The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-12-22


As a skin-peeler Thompson is not
: weak. He refers to TrapPs malad
ministrations and says he Is too con
temptible tor merit consideration
: Traps unwarranted accusations
coupled with false statements says
Thompson, 'are we'll worthy of man
who had to do with the auditors of
flee at time when forged warrants
and raised claims met no opposition.
Shallow, bloated with conceit,
Trapp shines ineandescently as re-
former. Having probably taught VIII
McBrine the devious ways of iniquity
he is well equipped to administer re-
form in allopathic doses.
The reform mania always seizes
the germ who bids for cheap pub
licity. And the evolution of the germ
in question during the past five years
furnishes a refreshing study in
| sporogony Moreover it requires no
brains, decency or honor to enact the
reform role An ample supply of ego,
voice like a jackass and a pale
group of intestines complete the
requisite equipment.
man may be a peryert liar, n
sneak, a crook and an official extorter
Of money and also assume the role
of reformer, but he need not possess
brains or the common decencies.
In the case of Trap with no visible
means of support so far as we know
during the past four years, he lifts
his raucous voice from suite OF
rooms in the Skiryin hotel for which
it is commonly reported, he pays SS5
q month excluding meal tickets.
Since his new job will pay but $S3
month one naturalv wonders how he
does it and what he intends to do?
Perhaps viii McBrine can tell? Per
haps a score or more of persons
"maced' by Trapp while he was state
auditor can tell? Or perhaps he does
II on the $1,491.o8 which he owes
Logan county, as set out in "District
Court Case No. IT," prosecuted by
the present county attorney, John
Adams, but which Trapp escaped re-
funding by pleading the statutes of
limitation. A candidate against a
darkey for county clerk, Trapp was
elected because the voters believed he
was a darkey, too, and voted for the
lighter Of two spades. Traps record
as clerld was on par with his tenure
as auditor. His bondsmen will aver
to that, while the auditorial record
smells from McBrine's suite in
McAlester to his pals suite in the
Skirvin, and is marked, according to
report, by an urgent demand for
money, gas, lights, furniture, a fifteen
per cent take off, not including a
spectacular demand" on Dan Pipes /
a law book man.
The role of reformer picturesquely
befits Trapp 1t clothes him in
glamor of integrity and high purpose
even before he is sworn in as dis
penser of pardons when the governor
leaves the state Naively he steps
into his official niche as a Joke "a
joke, announcing with
pellucid logic and quaint verve that
he will be active in shaping legis-
lation." Doubtless he Will be active
and noisy. Probably as noisy as a
wooden legged man throwing a fit on
a tin roof; or perhaps as noisy as his
own seething gurgle as he drinks his
soup and blows his noise on napkin
at table But his noise will not de-
celve the senate. 1t is not necessary
10 hog tie a dub and put him on
peg. Left to himself he soon oozes
away. Traps trouble just now is not
entirely due to bowel complaint in the
read. He needs funds. He doesn't
want his expectations dynamited
Many currency reformers. he it un-
Ierstood would not hesitate to ring
n a cold-deck man in a friendly
,oker game. but It requires noise
ven there. Outside of that the ful-
ninations of Trapp, while assinine,
re not to be taken seriously He 4
nay learn few things yet Summed
ID. we gather that unless a reform
r. can attract attention to himself
v idiotc outbursts he will not be in
osition to command the attention OF
hose who have negible "nuerce' to
uv and who may wish TO Speculate in
ardons when the governor leaves the
tate.
Meantime. while Trapp IS carrying
n his reform ideas the tax payers OF
ogan county would relish an oceular
Of a reformer paying