The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-19
THE PUBLIC FORUM

article on every sA0aAAA @s-.-
after may express an opinion the read
ers of your paper will be reminded that
Ratclin has had the nerve TO not only
criticize but TO maintain the fact that
the Bible is not OF divine origin. In
nv first article Of what intended to
be a series OF articles some pie hungry
offce-seeker rushes into print with the
assertion that Mr. Ridenhour should
love his fellow democrats well enough
10 pass the pie around. His reasoning
IS false. My opinion is that the sheriff
should neither know republican, social
ist or democrat In the discharge OF his
duties and If he has to feed them, pass
the pie 10 all or none.
His question. do ! expect to be made
putty as a reward for my labor? No, !
am neither ashamed nor afraid to plow
and have never been reduced to that
point where / had to ask or to receive
hand outs political or other wise. About
the whiskey he captures turning into
vinegar there is nothing stanrge about
that. There is lots Of cases where
the parasites that thrive on the weak
ness and mistakes of there fellow men
have been buncoed by taking and buy
ing cold tea and II | can believe the pa
pers there were forty three quarts OF
whiskey. bottles aud all eyaporated
into space in the city lately and fifty
dollars reward cannot call forth an ex-
planation.
This pie hungry voter says We have
neither kings or czars in this fair land
with many thanks to brave and intelli-
gent men that are gone. declare, no.
but what has that to do with prevent
ing us from adopting a business prin-
cipal in our county administration, Let
ne reason out the point from your view.
You pie-hunters make the assertion
that we are a nation of good men and
true" Then how do you account for
the fact that we have so much dis
content and grumbling in the United
States and in every state and in every
county and city and township. No
sooner is an election over than you
pie hungry people in every state ana
county begin to cry out about machine
politics if it is not Folk machine IN
Missouri it is another Stubbs machine
in Kansas; LaFollette machine IN
Wisconsin and a Haskell or Cruce ma
chine in Oklahoma The voters OF
your kind, pie hunghy, have nearly
nut il out of the question for a sell
respecting man to run for office or ex
press an opinion because his motives
will be measured by your standard anc
the purer his motives, the quicker anc
surer the crucihxion. If he did no
pass the pie and II his conduct wa'
equal to Washington's you pie polltica
hunters are so blinded by greed tina
your country's welfare is never takel
into consideration. The pie hunting
noliticians have done more real harm
10 our country than all the hors'
thieves that ever infested it with thei
presence.
"He is comfortably fixed now will
fine horses, handsome modern nome
automobiles, ETC." that is no reasol
why the voters should dispense VIII
his service. Rather it is proof OF frugal
ity and standing condemnation OF hi
political enemies in past elections.
like a great many others heard the as
sertion that Ridenhour was anything
hut fit man for sheriff, of no sui
stance or means. Now your argumen
nroyes the contrary. Let me draw tn
attention of pie Willie to the fact tina
there are always grea many NOR
voters than offices and each voter ma
the same right to hold office. But tn
fact that they can't all have an ONO
division of offices idea on the head an
although they have the same right W
have not the same qualifications an
my advise to the voters is, with tn
great amount of discomfort at the pres
ent rate of our axes, | advise my fe
low citizens to not experiment with on
offices but to hold to those that hay
made good and | still advise my Ia
mer friends that the man that ca
keep law and order at its highest an
the number of prisoners at the loves
is the man for us, regardless OF WI
gets pie. That assertion of him BEN
short in his accounts thousands ot 40
lars. take as bosh. But II It IS rel
that is a question for his bondsmen
consider. am advocating for MOI
business principles in our county
fairs and it is business principle
look to the bond signers for any shor
ages in cash accounts of all our OF
GERS.
About Ridenhour asking for time
clear himself before the judgment Wa
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