The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-26
SITUATION IN ST MIA0LE
AND THE LAY OF M'GUIRE
How Big Bulls Of the Machine
Mix lite Dope tIr
the People

They were sitting in Republican
state headquarters, State Chairman
Jim Harris and Honest Election"
Jake Hamon.
You were speaking the other day"
said Jake, "about my staying with
you, old pay, have concluded to
stay with you until the dispensary
goes dry or the Canadian river runs
red with negro biooo in Seminole
county My reputation is that ! new
er desert friend OF course, you
understand. on the quiet. that did
have to turn Gore down, but then he
forced me TO do 1t by saying naughty
things about me. Yes, jim, Ill stay
with you.''
''How's everything at the election
board headquarters" asked Jim.
That fellow, Seth Gordon, watches
me like a hawk. He mus; think /
am an awful man. He wouldn't even
let me have some sample ballots TO
look at. haven't been able to find
that anything crooked is going on, but
started something the other day and
got my name in the State Capital.
You know I've got to make good, Jim,
and we had as well start something
whether there's anything crooked or
not. What do you think that guy,
Gordon said TO lie? He said: Jake
DO you expect to stand around here
and be an ornament to this board
Why don't YOU get your coat off and
pitch in here and help ship out these
ballots?' Jim. didn't come up here
expecting to do any menal labor;
/ came to keep my eye on the Demo
cratic members of the board. doncher-
know. | didn't give Gordon any cause
to order me about like was a slave
simply asked him when we drawed
our pay. and he insultcd ne by or
lering me to get to work.'
What do you think about Seminole
county?"
The Negro Question.
ITO hell with Seminole county. as
you said about Roosevelt: (and so say
u they've got us skinned to death
down there this year. You understand
this, Jim. that the Democratic party
have every advantage in the world
we are in pretty mess-ssd while
some of that Seminole county stuff
may sound like dope, we cant get
around the facts. The negroes, arm
ed with guns and whiskey nave al
ready begun an insurrection and the
first thing you know the descent white
people of this state will rise up IN
their wrath and smite every negro low
er that bobs up; and Jim, don't Won
know they're liable TO get Joe McNeal
and Bird MeGuire about the first ones.
Old Chappie McNeal. he fixed the
thing fine for us when he got into the
bond-signing business while ago.
They can beat Us on that. but this
negro business Is likely to ruin us for.
ever. Jim, we're in the wrong party
this year Lord. how / wish. as Wal
ter Ferguson says. we could get our
Republicanism on straight
Whom do you think we nad best
try 10 saye?"
Bird Mcclure, by all means" ex-
aulted Jake. He's the truest friend
We have. and he stood by me nobly
In that congressional investigation.
What, do we, you and me, care aJout
Craeger? We have been dictated to
long enough In Oklahoma by the big
bosses of Ohio, Illinois and New
York That was all right in territorial
days when the big ones we're shipping
carloads of appointees into the terri
tories so that they could pay political
obligations and give the Republicans
decent showing after state hood
You know Joe Cannon shipped Char
ley Creager moo Indian territory and
got him some kind of clerkshp in
the Indian agency, and when the fight
started on Cannon he picked up Creag
en- and got him sent to Congress that
lie might support the old duck and
help him hold his seat. Creager does
not amount to much and we won't lose
a great deal when We drop him. Be
sides he deserted me in my hour OF
need when that committee was in Ok
lahoma.
"But my beloved Bird, jim, must