The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-04-11


Is it the honest toers? Is it the rank and file of
citizenship? No. 1t is the corporations and trusts
that have tried to buck and gag the administration and
COMPEL the old regime of Territorial days. They have
up to the bar of justice and received justice at
the hands of administration that elected by |
honest voters. Do you not remember the times in ter
rtoral days when the big fat judges would sit their
BENCH which have been sacred to them, and Jan
gage that you would not in the presence of your
plow horse? Do you not remember in Old Oklahoma
under territorial government when your dear
children who dear to you the apple of your
eye compelled to sit in the with knky
headed negroes at school? Do you not remember when
your wife compelled to stand up the train go
in the smoker, and let negro sit in the palace and
enjoy all the privileges that should have been given
him in a separate car?
Just mention these facts and you will say with one
voice, Thank God for the present administration with
all their faults love them STILL" l am resolved
der God, to help make the rough places smooth and
the laws of the land shall be supreme. Some people
think that they should change party and thereby
get reformation that would help the laboring people,
By changing your party here in Oklahoma you will go
back the party that is trying to get your sup
port is just flirting with you their promises easily
broken If you will listen to that siren song they sing
to you More business and less politics" they will lul
you sleep and carry you back to the times of terri
toral days where your hands will be tied, your feet
will be bound and the Initiative and Referendum will
be ammended to death until there will be virure in
it. The only solution to the problem in my judgement
is for all aborng people to get together and that
the government is run in the interest of the whole
people, and to accomplish this is unnecessary to
ganize party. What can we hope to gain by
leaving the Democrat party that its principles have al
ways stood for equal rights to all? In the meantime
do claim that Democrat officials have in many in
stances departed from the principles of true Democracy
and have placed the party of the people in very unfaY
orable light If chef mine inspector of this state,
elected the Democratic ticket fail to perform my
duties provided by law and betray the trust that is
reposed in me- should The Secretary of State State
Auditor, any other State official who faithfully per-
4 formed his duties be condemned for my actions? My
ANSWER to this question is, No. But instead,
should be singled and with the severe condem
nation of an outraged public No man should leave
his party, because rascal gets into it, but instead, he
should stay in the party and help to rid the party
these rascas and crooks and thus make the party just
what Jefferson and Jackson intended it to be. AS fol
myself there is rascal crook big enough Greer
into the Democratic party and drive out / intenC
to stay in the party and help keep such from get
ting elected to office If you have hypocrte in YOU
church, you going to leave the church and turn
to him? No, you will stay in your church and hell
to get the hypocrte out The rule will apply tt
political parties. Some people never decide the Demo
cratic party is corrupt until they have been defeated
for Office at the hands of the Democratic party. NJ
doubt had they been elected to office they would b.
out today defending the principles of Democracy.
j am proud of the record of the Democratic party
They have always given to the honest toers his wish
es When the Federation of labor to the Legis
lature of Oklahoma and emplored that body to pu
certain laws the statutes did the legislature turn
: deaf ear to them? When the Farmers Union aske
for laws that protection to the did the egisls
ture not give them just what they wanted? The Den
ocratc party stands SO close to the people, that it
feel the very heart throb and pulse beat of the
masses of working people. We stand today, on tn
very threshold of success both locally and nationally
The people realize who is their true friend and wi
stand by the Democratic party.
o The Democratic party stands ready to champio
the of the people against the corporations Th
e fact demonstrated when the Constitutional Cor
venton put clause in the Constitution which is ou
/ basic law, requiring the railroad companies to charg
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