The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-17
oklahoma clty's sohpistry
Tulsa Worthy

(Tulsa Worlty M @}1N
In its fight for the state captai
/ Oklahoma City should at least stick
To the issue and not add an insult @
| tie voters intelligence in addition 10
the injury it steadfastly proposes 10
20 him. The Following appeal to pre-
judlce, taken from the Oklahomalb ~
tcalculated to cloak the weakness Oh
lthe capital location scheme: '7' w
There are some things that the peo-
\ PIE Of what was formerly the lndlai
Territory Should relnembcr in this
slate capital location contest. -
They should remember that Okla
Iona CITY was from the first and al
ways al the front in the battle fpf
single statehood, and Guthrie was not
Oklahoma City business men gave
financial aid toward the condnct q
The campaign for single stat mood,
Oklahoma City newspapers constant
4 ~ champione1 theseause nB siaRP
4 statehood M %6
They should also rememuafg 1li9r
Guthrie newspapers and Guthrie poll.
/ ticians from first to last opposed sin
gle statehood and declared that lR-
dian Territory's people were alnosl
entirely of the illiterate and criminal
classe5.
VIII the people of the East Side
forget these slurs?
We hardly think So 'r
Granting that all the Oklahoman
here AYERS is true it can not proper
" have any bearing on the present
capital location scheme, which Is oD-
ieeted to, not on the grounds of favor
to one or prejudice of another of the
contestants, but because the scheme
is:
/. A breach Of good faith, in that
il proposes to controvert that pro-
vision OF the constitution which locat-
ed the state capital at Guthrie until
1918 /.
/ .. The most dangerous -piece, OF
Legislation ever proposed to a people.
in that il bears on its face a deter
nination 10 raid the state treasury,
establish a reign Of graft, destroy one
community, not for the benefit Of the
state or any tax payer, but for the
iurther enrichment Of single section,
; and to tax the whole expense, not
against oklahoma CiH property own
ers, who would be the sole and only
beneficalies, but against John Jones,
Of Ellis county: Dick Smitlf Of OF
tawa county, Bill Brown, qstudycur-
tain county, and every oV. the =
land owner in the state. bf Mu-
Outside Of the precinctsto our
homa City this capital locatiNthef
addresses itself to the voter Nitar
terms: sim
1. Is there any public necesAn-
the state capital TO be changdp
this time? If so, what is that necss.
sity?
2. Will /, as a tax pyaer already
burdened to the limit, be benefited In
proportion to the cost?
3. Guthrie has been assured OF the
capital until 1913; it is so written in
the constitution. The constitutional
D.. convention spoke for the entire state,
and can |, as citizen Of the state,
vote now to repeal what is made i'm
POSSIBLE Of repeal, without doing vio-
lcnce to my own integrity for no othi
er purpose than TO iomoye the cap
ital less than fifty miles, further bur
den my own property and do an in
justice TO one community for no 9TH
er purpose than to further enrich an-
ether community?
And the conclusion being reached
by nine out OF everysten xoters not
allied with Oklahoma City in some
waR,.is just this:
The present capital buildings at
Guthrie a,e costing the state not
cent. Guthrie erected them and plac-
ed them at the disposal Of the state
free of cost Therefore. there is no
necessity for change al this time.
\ will vote against the whole propo-
ston, leaving the question open for
lunpreiudiced consideration at some fu-
ture time when my interests may be
\ more carefully safeguarded.
And a great majority of the votes
Will be cast along that line.
As to Guthlie having fought single
!. statehood while Oklahoma City fav-
I cred it there is just this to SAY.
| Guthrie was then thesState capital and
was conducting a selfish fight. The
Only Teason that OKLAHOMA City threw
its influence stb the side of u
statehood was because OklahopH
1 did not possess the capy1m
thought by 50 doing 1t was snes .sngs
lits selfish interest.
viii Oklahoma City or the Oklas
uoman pretend that il was artuated
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