The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-24
MACHINE
IS BOILING
WITH RAGE
DISPLEASED WITH PRO.
GREssIvE ATTITUDE
OF THE TIMEs
CAPITAL TO Be MOVED
TO OKLAHOMA CITY
But Citizens Do Not Want
the HIaekgusTd In
siltuilOn


Oklahoma City, Okla, Oct. "A The
Republican state machine is displeas'
cd with the Oklahoma City Times,
NEich has bene fearlessly conducted
by Omer Benedict along progressive
lines and in harmony with the Repub
ican Of such men as Beveridge. La
Foilttte, Bristow. Cummins, Clapp,
Murdoch, Poindexter and the other
patriots who have dared wave the red
flag of insurgency in the faces of the
Observation-Disclosures stand
pat organization, whose motto has
been "let the corporations rule
Benedict has lately been pouring
forth som editorial hot shots at the
sort of Repubdcanism as is advocated
by such unreliable newspapers as the
Guthrie Capital, under subsidy of the
interests and the little coterie Of
bankers and federal job hunters VINO
have banded together in a close cor
poration under the tattered baner of
"Sata Fe Joe" McNeal ad have dub
bed themselves the 'Republica or
ganization.'
OF course the Republican voters OF
the state take exceptions to the gang
attempt to br)wbeat the rank and ile
Of voters and to hog all the federal
officers in sight and put them in
pickle to be held out as future induce
ments for the boys who prove faithful
to the gang and the corporate inter-
ests of the state.
For somttime the Republican ma
chine has gone about with a grouchy
gloom overspreading its facial map
and dire threatenings have been heap
ed upon the head of Editor Benedict
who has been branded as a traitor 10
the piratical crew that has been at
tempting to wreck the good ship Re
publican" upon the shoals and rocks
OF corporate greed.
It has just been learned tlat the
machine In its desperation is trying
to buy the Oklahoma City Times,
change its name to tht state Cap
ital' place the saint-like Frank Greer
in the editorial chair, damn every.
thing Democratic, read the Republic
an insurgents out of the party and in
the confusion that is expected to
arise. grab, throw, tie, brand and cor.
raj the Republican organization and
open a federal pob employment bu'
reau for the fellows that will bend
the knee and groyel in the dust az
the feet of Car Harris and his throne
attendants.
II is all very pretty scheme and
could have been worked out by none
other than some bright satellite of the
Interests" which seek to throttle the
future prosperity Of the people of Ok
lahoma both politically and Otherwise
The leading merchants of Oklaho
ma City say they want none of the
Greer brand of politics in the metro
polls of the state, that Greer's news
paper has done more 10 kill the pros
perity Of Guthrie Chan any other one
thing and that through the medium
of Greer's paper, with it's columns ol
villificaton and SANDER Of the besi
citizens of Oklahoma. the Republican
party has fallen into had repute not
only within the borders of tse state
but throughout the United States as
well.
II Is such newspapers as the Guth
rie Capital that have been making Ok
lahoma ridiculous in the eyes of the
world and there is no question bul
that the Greer publication has done
more in the past three years towards
Battling railroad construction work,
and the establishment of employment
giving industries in the state than
any other medium
] Truth is foreign TO the Guthrie Cap
iial and Republicans, disgusted with
The methods of the machines official
nrgen. ave been deserving the stand
at Fe9ublican ranks in droves and
grte this wear going to join forces with
ihe army of Democracy and once and
for az stamp out the last vestiges OF
"are g. & dule as established by thosi
~ lrs OF corporation slavery, Joe
fanaon Nelson A. Aldrich. and jim
Harris Joe McNeal and their pros
elytes In Oklahoma, who would rath
er seuttle the Republican ship than
ses n -ommand of Theodore Roose
yelt, Senator Peyeridge, Cummins, La
Toilette, and the leaders of the poll
itical revolution that is so rapidly de-
,imating the Republican ranks.
] The "old guard" dies hard, -but
. they die Just the same and the
slaughter is scheduled for November
s in Oklahoma when Hon. Lee Cruce
At lie Read of the victorious army oi
Democracy will become the governor
of the whole people and march tri
umphantly down the trail that has
been blazed by c. N. Haskell, who is
some blazer as even the Republic
an gang will have to admit.
II the Guthrie Capital Is moved to
Oklahoma City 1t win have to be
dome some dark night when the peo-
pie OF The West Side metropolis are
asleep for no welcome to our city
banners are wipwagging Guthriewaris
and no oulstretclled hands and cor
dial greetings are In evidence us far
: as the proposed coming OF Greer and