Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1904 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL. I.
Pauls Valley Sentinel
"with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right."
PAULS VALLEY, IND. TER., THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1904.
NO. 24
ROBNETT STILL ON TOP.
His
Second Debate With Sena-
tor Gore of Oklahoma.
BIG CROWD HEARD ORATORS
Statehood Question wag the Paramount Issue.
Some Politics.
At the picnic and barbecue at Davis
last week, Senator Gore of Lawton,
0. T., and "our own" Tom Robnett
of Ardmore met in joint debate, it be-
ing the second time they have met
' this summer. About 2,500 people
heard the'speakers.
Senator Gore opened the discussion
and during his whole time discussed
the merits of single statehood and at-
tempted to prove that the people of
the Indian Territory ought to want
single statehood. The Chickasaw na-
tion is the hot bed of the separate
statehooders led by R. H. West of
Ardmore.
There is no question that the people
of the Chickasaw nation are for separ-
ate statehood, excepting the republi-
cans who are outspoken in their advo-
cacy of a single state.
It was the influence of the leaders
of the Chickasaw nation that caused
the silence of the democrats in their
convention at Durant, because they
thought that they might injure the
prospects of the success of the demo-
cratic party in Oklahoma.
Judge Robnett took the floor and
showed that the democratic party was
a party that had never fulfilled a
pledge and had never carried out any-
thing that it had agreed to in or out
of congress. He went so far as to say
that he would vote the democratic
ticket and advise his friends to do like-
wise if a v single instance could be
shown where it had carried out its
pledges when it was in full power as it
was under the administration of Grover
Cleveland. He further agreed to vote
the democratic ticket provided that
Senator Gore or anybody else could
show where a single one of Bryan's
prophecies had come true. Mr. Rob-
nett told the audience that the Sena-
tor should apologize to the people for
the mean and pruel remarks and es-
pecially to the democratic party for his
speeches eight years ago in Texas
when he was fighting the democrats
and working for the populist ticket,
when the deal was made between the
leaders of the populist and republican
parties whereby it was agreed that the
republicans should support Kirby, the
populist nominee, and and that the pop-
ulists should support McKinley, and
the returns from the election show that
McKinley ^received 140,000 votes,
about 40,000 more than the regular
vote. Judge Robnett then took the
old speeches that the senator had made
when they were on the same platform
fighting for the interests of Kirby and
McKinley and proceeded to read of
things when he said that the democratic
party was a party of heroes without he-
roism and patriots without patristism
and when in power in policies had al-
ways beget .ners without farms and
laborers without labor and the senator
had said that the republican party as a
party had always stood for principle.
He said that the democratic party was
like Judas and would betray.
Judge Robnett then showed that the
democratic party had betrayed the
populists and had gone back to the
Cleveland and Wall street gang and
that their platform as adopted at St.
Louis meant nothing and promised
nothing except political hot air, and
with the Parker telegram as an appen-
dix which was sure to give the appen-
dicitis to every Bryan democrat in the
United States. He then advised every
voting man to study the questions and
their leaders and to ally themselves
with the party that had helped and
done what it had to build up this great
republic.
Senator Gore took about twenty
minutes to answer Mr. Robnett.
TEAM ORGANIZED.
Quite a number of Pauls Valley
young men met at the opera house last
Friday evening and organized a foot
ball team. Russ Mitchell was selected
as captain, Scott Worley, treasurer and
Jas. Hill manager. There is excellent
material here for a team and the boys
announce that they will be ready for
play as soon as the season opens.
SOON BE READY.
The American gin is nearing com-
pletion and will soon be ready for the
cotton.
HOW INDIANS WILL VOTE.
Theory That They Will Follow
Their Chief is Advanced.
HOW IT IS LIKELY TO RESULT
Democrats Find Comfort in the Theory That
Some of the Chiefs are of That Faith.
The following press dispatch in re-
lation as to how the Indian will vote is
from the State Capital from an Indian
Territory correspondent:
Many stories have been sent out
from Indian Territory purporting to
give correct information with reference
to the ticket the Indian will vote when
the Territory is given statehood. Each
writer has figured out the matter to
conform to his own political views and
outside of the service rendered by the
Indian to the south in the 60's has
given no other reason why the red man
would support this or that ticket.
The writer recently approached
Chas. D. Carter, with reference to what
party the Indian would align himself
with and met with this reply: "The
Indian has always followed his chief.
He regards his leader with the same
reverence that the English law rever
ences the English crown, believing
that he can do no wrong. The poli-
tics of the Indian is in the hands of
the leaders."
Mr. Carter has for years been promi-
nent in Chickasaw politics. He is a
highly educated half breed and is thor-
oughly acquainted with every charac-
teristic of his people. His reply to
the query was strikingly logical and
summed up the situation in a nut shell.
Mr. Carter is -free in expressing his po-
litical views and is an avowed democrat.
For the past six years Douglas H.
Johnston has been the one leader of
the Chickasaws. He was recently
chosen chief of the tribe and will serve
the Chickasaws in that capacity until
the tribal relations are dissolved by the
mutual agreement of the Indians and
the national congress.
During the past two administrations
all the federal office holders that Mr.
Johnston was forced to deal with have
been republicans. His time has been
fully occupied with matters of import-
ance to his own people and he has ab-
stained from giving expression to his
own political views. So guarded has
he been in the matter that his political
associates and closest friends do not
know his views with reference to
national politics.
The weak piaces in the theory of
the gentleman mentioned is in the fact
that the Indians of the Chickasaw na-
tion are divided in their support of
favorites and the other faction is fol-
lowing a leader who is said to be of re-
publican faith. As the chief is elect-
ive it seems difficult to believe that
rancor of the tribal campaigns will be
wiped out so as to make all the oppos-
ing Indians followers of his lead under
the theory that the king can do no
wrong.
In Lie Creek nation the chief is a re-
publican. He has had less opportun-
ities than a ^ ryhtr ah! ' -id is one
of the most /,//^sive men in the In-
dian Territory. It is believed that in
his case the members of the tribe will
follow the chief. In the other nations
the divisions of the Indians is along
Hnes that may well be expected to be
indicative of how they stand as citizens
of the United States after 1906. It
seems that the vote of the Indian is
going to be divided in national affairs
as it has been in tribal affairs.
LOOK AND LEARN.
Capital Stock 50,000 Surplus and Profits, 73.000
The First National Bank of Pauls Valley solicits
accounts large and small and with its Capital stock
of $50,000, and surplus funds of $73,000, offers
to the public every facility consistent with safe and
prudent^ banking..... £§3) 5^
I have opened up a large stock of
fall and winter dress goods and they
are now ready for your inspection.
These goods are the best that money
can buy and we invite you to call and
see them when you get ready to make
your fall purchases. I bought early so
as to procure the lowest possible prices
and best patterns, thereby benefitting
my customers as well as myself. 21-3
M. M. GUBIN.
BRING IN YOUR CORN.
Mr. Wurster, the jeweler, announces
that he will give a gold vest
valued at $10. to the farmer near Pauls
Valley, who will bring to his store
during the month of September, the
best ten ears of corn. The premium
will be awarded by three competent
judges on October 1st.
Other merchants should take up this
matter and make extra inducements in
prizes so that the farmers will take an
interest and compete for them. The
Sentinel would like to make a sug-
gestion that after the prizes are award-
ed, the com be sent to the Indian Ter-
ritory building at the World's Fair.
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