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THE OKLAHOMA ST*59 CAPITAL, WEDNESDAY MOB.NING, JUNE 12, 1007.
5 ~ mtt. ota-re r aorral: day that all patriots celebrate
TriE OKLAHOMA STATE CAFU AL v/ith flagb floatino in m
_ —n. _i*>l Pfimnnnv. , . i •« ..'II 1. .
By Th Stat# Capital Company-
FRANK H. ORB*". EDITOR.
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i The "nW ran" fellow* ha<l Sundny in which to
prepare themselves for the of the. public Mon-
day, hcnce moBt of the soreness had a chance to ooze
lout' #
i' Now comes the tug of war for the fellows who
Vera nominated last Saturday. Their trials, tribula-
tions and drafs on bank accounts have been many, but
there's much more to follow.
jfr The army of "also ran" is a K od sized one but it
'"won't count for much in helping the Cocklebur con-
Btitution count. In many parts there was engender-
ed a soreness that, won't rub off.
J Colonel Douglas savs it's more polite to call a man
a nature writer than a liar and it means the same
thing. A man who will east such a reflection upon
nature is"fit for treason, strategem and spoils."
j All Oklahoma is wondering what will be the next
move of the Oklahoman. Tinder its present manage-
ment it cannot do the democratic ticket any good,
and if it changes pilots the trick will be so apparent
that it .will be of little force in the campaign,
? Soon will the work of the republican press bureau
he needed to set forth facts regarding the dangerous
breakers that stand in the way of progress and thrift
for Greater Oklahoma. The select ion at the outsel
of Ed. J. Costello as press manager was a very happy
one, and now that he is better prepared than ever,
through a systematic tiling that he inaugurated and
carried out, with records and data secured, combined
with the fact that he was present throughout the en-
tire session of the constitutional convention, makes
him the logical and only person in reality litted to
follow up the work throughout the campaign, and it
(,-nes without saving that he will be continued in ser-
vice to the end.
The, democrats are still making the charge that
President Roosevelt will turn the constitution down
in order to keep the electoral votes of Oklahoma from
counting in the next presidential election. Can it
be possible that there is a single democratic read,
who believes such rot! It is a fact that President
Roosevelt will turn the constitution down if h
thinks it his duty to do so. Of Mr. Roosevelt it can
be truly raid he never shirks a duty. And it is because
of their knowledge of this fact that the democratic
organs make this assertion. They art1 hedging, as it
were. There is one way by which they can satisfy
the public that they do not hold party graft interest
above statehood and thereby insure statehood
through the constitution, and that is by reconvening
the convention and correcting the Wamous wrongs
known and conceded by democrats So exist therein.
floatino in mid air
Next Friday is Flag Day, and that it will be appro-
priately celebrated throughout Oklahoma goes with-
out saying, the tendency of some sections to cling to
the stars and bars to the contrary notwithstanding.
Just one hundred and thirty years ago next Friday
the continental congress adopted the stars and
stripes as the flag of our country.
The stars and stripes is the only flag which should
wave over any buildings or gathering in this glorious
country of ours.
The fact that the stars and bars have been placed
above the flag of our country in school house decor-
ations and carried in parades in Greater Oklahoma,
has a tendency to carry forth to the outside world the
thought that Oklahoma is to be made a full fledged
southern state docs not nectssarily follow that it
will be.
We can not but think that when the patriotic citi-
zens of Oklahoma arc given the opportunity at the
polls they will hit the idea good and hard and say
by so doing to the world at large, we are yet an ag-
gressive, progressive and loyal people, knowing no
North, no South, no East, no West, one people with
one grand object in view, that of making of this
great empir j,—
Oklahoma,—•
A haven where all mankind can como and feel
that so long as they are law abiding they will find
equal rights and justice vouchsafed to them in re-
ality, instead of claim only, as many of those now
clammoring for a sectional and basic law would make
them.
All Americans should look upon the flag of then
country with love and reverence, and never
feeling of hatred.
During the past few months several rebellious ut-
terances have been made against this emblem, and
some have gone so far as to place above it the confed-
erate flag, a flag which has no place in the hearts of
true Americans, further than as a thing of the past,
a relic to be displayed only in private or when in
public with the thought only of curiosity, never with
reverence or possibility of offence to the true Ameri-
can—the patriot.
One flag in a country is enough and that flag
should be the emblem and pride of our national
glory.
That Hag symbolizes all of the blessings enjovert
by a free and happy people .
That flag commemorates the spirited and success-
ful struggle of a heroic ancestry against intolerable
oppression.
That 11."g is the flag under which a million patriots
offered their lives that we might inherit an undivid-
t'd county.
When we look at the folds Hushing in the sunlight,
we think of the heroism of those men, of the perils
and privations they endure flint we might be free,
that we might govern ourselves with and by an un-
shackled ballot and that the world might be taught
1 ho divine right of the people to rule.
When we look at the flag and realize the truth ol
these principles, then it is precious to every citizen
and a joy to him to see the graceful folds floating on
the hir. every star symbolizing ;i glorious common-
wealth and every stripe significant of the blood of
martyrs or the purity of patriotism
Weak-minded people have been lead to believe, as
STATE CAPITAL SUMJVLBiUNO
An English chemist now announces I
that h nas produced u rustieas iron.
Apparently all that remain* !■ lor soni"
lawyer to produce an Incontestable
and the lam of the insurmountable ob-
ject* will have been surmounted.
The prohibition party ib now sending a
slumming expedition to Panama. Appar-
ently they are not content with seeing
the dirt fly, and want to see the muu
spatter as well.
President Dial does not talk a like a
man who was going to waste any salt
sprinkling it on the tall of the dove of
peace.
—o—
One of the most lamentable feature of
the Howard Gould divorce case is the re-
port that Count Boni d* CesteMnne is
coming to this country to testify.
—o—
Thin Is the reason of the year "▼hen
the affairs of nations will be settled oy
tha valedlc torlans to their own satis-
faction, even If the small statesman of
the Blsmark, Root and Tallerand class
occasionally blunder and fall.
Now that the democratic ticket has been named
the next thing in order will be for the candidates to
demand a reconvening of the constitutional conven-
tion and a correcting of the document wherein it is
objectionable to a great portion of the tax payers.
That this will be done is as certain as the better
judgment of the candidates prevails.
it is a hard matter to find a man, who is not politi-
cally hide-bound to the extent that he feels that the
political advantage is a very necessary thing to in-
bure democratic ascendency for years to come, who
will not admit that there arc many things in the
constitution that should be readjusted or thrown
out entirely.
Whether Cocklebur Hill is 'n accord with the
movement or not the probability is that he will have
to come into camp with the "original" and bow to
the dictates of new leaders, Boss Haskell and him-
self becoming a factor of the ptmt.
The situation is indeed a gloomy and peculiar one
for demoeraticy in general and for Cocklebur and
the Boss in particular.
The Leader attempts to prejudice the reader
who -labors over eight hours a day, in favor of the
Cocklebur constitution through the manner in which
it calls attention to the eight hour clause. The day
has gone by when that such appeals count with the
intelligent laboring man. The laborer of today "is
worthy of bis hire'' and he is just so much in demand
that he gets it. It is seldom that he labors over
eight hours against his will. The eight hour law is
all right when universally desired. Most lines of
business are conducted upon a basis of nine hours and
the laboring men thus working, as a rule nre very
well pleased with it. However that is a question for
the laboring man to settle. If another constitution
were to be written and the laboring men were to ask
that a clause be inserted like unto the one in the
present constitution there is no doubt hut that it
would be done. The democrats hold no edge on the
republicans for making laws to meet the demands of
labor. Most of the eight hours laws of the states and
all of the national laws favoring labor were enacted
be republicans. The laboring men have no fears
that the republicans will not deal fair with them.
The records of the republican party on the labor
Question cannot be successfully assailed.
The statement of Senator Daniel th
the democratic, platform should be con-
fined to matters on which the democrats
were agrt'-ed, pounds very muen **
though the senu-tor expected the party
to g<> Into the campaign on an alrsn.p
Instead of a platform.
—o—
Violent protests are being mode by a
number of highly protected interests
against the arrangement that the United
States is entering Into with Germany for
the continuance of trade relations pend-
ing the formulation of a definite com-
mercial treaty that can be signed oy
the two governments. The arrangement
consists in allowing the manufacturers
in Germany to swear to the valuation of
certain classes of goods that are «nade
solely for export and whose price cannot
be fixed by comparison with the home
market. It Is a small concession and not
x. itl. « one that in the opinion of the secretary
of state or the secretary of the treasury,
both of whom are parties t/ the agree-
ment. will result In any undervaluation
of German goodp. But of course the
howl of "executive usurpation" Is oelng
raised by a number of already over
protected Interests. It Is not usurpation
at all. but a timely expedient to n
a pressing emergency. It is deslgnd
help American relations not only with
Germany hut with other foreign countries
and nil classes of citizens ought 1o be
glad that the arrangement has tfc*n mad
Instead of attempting to decry it.
—°—
There is n deep and dark dyed r.o^
hatching between the self-styled leader*
of the republican party aiming at the de
feat of two no less notable national :1g
ures than ex-Senator "Billy" Mason aor
Secretary Taft. There Is no doubt about
the plot, for Billy confided some of Ue
details to the correspond001" while he
was In Washington this week. Njce
President Fairbanks Is suspected if
ing at the bottom of the canal, and it s
tip to him to clear himself, if he ran.
of the imputation. Since ther Hilly i s
been defeated once, so it does not much
matter, but he Is golrg after the Hop-
kins toga In Illinois snd wants a fair
field and no favors. Secretary Taft has
neve- been defeatel possibly because a"
nevrr had a contest and he naturally does
not wain to tarnish an unsullied recornl.
But hero Is °the plot. It was unfolde I
bv the stout ox Senator who Is phyM^nd
a' cut short edition of Secretary Taft,
and therefore may have rxrrps d* feel-ng
There was a tailors' convention out :n
Ch'cago last week, and the delegates,
evidently having been "sejuleed" by i.i*>
hearts forces of Fairbanks, leeld.l
that men's garments this summer shor.d
bp suwpenderless ar-rt b'lted at the wa'.at
'Just think of that, will you?" said e-g-
Perntor Mason. "If that aJln't a dire--
hi nv at Bill Taft and me I don't know
whit Is. How could we he expected to
run for anything from a nomination to a
pt ree♦ ear without suspenders? ra.K
about belts for a man with a convex
thrv listened to the rantings of speculative political j wnist Fairbanks is buiit^ Hk<^ an^ewng-
liowlers that the flag of our country is a misnomer, j J the" edict* of the tailors' convert'on.
that it floats over a people enslaved by plutocracy, ;i j*„t i know they had it in for ^'u^como
ficticious monster that with loni: tentacles is hauling j ™r^Jntk*p bnmh'and^dmit he is try.ng
the masses under the influence <jf its baleful power. to rujn my rhanees."
It makes no difference that the great, ©wrongs in joiTn* SMITH.
the country have been more freely exposed and pros*
ecuted during the past few years than ever before
the cry continues to go up from the mouths of th*.
political demagogues that this is not the ideal
goverment tha twe niijrlit have were they
their followers to control.
Anarchists and pessimists have flourished
flaunted their destructive teachings to such an ex-
tent that the bold demand that United States judges
be strung up to telegraph poles are looked upon by
many as a well timed suggestion. The teachings ot
such peace destroying festers on the body politic
have been making inroads to the new state soon to
be, as is the ease in all new countries; their sickening
influence having become attached to many who are
easily deceived.
But thank (iod, Americans are a people who study
and investigate, and when the full force of the argu-
ment is presented to them along any line they shud-
der at the thought of giant attempts made to dis-
franchise as is the ease now at issue in the adoption
of the proposed constitution.
Such thinkers, be they republicans, democrats or
socialists, must see the danger that confronts the
people,and in doing so must pledge anew their fealty
and devotion to the time honored Hag and the insti-
tutions of a free government.
The State Capital believes this to be a most prosper-
ous and fortunate nation, unspeakably grander, hap*
pier and noblier than any other on the face of the
earth.
Guthrie Pays Your
Railroad Fare
To all purchasers of merchandise of any Kind the retail merchants of Gut
rie propose to return the car fare of their customers, to the following regu atio
To any person coming a distance of not less than ten mil^s nor more
cne hundred miles, they will refund the car fare both ways on a basis of a purchase
of one dollar's worth of goods, for every mile customer comes.
Purchases may be made from one or more of the merchants named be'oW>
provided purchaser presents return trip ticket as proof of distance 'ror" w Ic
they come. Refund will not be made in excess of the railroad fare actually paid
All firms below participate ir. refund of fares.
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BOOTS A?U) SHOES
Eisenschmidt, Chas. P.
Hobinsoii, P. C.
CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS.
Abell. J. J.
Ann^'x (The),
Farquhartson, A. 0.
Jenkins, Tom.
Petersen, Ed. C.
COAL AND WOOD DEALERS.
Clieadle, N. P.
Fairfield, J. B. (Transfer & Storage)
COFFEE AND TEA CD'S.
Guthrie Tea &■ Cof-° Co.
DRUGS PAINTS ETC.
Eagle Drug Store.
Gray, A. E. (Wall Paper)
Lillie, F. B.
Owl Drug Store.
Renfrow, C. R. (Wall Paper)
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS ETC.
Fair Department Store.
Grand Leader.
Ramsay Rros. Drv Goods Co
FLORISTS
Furrow Bros.
FURNITURE.
Collar, M.
Patterson Furniture Co.
Rhodes, W. L.
GROCERIES.
Anderson, Gus.
Andersons Variety Store.
Bach told, J.
Hank Grocery. (Meat Market)
Crescent Grocery.
Hartshorn, E. (Meat Markot)
Hopkins, Geo. W.
, Rcxroad, J. A.
Smith, J. E.
Young & Rives.
GUNSMITH AND SPORTING GOODS.
Olsniith Arms Co.
HARDWARE.
Day Brothers.
Houston, J. J.
Hirschi & Knebel Co.
New York Hardware Store.
ICE MANUFACTURES.
Guthrie Ice & Cold Storage Co.
Ruemmeli, Braun Co.
IMPLEMENTS AND VEHICLES.
Lyon, J. S.
Packer, W. D.
JEWELERS.
Douglas Jewelry Co.
White. C. W.
LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS
Parisian (The)
MUSIC DEALERS.
Knauss, E. II.
PRINTING AND BOOK MANUFACTURING
Leader Printing Co.
The Stare Capital Co.
RACKET STORES.
# New York Racket Store.
ST. Louis 5 & 10 cent Store
SALOONS.
Blue Bell Bar.
Elks Bar
Guthrie Bar.
Hanson, Otto. ,
Ritterbush, Emi)
Weinberger & Co.
Weinberger, J.
WALL PAPER AND PAINTS
Guthrie Wall Paper and Paint Cc ,
ft
Fr.im the MontKomfr)' Advertlvor
I
Am John—
John Smith.
, For years you've
aild1 Turned your nos«p up
I At me—
I Because there were
and! So many of me.
But row in this
iflorloua summer of
1907
At the Jamestown Expf>
I am the whole
Cheese—
The hot mustard.
In fact when'
I am not
Ain't! 0
T am the
fJreat,
The lll«h Muck-a-mucx 0
Of the earth.
Th "re are enough of me
To suppress a whole
South American Revolution.
To originate n party
Or elect a president.
I am IT.
A* last my rlffhts are
Vindicated.
Come to Jimtown
Where I am tlourlshlni
In nil my
Smlthian *lorv.
Come and I will
Give you the
Handclasp and
HlR-h elm «f
Fmfth T-odje
*re here 'o stay.
piuHhus I'mim!
long.
ary linos was criminal In the extr* m-
and Is ltlcnly to burst forth even vet Ir.
the fury of a polltl ■ • 1 scandal; the dr- t
(lection ordlnanor was so crjoked tin;
the delegates vere forced to reeonv<
and make the proper changes; th" taxm-j
clause Is so ami Iguous that no two men
can .igre- as to i'-s proper Interpreta-
tion; the assassination or some of th-;
preat courties of Oklahoma
roelous that representative '1 uno
ha\^ resorted to the courts to stop i •
rape «>f the ballot; the districting « f
legislative districts Is so plainly unfair
that it Is called wholesale th f; • >
school fund has been so arranged th s
political grafters can loot tile tr«Msn v
by mortgaging questionable real f.«ta*e
to the state.
When Captain Kid 1 got ready to cut
a throat or scuttle a ship ii" didn i In-
to make any excuses, except that v-
needed the money. The crew of t. > -il-
lereri constitution have the excuse <■
political rocesslty.
railwayphobia.
! From the Kf C. Journal.
In his adores* to the dents of tiw
Missouri State m'v Mr <).mi-
ner Lathrop r slgnlllca.it
'icts showing how < 1 t!,c and-
rallroad mania, as ex-Pr« -ident Grov c
loveland calls It. has taken po?s.
if the country. He stated that oniv
' wo states In the Union In the r • « - *
'' glsla?ures had refused to puss law.'
"imlcal to the railroads, while, toe
ther hand, out of all the hundn-ds °-r
lis Introduced In the various legisla-
tes not a single mensure had been of-
' red that was In any wise b ncfic ;l
r favorable to the railroads.
It Is pretty difficult in ©view of i'i< -- >
' cts to accept President Rooseve!"s
•a.cmcnt that railway legislation, s'h j
■"id federal, Is not "punitive or v adi
>e." It appears to be all of that an I
.tore, a blind fury resembling tiv ma 1
aess of nnlmnls whie'.i are willing
has shown just as little trace of feeling
airalnst t'-1* m°n whom he said err.pl >v d
him to commit the? •• murders, and who
are to be tried fiSr their lives on his
testimony, as he had against the men
i.'s, state and nat'on- I whom he sir-w. There has been an c-ntir •
development of l '• | absence of braggadocio in the things ihar
'i the sorely need- ; he has said. No strutting or swagger'n?
r • kace and rolling , i.\- him has be«n seer In the court oo-n.
cripple tlnm oy re- Under the niost searching cross-examln-
pas-sender rates an l , atlop which the opposing attorney put ur\
■ir capacity to^nialv ! Orchard's story stands unshaken. Mov-
ements. 'over, the crimes which he says he com-
owevcr, gr. it and mittrd were perpetrate 1 by somehodv.
. gentry since lilntorv tipd.U\— '
n. see only In the popular
growth and prospeMty. In view of ihii
constantly r< currlng danger there is lit
tie doubt but that if It were in then
I i .ver the business men, the men wlu
ire cngag* 1 In trade and manufacture.*
1, to further the
ailroads, and furnl.
il betterments In t
rathfr than to
r, freight and
<>• impairing th
St(
du
th<
The polltl/la
rnn 11
b"«
motive
their perpetration beyond
lc, vulvar blood!hirst. Somebi
furnished l'10 monoy as w«
that of
dy must
a?aimit corporations their "easy rout"
to oirice. They understand that th>
' masce* are bitter against the mon pol!s-
| tic trusts, aid- that to cater to t « !
feeling and#foster it In every possibly ,
j w.n is yiclr !^i lile*i opportunity to climb }
im the shoulders of the people, regard- |
j less ol their own merits. And although©)
tilt- railroads nre m no sense monoi>olisil\ j
I IT trusts If any kind, but purely Indu.'- |
trial enterprises, or, rather, necessary ad- j
Jurcts to every industrial er.tnrprlre froat j
| the farm to the factory, tne politicians
j have been quick to seize upon the fact
I that the practice on the part of som- I fp„ed
railroads of granting rebates has helped I
to build up some of the trusts, to fan \
! I he resentment of the masses against all
I railr A. a ™, s.qne,v - of this «elf- | Ye' lh0
! seeking demagogy, we see the lawmaking and the n^n
| odles alt® over nie country busily en- fame offences, can not ne c
i raged In tearing down the transportation j orchard s testimony alone, h
systems which are the pllbirs of the tem- i
pie of national prosperity. j""""1'1' 11 m"V «"l"" •« ' n,«" "
I That is why business men are appeal!a? . evi.len
•o President Roosevelt to exert his great j «ld« «
; influence In putting a stop to this suU j This is the dipab'llty w
•d through
and throu-
:rrles of j-ears In ills mission
if murder. All the men wrfiom Orchard
«nld ho killed—min<* superintendents. :r.ln'
iwners. Innocent passers by. "scabs." and
I governors -are dead. All died in the way
I and at the time that he said he killed
'hem. Materials for making bombs ilk^
Ithat which lie sa'd he used in killing
i StcijnenbrrQ: were found in his room In
I hi hotel after his arrest. A bomb -.vhlca
explode was found after his ir-
rr«t In a place ^iiere he said it would !>•
found.
who is on trial In Bol'c
i-ho are Indicted for ih?
ame offences, can not be convicted an
nub-
corroborated from some out-
prisoners will go fre®.
•Il attaches 10
strong courageous
like Mr. Gardiner f/ithrop an.l oth-
Inside and outside of tiie railroad
ness are performing? a patriotic ser-
in arousing the- public to a realizing
of the danger of blln l. unreasoning
I legislation against
the
The flair suits ws to a stripe and star—or will as
soon as Oklahoma has a place in the azure blue,
which it is certain to have within a year whether the
constitution now before the people is ratified or not
We love to see 01(1 (ilory wave in the sunlight.
Kvery true American agrees with us in thu
thought at least.
Then let the stars anil stripes wave from ever)
public building and hurtle on Friday next,—
Klag Day. •
The Guthrie cotton mill, the only one in Oklahoma,
has proven to be ii'i in way of a successful euterpriso
that the inoht sanguine claimed for it. The work that
il is turning out is being put upon the market at very. I(,ntlon
satisfactcrv prices, anil the demand for its goodrt is "■ «• taie in huiinep«
' ' . mi i Rnmr of their romlr
j pressing the factory to its utmost capacity lliusi
j is the wisdom anft pluck of Guthrie
j again placed prominently iu evidence.
cK
oth jr
different excuses
From the r>urnnt Stfltenmnn,
luld urge men °f all parties within
the sphere of Influence of the States-
man to take courage and not l'srair.
The people of Oklahoma will have
'tatehood, and no one desires t< see that
lav more than the editor of this pare-.
Hut there *e< nis little hope under "v
present enabling act, and we flrmly be-
lieve that It will be r^pea'ed e: as
congress assembles, unless the de.-oocratic
party forces Its oln head statesman
reconvene and eliminate all Insults t «
common decencv as well as the clauses
that endanger the commercial Interest
of the proposed state.
Oklahoma will have statehood, hut 't
f >on<« as If !t shall have *o come through
republican methods and ,dlcl«>«« Ti>e
democrats have been weighed !n th« b il-
ance and found wanting The orls'nal !n
ntlon of theh len«lers was to h°
Iners a« a crlm'nil.
Rome of their romlnatlens n* delegate*
■ were acquired !n n questionable manner;
capitalists tho rejection of officers of the convention
was open to erltlclum from the'r own
j party; the forming of the county bound-
eady to destr .
hey can also destroy the object
Atred.
Certainly no Intelligent person
« understand that every blow i
he railroads must react upon
ids .if business. The American Manu
acturers' Association, which h id 't
nnual convention In New York last w - • •
•■it the matter in a nutshell Aft- r o'
rec.iting the 2-cent passenger rate an-
•ther arbitrary reductions of rallwui
charges without regard to conditions <•
circumstances and expressing the hojv
that "the cra e of denunciation will s« •
pass." the resolution declared: "The rail
roads are vitally related to our prosper'
and °to attack them i eedlcssly la t
attack ourselves."
While It Is undoubtedly true that ilr
anti-railroad rabies Is widespread anioi
the masses, it Is also notably true 10
the agitation for hostile railway Icgl
latlon la confined almost entirely to th
politicians. Experlenci'il business t'"* <
particularly shippers who use the rail
rosdft most, appreciate the fact that the'
own prosperity depends upon the pre
nerlty of the railroads, and the
ot fo
rate
ter service; and to that end they favor
the utmost possible development of '.im-
portation systems. I/Ike the manufac-
turers. they recognise the fact tha'
whatever crlppies the railroads must a
the long run cripple themselves. Mor'
statesman-like than the so-called states-
men. they understand that the greatest
need eif the country is better transporta-
tion facilities In >rdeT -o relieve the on -
irmous congestion of traffic which "urf
after everv harvest, and which const;lutes
the gravost menace iu country's
IDAHO S TRAIL OF" LL003
From the O'.ohe Democrat.
"I finally located Gov. Stcunr-berg on
Christmas night, 1& and. taking the
pa wed-off pump shot-gun that P-ntlbon^
gave me. I went ouL to Ids hous'. I
heard th.^ >jo\ernor coming and tried 10
e.-t the two j arts of* the gun tog I her.
but had not succeeded before he passed
Into the house I then went downtown
!c:aln. The next time I s«w the 30per-
nor he was sitting in the Saratoga hotel
I went up to my room and got the bomb
:'d hurried out to the Steuner.bcrg house
a-,j pUntcd tiw bomb by 11if '.m'i 1
then started back to the hotel, aril when
about two blocks away 1 met Steunenborg
on his way home, j ran as fast ««s I
could toward the hotel, but had not re-
ached it be-fore the explosion occurred."
This I* Harry Orchard's confession of
tho last of his list of murders. He had,
according to his story, killed twenty
br.for1 fucunenl
carried < n his work of assassination
years and visit* 1 many localities In d
it. and had used many .sorts of we.r
-poison, revolver, his sawed-off sh.r
and dynamite. None of his victims 1
personal enemies of his. None had e
| him a
l *ged murde
therefore, wl
I benefit
He had
offe
kno
against human or divine law. Rut .1
tiir.se men had Incurred the hatred o
Western federation of miners Or
says the federation's o..cprs enipl
;.i' l na'd him and others to murder t
It Is possible that Orchard may
11.*'r. If so. however, he Is the most
sceutlve and plausible liar whom
criminal annals of the Ur.ltcd States
struck along to th's time. He tol<
story without emotion of any sort.
II "f
ifessional murderer,
nr The American public,
will allow the prisoners the
nil the presumptions and a'l
j the technicalities which the law throws
inrourd them. Por years the Weste-n
j fodera'ion of miners waged war against
the niiDmrltle. ,,f Idaho in the Oo"r n-
/l^ne firlcM. and against the government
j of H li,r >do In the Cripple Creek atrlfc*.
I In these wars scores or lives w re lo.^t,
niMllons fif dollars In property was dr-
j «troyc 1, and vast tracts of country wero
tfrrorlred. The Issue which Incited this
war and the passions which the wnr cre-
111 ted were brought Into politics. The re•
, ruldlean govornor. Pcairadv who iut
j flown the Insurgents in Colorado, wa.i
ifVtc.lv ; 1 s c t 11 • ■ (1 by the federation 'n
whrn h- s night re-election and lost n iajr
vote1*. Secretary Taft wiis denounced bv
the federation for making addresses !n
Idaho in IflOil, In favor of Gov. G-o sll.ig,
who sought re-election on a platform
which Insisted on the enforcement of the
(law against lawbreakers as individual!
as organisations. Yet no snap hidg-
tv111 be taken by tlic courts of Ida-
ho against tho men from Orchard's s*orv
Implicate.- The courts will hold them o
he Inr.oeent urless they nro proven 'o b®
guilty. They have nhle cour.s 1. Th
fund which has been raised for the^r 1e
fense Is far larger than the state is ex-
pending. or Is likely to expend, In their
prosecution. If Orchards tale Is true,
the Idaho and Colorado Molly Maguire!
are worse than those whom Pennsylva-
nia extirpated a quarter of a century
ago. and. if true, extirpation will be
swift and sure In their case, also.
A moil BttraotiT* hookUl. full of
information end tMn* of liWtS
in Sotlou. b*nt tSrud /our MiffM to I uU-
li.ii/ D«pvtmmt, *3 Mbiod 81, Boiion, Mm.
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