The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-12

Oklahoma City capital commission.
ers argument in answer TO Guthrie's
Why the Constitution should not be
amended and the capital returned to
Guthrie where il belongs, is full Of
blow holes. II is as full of pur-
ppgeful mis.statements as Oklahoma
City is oil empty buildings, and as full
of innocent Inaccuracies as Oklaho-
ma City is OF vacant lots
Here ID the committee-s official ar.
gnment, with the truth injected in
parentbesis, for sayory swallowing
Argument for Oklahoma City on
state question number 80, initiative
petition number 25-"Why the con
stiuufion should be amended so as to
locate the capital permanently al
Guthrie, oklahoma, being the All
swer to the argument filed BY Guth-
iie
Oklahoma city in presenting her
argument to the people OF the state
is perfectly content TO submit the
facts as they are
The argument Of Guthrie disclosca
two facts
FirsA that it's citizens are grossly
ignorant Of the facts as they actually
are. or they are possessed with q
vilful and malicious determine
ton to grossly mierepreseni the facts
Their entire argument is based upon
the theory that Guthrie is the pro
forests OF the people In order TO sub
the state The theory is slightly mis-
leading when the attention of the pee.
pic "a called to the fact that Guthrie
for tNenty-one years ignored the in
tereEts ~ the people In oder TO sub.
seTve aud advance her own selfish
interests in tho matter OF the oca.
tion of the capital The capital neV-
ef has been located al Gnthric either
by vote Of the legislature OF by a
vote Of the people
tThe question Of what happened
twenty years ago is ancient history
and has nothing 10 do with saving the
people money nov; the fitness or un-
fitness Of either place as capital or
The truthfulness or untruthfulness in
either city's fufllmert Of promises
to the people OF the state in the pres
ent.l
When Oklahoma was opened to
settlement the organic act proyidine
therefore. provided that The territor-
iBl capital should be al Guthrie and
tina, the first territorial legislature
should locate The capital IN $50 the
territorial Legislature did locate the
capiial al Oklahoma City but the
bin thus locating the capital was Sc
tocd by Governor steele, a carpet
baeger who came to Oklahoma with
his commission in his pocket and left
she TERRITORY with fits expiration. The
capital was next located a kiugfisier
and This bill WAS vetoed, both OF
these vetoes being brought about
through the Influence of Guthrie poll
ticians
THAT is trying 10 befog the present
sruument and blind the people with
The prejudice OF the past A new vot-
ina generation has been born since
then. Oklahoma at that time had but
100. 900 people. The Cheyenne, Arapa
hoe, Cherokee Strip, the kickapoo
country, the kiows, Comsnche reser-
vations had not yet been opened, and
the indian Territory did not yet know
Oklahoma There are now 100000
people living in Oklahoma and did
not then live here, and they don't
care what happened between May p
1890 end is9t)
aTn Gutbric's argument II is stated
that the election held June J., 1910.
~ which the capital was located al
oklahoma CITY was iu violation OF
the enabling act which the constitu
,,onal convention had irrevocahl5 ac
censed This statement implies and i'
i the purpose of Guthrie TO leave the
in,nrasslon that the people OF tho
sfato were without power 20 locate
the capital. that Oklahoma was no'
admitted into the union on an equal
Iie with the other states, but came
n degraded and tied bE the lsi"
i.ugs which was inserted ~ the en-