The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-24
M'NEAL DEVOTED
TO CORPORA T|ONS
THEY ARE HIS PETS-HlS CAREER
SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN DEVOT-
ED TO THEIR INTERESTS.

Guthrie, Okla, oct. 23.-The fact
that Joe McNeal, republican nominee
for governor, has been nominated by
corporations during all his business
career mas contributed more to the
chmagrin of the state republican com
mittee than any other thing in thls
campaign. If the rank and file OF the
republican party believed as does Nc
Neal, that the railroads ought to nave
right OF way in Oklahoma, the can
didate would get a solid republican
backing. But the rank and file OF the
republican party believes with Cover
nor Stubbs of Kansas that the Taii-
roads are not entitled to trespassing
rights.
McNeal says he would be fair to cor
porations. Before statehood the re-
publican party, which dominated Okla
homa and doled out the millions OF
salaries to federal officeholders, was
fair TO corporations and the report OF
Attorney General Cromwell, one OF
those republican officeholders, shows
that the republican party permitted
the railroads to rob the people OF
$54OOO,O 900.
Fairness-republican tairness-to
the railroads before statehood permit
ted the roads to dump into Oklahoma
all of their useless rolling stock
worn out. unpainted, dilapidated pas
senger and freight cars that an en-
lightened and choosing people OF an
o-her section of the country would
not stand for, permitted roadbeds
that we're little worked and over whicn
tr.ins dared not run over ten or III
teen miles an hour; waiting rooms
cold. dirty and dingy, in which whites
and blacks mingled freely and walte'
for trains that never ran on time
freight rates that caused the peopl'
of western Oklahoma to pay 80 toi
for coal shipped from McAlester ina
sold in Kansas City for 81 per ton
, combinations of railroads and Goa
companies In restraint of trade una
nermitted the fixing of prices OF Goa
- to the consumer and the rates
which II should be hauled to IN
wholesaler and the retailer; discrih
tEcs. and the Nxf 81 tHnhiYust' st'iFtHH fFe1ti
=, schedules on livestock, farm product
{ and all commodities; three-cent pas
: sengcr fare-in fact absolute contro
of the situation where millions ant
millions of dollars were flowing into
the Golfers of the great railroad trust
No people under the sun in civil
lied community were ever before SO
unjustly treated as were the American
citizens that inhabited the territories
that comprise the new state. Yet eN-
erything that McNeal has done for the
railroads and everything that he prom
ises to do for them tends to restore
to them the un-American liberties
they enjoyed before statehood. Bleed
ing weary, down-trodden republican
Kansas is trying to eXtricate itself
from republican fairness to railroads,
McNeaI Not Progressive.
McNeal is branded as being too
cowardly to become a progressive. His
party in the nation is leaving its beat
en- paths as such men as Stubbs, cum
Minis. LaFollette and BeveridGe are
not afraid to say what they think
about railroad domination and corpor'
alton reform. Practically every repu0-
lican nominee for governor in the Uni
ted States, except McNeal, stands for
reform-the sort of reform that Will
take the nation from the blighting
grasp OF unholy corporations. But
McNeal stands for nothing but what
he terms ant-Haskellism, democratic
extravaganza and democratic misman-
agement
1t requires the service of a man
politically shrewd to successfully COM
bat the army of political miscreants
that sought from the day that state
hood came until this hour 10 slander
the police officials and blight its name
throughout the nation. 1t took Has
kell TO make the first administration
successful and the people, regardless
OF political affiliations, know that the
administration has been successful
The remarkable prosperity of the state
has been attested by practically every
republican newspaper and every re-
publican business man in the state.
On the stump in Sapulpa last spring
c. G. Homes of Oklahoma City, who
afterwards became republican can
didate for governor and was defeated
by the Vaccinations of the Harris or
ganization, dared any man TO point