The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-24
EAGLE EYE
OF HAMON
IS T0UTED
REPUBLICAN, MEMBER OF
ELECTION BOARD ON
QUIvIvE
ALSO EN- RAPPORT
WITH jim HARRIS
How Standpats are Making
Best Of Bad
Situation

The state Republican central com.
mittee, Of which Jim Harris is man.
ager. recommended the appointment
OF ]. II. Hamon. OF Lswton, as a mem
Der OF the state election board in or
der that the Democratic members Of
that board might not steal the elec.
ton from the Republicans. Hamons s
reputation was In keeping with thei1
1oea Of decency in politics and bust
ness. An ambiguous editorial recent
" IN the McAlester News-Capital a
nepnDhcan paper that is edited BY
henry r Robbins, declared that
tnere Will not be any stealing with
ont lannon's knowledge. In last
weeks Issue of his Cherokee Repub
iican. Walter Ferguson said. IF the,
WIN lust let Jake Hamon get the elec
ton returns of In one corner of Inc
roo mand get bis Republicanism On
straight we will cease to worry aboul
the count"
These editorials Indicate that LAKE
mas his eagle eye on the situation ana
II John Leahy or Seth Gordon. The
democratic members. ever wink an
eye that might be construed 10 mear
rnere's something undue coming on
Jake will report TO Jim Harris that
the election is about to he qto'en
Nhereupon Jim will report TO Ne
Neal and McNeal viii take NJ the
slogan anew Of 'an honest ele,tior
and q fair count" An honest cleo
ton and a fair count. that Is Ire hiq
Issue" said an Oklahoma Cit, re
publican with swollen chest ard fro
quent ahems as ne theoretirali,
Dominated the ranks of the Demc
cratic party while he sDaka in g:ent
orian tones on the street corner
Call OF The Wild
There is peculiar incident IN se
iatlon TO the appointment of Hamo1
Hamon was In the act OF leaving ,ht
state with Harris called fim ND and
told him the election board Job was
awaiting. Hamon he'd heard the
shrill cry of the call Of iho will cam
Ing across the desert wastes IF ths
emoryo state Of Arizona oonsti
tutional convention Is in session II
lshoenix and the "interests" need trc
services OF competent men there 4
watch the proceedings aud tel iht
Democratic majority to stand mt TO-
the old theories Of government anC
counsel the Renrhlican mirorit =
contest every inch of tho gr,rno ~
the interest of a constitution ma
Will let the corporation of eas1. De
~ a. % Il - 1.
himself for the Job not that he m.ghi
become an ordinary thing like lcb
byist. but that be right preach or
texts Of legal lore and great serm3r
Of more business aud less pj''-,cs
So Jake sold considerable of hil
property interests in Lawton ana 9th
e. points IN Comanchc county iNere
BY swelling bis bank account to al
amount unusually large. held crn
ference with David L. Sleeper of 0l;
lahoma Citv. formerly a member y
the Ohio legislature. and The tNc
turned ont ? finished product % sDec
ulatiye fortune They were going Il
the green fields Of Arizona to beccln,
rich men
The Call OF Jim Harris
But Jake's name was on TIE lis
the Republican committee had file,
with Governor Haskell from whiCl
the governor was to select a Reru6
hcan member OF the state eicc.ici
board, and Jim Harris wired hin
tlla There was monty. pres * ans
political power for shrewd men lik'
Jake In Oklahoma Jake unpacKet
hts things and took the next .raiI
.pr Oklahoma City TO get his cJnl
mission. Arizona lost good follow
first class politician aud a lawyo
Of no mean ability before a BODY o
constitution makers
Jake Hamon was not placed on ihS
election board 10 steal for the Re
aublIcans. nor thought fear that tho
nesrvrratic members would steil fol
the Democrats, he was placed there
because the governor Of the stfte bad
no alternative under the Law. COY
ernor Hasktll had appointed a mar
named Allen of Muskogee 4 clear
man and one against whom there i
no ground for suspicion. His owl
violation would have dictated that
such a nsan as Frank Greer OF, sucI
man as Jake namon, both Of whan
are charged with being political rnis
creants. was moi the proper person
Put the famous honest elec.it A. con
ference az III Reno came on and tat
resolutions the Republicans praParCt
sssa lad socialists endorse severslJ
exoriated the governor for choosing
clean man like Allen and gnorlDg tbs
wishes OF the election boars 1hs
excofiating clause was expurgatef
from the resolutions and the soyern
or listened to the dIciation - ih,
committee and appointed a man Wrt
niands charged IN the ewes Of thela
tion with offering United Ssafi
-~-..tc-. h'srannr w'fh -
Anme and a clean record. $4,000
Niihdfaw his opposition to IA inlqoI