“Take nobody’s dust in oil or politics.”—James M. Guffey.
“What’s oil to a man when his wife’s a widow.”—Edwin E. Clapp.
“Dad’s struck ile.”—Miss Anna Evans.
“The Standard is the octopus of the century.”—Col. J. A. Vera.
“It’s monopoly when you won’t divide with the other fellow.”—John D. Archbold.
“The Standard would swallow us without chewing.”—Samuel P. Boyer.
“Give us public officials who dare own their own souls.”—Lewis Emery.
“The man who won’t demand his rights should crawl off the earth.”—M. H. Butler.
“He’s only a corporation-convenience.”—James W. Lee.
“A railroad-pass is the price of some legislators.”—W. S. McMullan.