The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-11

Guthrie, Okla, June IL. = At the
close of most strenuous campaign,
friends and opponents of the two in
itiated propositions to be voted upon
in the special election today are bend
ing every effort to get out full vote
of their adherents. The battle royal
will center about the question OF adopt
ing or rejecting the Oklahoma City
capital location bill because of the
$500, 900 appropriation which is carried
by the bill and because of the vital
interest of three Of the leading cities
of the state, Oklahoma City, Guthrie
and Shawnee.
A lively but more quiet campaign
has been conducted for and against
the proposed Carter amendment to
the constitution, supported by the fed
Grated Commercial Clubs, which if
adopted will enable new railroad COM
panies to sell their lines to the older
and larger roads, will relieve foreign
transportation and transmission COM
panies of the necessity of establishing
general offices in the state and will
give foreign railroad corporations the
right of eminent domain. 1t is impos-
sible to forecast the result with any
degree of definiteness on either ques-
ton, as much depends upon the ques-
tion as to whether the farmers of the
state who are in the midst Of big
harvest in the northern portions of the
state and are busy "chopping" cotton
in the southern portion, will get out
and vote. The fact that the election
is held on Saturday and that it is a
special election in which political
lines are not drawn also tends to make
the results a matter of speculation.
There is no question but that the
Oklahoma City capital location bill has
gained strength rapidly toward the
end of the campaign in the cities and
towns of the southern and western
parts of the state Oklahoma City, up
on the eve of the election, is claiming
large majorties in every section of the
state, except in the northeast, where
it expects to split the vote against the
bill Guthrie on the other hand is
claiming the northeastern, northern
and northwestern portions Of the state
and expects to carry portions of the
southern and southeastern sections
against the Oklahoma City bill. Shaw
nee is fighting hand in hand with Guth-
rie to defeat the proposition of locating,
the capital now and is claiming that
its speakers have won the southern
part of the state over, after it had
been talked into voting for the bill
by Oklahoma City boosters
An important consideration is spec
ulating upon what the result of the
election will be is the action of the su-
preme court which held on Thursday
that the petitions calling for an cleo
tion upon the New Jerusalem" plan
for locating the state capital are suffi-
cient. This assures the calling of an
election in the near future upon the
New Jerusalem" plan and even
though the Oklahoma City plan should
be adopted would have the effect OF
repeating the Oklahoma City bill which
is to be voted upon at the present
time. The New Jerusalem" idea, in
test vote that was taken about four
years ago, carried by large majority.
Senator Campbell Russell Of War
ner, father of the New Jerusalem"
bill, has spent every day Of his time
in the present campaign fighting the
Oklahoma City plan for locating the
state capital with the expectation of
getting his bill out of the entangle-
ments of the courts, which has now
happened The question now arises
how many former alherents of the
New Jerusalem" idea will now vote
against the Oklahoma City bill OH the
theory that the Oklahoma City plan
will not locate the capital now, as it
provides, but be subject to possible re-
peal at the hands of the people
through the New Jerusalem" bill?
Governor C. N Haskell, who has
thrown the weight Of his influence as
governor and personally into the fight
for the adoption of the Oklahoma City
bill can be thanked in Oklahoma City
for turning the tide Of sentiment in
favor of thhe bill if the Oklahoma City