yet for ali his
i stridency and his manifestoes he has
| accomplished nothing, unless it be
q something to frighten the timd and
|. to intrepch the thieves. NOW ne has
!. tprned upon the farmers. What next
!. Meanwhile every abuse stigmat:zeC
n by Roosevelt is OF Republican origina
: ton Tan himself is but a Roose-
| ,elt creation. His sole claim upon
the vote of the commonaity Is me
II pretense that he viii carry forwarf
the Roosevelt policies. His sole AoIt
l. upon the vote and the purse OF rne
favored few Is that he will not. IN
order TO relieve him or emDarrass
, ment Roosevelt is to lose himself il
! The wilds OF Africa. Il is a cieyer
: scheme made TO catch them both
! 1 ways. coming and going but is II
) honest and win It work.
Nothing could better Illustrate I'M
general situation than the local con
= ditons here in New York The ga,
conflict between Roosevelt ana
hughes As rival understudies or Go1
has degenerated into a sudden and
u consuming affection for loot anC
Choate. while Parsons-erst the side
partner of Hearst--looks prayerfuliy
Ierhaps Hopefully, TO a deal with MUIR
; ply. What IS left for those OF us VI,
care for none of these? The street
vender with his choice berries all on
top seems proper merchant anu Z
y pretty fellow. when we contemplate
him and them and recall what has