The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
RND|DATE TRUST
AGAINST WILSON

awe -. .. DuTiSSOH VI SAdS,
hrman of the democratic caucus in
house of representatives, says if
RE ever was a trust in the United
|ces, it is the political combination
Harmon, Underwood and Clark
|Snst Governor Wilson.
The nice understanding which
ms to exist between Governor Har-
|H Representative Underwood and
aker Clark" said Mr. Burleson to-
certainly has all the ear-marks
hose old time trust fights against
bmpetitor when the Standard Oil
its like went after their oppon-
in the days of Mark Hanna, his
Sss, and their successors. / will
Echarge that there have been Gary
Hers at which the line of joint
baign has been mapped out, but
3 has been a suspicious division
srritory, and apparently a gentle
Is agreement 1t wouldn't take
a small amendment to the anti
IT law making it protect political
yell as property rights, in order to
Iict the whole outfit of every of
under the Sherman antitrust
except perhaps rebating, and in
of the hundreds of thousands of
ars that the anti-Wilson combina-
i is spending in this campaign right
it appears to me that the burden
roof is on the combine to show
It is not guilty also of rebating.
Governor Wilson is the only candi-
who is strong in every section OF
country. The other candidates
support only in restricted Sec
What has happened? Emulat-
the example of the Standard Oil
other trusts, the anti-Wilson field
j to have been combined. If they
aey have not combined, then how
Is for an astounding coincidence:
xlahoma, the Underwood and Har-
forces stepped aside and single
ed on Clark so as to prevent Will
rom taking all of the delegates in
was conceded to be Clark's state.
IONS manager was quoted in the
at the time as saying that Har-
was willing to let the Clark dele
Al at Baltimore cast their votes
agk on first ballot, just so they
Nd to Harmon later in the ballot
In Kansas they are doing the
Some thing today. In Texas the
Iilson men are putting Harmon
> I'd In the hope that the Ohio gov
p might stem the Wilson wave
is sweeping over the Lone Star
The same way, in Georgia,
II and Harmon are kept from
ng the waters for Underwood
fas been picked to win his Geor-
eighbors from Wilson. In Vir-
it was patent that no one of the
d candidates could defeat the
master, so the bosses bring
I'd the favorite son, Senator Mar
h New York, overcome with de-
with the material at hand, the
shas. f. Murphy, it is understood
entered upon Mayor Gaynor as
ire thing to defeat the New Jer-
-0yernor. Watch Ohio. Nobody
lie Wilson people are going to
q determined fight to take that
R from Harmon The Clark and
u Iderwood managers may say they
)ing after Ohio If they do it
urprise me and | venture the
ton it will be only after the
presidential trust has been
L by bench warrant for viola
the Sherman antitrust law.
now the plan of this triple alli-
to run a southern man in the
a northern man in the north;
A 0stern man in the east and a
s5Fnlan in the west.
- democratic voters ought not to
nance that kind of campaign
used to be charged that the
attic party is a sectional party.
not true. 1t is more national
4 <he republican party. 1t has a
import in the north as we'll as
south, and in the west as well
he east. Today the democratic
.ntation in congress is almost
divided between the south and
rth. That can not be said of
1ublican party. Such a party
o have for its standard bearer
whose strength is as wide as
ty. The fact that a number of
ties, who are strong only in sec
ave to, in effect. divide terri
I'D operate to all appearances
Al 'gentleman's agreement,
that Governor Wilson alone
support in all sections of the
as large as. or larger than,
- his party.
That Tongue Lecture.
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