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THE L3ADER GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA
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i" U O. NIHLACK Kdltor nnd MiuniKor.
'tftlctal Ornnn of Oklahoma Democracy
FRIDAY AUGUST'10; 1900.
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For President.
' WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
j For Vice President
ADLA1 E. STEVENSON.
For Congress
ROBERT m. NEFF
" ' ' of Kay County.
' ' ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Sheriff.
' ' Th'e Leader Is authorized to announce the
name of Mr. Frank Hlndman as a candidate
' ioi for the onlce of sheriff of Logan county.sub-
Ject to the decision of the Democratic prl
Hit) ?areSl
' .thereby announce myself as a candidate
' f6r the office ol sheriff of Logan county.sub-
ject to the decision of the Democratic prl-
; marles. J. G. POLAND.
( iThe Leader Is authorized to announce the
name of Lon Irvln of Bear Creek township'
for the office of sheriff f Logan county
subject to the action ol the Democratic pri-
maries. - I hereby announce myself as a candidate
for sheriff subject to the action of the Democratic-Populist
primaries to be held Aug.
S3 1000. P.J. FRAY.
' '" " For KejrlHter of Ducds
'The Leader is authorized to announce the
name of Mr. A. C. Pattee of Springer town-
ship ub a candidate for register of deeds
subject to the action ot the Democratic pri-
maries. For County Clrrk.
Tne Leader Is authorized to announce the
name of J. B. Dobson.ot Antelope township
for the office of Co nty Clerk of Logan
county subject to the action ot the nomlna-
tlng primaries to be held Aug. 23.
lr County Treasurer.
The Leader 1 authorized to annonuce the
name of Mr. B. F. Ryla d as a candidate for
county treasurer subject to the action of
the Democratic primary.
"We are authorized to announce the name
of S. C Paxter of Lawrie township for the
office of county treasurer of Logan county
subject to the action of the nominating
prlparles to be held August 23
For I'rolmto JihIko.
The Leader Is hereby authorized to an-
nounce the name of W. M. Kngart an a can-
didate for Probate Judge of Eogan County
on the Democratic ticket subject to the vote
of 'the people at the primaries.
For County Attorney.
I hereby announce mvpelf as a candidate
for attorney of Logan County on the Demo
cratlc ticket subject to the action of the
people at the primaries
J ElKiAIt W. Joxhs.
For County Miiperlntt'iidoiit.
The Leader is authorized to annouuee the
name of Prof. W. S. CaUert of Mullial)
Logan county tor the nomination for coun-
ty superintendent of public instruction on
- the Democratic ticket subject to the action
ut the people at the primaries.
For County Assessor.
Tne Leader Is authorized U. announce the
name of W H C. Brown ot Lawrie town
ship fur the office of assessor of Logan
county lubjecc to the action ofjthe people s
primaries i be held on August 23.
T .Statehood For the Territories. 9
?We denounce the failure of fc
the Republican party to rry v
V out its pledges to grantstatehood V
A to the territories of Arizona New X
iu:.ltu uuu uniu iuiuu auu v u n
promise the poople of those ter-
ritories immediate statehood and
home rule during their condition
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a ub ten uoriub tuj u wc ivoi uuuic
Z rule and a territorial form of
I government for Alaska and Por- q
Z to Rico. r"eraocratic National &
I Platform l'JOO. p
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'I am going into this cam-
paign and take up the standard
and the issue and ttand upon
the platform formulated at
Kansas City with W. J. Bryan
and Adlai Stevenson. "Hubert
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eff in accepting the joint
emocratic-Populistic uoinina-
tion for uontrress.
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TDK OIUSBKIZATIOS OF DAIIXIM.
For the ignominiouB and unparal-
lellcd squelching of his administration
by the Flynn convention Wedneaday
Gov Barnes is indebted to but one
man. 0th6rs there moy be fellows
like "Colonel" Stiles for instanco
who would fain get in on the "divvy"
and' share the homicidal honors but
towering legglly abovo all these is one
man who gave a practical demonstra-
tion of the "scuttle policy" that Wm.
McKinley talks about. That man !b
the Byphon-Btatured bifurcated self-
enameled apostle of political herdics
the Hon. F. H. Greer. He went into
tho deal with a canned conscience and
a commercial stare and acted like a
Boxer running amuck through a Pekin
foreign legation.
Specific and sincere instructions had
been left by Gov. Barnes that no effort
was to be made to secure endorsement
for his administration at the hands
of the Flynn convention. Naturally
enough when tho chief spoke hi9 men
quit. Filson Cunningham and llolt
absented themselves from the conven-
tion ; Strang like Barnes left town ;
Uopkins is never in evidence
on any occasion ; even Me-
Oabo refused to chirp. Greer is al-
legedly a new convert to the Barnes'
faith and he has aims a seething
maelstrom of aims. Greer hates
Flynn (due probably to failure to liqui-
date a 5000 advertising bi'l) and fears
Barnes.
The governor has been a little too
decent (uon part'siau as it were) with
Democrats to suit Greer. In the
event of McKinley'a success and
Barnes' reappointment Greer would
throw one long unvarying funeral
procession of fits. Onjtho other hand
in congress Flynn can do little for or
against Greer. Therefore Greer en
tered into the spirtof the movement of
Flynn leaders to pull ow a double-
header convention a convention that
would place Flynn in a bed of fragrant
exotics and at the same time crush
Barnes so unmercifully that his reap-
pointment would be out of the ques
tion.
While engaged in the process of
crushing the administration Greer
too fully realized that Barnes stood
for the Republican party of Oklahoma
and that the lauding of Flynn with
the total ignoring of Barnes would
place the party in a very peculiar
not to say cowardly position in this
campaign. Whatever his idiosycrasies
Greer is no fool. He knew tie
temper of the Fiynn convention and
was fully apprised of its anti-administration
attitude. That was the party
thought with Greer. Then other
thoughts went surging into his spiral
extremities. The still voice spoku
Despite Barnes' emphatic injunctions
and the firm unyielding attitude of
the Flynn delegates why could not
one man go before that convention and
force it to drink ? Ah that was the
thing! Greer would toss off "for-the
good-of-party" reflections and give an
occular demonstration of the Belf-con-fessed
fact that he was a torrid figure
not only a post-prandial orator anti-
breakfast tail-twister and genera all-
round hypnotizer of men but a man
who by the mere gurgling of conson-
ants and the friction of the liver-
pads resting over the place where his
hoart leaked out thirty years ago.
could stampede a convention and force
it not only to drink his dish-water
cat his weeds tut also swallow his
bug.
The resolutions committee was
Chinese-walled against giving Barnes
a crumb but Greer stomach-ached all
afternoon with the committee lie
frothed at the mouth and copyrighted
the froth. He acted as if he were
reblly in earnest. He couldn't be
pulled off. Finally after the com-
mittee had forcibly sat down on htm
Oroor. with Hob Lowrey got onto the
floor of the convention with a minora
it l report.
With a puff much like a kerosene
flash the ambitions of Greer as a con-
vention stamreder vanished. Small
boys still probe into the debris at the
op-ra house and new and anon pick
up fragmentary portions of a great
man that was! As a tamale Mr. Greer
is hot perhaps toothsome but as a
dietary proposition even the Republi
can h'.otnuch must turn.
A hd why d d Greer practice such
kindergarten politics in the face of
such well known and overwhelming
odds?
For telf-advertising purposes only.
It was simply a casa'iof trying his
voracious political power on the dog.
He picturesquely made a monkey of
thp'administration in order to gratify
his own desires. Placing Belf before
party he cared not a continental
whether the administration was Band-
bagged or given a consolation prize
Had he singlehanded and alone won
out on the floor of the convention be
could easily have sweat black ink and
become tho hottest coon in Dixie. But
alas! Dick Morgan despite hte whis-
ery masque and bay rum architecture
was onto Mr.Greer'6 high-wired curves
and refused to allow him to stand in
the lime light any longer tbon to pre-
sent his minority reporC and get the
upholstering knocked out of it. It was
a stemwinding jolt to Mr. Greer and
sevctal Chinese moons will bave pass-
ed in their last quarter and gotten full
before he gets over it.
This thing of trying "regnant indi-
vidual political power" on the dog is
all right with theatrical companies
but it does not as a rule hold with
politicians aspiring to be "it" munici-
pally and territorially. Far be it from
the Lkadkk to pluck one alfalfa fleck
from tho glory that is Greer'E. He is
great by his own right but not di-
vinely so. By taking a careful survey
of matters mundane he will find that
he is not like a dose of Castoria and
that children do not constantly cry
for him. . He is great only in that
strange spell tfname.
Mr. Greer should remember
along with the Mp.me that
whilo a territorial convention is
ever ready and willing enough to allow
any sort of coster with ready flow of
gab uud a legerdemainic handling of
figureB (which amount to nothing
since the people do not keep track of
tbem) to appear before it and furnish
entertainment during idle moments it
is loath to have its sacred rights tram-
pled on by allowing the members of a
committee of its creation to be brand-
ed as political cannibals buccaneers
and chronic Bore spots.
Mr. Greer should lay dead and smoke
up. He has spaced himself out too
much. A trifle more indention with
beveled border would be beneficial.
In several conventions of late he has
been talking it off at about 8000 ems
to the column. That's too much. In
the last county Republican convention
he borrowed a proxy and spoke 100000
words in the Austrian language with-
outmoving his lips.in urging the unani-
mous nomination of a register of deeds
after promising that he would say
nothing. '.Governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed and there ib no law extant
preventing a man from being a hot
sausage so long as he can remain hot;
but we know of nothing so dank
wretched and cheerless as a cold
Frankfurter. Therefore while felici-
tating Mr. Greer on his achievements
as a one lunged single-voiced mono-
logue artist we are constrained to ad-
monish him to guard well his para-
chute trappings and his life net before
venturing on his aerial stampedes.
Even Patrick Henry worked up to his
peroration by degrees while Dennis
Flynn himself now reluctantly uses
"We" when he means "I." Mr. Greer
should con his "Plutarch's Lives"
more carefully. A single dash for
fame is not always a winner. More-
over the Republican party of Oklaho.
ma is not resting on his shoulders. It
has several other defenders such as A.
J. Seay and J. R. Scott stellar inter-
view repudiaters.
And having admonished Mr. Greer
perhaps it would be well to adjure
the Barnes administration that there
is more than one tin can in the alley
and that all is not gold that glitters'
Even the gold fields at Cape Nome fiz-
zle out.
Little sympathy is accorded Gov
Barnes for being Greerized. The
administration understands Greer's
record and is well aware
that he has been playing fast and
loose with the administration machine
for months. Greer carries dice that
throw seven or eleven every shot and
to go up against him is like a country
man trying to realize a dividend from
a well-matured adult circus nut-game.
coyDKMXED nr flyxx.
The Flynn convention in condemn
ing the federal and national adminis-
trations of Oklahoma by violently ig-
noring them builded a record which
fusion newspapers and orators will
have little trouble in verifying.
As tho Leader stated yesterday the
Republican party through the pro-
cess of negation denounced tho na-
tional and territorial administrations
as dishonest unbusinesslike and cor
rupt.
Under this bead the officials of Okla-
homa who are branded by Delegate
Flynn's cohorts are :
Tho governor.
The governor's immediate officials.'
The secretary of the territory. '
The United States marshal.
The Fifth legislative assembly.
The chief justice.
The five associate justlceB. . .
The Bupremo court.
The United States district court.
The United 8tateB"district clerks.
The United States deputy district
clerks
The registers of the land offices.
The receivers of the land offices.
The chief clerks of tho land offices
The members of tho board of re-
gents of the territorial inBtitutibns.
The live stock sanitary board
The pharmaceutical board.
The banking board.
The postmasters.
And every official in Oklahoma who
draws pay as an officer of the federal
or territorial administrations.
XAMB Til AT FITS THIS TllIXO .
According to the Chicago Chronicle
on the first of September the Taft
commission "will become tho legisla-
tive body of tho Philippines with
power to take and appropriate insular
moneys to establish judicial and edu-
cational systems" and to exercise im
portant executive functions.
This commission is an alien body. It
is compased of men born and educat-
ed in the United States. Only one of
them over learned anything about the
inhabitants of the Philippines from
observation until two or three months
ago. Not one of them is able from
personal contact to enter into the life
of the people their feelings their
needs their capacities
Yet they are set up as the Bole and
absolute makers of all laws for about
10000.000 people the most of whom
according to most authentic accounts
we get hate Americans more bitterly
than they ever hated the Spaniards.
These men are set up as absolute
law givers for those alien and remote
people not by congress which alone
under the constitution has power to
govern territories bui by the presi-
dent in his capacity as commander in
chief of the army and navy.
We may call that by whatever name
we please but it is not republicanism
or democracy in fact.) It is the impo-
sition of alien arbitrary authority by
main strength upon millions of dis-
tant people not only without their
consent but against the most forcible
protest they are able to make.
Call it what we will imperialism is
a very appropriate name for it and one
which is more than likely to stick.
Republican warfare is hurting Ok-
lahoma. Stand up for the territory.
The things that convention did to
Boxer Greer would not grow even if
they were well watered exotics.
That low lorn fragmentary wail is
the voice of Lse Look Greer. He is
under the debris and wants out.
Tom Ferguson succeeds Bill Grimes
as the Republican asterisk. Fergu-
son never saw the day when his hair
wasn't anything but red.
Johnny Hale of Liucoln county a
now born Republican moved that
plank No. 7 the administration plank
be stricken out. Tally one for Mar-
shal Thompson.
If the alleged friends of Barnes had
not fought for an endorsement the re-
port could have gone out that the
omission of an endorsement plank was
a stenographical error.
The Hon. Dick Morgan prefiidod
over Wednesday's convention with his
brow carefully knitted and whiskers
on his face In other words he stood
as Morgan's diurnal digest of dissap
pointed hopes.
Dennis Flynn is stronger in Okla-
homa than any congressman in the
United States is in his own district.
Wichita cJagle.
Not this year dear Eagle; not this
year
Speaking of fool bettors do not
overlook the one who offers to bet
that this country will vote to throw
the constitution overboard by re-electing
a mun who works overtime trying
to find excuses for disregarding its
plain provisions.
It appears that Oora Greer broke it
off in ex-Governor Seay the man who
denies his own interviews. During
the scrap in the resolutions committee
the intrepid Greer told Seay ho had
poked public coin into his jans with-
out a qualm. And Seay grunted. Men
who deny their own interviews al-
wayB grunt and splutter.
Wanted at once horses and mules
Joun R. Miller.
"SGUTTLIXQ."
There's to bo no "Bcuttling" from
the Philippines Baid McKinley ac-
cepting that nomination.
His Bpeech was ready-made. So ho
carefully chose tho word "scuttling."
In this way he warned the American
people that there is to bo no Gladstone
business in his policy.
Aiter tho Boers had given tho Brit-
ish an all-fired lickin' at Majuba hill
twenty years ago Gladstone said he'd
got enough and acknowledged their
independence as Lord York had to in
this country after Yorktown.
So the Tories called Gladstone's pol-
icy in foreign affairs "scuttling."
Like McKinley Cumberland and tho
Tories Baid there would be no Bcutt-
ling from South Africa.
That is what they are fighting about. .
That is what we are fighting about in
the Philippines.
"Scuttle" is an old English Tory
word of contempt for fair just peace-
able dealing with any peoples that the
Tories think they can whip.
McKinley knows what the word
means and uses it because it says what
he means.
Tho Filipinos must be crushed be-
cause they are brave enough to fight for
their independence even if they aro
not strong enough to win it.
The word is as good as a signboard.
It shows how far along the road to
imperialism the Republican party has
already traveled.
A few years ago Gladstone was the
one great European statesman that
Americans admired.
His desire to help weaker peoples
instead of treading on them appealed
to the people of this country.
Today the president of tho United
States carefully chooses from the po-
litical dictionary the word of. odium
that his Tory enemies flung at Glad-
stone. It was their answer to Gladstone's
humane high-minded Christian pol
icy toward people's with enough self-
respect and courage to fight for their
liberty.
No wonder McKinley and his cabi-
net and the Republican bosses have
found so few words of condemnation
for Chamberlain's anti-"scuttling
campaign in Soutn Africa.
A man who glibly useB the Tory
slang must bhare the Tory sentiment.
QUAKEK REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The theatrical performance al fresco
is played out.
The undertaker usually gets rich by
charging stiff prices.
No. Maude dear racy reading is not
confined to the horse news.
If looks could kill some women
would be chronic murderesses.
Sillicus "Blood will tell." Cyni-
cus "That has been tried in vein."
The devil is seldom 'as black as ho
is painted and lots of men aro not
half.as bad as they pretend to be
Blobbs "What a queer looking girl
your wife haB as child's nurse. What
iB she?" Slobbs "I think she's a
Laplander."
The average actress seems to think
it necessary to get a divorce from her
husband before she can become wed-
ded to her art.
"That puts a different complexion
on things" remarked the facetious
drug clerk as he sold a couple of wo-
men boxes of face powder.
Lots of men can't afford to wear
good clothes and drink beer too. That
is why there are so many poorly
dressed men in the wor'd.
You may have your choice of
any ladies' wash waists in our
house which sold at 30o to 75c
for 25c. Grand Leader special
sale today and tomorrow.
WANTo"
Advertisements In this column 2c per line
each insertion. No advertisement taken
for less than 25 cents.
"Money to patent pood Ideas may be sec-
ured by our aid address THE PATENT RE
CORD Baltimore. Md."
WANTED M000 Subscribers for the Okla-
homa Leader one year and the Farm Jour-
nal five years for 50c. Sample copies on ap-
plication. AVANTED-Brlght boy to canvass tor the
Oklahoma Weekly Leader and Atlanta Con-
stltutlon. Good pav to right party.
Young Men Our illustrated catalogue ex-
plains how we teach the barber trade in
eight weeks. Mailed free. Moler Barber
College St. Lohis Mo.
PKIISONAL
Ladles1 Free Harmless Monthly Regula-
tor. Cannot fall. Mrs. B. Rowan R 17? Mil-
waukee Wis.
Notice for Chiumo of Voting Precinct.
Notice Is hsreby given that a pctiton was
llled August 6 moo in the onlce of county
praying
Logan
" ui LiuH.iu uouiuy wKiauoiu;i Territory
Logan County Oi
change the votinp
ent voting place In
mat me coumy commissioners oi
uKwiuoimi Territory to
jircciuci irom tne pres-
ship. Logan County Oklahoma Territory to
Coyle situated In the northwest part of said
town ah in nni onlil rnnntv nm nb-llifir'i
Territory; that unless cause Is shown why
said voting precinct should not be changed
within one month said petition will be
cranted. o. P. Coopkh
Attest Chairman-
R. P. Morton Clerk.
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