The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-05

no apologies to make for the money
they have spent for education and that
the republican platform fails to make
a single pledge in behalf Of the boys
and girls.
u. w McNeal is bondsman for some
Of the railroads that have attacked our
laws, and that TO the extent OF tens
Of thousands Of dollars said Mr..
Cruee. And yet he wants you TO put
him in power to enforce the laws Of
the state against the very corporations
whom he has assisted in their efforts
to successfully resist and annul those
laws, thereby forcing a fight In direct
opposition to his original policy and
making him liable to the loss Of his
hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
republicans declare that the railroads
made reasonable profits while oDerat-
ing under the two-cent passenger fare,
and their platform declares they favor
reinstatement OF the two-cent fare, yet
the incongruity OF their stand is mani
fest BY the selection OF candidate to
fiji the platform who as official bonds
man for the railroads has aided them
in opposing the very thing the platform
stands for, and the official bondsman
wants the powers Of a governor that
he may carry out that platform.
"The republican candidate went
over the state preaching against the
adoption of the grandfather clause
amendment, and now he wants you 10
make him governor 50 that he can en-
force that amendment since It's adop-
ton.
The siren song Of more business
and less politics was sung by Mark
Hanna in his fight for the interests In
1896. Il was sung by John y. Rookie
Teller in the early 7O'a when be was
laying the foundation for the oil trust.
II was sung by Andrew Carnegie when
he was building the great steel trust.
1t was surg by J. Pierpont Morgan In
his campaign FOR greater power IN max
ing still greater trusts than all these.
That song was sung during the terri
torial days in Oklahoma when labor
was crying for just child-labor aud fel-
low-seryant laws, but they had to wait
for a democratic administration to get
their prayers heard. It was sung when
they were selling your warrants t6f IS
cents on the dollar, the warrants that
you had to gather up after statehood
and redeem at 100 cents on the dollar.
If 1t is honest business they want. then
am for it. If It is honest we can't
have too much OF it; II Il is dishonest,
we can't have too little Of L."
Referring durin mis- great speech
10 The republicans slogan Of more
business and less politics. United
States Senator Gore. who followed Mr..
cruce, declared that the people OF Ok.
lahoma have sense enough, have capac-
lty enough and have patriotism enough
to attend to their own business" and
that they needed no machine dlctai!cn
as TO how they should do Il. I'VE want
more legitimate business and less IL
legitimate politics" he said, and We
want more legitimate politics and less
illegltimate business. During territorial
days the people we're dominated by cor
porations and the corporations friends
and the business they did was tremen.
dous and their politics scandalous.
This is a struggle between the prIvi.
legged classes and the unprlvilegcd
masses and Il Is raging IN Oklahoma
the same as It is raging throughout the
restof this republic. Greed seeks to
plunder the laws Of need. Tie classes
get something for nothing and the
masses part with something for moth.
ing" srA
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