The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-25
REPUBLICAN MACHINE BO|LS WITH RAGE.
At PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDE Of TIMES

Oklahoma City, Okla, Oct. 24.-The
republican state machine Is disp, cas-
ed with the Oklahoma City Times,
which has been fearlessly conducted
by Omer Benedict along progressive
lines and in harmony with the repub-
lican of such men as Beveridge, La
Folette, Bristow, Cummins, Clapp,
Murdoch, Poindexter and the oiher
patriots who have dared wave the red
flag of insurgency in the faces of the
Aldrich- Observation-Disclosures stand
pat organization, whose motto has
been "let the corporations rule"
Benedict has lately been pouring
forth some editorial hot shots at the
sort of republicanism as is advocated
by such unreliable newspapers as the
Guthrie capital, under subsidy of the
Interests" and the little coterie OF
bankers and federal job hunters who
| have banded together in close cor
poration under the tattered banner I
Santa Fe Joe" McNeal and have
dubbed themselves the "Republica or
ganizatIon.'
or course the republican voters Of
the state take exceptions to the gangs
attempt to browbcat the rank and file
of voters and to "hog" all the federal
offices in sight and put them In
pickle TO be held out as future induce
ments for the boys who prove faithful
TO the gang and the corporate inter
ests OF the state,
For sometime the republican ma
chine has gone about with a grouchy
gloom overspreading its facial map
and dire threatenlngs have been heap
ed upon the head of Editor Benedict
who has been branded as a traitor TO
the plraucal crew that has been at
tempting to wreck the good ship Re
publican" upon the shoals and rocks
of corporate greed.
1t has Just been learner that the
machine in its desperation is trying
to buy the Oklahoma City Times,
change its name to the state Cap
ital" place the salntlike Frank Greer
IN the editorial chair, damn every
thing democratic, read the republican
insurgents out of the party and in the
confusion that IS expected to arise,
grab. throw, tie, brand and corral the
republican organization and open
federal job employment bureau for the
fellows that will bend the knee and
grovel in the dust at the feet of Car
Harris and his throne attendants.
II Is all very pretty scheme and
could have been worked out by none
other than some bright satellite of the
Interests" which seek to throttle the
future prosperity Of the people OF Ok
lahoma both politically and otherwise.
The leading merchants Of Oklaho-
ma City say they want none of the
Greer brand OF politics in the metrop'
oils OF the state, that Grccr's news
paper has done more TO kill the pros
peritv OF Guthrie than any other one
thing and that through the medium Of
Greor's paper, with its columns of VI.
lifcation and slander of the best cit!-
zens OF Oklahoma, the republican Nar-
tv has fallen into bad repute not only
within the borders OF the state but
throughout the United States as wei.
It is such newspapers as the Gu'h-'
rie Capital that have been making OK .
lahoma ridiculous in the eyes of the
world and there Is no question nut
that the Greer publication has dore
more in the past three years towards
halting railroad construction work
and the establishment Of employment
giving industries in the state than
any other medium.
Truth is foreign TO the Guthrie zap
ital and republicans, disguised VIII .
the methods OF the machines Official
organ. have been deserving the stand
nat republican ranks in droves and
are this year going to join forces with
the army OF democracy and once and
for all stamp out the last vestiges OF
gang gag rule as established by those
disciples OF corporation slavery. Joe |,