The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-21
WHAT THE GOVERNOR KNOWS

IN calling an extra session OF the
gislature to take action on state
capital location. Governor Haskell
places great stress on the election OF
June llth last, saying the people
voted By majority OF $4,000 to
change the seat Of government from
Guthrie 70 OklaaUm9 City But he
does not 90 into an analysis of that
election, nor does he touch upon the
very patent change OF sentiment adj
verse to Oklahoma City-even In Ok
lahoma City itself-since that fateful
election day. Apart from the fact that
there was no disposition on the part
Of the people Of the state TO agitate
capital location until the vexatious
questions incident to state establish,
ment had been disposed of, or at least
until 1913, unfair advantage OF Guth-
rie as the temporary seat of govern
ment was seized by the lawyers fran.
ing the bogus initiative bill and by
the tom-tom beaterS of Oklahoma
City In the campaign that followed
II is unnecessary to revamp the
charges made and never refuted per
tanning 20 the frame-ups and jokers
contained in the bill--it is of that
'flattering $4,000 majority morseled
with so much JUNCTION by the governor
In the absence Of the official returns,
we must accept the figures at their
face value How did Oklahoma City
achieve any majority at all? BY
downright lying. chicanery and mia
laprorantaffa "a rut IL p1oinI.- ot,.
unequiyoeally No sooner was the
purported capital location bill signed
than Oklahoma City turned loose
on the state 500 picked and paid men
10 defame Guthrie, to utter spurious
representations and chiefly TO voice
Sidney Brooks slogan OKLAHOMA
CITY WANTS THE CAPITAL; WE
WANT TO WIN TN THIS ELECTION
But We DO NOT WANT THE CAP
lTAL MOVED UNTIL 1918.
on that specous shibboleth alone
Oklahoma City received 10000 to co.
900 votes.
SO the governors contention THAI
the people have already intelligently
voted on the bill once. and that the
legislature should definitely settle the
matter is not well founded The
people voted tbs true, but they voted
under misrepresentation they ac-
cepted at face the representations OF
the leading business men, speaking
tor and in behalf of the city whicl
conceived the bill and laid the trap
to become the chief beneficiary Of the
initiated measure
In that campaign OF misrepresenta-
ton. Guthrie Mas not wholly blame
less, because through political trick
sters, the ground work had been laid
for prejudice against this town by the
nearo-onlcial cry. The Oklahoma
lClty boosters seized on this cry witt
avidity and by quickly proving its alb
solnte truth, forced it to serve as the
/ foundation for tiers Of unbus 3in'
false oods II field campaigns Tho
bHadest argument Is that made ~
half truth and half Ialsehood An,
the Guthrie negro-office-holder propa
ganda flew over Southern Oklahomi
ike 4 cyclone And tie same argl
ment viii be utilized IN eorraliing th'
extra session. But the fact remain
/ that the people have never truly an,
honestly and ntelliuent,y voted oi
,ne capital location. They were sim
ply goldbricked and fed poison by OK
ahoma City real estate speculators
The same capital bill. cured of its le
cal defects but retaining its verbiagt
submitted again to the people woull
be defeated by 100000 majority An
Et-e governor knows II. And If III,
1 governor has his way the people vii
not get q whack at capital bill 0
any kind, shape or color