The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-19
oklahoma city's sohpistry
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In it's fight for the state capital
Oklahoma City should at least suck
To the issue and not add an Insult 20
me voters intelligence in addition "
ihe injury it steadfastly proposes TO
40 him. The following appeal to pre-
ludicc, taken from the Oklahonlan, -
calculated TO cloak the weakness oi
the capital location scheme: -..s..-s.f
There, are some things that the peo--
pie of what was formerly the indian
Territory should remember III Inns
state captal location contest.
They should remember that Okla-
homa City was from the first and a.
ways at the front in the battle Tor
single statehood, and Guthrie was not.
Oklahoma City business men gave
financial aid toward the conduct Oh
The campaign for single statehood.
Oklahoma City newspapers constant
ly championed the cause Of single
statehood
They should also remember that.
Guthrie newspapers and Guthrie pom
ticians from first to last opposed sin
| ale statehood and declared that IN
dian Territory's people were almost
entirely Of the illiterate and crimlnai
classes.
VIII the people of the East Side
forget these slurs?
We hardly think So
Granting that all the Oklahomal
here AYERS is true i can not proper
" have any bearing on the present
capital location scheme, which is OBJ
iected to, not on the grounds of favor
10 one or prejudice Of another OF me
contestants, but because the scheme
is: 20
/. A breach Of good faith, in that
il proposes to controyert that pro-
vision Of the constitution which locat-
ed the state capital at Guthrie untit
1918. :.
.. The most dangerous pidce OF
j legislation over proposed TO a people,
in that II bears on it's face a deter
p,ination to raid the state treasury.
establish a reigu of graft. destroy one
community, not for the benefit OF the
state or any tax payer, but for the
further enrichment of single sectlon-
Il and to tax the whole expense, not
against Oklahoma City property own
ers, wbJ would be the sole and only
beneficlaiies. but against John Jones,
of Ellis county. Dick Smith, of OF
tawa county, Bill Brown, of MuCur-
tain county, and every other small
land owner in the state.
Outside of the precincts of okla
homa City this CAPITAL location fights
sddtesses itself to the voter in these
terms: NJ
|. Is there any public necessity for
the state capital to be changed at
this time? If so, what Is that neces-
sity? :
2. VIII ], as a tax pyaer already
burdened to the limit, be benefited IN
proportion to the cost?
8. Guthrie has been assured OF the
capital until 1913; it Is so written IN
1.-THE constitutions The constitutional
convention spoke for the entire state,
land can l. as citizen of the state.
vote now to repeal what is made inn
possible Of repeal, without doing yio-
lenco to my own integrity for no 9TH
or purpose thanvto remove the cap
ital less Tran fifty miles, further but
den my own property and do an in'
Justice to one community for no otn
or purpose than to further enrich an
other community?
And the conclusion being reached
by nine out of every ten voters not
allied with oklahoma City In some
way is just this:
The present capital buildings at
Guthrie are costing the state not a
cent: Guthrie erected them and plac'
: ed them at the disposal of the state
) free of cost. Therefore there is no
/. necessity for a change at this time.
/. I will vote against the whole propo-
+ s'tion, leaving the question open for
! unpremdiced consideration at some f'l'
, ture time when my interests may be
|, more carefully safeguarded.
/ And a great majority of the votes
+. viii be cast along that line.
AS to Guthrie having fought single
D statehood while Oklahoma City fav-
! cred it there is Just this to say:
/ Guthrie was then the state capital and
/ was conducting a selfish fight. The
only reason that oklahoma City threw
+ its influence 20 the side of single
, statehood was because Oklahoma City
J did not possess the capital and
/ thought by 50 doing 1t was advancing
its selfish interest
VIII Oklahoma CITY or the Okla
toman pretend that it was actuated