The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-12
POLITICAL GANGSTERS
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION
Are GenulneIy Alarmed Over
Prospects Of Losing Their
"Sott Snaps

ine mass meeting OF cltlHenS nelu
last evening in the district court
loom for the purpose Of perfectlng a
comparison good government league
was largely attended and much en-.
tnusiasm prevailed, liberal voluntary
contributions being made to carry
on campaign for the adoption Of
The commission form Of government.
Meetings were arranged for every
night until the election on Friday
next.
A good government league waA
completed by the election Of offic.
ers. as follows
Councilman T. A. Higgins presl.
dent; I. B. Reeder, secretary; and
l.. H. Matohett. treasurer.
Tulsa Mayor viii Speak
Mayor John mitchell or Tulsa will
speak at the city hall Monday night
II answer to the charges made By ex-
Mayor Rohde of that place, in a
recent meeting called by Mayor
Farqnharson and his legal advisors
On the city pay roll
Among those present at the meet
ing last night were heavy taxpayers
or the city, all of whom declare that
the reckless and costly aldernanic
rule must be checked before the cred.
y Of the city Is entirely destroyed by
the ring in charge.
AT the meetings to be held IN the
district court room next week by the
Good Government league an oppor-
tunlty will be given for all persons TO
speak on either side Of the question.
Wlll Make Things Lively
Among the speakers will be fifteen
candidates, who have iiled as candi-
dates for election on the board that
viii draft the charter. local ministers
and influential business men of the
city, besides q number Of out-of-iown
speakers, including the mayors OF
Erid. Wichita, Aldmore and other
towns.
A big meeting has been planed for
Tuesday night in the City hall audi
torium when commission government
will be discussed by men familiar
with its success in other cities. Speak
ers who have lived under the old and
new systems of government al Houst
ON, Texas, wichita, Enid and other
/ places will be present.
Last evenings meeting was presld
cd over by Rev. j. K. Abernathy, pas
Tor Of the M. L. Church, South.
The Gsnqsters Are Desperate
The old guard municipal machine
\ battling for further control of the
city, met at the city council chamber
last evening and made heroic charge
and statements, In an effort 10 try
aud arouse partisan prejudice In Tho
coming freeholder election. Their
was a sharp division OF opinion as e
whether resolution should be pass
cd reading out those Republicans OF
the freeholder ticket for furtherinf
. cause that does not smack of par
tisanship.
City Committeeman Hamill presto
ed over the body and several of The
speakers swung off heavily in thei'
fear that the Republic would go Gown
were not the standard Of partisan
ship flying high from the Guthrie
city hall.
Bolcs Was Afraid OF
Judge Boles was t'l ato. Of thi
evening. and In the course OF his ad
dress expressed the fear, in event o
commission form of government be
ing voted into existence, that llbert,
would be SO cramped and housed 81
to die Of grief and close confinement
Grabbing his oratorical sword ant
mounting his chesnut sorrel charger
Cheap Ward Politics, the judge rod
down the publicity roadway in tlu
Paul Revere style. eliminating his ei
fort In statement that commission
fern of government wouly not onl'
Kill liberty but actually destroy life
Just how the distinguished jpfisi dil
not take The time to explain to hi
etithused audience.
9linf5rFnatiop or Startling Nature.
II Frank Greer elncidaied on the ire
4 mendous ability OF the present ad
ministiatio adding that Oklshom
City has commission form Of govern
ment and lt Ism failure. As no on
in the state metropolis had been IN
= formed that city was ever operate'
| under the commission form OF gov
+ crnmeni the news, wher II 'reache
< there. should be of considerable lMel
) est. iat
: An UpIiftcr To The Rescue
, eBlll'' Chappell made a character
7 istic speech. declaring his main OF
4 lection TO the commission form g
I government due 10 the dangers whic