The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-01
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The foolish statement that Governor
Haskell may be impeached seems the
limit for even the strongest anvil
chorus newspaper. accustomed as they
are to resorting to whatsoever might
seem at the time sufficient TO secure
their ends. AS a matter of fact Gov
ernor Haskell has been busy. as he
persists in attending to state affairs
and whipping a few Republican editors
as side line. The suits brought to
make some of the anyil-chorus outfit
return money secured from Oklahoma
territory show why some OF the anvil
chorus papers are starting harder and
sooner than usual on the winter cam
paign against the governor. When the
State Capital goes into court aud tells
the jury and court how and why II
charged sixty and seventy cents per
sheet for fiat cap paper, costing about
that much for 500 sheets il will dawn
on some OF our people who are easily
thrown into a panic why some news
papers are so violently trying to get
Governor Haskell into as bad light as
are those who have done their little
stunt" in Oklahoma offlcialdom.
Kay county was one place whore the
anvil-chorus outfit made IL pay to be
loaded down with official pulls.
Kay county purchased dozen ses-
sion laws of the Morning 81 Fe outfit
ana paid therefor $l26.
Present price $500
a d3zen stenographer's books were
so costly Kay county had to pay SIS
for same, although the taxpayers OF
taat county are now told IL the Demo
Gratis continue in power taxes must Of
necessity advance.
One Justice OF the peace ordered
docket and was mulcted for s22, al
| though the printed commerciai price
of $500 had not been thoroughly eras.
ed from the bsok
Is there not good reason to believe
\ the anvil-chorus want the governor out
I Of office? He put tho grand stamp Of
merted disapproval on this outfit
| which for eighteen years had attended
20 the grating IN Oklahoma to the eX-
tent OF becoming grandmasters, and
All others were obliged to step back
/ and kowtow else thoy were slipped
out OF ihe way, because the scientific
/ manner of accomplishing this work
without the people mobbing the plum
I derbund required no novices be allow.
ed to imperil the industry
The records of what this territory of
/ Oklahoma paid the outfit are 50 ter,
I rible. damnable and filled with tre-
mendous outrages against all proprie-
! Ties the people would not believe the
story when told. 'Tis a record of eX-
/ iravagancc. misrule. studied graft and
/ defended with mud batteries buried at
decent men who in vain tried TO stop
1 tie practice.
Even now there are residents of the
state VINO sought to ascertain how bad
the work was and what toll OF piracy
was paid, placed where the records are
easy 20 read and no one 20 threaten.
believe there must be some mistake.
And because Charles ~ Haskell fol.
lowlug the pledges he had made the
people added to because he started
llter the grafters Of the United States.
ne was made the target for all the
guns manned by lust and greed. ire
| spectiye of party For days he stood
)nt on the firing line courageousiy de.
lending his post, Needless of the COW.
ards Of either party. and in this good
sour, wounded only by the balls fired
nom traitors who found opportunity to
10 their wcrk whilst his back was
burned has a last got all the grafters
In front OF him, and has them in full
retreat, the g0ggle-eyed agent OF De
pew whistling hard 10 understand why
Hitchcock should have refused TO lie
for him when the question OF Prairie
on franchise overwhelmed him and
proved his contentious wlolly false,