Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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FIFTEENTH YEAR NO. 42
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i.">, 1906.
$1.00 PER YEAR
Welcome to the Capital City, Members of the Constitutional Convention! May \^u do your Duty.
Shall Oklahoma Be A Southern State
With All That Such A Condition Means?
"Shall Oklahoma be a Southern state in the full sense that
term implies in the present day?"
This is the question all persons are asking, irrespective of
political parties. It is a good thing to look this matter squarelv in
the face and see what such a condition means. It means, in the
first place, a "Solid South" democratic state, that receives no con-
sideration from its own party because of its innert imovability. It
means that this condition will be brought about by an intense race
prejudice that would drive men into the democratic party for local
self protection, that on national issues would be republican, and
would make the negroes and white republicans vote useless, and a
discredit to the white man.
Now, this is a condition that both the white man and the
negro from the south came to Oklahoma to get away from. It is
a condition that the South itself is trying to solve and get away
from, and surely Oklahoma does not desire to walk into. The
thing to look squarely in the face is, "Is there enough negroes in
Oklahoma to produce the condition that exists in some Southern
states, and on account of which we are to suffer some of the com-
mercial and political limitations that the Southern states suffer?"
If there is not sufficent cause it is not wisdom to act as though
there is and place Oklahoma in the acception of the outside world
that it is a Southern State.
The sensus of 1900 gives the population for Oklahoma 367,524
white and 18,831 colored; Indian Territory 302,680 white and 36,853
colored. This makes 670,204 white and 55,684 colored for the two
territories. The population of the two territories is now estimated
to be a million and a half and it is not believed that negroes will
reach seventy thousand of this. In the first place, the negroes in
Oklahoma were shipped by an exploiting syndicate in the early day
and have not increased much since, in the Indian Territory those
there were slaves and a very small per cent of the increased popu-
lation is colored.
This does not make the population of the state of Oklahoma
five per cent colored, and the future increase will tend to decrease
that per cent, as the rapid immigration to the state will be mostly,
if not entirely, white.
Now then as to the solution: Rather than to go back to the
conditions of a Southern states, with all that that means, the negroes
should quit voting the republican ticket as a race and thus destroy
the race issue as political question. The question is, "Shall the
negro vote the republican ticket because of gratitude for what the
party did for him forty years ago or shall he vote as an American
citizen for the present best interests of himself as well as the white
citizens. If this is to be a Southern state and men will desert the
republican party because the negro is solidly a part of it, then he
is injuring not only permanently the" political posibilities of the
white republicans but his own civic rights and commercial pros-
perity. Rather than to have the republican party permanently
destroyed because of the negro vote it can better afford to have
the negroes go over to the democracy and lose an election or two,
by the elimination of that vote as a race question, let all men will vote
in accordance with their elegiance to men and measures, and then
the republican party will have an equal show of winning on nation-
al and state issue.
Oklahoma is riot a Southern state in spirit, education or con-
ditions. Both the white an d the black are more intelligent. The
negro came from the South to get away from the conditions there
existing. The white man come to get away from the conditions
there existing. Shall they now meet here in Oklahoma, and by
perversion of facts, bring about the conditions they ran away from,
and injure both? And shall the Northern man, who has never had
the negro prejudice created in him, help them both create a con-
dition he has always fought against?
Let the negroes use sense and not mass themselves in com
munities in defiance of the prejudice they cannot help; and let the
white man have sense and not declare that race conditions in Okla-
homa are the same as some Southern states, simply for political
effect, for what he gains politically he will lose financially. There
are not enough negroes in Oklahoma to produce that intense
prejudice existing in the South and create a race problem, and the
party that makes it an issue is not loyal and injures the state beyond
repair.
Ball and Luncheon Land Office Pay
For the Delegates HaIf Mm|on
The delegates to the state constitu-
tional convention will be entertained by , ^)e 0lJ'lces of Oklahoma during
the citizens of Guthrie on Monday night it«^ States^reMureffy'jMs'lS.39?after
next with a ball and buffet lunchcon al deducting $55,770.17 for expenses,
the Elks club looms. i This would make a total receipts during
Owing to the large number of dele -1 ,the y.ear $6C3,913 88. Of the half mil-
. , ,, , r f, lion dollars turned into the treasury,
gates an 1 the scarcity of floor space. . $411,050 was credited to the reclamal
the banquet idea has been abandoned | tion fund credited to Oklahoma up to
and a lunch buffet will be served. j june 30 is $3,538,753 of which not less
j than 51 per cent, or 31,804,764, must be
All Open Letter j sPtnt f°r irrigation and reclamation
til tfichar<l H'insinsr within thu borders of Oklahoma
to Kicnarti nansing The largest returne3 irj oklahoma
Territorial Items.
Some man, giving his name as Rev
Jesse Stanhope has been working his
Babtist brenthern at and about Lawton.
Five white quail were killed near
Perry. They are rare and should have
been left alone.
The grain dealers on the Rock Is-
land road have decided to take action
on shortage of cars.
Conflict of Territorial
! Kfs Oklahoma Carried B
' district court here was giving the _
grand jury very strong instructions in flPrQTIP
1 regard to the investigation of trusts, Uulullu
I combines and moaopolies, Judge C. F.
: Irwin, in the district court at King- ——
fisher, declared the Oklahoma anti-
! trust law invalid, and dismissed all of
( the cases recently brought by County
".'Dem-
arty by A Small Majority.
A negro girl fifteen years old, near Attorney tieorge L Bownan, of King-
Temple'picked 705 pounds ot cotton in fisher county, ag inst millers, grain
one day and a colored man near Luther J men and lumber dealers in Kingfisher,
600 pounds. At a dollar a pound, this who were alleged to be me.nbers of a
is beating the salaries of members of , pool or combination to fix prices,
the constitutional convention and I In dissolving the injunction hereto-
many of the territorial officers. I fore issued by the probate court and
, ; dismissing the actions. Judge Irwin
Oklahoma county armeis a/e I held that the county attorney had no
organized to fight Sunday hunters. | righ(. tQ brjng action by injunction in
There were soldiers in the colored j the name of 1 he territory, and without
regiment discharged at Fort Reno who a bond in any case, except to restrain
shed tears when their arms were taken a nuisance, and that the petitions did
away from them. Some had served
over twenty years and would have soon
been retired on half pay.
Mayor General William Rufus Shat-
ter, who was in command of the Amer-
ican army in the Cuban expedition
against Spain, died at BakersSeld Cali-
fornia.
The Boars are in an uprising in South
Africa and England is sending troops
fearing a general war.
The Arapaho Bee, republican, puts
up a big roostor on its front page for
republican national congressional vict-
ory. That's heroism for you.
Senator Bailey's defeat is predicted
in Texas.
Phillip Fredrick Metzger, tne defeat-
ed candidate for the constitutional con-
vention from Hardy, Kay county, is to
be married to Miss Dolly Curtis, sister
ef Congressman Curtis of Kansas.
Jerry Johnson is out in a long editor-
ial for government ownership of tele-
! graphs along with the postoffice sys-
tem.
Douglas, the colored porter of the
Rock Island train that went down on
the Cimarron bridge near Dover, has
been recovered, his body sticking out
of the sand of the river.
Political Personals.
If there is anything good coming to
not show that this sort of condition ex-
isted. He also held that the so-called
anti-trust law of the territory was
void, because it conflicted with the or-
ganic act and the Sherman anti trust
law of congress. He further held that
the territorial legislature had no power
to legislate on the subject of trusts in
view of the fact that congress had
already enacted legislation along that
line.
Situation At El Reno
Four companies of the twenty-sixth
U. S. infantry, white, arrived at El Re-
no on a special train from San Antonio,
Texas, and immediately went to Fort
Reno, where they will remain at least
until after the disposal of the negro
soldiers to be discharged from the
army. Just when the disbandinent of
the negro troop s will take place can-
not be stated now because no one
knows. Sealed orders for this cere-
mony will be received which will speci-
fy the time, and may not come but a
very few hours before the actual dis-
charge is to take place. The officers
and men at the fort know very little
about the whole affair.
Soldiers at the fort anticipate no
trouble when the negroes are turned
loose. The people of the city were
afraid from previous experiences when
the negroes are discharged they would
come to the city and make trouble.
I The white troops were brought for
any democrat it is coming to Chairman | precautionary measures. The city
Jesse Dunn. He would surely look j p0ljce force will be notified when the
good as a chief justice with his shining ; disbandment is to be made and a num-
bald spot, and adding his smile to that ber cf special officers will be commis-
he would be a brilliant light in the , ;0ned. The people of the city do not
United States senate. j eXpect any trouble, but they do not
There are those who think that W. S, propose to be unprepared in an emer-
Whittingill, of Enid, would represent gency.
democracy in the United Slates senate It is said the deportment of the ne-
with great credit. He surely would be groes since they arrived at the fort
a striking figure, in ability, and as a two months ago, has been good. Dur-
picturesque character he would be the ingall that time they have been subject
rage with the kodak fiends and his bou to roll call every two hours in the
! mot3 would delight the newspaper men. twenty-four and only on one occasion
did anyone fail to answer roll call.
That was on the night of Hagenbeck's
were in camp bright and early the next
morning however.
! If the information of W. S. Russel,
of the South McAlasler Capital can be , . ,
,. , , circus, and two failed to respond. They
j relied upon, Clarence Douglas, of the . L . , . , ,
(Muskogee Phoenix, who has sold hi3
paper, will be minister to China. Now
j let Ann look to her imperial laurels.
The republican papers have returned Petit Jury
] to intertaining their readers with wily The following petit jury has been
editorial paragraphs on foreign affairs | empannelled for this tern, of court:
Tut, tut! They should discuss honestly ' Felix Adler, G. W. Billings, Price
reasons of republican failure and what Billings, Bill Cross, Charles Carpenter,
j to do to succeed next time. Get down Richard Dave, Charles Detweeller, C.
j to tne "grass roots" once more boys. U. English, J. B. Fairfield, John Grif-
fith, Karl Glock, E. J. Garner, Charles
Not having had much occasion to use
Ham, R. L. Hancock, Henry Henning.
Ponca City, Okla., Nov. 12, 1906.
Editor State Register
With your permission I wish to ask
the Hon. Richard Hansing, president of
the School Land Lessees Union of Okla-
homa, "Did you authorize, advise,
dictate, or sign a circular letter to the
lessees, i;nder date of Nov. 2d " Will
you please answer through the colums
of the Register and oblige thousands of
lessees,
The lessees have a right to know the
truih in regard to this letter.
J. A. Blubaugh
during the last fiscal year, of course.
The returns of the constitutional convention show that the Ok-
lahoma half of the state of Oklahoma is not as strongly democratic
as the number of democratic delegates elected indicated. The
victory was won on small majorities. The democratic plurality
over the rapublican ticket was but 10,721 and majority over all but
5,783. The figures show that there were 1 r,138 less republican
votes cast than four years ago, while the democrats cast 1,169 more.
If the republican stay-at-home vote had been cast the party would
have won by 417, and if the party had received its proportion of
the increased vote from two ye?rs ago, it would have won by a
greater majority.
The official vote, except the two districts in Beaver county
which navt not reported, is: Democratic 51,037; republican 40,316
socialist 3,538; prohibitiohist 1,400; total 96,291.
The vote of 1904 was: Republican 51,454; democratic 49,868,
socialist 4,443; prohibitionist 1,544; populist 1,836; total 109,145.
This shows that the stay-at-home vote was 12,854.
A movement will be put 01 foot in a short time for a republic-
an league organization of the two territories from the pricincts up
to an executive state board. It will be absolutely none-factional,
taking in a full representation of the voters. The small demo-
cratic majority has given the republicans renewed lite, and if the
Indian Territory vote bears the same proportion as the Oklahoma,
it shows that the republicans simply did not agree among them-
selves and failed to vote their full party vote.
Deep Fork Has
Land to Drain.
Residents of Oklahoma will be par-
ticularly interested in the address of
H. H. Hodgeson, of Washington, at
the coming meeting of the National
Drainage convention, December 5, 6
and 7. Mr. Hodgeson has been con-
nected with the United States geologi-
cal survey ana is a delegate from the
District of Columbia to the conven-
tion.
"The Deep Fork Drainage Problem"
will be the subject of his lecture. The
Deep Fork is known to be one of the
most fertile valleys in all of the new
state. One of of the things which has
retarded the development of this sec-
tion has been the fact that the land is
subject to frequent overflows.
Mr. Hodgsson has spent considerable
time in a close study of Deep Fork and
has prepared an address in which he
will give his views as to the best solu-
tion of the problem.
H. N. Wilson, geographer of the geo-
logical survey, is another who will read
an interesting paper at the drainage
convention. His subject will be " The
Relation of the Topographical Work of
the Survey to the Drainage Question."
In a lotter received from H. C. Rizer,
acting director of the geological sur-
vey, he says that the drainage ques"
tion is one of the mos^; important now
before the people and that he believes
that the solution of many of the prob-
lems will be best accomplished with
the assistance of the national govern-
ment.
them in the past, it is a matter of enqu- j A House, Bonner Holliday, W. H.
I ery the democratic papers got so Kinkeadi G. M Laicker> R W.Morris,
many lusty, ugly, bragadocio, roosters Jk L Mar,hall Krank McClure, C. E.
to crow over their elecnon victory. McWethy, j T. Newland, Milton Over-
; Dia they borrow them from their op- of„ i n o r .. i i j
* M street, J. F. Rowlings, iom Redmond,
ponen s. ^ ^ Richardson, Charles Staatz, J.
Why does not someone say that the H. Sullivan, W. D. Spencer, A. E.
republicans went kasmasli because Bill Severins, John Terheine and F. W
Grimes is out sunning himself on the Wallace
Pacific coast.
Bill Cross has changed his candidacy Passenger Collision
from that of congressman to secretary . ... 4 |^-i| ,1
of state and Otto beckemeyer's eastern Ilea 47
friends are already congratulating him More than one-half the passengers on
on his election to that office, thinking an immigration train on the Baltimore
the recent election carried the state and Ohio road were killed or injured in
ticket. Otto and Bill are both good a collision between the t.as enger train
fellows and will task their friends to and a freight near woodville, Iiid.
One hundred and sixty-five passen-
gers were on the train, and of these
fjrty-scven were either killed outright
or were burned to death in the fire
which broke out in the wreckage im-
Senate Committee
Visit Territory.
The members of the special
committee of United States Sena-
tors, who will investigate the sub
jects of Indian rights and the sale
of segregated lands, arrived in
Vinita Tuesday morning on a
special train over the Kitty. The
distinguished visitors were greeted
by a delegation of local business
men.
An investigation of the advisa-
bility of removing restriction from
the lands of the government
wards will be prosecuted. The
committee will remain in the ter-
ritory several days and investi-
gate the whole question of Indian
rights.
know which to support
Oklahoma City offers three candi-
came from the Woodward land district, dates for Unite 1 Stales senators—Roy
in which is located the most desirable Stafford, M. L. Turner ami C B. Ames,
land in largest quantities. The re-1
ceipts of the Woodward office were 1 After *ear8 of wishinK. the friends-
mediately after the
collision,
will
The
$196,187. leigion—of Col. Roy Hoffman will now names u" the dead will probably
The El Reno land district contributed have a chance of boosting him into the nevur be known' as forty"five. of the
United States senate.
Tnion of Kay county.
..o .or • 1 1. . uniiwi smiossBnaiu bodies were consumed in the flames or
$148,495 including $58,566 from the unlceu states senate. ......
1 ... , , , were so badly burned that identification
sales of Wichita cedar land. U. 9. Russell, of the South McAlest- is impossable.
oca.'° If* nf.'8 Werl $1106, er CaP'la|. is a candidate for chief Thirty eight people were injured, and
'=0' Mangum^$53,04lj^at^Guthrie, c|erk of the constitutional convention, several of these will die. Eighty oth-
any further era escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all
their baggage and clothing.
President of Lessees KtagflshM, $19,138; and at There ,s no us, 10 look
Alya $19,147
he's good enough..
Condensed Wiregrams
Countess Castellane, former Anna
Gould, received a sweeping victory in
her divorce, refusing the count's de-
mand of $50,000 annuity and giving her
the custody of her children.
With the knowledge that three regis-
tered packages are burried in the Cim-
arron Rock Island bridge wreck, con-
taining $6000, lenewed interest in dig-
ging in the sand will take place.
The government has filed a brief in
Supreme court asking that the suit
b'ought by the Katey road in the name
of Kansas be dismissed.
The association of National Guard
Officers, of the two territories, will
meet in Guthrie on the 20th.
Hitchcockism
Astonish Senators
The United States senatorial
committee concluded its investi-
gation and hearings at Vinita
The inquiry was concerning the
oilfields. Seymour Riddle, presi-
dent of the Vinita Commercia.
Club, presented the matter to the
committee and the senators were
intensely interested in the matter
as Mr. Riddle presented it.
The senators were amazed to
learn that no assignment of an oil
or gas mining lease could be se-
cured by any person whereby the
assignee could make any money
out of it for the reason that under
such circumstances the approval
of the secretary of the interior
could not be secured.
When this was shown to be true
beyond question it caused Senator
Teller to exclaim, "I should not
think that any man of common
sense would take a lease under
such circumstances."
In behalf of the people of In-
dian territory the following state-
ment was made to the senators
concerning the secretary of the
interior :
" The secretary of the interior
has reserved to himself the power
upon ten days' notice to confis-
cate oil properties by cancelling
the leases, and that, too, without
recourse to any court. Careful
business men are afraid of this
arbitary and unusual power. They
believe that no just man desires
such power and that no man
should be given such authority.
" We demand that Cherokee
citizens be allowed to lease their
lands for oil and gas purposes
without the approval of the secre-
tary of the interioi. Then the
valuable oil field in the Cherokee
nation would be developed on a
business basis.
"Were these burdensome rules
aud regulations which are now
imposed upon us wiped out there
would be ten men seeking to
lease on the Indians' property
where one is seeking that privi-
lege now. The present rules have
a tendency to limit the number
of persons who are able and wil-
ling to engage in business and
thereby decrease the value of the
oil lands and reduce the amount
of production and retard this
great industry."
It was also explained to the
committee that in case where a
citizen of the Cherokee nation
was able to drill on Ins own land
for oil the secretary would not al-
low him to do so.
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