The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-17
PLUGS THAT WILL REACT
Republican Press Attacks on
Corporation Commission will
Prove Boomerangs

Following the lead of an official
who owes his position, not to party
fealty, but to accident, the local Re
publican paper is having a great deal
to say relative to the first annual ne
port of the corporation commission.
This is that papers idea Of ribbing
medicine All the interviews printed
about the work are manufactured Out
OF whole cloth in the office of the Cap.
ital Republicans as well as Demo
Gratis, are unstinted in their commen-
dation of the commissioners report
No state corporation commission in
the country has turned out a report
So replete and exhaustive. Since the
report was mailed out, hundreds Of
letters have reached Chairman Loves
desk praisng the work. The whole
scope and plan of the commission is
set out and the work proves a valu
able addition to the library of any
thinking man Quite naturally some
corporations have 1T in for the com
misson-M Messrs. Love Watson and
McAlester have been adhering to the
law AS a result the people are get.
ting better service from public utiii-
it's And it is these public institu-
tions which seek to set up and keep
alive clamor against the commission.
Why? Simply because the commits
sion is forcing public service corpora
tions to respect the rights Of the peo-
pie.
Said a business man this morning
1T seems to me that this hullabaloo
about the corporation report was a
prearranged affair It appears that
the bill for the reports, which find
was duly approved by two boards,
was purposely held up in order to
start a howl Why are not other bill
held up? at is quite evident that
the commission has been and is doing
good work, that it is mixing public
service corporations toe the mark
You would never hear the organ OF
the Santa Fee yelp the way IT is doing
! if the commission was easy The peo
pie seem to have no complaint be
cause the commission very properly
placed pictures in its report The
whole roar seems to come from the r.
ublican press"
Fwers White. a Republican, said:
THE Capital is showing eXecrablC
! taste in attacking the commissioners
report And by the wav, the auditor
OF the state is not making any head
way by his misguided practices liz
is holding up claims of the board oI
agriculture against the opinions OF
the attorney general, and / guess the
formers and laboring men will love
him for that Also flood sufferers
( warrants
Said Commissioner Watson today
"Of all the damphools that Capital 4.
the worst That plant grated fol
eighteen years on The territory and
got millions It did not have to bid
I find by the ~ecords that the C]p
tal charged $3.50 a page for printlns
he reports of the legislature in 1907
It consisted of 1200 pages and was
padded The Capital says The Lead
er's contract on the commission re
ports will run to $40 a page If fig
ured on the same blsis that the Cap
| ital received, The Leader should have
1872 page for work which it die
for $1.42 a page. However, the Cap
itals incessant squawks against tn,
constitution, all the Democratic legis
lato-s and Democrats in general have
availed nothing The people know
, the Capital lies. They do not beliey,
it and in the words of Noble that
all there are to It,