The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-30
BUNCH
SOLID FOR ROOSEVELT
REPUBLICANS IN THE STATE
ARE BADLY SPLIT UP-EVEN
McNEAl IN BAD PLIGHT.

Oklahoma City, Okla. Sept. so
Insurgency and standpatism have
not yet taken on concrete form in
this state and the lines Of division
have not been drawn. If Roosevelt
is nominated for president in 1912,
and believe he will be, he will carry
Oklahoma. 1t would mean a complete
change in republican party leaders
and management in the state and the
retirement of all the present rcpub-
hcdn members of congress-
Thus H. G. Disney of Muskogee,
clerk of the United States court of
the eastern district, expressed him.
self regarding the republican situa-
ton as result of the Roosevelt vie.
tory in Now York. Disney is a pro
gressive and would be a leader of his
district were it not for the untoward
conditions that Chairman Jim Harris
has brought about
by his victory in New York state
Theodore Roosevelt has performed
his highest service to the republican
party of the nation" said Judge Mil
ton c. CARRIER, progressive leader in
the First Congressional District. His
victory is one in which an average
man feels that he is direct benefi-
ciary and in which patriotic citizens
everywhere should rejoice"
One of two things is proven b.
the Roosevelt victory; the progress
ives in Oklahoma while rejoicing Sc
cretly have no inclination TO discuss
the matter for the reason that by
their very inactivity and silence they
do not become parties to the predi t.
ed political assassination of jim IIar-
r,s. thus saving the guilt and the
shame from any man by permitting
metamorphoses that makes assassi-
nation suicide; or they are complete
ly bowed by the stubborn CZarism
of Harris, superinduced by the knowl-
edge OF manipulation possessed by
Jake Hamon of LawtOn, legal ad-
wiser OF the state committee and
Bird S. Mcclure, the erstwhile ay-
erage citizen but the dude congress
man of the First district.
The former view is preferable,
for il is based upon the statement
of a PaNnee insurgent to the effect
that Jim Harris is making such a
ass of himself he needs
no adverse prodding 10 drive him to
the fatal goal This Pawnee man
declared that Roosevelt himself wants |
no demonstration from the progress /
ives of Oklahoma at this time; he /
merely wants insurgent votes cast .
against standpat nominees for con-
,ress. 1t is Roosevelt's desire that
he old guard meet defeat in No
,emher in as many as possible oi
hese states where standpatters won
he nominations, so that within the |
next two years the disloyal to the |
doctrines of the New Nationalist |
may be picked out by the work they
lid IN this campaign and the pro /.
sressives placed in the seats Of the /
mighty.
The Pawnee man was Rough
Rider, a comrade of the former pres
ident and the Rough Rider of his cal .
ibre usually know whereof they
speak. Point out to me, said ne, |
.anv rough riders in Oklahoma who
are aiding Harris in this campaign
Point out any prominent rough riders
who have ben hOnored by Harris |
The followers of Roosevelt on San
Juan Hill are politically wise in their
and their wisdoms best /
companion is security. Wherever You
ind one of them in Office or filling
an appointment he is assured that
President Taft doesn't care to re-
move for lack of cause, nor would |
lin Harris or Jake Hamon attempt |
i. I am exposing secrets / know, but .
he brazenness of Harris and Nc
ruire compels the most reticent Of
men to speak in behalf of their /
rights"
The theory therefore that the pro- |
gressives in Oklahoma understand
,oob o4bor In their reticent attitude |