The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT
T. F. HENSLEY, Editor
One week, delivered in c!t>
One nuintli
Three months
Six months..
One year
THE EL RENO DEMOCRAT
(Weekly Edition.)
Throi! months
Six months
One year
1.00
during hit) first term There ti hIho
We are in favor of closing the back
doors of saloons on Sunday, but to
favor Tad lock and his friends w
would not object to the city supplying
them with latch keys, providing the>
ran furnish a certificate of character
and will give a good and sufficient
bond not to write checks on bank>
where they have no funds. This pre
caution is absolutely necessary as '<
fe Informed that rear end whisky
makes a democratic pauper feel like
• udowlng a college every time he
lakes a swig of It
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Democrat is authorized to an
nounce that George W Winder Is u
Candidate for re-election to the nffic.
of street commissioner of the city of
El Reno, at the election to be held
in April. 1905.
It is easy enough for a psalmslnglng
Kansas clieek writer, to t ry down the
Hensley administration of this city,
but the fact remains the same thai
when Hensley took charge of Ibis
city he found 11 in debt nearly $12,000
He found city warrants worth about
an much on the dollar as Tatllock
checks. There was not a foot of
brick sidewalk In the town We had
no sanitary sewers, no storm sewers,
no city hall Taxes were 23 mills on
the dollar, and in addition to that a
poll lax of $4 per head. During Hen-
sley's administration poll tax was
cut down to *1! City tax to 10</4
mills. And while this was being done
a permanent sidewalk system was
inaugurated. Permanent street cross
ings look the place of the old wooden
ones. The finest system of sanitary
sewerage to be found In the territory
was constructed. A fine system of
storm sewers were put in, redeeming
one-fourth of the town from overflow
The two principal business streets of
the city were curbed and guttered
with stone and vitrified brick. A
city hall was built and paid for and
when Ihe Hensley regime ended there
was plenty of money in the treasury
and the city was out of debt The
taxes for the current year had never
been touched. And there was better
order and less crime in El Reno dur
Ing these four years Ihan there ever
had been before or since. These are
facts known to every taxpayer honest
and fair enough to admit it.
an unwritten law governing the duty
which a man owes to his party that
has once elevated him to office and
thai, law forbids him to shirk the
responsibility of defending Ihe policy
of his party and his own official re
cord when it is attacked by any one
and especially by a political opponent
Therefore, Mr Lincoln ought not to
lie in too great haste to declare that
ho will nol be a candidate for re-
election. If be cannot win a re-elec
tlon on the record he has made, what
republican can'.' If he cannot sue
cessfully defend his administration
and win an election for his party In
the city next spring, It 1b not worth
while for any other republican in ihe
town to atlempt it. His refusal to
stand for a re nomination is almost
tantamount to an admission that he
is afraid of the record of his adminis-
tration. For the republican party to
accept his declination, is equivalent
to the admission lliat the party is
repudiating the administration of the
city and is trying to rid itself of tli
incubus. If Mr. Lincoln's administra
tion has not been republican to the
backbone. It has been nothing. There
fore the party must Indorse it anil
not attempt to dodge It
and aoak the earth to a sufficient
depth to practically insure a wheat
crop Many acres of oats will be
sow n as soon as the frost leaves the
ground (three car loads of seed oats
were sold here during the past thirty
days) and corn and cotton ground
will be prepared for the seed With
the production of a big crop the vol
line of trade that will coma to Peid-
inont will be immense. Our town
should thrive and hum with business
to a marked degree, but the business
men of the town should also keep
alive to the necessity of offering in-
ducements. Advertise your business
Piedmont Press.
Oklahoma City will have five city
tickets In the field K1 Reno promises
only three so far. Tlu* more ihe mer
rier.
They say that Joe l.ow got fifty
per cent of the eight dollars damages
that was awarded Johnson the Perry
lawyer as repairs for his character,
and that be Is anxious to spend it as
I a candidate for mayor of El Reno.
The Ulobell says that it does not
e\> n have it In for the "big mlt" joint
It has been cashing your checks hat
THREE SAD DEATHS.
The Pond Creek Vidette has sus
pended its daily edition. This makes
0 j three to take this position since
The 'adlock to the Blobell says H j January 1st—Anadarko Democrat,
never lost any money wimbling. True i ^ Wlette.
nobody would cash your checks. Even
the tin horns know you taddv.
If John Ozitiiin is "hog tied,
ought to he easy whipped.
he
It was the his mit joint In K1 Reno
that queered gambling.
Carrie Nation was denied a pulpit
t South McAleHter this week.
The announcement is made by the
Associated Press that democratic
filibustering is the only danger now
to the statehood hill.
Victor Hugo says that an old man
is a thinking ruin. Some of us flts
the definition with the thinker left
off
The South McAlester Capital want
to know whether they are IT or Ok
There is a difference between a big
mit joint and a stuffed mit.
I'onr Lo is the richest man in the
twin territories.
The job printing offices of K1 Reno
will take care of the republican can-
didates for office hereafter and fight
their battles for them. The circular
plan of publicity will probably become
popular.
and El
Enid Wave.
Reno Amer can
There will be at least two dozen
candidates for the senate and one hun
dred candidates for congress—if Okla
homa gets statehood. This is a pro
position that should receive serious
consideration at the hands of con
gress.—Carnegie Herald.
The politician who is built on so
contracted a plan that he cannot hear
the name of a man who might be n
rival mentioned without throwing «
fit is doomed to failure.—Times-.lour I
nal.
Is It Your
Own Hair?
Do you pin your hat to your
own hair? Can't do it?
Haven't enough hair? It must
be you do not know Ayer's
Hair Vigor! Here's an intro-
duction! May the acquaint-
ance result in a heavy growth
of rich,thick,glossyhair! And
w e know you'll never be gray.
•• I think that ky+r'* ITalr Vlie«r
wonderful l...tricr wer that * .. mr I'
lit*v*' ute.1 it fur tom® tun audi '""'it
full* that I nut urently j.I•* •*♦•«« l . I
rh«*rfiiltv rwoiniiiJ-iid it a* splendid prepa-
V Way land. mU.
IjCTS
SARSAPA.R1LLA.
Pll.lS.
ChLRRV PECTORAL.
Tadlock is still sore over in
kicked off the grand jury.
The liiobeli says that it expects
to make a terrific fight for democracy
this spring. One can almost fancy
that the Hock of Ages will be moved
from its foundation.
The last democratic territorial plat
l form declared against the railroad
! pass system, but every democratic
' member of the legislature now has
his pockets full of those magic pieces j pleagure lo (ln so
of cardboard.—Carnegie Herald.
Tadlock will not be eligible for jury
service again for two years. He will
have starved before that time
We are told that Councilman Free
born, wants to run for mayor as the
trusi buster of the democratic party.
Thomas Lawson predicts that
Roosevelt will crush the Standard Oil
trust
We are creditably Informed that
Clark. Cope. Hudspeth and Bannister
and the balance of the democratic
gang who are secretly fighting Judge
Irwin, held a meeting at the "big mit"
joint a few nights ago and unanimous-
ly decided that there could be no
more peace among the gamblers or
democratic success in the town until
Judge Irwin and Jim Frame were re-
moved from office and John Ozmtin
"hog-tied" again. It was unanimously
agreed to leave no stone unturned, no
lie untold and no charge unpublished
until the town and the grand old demo-
cratic party was wrested from the
hands of aliens and carpet baggers.
It might not be inopportune to sug
gest to a part of this gang of big mit
fiends, that a jail sentence is hang-
ing over their heads depending on
good behavior
For years this paper haH contended
that, it pays to be decent. It pays a
man and a woman, a boy and a girl, a
community, a city, a county, a state
and a nation. Look around you and
see if this is not true. It Is taught
both by observation and experience,
'parents and teachers who get this
principle thoroughly installed Into the
minds of the boys and girls, in fact
so thoroughly impressed upon them
that they will act upon it. have done
a great work. The boy or girl who
starts on this principle and carries it
through to the end will make a suc-
cess of life and enjoy the confidence,
the esteem and be awarded the high-
est honor by their friends and asso-
ciates. To be decent carries' with It
honesty, industry, thrift public spirit,
enterprise, a consideration for the
rights of others, both public and pri-
vate and it also means that you will
have gratitude and give everybody a
stpiare deal and always stand up for
the best interests of your community
or city in the way of increasing its
physical, its commercial, its education
al. and its moral advantages. Be de
cent—Holt County (Kans) Sentinel
The republican party last fall made
serious charges against democratic
officials, of corruption and extrava-
gance. They promised the people that
they would examine the books and in-
form the public as to the real condi-
tion of things if they elected a major
ity of the board They elected a
majority of the board, but not a sin-
gle move has been made toward re-
deeming a single solitary pledge as
yet and it will not be done N'o ex
«use has been made as yet to i xplaln
these broken promises to the people,
except the lame and improbable ex-
cuse "that one of our men" has sold
us out." This kind of an excuse will
not do gentlemen The charges should
be made good by a thorough investi-
gation or the injured parties exon
orated. It is not enough for a great
political party feigning honesty and
fairness to pass up so important a
promise to the people with the state-
ment that "one of our men has sold
us out and we can do nothing "
The presence of the big mit men in
city democratic politics is driving
every decent man oul of thai party
If the Peruna amendment to the
statehood bill sticks, the unborn voter
li is reported that one of the big j will just be old enough to celebrate
mit jointlsts was around trying to; when a new constitution restoring our
find somebody to whip day before liberties is ratified: but where oh
yesterday. He steered clear however i where will the whisky soaked staies-
iMMirma ■ -
The Democrat has been requested
to publish a list of the taxable prop-
erty each candidate for a city office
has as soon as the various tickets are
made up and it will certainly give us
The Democrat^ is
the peoples paper. It is nol owned
and controled by corporations. No
tin horn politicians are on its note
for $2,000 and it does not pay its bills
with checks drawn on a bank where
it has no funds.
of John Ozmun and John Hackett.
Judge Gillette also discovered that
thu recent grand jury at Lawton had
been monkeyed with. He according-
ly quashed every indictment returned
by them.
The Mangum Star has gone as crazy
as a loon over Ihe proposed prohibi-
tion amendment to the statehood bill.
Bob Trulock is a candidate for
street commissioner. Bob says that
his ambition balks at any thing higher
in the political gammet. We are for
Bob first last and all the time.
Buffalo Bill and Zack Mulhall are
two of a kind, and the sooner they
pass from public notice the better.
If Sheriff Ozmun is "hog-tied" by
Ihe big mit gamblers, the club houses
may start up again.
The Democrat is now the only
printing office in El Reno that has
a type-setting machine
The Arapahoe
for libel. It wll
2000.
Bee lias been sued
I be convicted A. D.
Bob Neff will direct the destinies
of the Lawton Democrat after the
21st of this month.
The Blobeli offers to give $10 in
poorly printed ads for the best writ-
ten article booming the town. Ten
dollars in space! Great gods and
little fishes what a temptation. This
offer of Reuben reminds us of a
story told of Nasby during his edi-
torial ascendency. A little jerk water
newspaper like the Blobell, wishing
to paralyze its opponent offered a
prize of $1.00 for the best editorial
on the house fly. The editor wrote
Nasby a personal letter and solicited
him to compete Nasby accepted the
invitation and sent the following edi
torial: "Dam fllz." By substituting
fool for flies, the Nasby editorial will
without doubt carry off the Biobeil's
capital premium.
A PROHIBITION VICTORY.
Firewater is the redman's curse
The five civilized tribes, in realization
of this fact forbid by laws and treaties
i the sale and manufacture of intoxi
eating liquors in Indian Territory
The federal government lias done the
same thing for maiif years in all
Indian reservations Primarily out
of regard for the Indians, the senate
by a vote of 55 to 20, Inserted a pro
hibition clause in the statehood bill.
The new Stale of Oklahoma will con
tain an Indian population of about
20.000 fullbloods and perhaps 80,000
half breeds. To protect these 100.000
natives from their desire for drink,
the senate has decided to enact a
severe sumptuary law for all the 1,-
000,000 inhabitants in the proposed
state.
It is probable that the senate's ac-
tion will be confirmed by the house and
the president, ns there Is practically
opposition in the territories, while
some of the stanehest democratic con-
gressmen strongly favor it. I'pon the
passage of the statehood bill so
amended, congress will have give its
first great recognition to the prohi-
bition movement, and the "temper-
ance" advocates will have achieved
their most signal victory. Kansas
has prohibition in her state constitu-
tion. Southern Missouri and North-
ern Arkansas have it in local option
laws, while teetotallsm has come
about through the spirit of the peo- [ manner
pie in many of the northern counties
of Texas. With Indian Territory and
Oklahoma a prohibition slate, there
will be an immense region in the
heart of the 1'nited States where in-
toxicating liquors are barred and
where the prohibition sentiment is
dominant.—Kansas City Journal.
Cad Allard, former editor of the
Enid Eagle has purchased the Chick-
asha daily and weekly Telegram.
The Indian Territory invites Okla-
homa to get on the water wagon and
hold her tongue.
The statehood question is now in
McGulre's household. He must fish
or cut bait.—Perry Sentinel.
The democrats in congress are try-
ing to kill the statehood bill in such
a way as to lay it on the republicans.
When a legislator is wrestling with
a bill regulating railroads, a pocket
full of passes is a powerful help to
him.
This Is no time for El Reno to elect
small or narrow minded men to of
fiee. The city needs the services of
broad liberal and progressive men.
The more that is done for some
men the more arrogant and insolent
they become, lioasting is a necessity
sometimes.—Times-Journal.
man of today be?
An exchange suggests that the
name of the new state he changed to
Peruna. We think Procrastination
would come nearer the proper thing.
Besides every body remembers how
dead Peruna killed an Oklahoma
statesman once upon a time.
New Mexico citizens are protest-
ing against the allegations that poly-
gamy is rampant in that territory,
and insist that they are satisfied wilh
one wife just like otner decent peo-
ple.
President Loubet of France, it is
announced, wiil resign before the ex-
piration of his term of office. Loubet
is a man who sprang from the masses
and has made his country a very safe
executive.
The all-absorbing question before
the public at present is not how shall
we keep the husbands and sons from
gambling but bow shali the wives and
mothers be prevented from gambling
at each others homes for cut glass
and handpalnted china.—Watonga
Republican.
Men who have observed the ability
of a thirsty man to locate a keg. do
not believe the knowledge of the ta„te
of the liquor will pass from the peo-
ple during the next twenty-one years.
—Times-Journal.
A bill lias also been introduced in
congress making a small appropria-
tion for a public building in El Reno.
Notice the language, "has been intro-
duced.
Coxey and his army tried to march
up the capitol steps Then a bicy-
clist was arrested for attempting it
and now an ex ball player of Penn-
sylvania is going to try to run a 16
horse power automobile up them
Just because a few men have gotten
into congress so easily is not a sign
that just anything can get up the
capitol steps
Washington advices are to the el
feet that there can be no railway
regulation legislation at this time,
unless some method can be fotind
for harmonizing the senate. Has the
big stick lost its potency?
When an old man passes into the
limbo of inoccuous desutude and be-
oomes rr slumbering senile, ready to
cross into the shadows of the sweet
by and by; it is time for him to
eschew politics and learn to chant
the te deum of a better life.
It developed in the divorce trial of
Buffalo Bill that his wife fed him on
dragons blood as a love potion.
Spanish flies would have been about
the proper remedy.
It takes 24 clerks to do the work
of the council and 40 to attend to the
duties of the house.—Medford
Patriot.
We understand that some of Engle's
enthusiastic friends are insisting that
he is the only man that can save the
city from financial ruin as mayor. We
presume that if he can't save it, he
can water It
Many officers serving in the Phil-
ippines are said to be unable to pay
their debts. General Corbin thinks
it is because they are married and
uses the fact to illustrate his objec-
tion to junior officers marrying when
they have no other Income than their
pay
The oiu itiea of our grandmothers
that a man and wife can lively jointly
on less than either of them can live
separately is not suited to our present
method of living.
When John Hudspeth and John
Bannister were boasting about having
Sheriff Ozmun "fyog-tied," they for-
got that John owns the fastest grey
hounds in Oklahoma and that he has
just concluded a season of dancing
lessons.
The Democrat will take the liberty
of informing the psalmsinging hypo-
crite of the Blobell, that the Hensley
administration of El Reno, always
had plenty of money in the city treas-
ury to pay all bills. And that it never
was forced to draw checks on banks
without any money to protect them
It takes 5 janitors to clean up the
halls of the Oklahoma legislature
when the solons adjourn. What care-
less, filthy men our legislators are —
Medford Patriot.
There are husbands who are not
worth the powder it would take to kill
them, and there are wives who are not
worth the -powder on their faces.
For a man that was "hog-tied," it
strikes us that Sheriff Ozmun. moved
on the big mit joint in rather a lively
The Blobell now claims the credit
of closing the gambling houses. We
did not know until we were told that
the Blobell had energy enough to do
anything but sponge its way to the
communion table and write checks on
a hank where It had no funds.
An egg famine is the latest an-
nouncement. The barn stormers may
look for a better season.
Professor Pickering of Harvard
says he Is watching the sun spots
closely. The rest of us are satisfied
to be some ninety-three million miles
away from them.
There is no law compelling a man
to s and for re-election for any office;
but there is an unwritten law in poli-
tics, that gives to any man, a re-
nomination who has discharged the
duties of an office reasonably well
PROSPECTS ARE GOOD.
Just at present the prospects look
extremely fair for Peidmont and the
surrounding country to enjoy prosper-
ity the coming season. For a month
past the wheat has lain asleep; snug-
ly tucked away under a white cover-
let of snow. The snow protected it
from the hard freezing weather and
now that the backbone of winter
seems to be broken, will melt away
The Blobell claims the credit of
closing up gambling. Will it claim
the honor of re-opening them when
they start up again?
Setting type by hand, for a daily
paper In this age of machinery, is
like harvesting a crop of wheat with
the old fashioned reap hook.
Whisky will burn out your boiler
in time, but Peruna will blow off
the safety valve in less than half of
twenty-one years.
Why dont the Blobell give a check
for the best written article booming
El Reno. It would be easier handled
than advertising space, and just about
as valuable.
Isenberg in speaking of the sur-
face drainage of Enid says the water
is damed by every crossing and every
crossing is damned by everybody.
The probabilities are that Tadlock
will be made treasurer of the demo-
cratic city campaign committee. It
comes so handy for him to write
checks when the money is all gone
The Kansas City council know how
how to deal with the Rock Island rail-
road. They ordered them to move
three pile bridges at once from over
the Kaw river, because they hindered
the flow of the river and the railroad
company obeyed them. This is pub-
lished as a hint to the El Reno coun-
cil.
Postmaster General Wynne has
just issued a fraud order against
western concern that guaranteed
cure for broken hearts. We didn't
think Mr. Wynne was so unsentimen-
tal.
We are creditably informed that
Mayor Lincoln will be asked by
leading republicans to reconsider his
intention of withdrawing from the
mayoralty race.
A quiet Investigation is going on
to ascertain how many officers of the
city administration, do not have rail-
road passes
Since Jake Admire has taken back
the Kingfisher Free Press it is worth
reading again. So much for your
trained newspaperman. Like a '-re'
tired" race horse drawing a slop wag-
on. who pricks up his ears and throws
his tail over the dash board when a
"flyer" dashes by, a veteran newspa-
perman prints the label "homemade"
whenever he dips the pen. Guthrie
Register.
Tadlock has sufficiently recovered
from the shock he received by being
kicked off the grand jury to write
checks. One of his hired men was
hawking one about the early part of
this week, but could find no suckers.
Bob Neff is in full command of the
democratic forces at Lawton. Like
Grant, the necessity for a leader,
made Bob commander of the confed-
erate forces of Lawton. And by the
way Bob looks a great deal like
Grant.
Pit, an exciting game for every-
body. Democrat Book Store.
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FREE GARDEN SEED.
Congress appropriates about $200.-
000 a year for the purpose of distribut-
ing seed among farmers. The New
York Sun objects to this practice as
paternalism, and furthermore de-
nounces it as wasteful and grotesque
humbug anil a hoary old fraud. These
are forceful and entertaining words,
but there is not much truth in them.
The money the government has
spent in the free distribution of seed
is a profitable investment. American
farmers owe a great deal of their pros-
perity to the wise and benevolent ad-
vice and assistance of the agricul-
tural department. The government
specialists have gone forth through-
out the world and gathered the agri-
cultural conditions of other lands.
They have introduced new plants and
animals into this country and have
adapted many of them to growth and
culture here. As a direct result of
this, thousands of acres have been
added to our productive areas. Lands
which were thought useless have been
made to yield crops that the farmers
of colonial days and even of ante-bel-
lum days never knew the names of.
Any intelligent farmer in the west
could give a long list of gains he
has received by following the printed
instructions and planting seeds which
come in little packages under the
frank of his congressman. It is due
to this annual appropriation for gar-
den seed that alfalfa and kaffir corn
are now grown so extensively in the
arid regions of the west. Through
these same means the growing of ma-
caroni wheat has made such a success-
ful start that all the Italians in
America will soon be able to get their
principal article of diet from the fields
of western Kansas and the Dakotas.
The instances mentioned are only a
few of many which might be mention-
ed. No one should begrudge the farm-
er the $200,000 annually appropriated
for free distribution of seed.
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It is said that Newfoundlanders are
confident that the senate will ratify
the Hay-Bond treaty at the present
session of congress. When New-
foundland learns to know the U. S.
senate a little better she may find
that he confidence has been misplac-
ed.
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