The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-30

comprehensive review of the political
situation eight days before the cleo
tion forces the conclusion that there
Is no doubt of a democratic victory
commensurate with the conserva,ile g
appraised value of the democratic doc
trines above the inflated values OF the
republican doctrines. The republi.
cans have made a fight, not so much
against the state democratic admin s..
tration as against what they have
chosen to term "Haskellism." Dur ng
the past week Governor Haskell in
series Of articles entitled, Building
a State" has replied without reserve
TO every important unjust criticism of
the administration and pointed to the
people Of Oklahoma and to the rest
OF the world a marvellous example of
state structure that Is without a paral-
lei In the history of the nation.
Beginning with a standpat platform
that was dictated from Washington,
at a time when the president was
writhing under the sharp incisions Of
insurgent knives and expecting an
initiation of his political hopes un'ess
the opposing forces were repulsed, the
republicans have relied on the gener-
alities of that document of r.heir ma
tional pabulum and ignored every pro-
gressive idea OF the party leaders Of
other states that their other effor.s
might be concentrated on the Issue Of
Haskellsm.
Choice Of Issues Now
In the words Of Newkirk cores
pondent, the people don't care rap
about Haskelism; this administration
is nearly all history; what they de-
mand Is some promises from McNoal
relating to unjust freight and passen-
ger rates, the encroachments OF cor
porations, the enforcement OF laws on
the statutes, and the relief Of the peo-
pie from the continued exercise Of
as Mr.. Cruce has said, the people
looked to the choice OF men; now they
look to the choice Of issues. The peo-
pie do not believe that conditions in
Oklahoma are nearly so intolerable as
the republicans have pictured them.
The marvellous commercial and Indus
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years Is Itself sufficient answer to the
charge that the states credit Is low
and that investments will not come
here. The contented state OF the peo-
pie under a democratic administration,
insofar as contentment could be es-
tablished under the continued gloom
Of federal interference. is sufficient
answer to the republican charge that
the democrats have been eytravagant
and the states money foolishly spent.
McNeal Corporation Candidate.
The campaign thus far has failed to
reveal a single trait OF McNears char
ac.er that Is above a mercenary con-
sideration. Under grating territorial
administrations he amassed his for
tune and maintained relations always
with corporations that were robbing
the people. While the railroads were
taking that s54,OOO,OO0 that Cromwell
said they got unjustly, McNeal was
riding on their passes, looking after
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them in every move against a help
less. misused people. After statehood,
when wise and just laws had become
operative in the interest Of the peo'
pie. the first man to come to the sue
cor of the railroads was McNeal; not
that they might get relief from obey
ing the small regulations OF the cor
poration commission, but that they
might arbitrarily fix their own out
rageously exorbitant freight tari1ts
and compel the people to pay three
cents a mile for passenger fare. Joe
McNeal signed the appeal bonds for
the railroads that this might be accom-
plished.
McNeal Negro-Lover.
The campaign has proven the fact
that McNeal believes in the social
quality of the white and black races.
The negroes have thus pointed him
out. along with Bird Mcclure, the
First district standpat congressT an.
In fact the fact that the grandfather
clause was accepted by a clear ma
tority of more than $4,000 votes, Nc
Neal has assured the negroes that no
law OF that kind exists and the ne
groes are on the verge Of an insur-
rection. The utter fallacy Of his ta.' s
10 the negroes was proven last week
when the state supreme court upheld
the grandfather clause. II negro blood