Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1907 — A THREATENED OUTRAGE. [ARTICLE]

A THREATENED OUTRAGE.

Oklahoma, if it becomes a state, will cast seven electoral' votes at the presidential election. It is as certain as anything of the sort can be that these votes will be cast for the Democratic candidate. On this ground, and this ground only, the Republican politioans are conspiring to keep the territory from becoming a state at this time. If they cannot succeed by some other method they threaten to repeal the enabling act passed by the last congress. Popgun statesmen of the Jim Watson type want President Roosevelt to veto the Oklahoma constitution. The president, however, has not yet publicly indicated what his attitude will be in the end. If he goes to the aid of the politicians and defeats statehood be will proclaim himself a much smaller man than any American wants to believe he is. How the people most affected would look at such action is shown by the following paragraph from an article in the Oklahoman, published in Oklahoma City: “Should it develop that the president can be persuaded to listen to the urgent pleadings of the small-bore, carpet-bag politioans who desire to protract the territorial graft regime, the unjustness of such action will create a protest from all over the land and cloud the closing chapters in the career df a man of whom the people of the nation have expected much. In Oklahoma his memory would be cordially hated, and the ties of blood and friendship that bind citizens of Oklahoma to every community throughout the land would serve to spread that dislike. And, again, the party that he sought to serve would not for years, if ever, gain ascendency in popular suffrage.”