The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-06
"a TREE is KNOWN BY ITS
FRUIT"

The effort of Republican newspl- |
pers west of the Mississippi river tol
hold their ellen ele by continuous |
abuse of the organized minority OF
their parry in congress is a game OF
deception inspired by either ignor-
ance or duplicity. In either event dan
gerous To the people whom they seek
TO mislead.
AT the time Mr. Taft was nomi-
na ed and he accepted the candidacy
OF the organized Republican major
uy In the uwo houses of congress, IT
was manifest to all thinking men that
Mr. TAFT had accepted the ultim1tum
OF the usts, Mr.. Sherman being the
accepted champion of special peiyi-
lege In the lower house-the major
domo for the man from Danyilie,
Speaker Cannon.
Starting that campaign with Sena
tor Dupon, of unspeakable Delaware
notoriety as chief outrider, the vari-
Gus ages of the predatory attacks
against Mr. Bryan displayed the re
markable unanimity of the trusts for
the Republican nominees.
CortelyOu. acknowledged grafter-ln
chief tor Theodore Roosevelt. held
one battalion of predatory interests,
william Randolph Hearst, his peace
made with Tammany Hall, leading
the cOmmissary depar ment of the IN
terests.
No intelligent man of good repute
in the community of his chosen abode
ever questioned the sincerity or the
integrity of William Jennings Bryan
He Is the parent of honest adherence
to principle in these latter days; he
is the champion of political righteous
ness, the embodiment of morality in
public liie, A dreamer perhaps, but
his Taith is that of man who dares
to do right, and no one has ever
weakened his proud Americanism; 10
one successfully assaled his preach
ments for betterment of the ordinary
plodding citizen of his native land
In the face of the known adherence
to the old methods by the vast ma
jority OF the Republican leaders, those
statesmen and newspapers now de-
crying the fate of the people at the
hands of this legislative body, sup
ported Mr. Taft. They advanced a
multitude of reasons. But one suf
feed to sway intelligent men-it being
that II MIR Bryan were elected Presi
dent the Republican majority in the
senate would prevent tariff revision
These plltisans pointed that with Mr.
Taft. pledged to downward revision
Of the tariff, at the head OF affairs
the actl al believers In revision of the
hepublican fai h would be able 70
accomplish that object even II they
could gather no Democratic strength
How many In the senate made good
their pledges to the people about
standing firm?
LaFolette, Bristow, Dolliyer and
Cummins.
Mighty cavalcade of tariff reform
Republicans!
Borah Clapp, Nelson and two or
three others occasionally cast vote
with the people.
II is bnncombe to decry Democratic
traitors
Had Ar Bryan been President Is
There anyCne SO foolish as to presume
Davis, Clark, Bailey, Taylor, Culber-
son, Daniels, Bacon. Tallifeiro and
Simmons would have voted with the
Aldrich nnerests?
No one OF them.
Neither would the Mississippi con.
vert TO special interests
Still these patriots now so elo-
quen;ly and apparently so earnestly
declaring their faith for tariff revi-
sion, are preparing TO accept the can
didacy OF Beveridge, the Joke of
Americ9n politics, as their Presiden-
tai aspirant
Notwithstanding Mr.. Beverdge
never remained two consecutive hours
in the same mental condition, he is
being hailed as a savior, Just as TAFT
was nailed as the man to carry for
ward h. works and policies OF Theo-
dOre Roosevelt.
How pitiml the whine of Colorado
Republican pledgng his faith to tariff
reform when Guggenheim sits in a
purchased senatorial seat.
How magnificent a hope for man
from California when the Southern
PacificStandard Oil combine own and
vote two senator's.
Illinois, with six millions of people
and perhaps the greatest inland SOW
ereign state known m Caucasian his
tory, is worse than not represented
in the United States Senate, and lit.
tie bette. can be stated of lis deiega.
tion in the lower house of the legis.
lstive body
Three ur four Chicago Republican
organs pretend to be for tariff re-
form. aud still they moved rocks and
threw at those against their effort
in an attempt 10 elect senator
whose chief fame is in being the hus-
band OF one of George Pullman's
daughters
What good does 1t do to lambast
the congress when we are trying to