The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-02
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The people of Oklahoma are alike
interested in the permanent location
or the state capitol building insofar
as it relates to the cost thereof.
That q coterie of townlot grafters
had options on certain sites in or near
Oklahoma City and have long pro-
posed to pull off great coup, using
the growth and achievements of the
state metropolis as their bulwark,
has long been known TO the well in |
formed
That this coterie would attempt tol
deceive the people was best known byl
the calibre of the man composing the
outfit, Is not matter which admits
OF argument
Although no one ever dreamed the
outfit would present to the people so
fragrant an attempt to despoil as the
bill we are to vote on June II, 1t was
rot wholly unexpected being just a
trifle worse than honest men contem-
plated the grafters would dare offer
10 the voters of the state for their
IS consideration.
The result should be the ignomini-
Gus defeat of the measure.
Not one in five of the taxpayers
cares where the state seat of gov
ernment is located; the expense OF
one dollar to relocate is detrimental
to that extent.
The remaining voters must consid-
er conyeniences and the methods EN-
ployed to secure; cost, and what is
the difference as between locations.
Inasmuch as the present bill was
drawn by Oklahoma City residents
and importations: 1t must be stood
for by Oklahoma City townlot graft
ers: no other community of the state
: eer would or ever will indorse 1t. the
statement this Is race between
three cities must of necessity be
branded as false and wholly so.
For three years the taxpayers OF
this state may be able to have their
temporary capital in Guthrie at the
nominal expense of all office rents
Of $1,000 per annum. They know this:
it is contract and one neither the
state authorities nor the city officials
of Guthrie or the county commission
aIIars OF Logan county wish to dissolve,
eIJnfer the terms OF the Ledworser
proposed bill is adopted, will be, for
the known list of costs, as follows
Three commissioners for three
years, .soo'Voo
Ton assistants .. 10000
Expense of surveyors (wholly
illegaD ................ 5o,oo0
Cost of details 10 be gone over
again in 1914 ............ S0,Vuo
T,taI .......s2 s2O6, 900
No one knows the additional cost
no one dares to say; no one knows
vhat sort of game is beneath the
deal to vote into being a capitol 10,
cation that has neither legal or moral
elect. no one knows what 1t will cost
In commence-no one dare predict
the cost of letting go, at
Il should be the part OF the voters
Tn vote for the greatest good TO the
greatest number-to hold down tne
= / capitol location kpntu the legislature
4 ksctings in accordance with an IRE
vocable agreement with the govern
ment of the United States. passes q
measure to enable the legal solution
OF the question.
Let's be Just. You can not tak'
the capital from Guthrie for three
years. Then, when the time comes
The aspirants will state to the people
of Oklahoma what they can and VII
do. and contract at that time Is
binding. Moreover, any present agree
uent Is a farce-one that may de
ceiye the voter but will pass no cour'
of record: no justice dare rule ID
favor of it. 1t is verify the crime OF
1910. Vose II down.
Vote mo"