The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-24
WHAT IS A REPusLlcAN1 ?"


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WHAT is A REPUBLICAN"
Some weeks ago. when some South
ern senators declaring themselves
Democrats and who had been elect.
ed as representatives OF hat party %
the highest legislative body Of the
ROrld had violated their pledges and
decllred the party platform unien-
able. the Republican press was iubi-
liant The Oklahoma Republicans
ehatiering like poll parrots owes what
was a decade old Joke, reiterated tAe
old cry. what is a Democrat and
otherwise made the people weary with
their attempts at puns.
Just now Republican patriots and
their editors along the territorial
sphere between the Rocky mountains
and the Missouri river. have. if you
please, a fex troubles Of their own
10 consider.
We we're told by such authorities
as the Kansas City Star. the Wichita
Eagle. the Des Moines Cummins. the
Tulsa World. the Empora pap pre-
sided over by Wiliam Allen White
and walt Mason by Bristow and even
Porah and Clapp and Nelson that Mr.
Taft was with them In spirit; that he
signed the Adrich monstrosity call
ga a tariff bin because It was all
lie could do as an executive and, were
he 3 legislator. he would oppose IL.
At Winona. Minnesota. at Des
Nelnes. Iowa. and all along the line Of
the present presidential denomination
tour. Mr. Taft has exal ed Nelson M.
Aldrich and Mr. Payne declaring
them statesmen OF the true Republic
ar stripe and that TO oppose them
means to leave the Republican party
-treachery not TO be forgotten.
II Mr Taft is correct. what are the
men who stood so vaiantly for the
general good and championed the
measures the President championed
when he was a seeker for the votes
of iha pe01le IN tie fa'l of lq0S?
II these sturdy men (and The Lead
er doee not wish 10 have anyone un
ders AMI % balie~-~ s"oa ma0 Cum
Minis Deliver Bristcw end Mufdoek
arc men seeding other than common
weal) are wrong now. was the Presi
dent right when. one year ago he ad
voeated what they talked and vo ed
for at the last session Of congress
Is the Republican party 70 fool the
people with platform pledges hat
pledge one thing and seem to pledge
another
What is q Republican,
Who ere Republicans and why arc
they such?
IL the President when he declares
he is carrying ont the Roosevelt poll
cies. wrong or right2
BY the way. as YOU 90 along what
were those wonderfully advertised
much heralled Roosevelt policies?
Is It not true that the personal
=" taken from the Roseveltian pol
icies" left nothing2
Did Mr. Murdock. NJ White and
Mr. Cummins, all Of them old in 20.
lltical science. ever believe the par
Is once dominated by hanna and
bought and sold at will by Ma; hew
Stanley Quay would serve the people
Since Benjamin Harrison was poll
tically murdered by the party bosses
what Republican leader has ever ag!
tated : question favorably for the
people,
The cry Of protection has run lbs
course: n discovered 20 be a suhter.
fuge 10 allow the special privilege
barons O tax the consuming public.
The protection" TO labor theory OF
Republicanism has imported a mil
lion lahore.s into Pennsylvania who
con neither read or sneak English and
shoots the poor devils down with mi
litia precision when they seek the
rights of men
The protection" 10 he farmer h's
made him pay toll TO the harvester
trust. the salt trust the steel trust
the clothing trust. he elevator trust.
the railroad pool the rebate heves
u II 5s,bti tfor lons 5tgftv kueri
can fafffier can get heller nfftfs on
American machinery in Siberia than
in Illinois and Ohio wAere the lmplcs
ments are made
Therefore. borrowing a phr3se am
changing a WORT:
What is a Rennblican9"
Carving # IN further and be-
inc still inclined 10 ascertain any vir.
tue that NAV be hidden
"Why is any agriculture a Repuh.
llcan?"
Why should the mar vho fae enant
years IN acnpiring 2 trade and wor''
60 faithfuliv for that skin rs p MON
her ~ a political trust thai diseharees
him for asking his due and suDpl2n s
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