The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-02
mooNsHiNE ENDORSEMENT OF
MCGUIRE,


publican speakers in Guthrie Satur |
day requiring even attempt TO answer
for those who may have been mislcd |
was regarding prosperity brought by
Republican administration and that
panlcs follow Democratic government.
The statement was made by Ex-Con.
gressman Blaclxburn--an orator who
paraded his Southern birth and love
for the Southland with great gusto at
the Airdome. pretending 10 shed tears
for others who stlll vote the Demo
cratic ticket though the candidates
always come from north OF Mason
and DiXon's line.
In the years of 1S76-7-S-9 there were
32.2l0 business failures in the United
States, breaking all records for any
foui years OF our history up to that
time. The sum total of losses in those
four years was large for the business
OF that age, totaIlng $714,319121, lr
enough to allow even the Republican
campaigner to admit there was
dearth of prosperity.
The four years of the Cleveland ad.
itlHlHAi dllOn lblil Uul FHNl .fbbs sDpb--
1907. under the reign of Roosevelt
totals $5S0,7i0000, breaking all rec
ords and total of l1,725 institutions
going to ruin.
In 1898 there were 12,lSG failures
tRepubllcan rule) but there was a loss
entailed of but $130.6G2, ,SS9; again In
1904 there were total number of
failures OF 1919 (largest in history
IN number; under Roosevelt rule. tool
the total running above $l44.000,000
hut last year was the winner Of big
losses and the number of fl,725 fail
ures made a fairly good spurt to get
In first place for number.
The largest loss In dollars under
Democratic rule was In 1898, when we
could not dodge the wreck and ruin
of the preceding Republican admins
tralion, $346.779, ,SS9-small compared
with the havoc brought about by the
Republicans last season.
And how often these little titwil
lows, who imagne their mere asser.
tlon be facts, get up before intelligent
people and attempt TO make state
ments TO Intelligent men and women,
Congressman Blackburn represented
the moonshine country of North Caro-
| lima He did not have 10 make II Re
publican, for whenever you meet a
moonshiner in the South, he votes the
Republican ticket because to be hon
est, he Is against whatever govern
ment he knows about and has no
knowledge of difference between the
government of state and the federal
arm. The citizenship of North Caro-
lima is no more 10 be measured by the
moonshner than is that of Oklahoma
by the Dalton gang or the more recent
Republican carpet bag machine.
Congressman Blackburn attempted
to raise sectional feeling; coming
from the South he mlsrepresented It
Tor the purpose OF getting a few
Northern Democrats TO repudiate th6
action of a party. when TO be truthfn
Mr. Johnston was born in the Hoosiel
2 slate and never was further soutl
than this district, save when called
In the practice of his profession OF
to attend 10 lodge business. He per
haps knows no sectional feeling. bul
Is more attached to getting his MIND
grooyed TO accomplish things that are
needed now without regard TO th'
moonshine whlskey sections OF IN,
| iHOAHAAAliN vi NN0A ANRAAh NoiRAAhAf
IL IA safe TO state no real states
man VIII ask for votes on the strength
n being a resident of either Yanke
dom or Dixie, and II one should do so
he deserves defeat.
There is no denying the Roosevelt
panic; No denial has been made since
Parker proved his charge of corrup
ton against Cortelyou; no denial o
giving Cromwell and his companion
$40, 600 600 for their stealings on thu
Panama; no denial that We are goini
in the whole al the rate OF more thai
million per day under this admins
tration. aud the cabinet, rather thai
eek remedy. either Is MAXIM
speeches for Taft or in session pre-
pairing an insane assault upon tn
,haracter OF some citizen.
Blackburn knew these things. II
would not deny because he could MOI
md his speech was but the last effor
impart some respectability 10 M'
lures record.
That the moonshiners' personal cor
sressman was sent TO attest the chal
lcter OF McGuire's service, seems I
us proper