The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-18
MERELY CAMPAIGN
OF BEEF AND ABUSE
Northern Ok|shOma Republicans
lnCsnsHd al Present
Campaign


NewMrk, Okla, Oct lS Northern
oklahoma Republicans are not sills-
Led Win the general promises Of tho
state platform and an, demanding 10
know FOR what sneclnc Legislative re-
forms the nominee for governor
stands Aside from questions OF ni-
tonal interest ble PLATFORM promises
nothing but is devoted TO abuse OF
the Democratic administration. IL
tae Democrats have enacted any bad
laws or have been negligent in their
cifors to control recalcltrant public
service corporations. Republicans
want 20 know what McNeal would do.
This matter suggested itself to a
kay county member OF the county or
ganzation. In Nickerson, Kansaz re-
Gently Governor Stnbbs, who Is cam.
paigning for recollection said:
One Of the most important planks
IN the Republican state platform IS
that plank plcdging state control OF
statewide utilities. II | am elected
governor again shall use all my In
iluence to have such a bill passed
Want to SEQ the scope of the railroad
commission enlarged so that body
nay have control OF all public util-
les. In this connection Wish to call
Your attention TO the great adyant-
age the iailioads llways have enjoy.
ed In Kansas over the public
Kansas RaYs several millions OF
dollars q year more than Il should In
freight rates, even granting thai the
railroads need all tAc reyerue they
receive. Tho state Is discrimlnated
against II cost much more 10 opor-
atc q road In Missouri than Ia Kan
sas, and yet the moment the Kansas
line Is reached from The erst the
freight rates are advanced from ) TO
loo per cent
What VIII MeNeal Dor
Northern Oklahoma Republicans
want 10 know of Joe McNem II would
he be elected governor. he will try
10 enforce the antitrust law Of Ok
Hh0Ha and back ~ the other eol
poratipncDutr0iling laws and corpora
tion commission. or will hts efforts
be used 10 repeul some OF those laws
Since McNeal signed appeal bonds
for railroad that were opposing the
f"elghtfate schedules Of the corpora
ton ennmissian aud the two-cent
passenger fare provision Of the con-
stlmtOn, Northern Oklahoma Repub-
llcans want 20 know II he would up
hold the laws of the state and fight
the railroads that he has supportedy
II he doesn't get into this section
and eire satisfactory answers pretty
soon le'l lose several thousand Re-
publican votes These Republicans
are not Interested in McNeals abuse
Of the Democratic administration.
That administration Is nearly all his
tory The important question Is
whether or nor McNeal will act for
The corporations or the people
The state Republican platform con-
sHts OF about 5000 words and Of this
number 500 words are devoted 70 an
endorsement Of national policies and
2na words to an Arrangement of the
state administrations They have
brought rcproach hpne the fair name
of Oklahoma SAWS the platform IN
me e2o0 cScirating words az home
and ahroad, driven capital and inni-
grafton from the state. injured our
credit so that private and public Sc
curiiies are drug On the market"
The only fight of any considerable
Importance tdat the Democratic par
tia Oklahoma has had since state
HOOD was in defiance Of liberty seek
ing public service corporations that
sought menace to home rule. Prac-
licallx every wise corporation-regula-
ton law OF the statute has been con-
tested In federal court II then the
siates credit has heen reproaehed,
argue itese Republicans. ii has been
reproaehea through encroachmenfs 0f
corporations aided hy Republican
jpdges ami suth Republicans IN okla
hcma as McNeal who wants 10 be gov
eraor. The verv things that the cor
pofatian press had opposed--and lt
Is thu corporation press that has In
rieted the damage on the fair name
OF the corporation press that has in-
flicted tse damage on the fair name
o. the new state--are what q Resub-
lican candidate for governor IN ran
sas is asking for The contract be-
tween the policy OF Governor Stubbs
and tha. Of McNcsl Il so married that
the platf0rmcof Republican party IA
kansas and 1 Republican party in Ok
lahoma are different 10 dagree that
one 10 the north looks Ike IL bad
bsNll NlitleA es LalAuesats. - 49,
insurgency Different Type
insurgency In Northern Oklahoma
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