The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-12
SAYS TIE iASURGEAT
TO THE STAADPATTEn
Each Gives the Why's and
WheTGi0rGS Of ihG Re-
publican Waterloo
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special to Daily Leader.

oQe&ldt 70 Dally Leader.
Washington, , 6lGl, Feb II Im
agne The next house of representa-
tyes Democratic BY a substantial ma
ioriiyS Champ ClalK Is speaker and I
Underwood Of Alabama is the Dem
ocralc floor leader
An insurgent meels a G.. o. P.
andpatte in The corridor Of the
capitol Says the lnsurgent:
Wen, Il happened! And II was
just as told you slandpatters il
would be You have been wiped Off
the political map Tawney Of Mime
sofa Il gone, Smith Of Iowa is gone,
ana the few members OF the old
standpat bunch Chat did get back can
count their maiorities on one hand
Bus is. serves you fellows right You
had ample warning You allowed
I Cannon and Aldricl % throttle every
1piece sof progressive legislation thai
4 came tup. and the public was on 70
! you al every jump in the road You
I cVised the tariff upward when You
oven tben you We're not satisfied With
The pYedIcanen YOU found yourself
IN You capped tie climax by hay
ing President Taft declare the AID /
( rich-payne-Smoot Dill to Do the best /
tariff measure ever enacted into law {
when as a matter OF fact even the
\ Aaalican school ehildren knew the
biti was filed with iokers conceived
10 rob the people, for the thieving
sugar trust and other tariff benehcl
aries was absolutely certain that
ne pnhic would whack YOU over your
political heads at the very first Op-
Dcaunity And they dad
Then the regular gives his version
81 Il, els follows
n tea my friend OF HE Yves
that YOU do nor apply the law Of
cause ana effeci % the situation. Tie
defeat of he regular organization wTs
dHe 10 IS few reiOrmefs and traitors
who called themselves Republicans
bu, We're really Democrats Pretend
ing to be Republicans, they learned
e All OF the organization secrets and
then staged IN on campaign OF
I blabbing instead Of fighting the thing
3 out in caucus as they should have
T. done and as they would have done
r. had they been Republicans with the
saod q. the parts al hear You fell
. lows acted Ike Democrats from The
start, and lncle Joe called the risn
\ em oa Yoa when he called you Dem
, ccrat5 You mention the sugar iok-
er. 30 you know how much money
3 he sugar people contributed TO tAe
I Repubican campaign fund? II you
3. duut. rGu hadn't Oueh 70 say q
q Wcfd The sugar Joker. my fiend,
4 ana avery other piece of legislation
T. abaNt eAich yoH complained, was f,lh
soluteiy necessary 10 brig in cam
X paign funds by making sucn a
n hevl over these particular features
h of he tariff bin, YOU only directed
attention TO the organization busi-
! pess methods With the result that
NJ Republican yolels deserted MS by
If resimens The result Of your
Il Weetcfed politics Is that the pres
y ent house is Democratic, and The
n peA President IS mighty likely 10 be
q. ol The same religion Shame on the
Il Insurgents
% Jusi hen along comes Uncle Joe.
{. Who has been defeated Tor re-elec
Z ion but has opened lobby In Wash
ngton for Standard Oil and the liquor
"a ne0plc The standpatier appeals tc
u he old gentlemen with the stogie
n but the laUer waves him o one SIDE
y saying that he has made his millions
/, and has thcrcf0re assumed the Gus
u -0Wa~y "nublic he damned attitude
Even She Republicans are not find
!, ing 4 50 hard 10 imagine The mex
house Democratic especially whci
- they sop 10 consider--first the re
~ suit OF the recent congressional e'eo
:" zion IN the Sixth Missouri district
1' where 100 per cent gain was mad
~ by Dickinson, he Democratic cand
" date: second-the result OF the SUE
cess magazine straw ballot whic
= showed 517 Republicans apnrorin
no and G.3t3 Republicans disapnrovin
the attitude Of Aldrich (Which WA
at approved by President Tafb on til
or tariff: and ihirl--the reducing OF b
majority OF the Republican goyernc
Of Massachusetts, in an election
which ,he new tariff law was th
b, nle ISSUE from 60N00 10 5000
4 tshonld moi BIZ owe looked al,af h
i 4 tiggilers 4bhahe sivili Mfssouribnksl lsin
cO.3wllp reimdiafed abaiy Payne Hlblel
i5. Sm0oh INV ave at fhc presentaH tim
IS, receiving high prices for butter an
ng eggs grain and livestock. and i wa
aft this class Of voters the Republican
ST. he'd expected 10 fna enthuslastlcali
No emlcrsing tariff revision upward.
ler
en- w ndirali0ns ala inht flesluti
T7t' expects 10 be his own saeeesse
ee R0rtmasfer General Frank Hilcheoc
- Il s'eamrUllsring from early mornin
~ riehs end every day VI the wee
nafiing mon who viii support lalt .
<. 30 mex Renubiican national conye
,c ltlan inln Fedesal positions, and kee
Ing owl men who have the lea