The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-29
Build the viaduct.
GETTING WEARY

Poor jim HarrlS inherited more
than tie cloak OF 10 Norris. Unless
bis friends are mistaken and the ap-
pearances indicate they are not,
Chairman James Harris Of the Re
publican state committee is rapidly
Nearin down TO what the East side
fellows describe as @frazzle" Hals
is took command OF about the worst
disosganized ship of partisanism that
was ever able to sail the waters OF
politics. 1t was a committee that
could not be gotten together For SO
many years the postmasters nave
been meeting for the committee that
many members do not know that they
were appointed with the idea they
we're TO ever have TO attend state
meeting of their body.
A. the Guthrie meeting the post
skaefsA ss,psered b flecks and rep
'1utcd with a red-ho. felet that fairly
took the epijermis of Harris They
declared Tor all that is, was, or likely
10 be In the fo'castlc of the Republic
an ship. Then, to make things look
well Mashingtonward. they iesoluted
for Cannon, Aldrich, TAFT and wha'-
ever else might draw better pay and
cause another job to float Oklahoma
ward.
TINS completed, the postmastets
shook hands with themselves, told
Harris what they would expect him
10 do and returned TO the towns
whore they draw their pay
Ilnsa1 t,nnr tha f.pnlc ~ tlal .uu1p
announcement FROM Washington that
Congressman Mo gan had turned IN
Snrgent. He said so and made The
Ia0re ridiculous by asson'
ing thal had always been his pro
gram
Ahen the shock had shaken some
uf The postlDastefs TO the very verge
OF nervous prostration, Mcclure aisc
made declaration 10 effect that ht
was for Theodore Roosevelt for speak
az OF the house of representatives
More experienced than Morgan, ne
uid not state he WAS progressive
himself. but declared The popularity
OF Roosevelt in the Southwest caused
him to make The statement personal
~ thinking that the present speaker
is All right in every respect.
But the sting is the desertlon Ol
Harris and his standpat session ol
the postmasters. The state com.
mtice meeting has been made joke
The most prog essiye state OF th'
Southwest wltn n.nety-iiye per ceni
OF tie Republican party being tsvor
able to the progressive SIDE Of tina
party, is actually on record as beins
sgandpat state, and the congress
men who caused the committee 10 Sc
resoiute have slipped into the progress
siye column where they appear com
Portable and happy.
Theodore Roosevelt is the progress
siye Of all plogressiyes and announce
ment that ne would favor him Or on
like him for speaker has placed Nc
Guire firmly In the lap OF progressive
Repubicanism He has even out
generated the opposition, because op
posing aspirants have been consider
ate enough to declare they are M
more progressive than President Tat
and are therefore only progressive 70
candidacy purposes. # they be lik'
the President. Mcclure a know
standpaiter. rides the great progres
sive stallion around the political rae
course, leaving the progressiyes an
James Harris, state chairman. at tn
quarter post.
Harris is weary.
Harris may be still worse. TOO.
ANYHOW NJ. Harris of somewher
over In Eastern Oklahoma has bee
introduced 10 the jumping frog of OF
Oklahoma Republican politics, and h
finds the route too jer<y, the wa
dark and the future blocked with foi'
bodings of an evil nature.