The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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Reno
T. F. AENSLE Y, Proprietor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
$1.25 PER YEAR
VOL XIV.
El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, FEBRUARY 26, 1903.
No. 5
SPLENDID
SERVICES.
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A Good Man Doing a Great
Work for the Deserv-
ing Poor.
DR. A. E. BETTS OF K.
Superinteudent of Bethel Hospital
Deliverd Three Sermons Here
Sunday—-Intensely Prac-
tical Christianity.
It is seldom the pleasure of our peop'e
to enjoy the presence of so brilliant an
orator as Dr. Betts. His oratory is of
that sort which counts. He goes
straight to the work and tells tho
truth without any attempt at conceal-
ment or devitation. The doctor spoke
at the Rock Island M. E. church Sun-
day morning and evening and^ before
the young men at the Y. M. C. A.
rooms in the afternoon bacing his
sermon in the morning upon the parable
of the good Samaritan and as an anno-
uncement of practicle christian work
we have seldom heard its equal. His
labors are in the interests of Bethel
Hospital and he very beau^fully
portrayed their work in aeeordVlth
the good Samaritan who cared for the
unfortunates while the priest and
pharsee passed by. His sermon was
upon the broad principle of our com-
mon brotherhood. All men are neigh-
bors and in duty bound to aidjone an-
other in all laudible ambitions. He
refored to th? groat work of protestent
and Catholic churches which have
hospitals throughout tha land where
the poor are cared for free of charge
and the individual cases cited brought
tears of rejoicing that our civilization
is practicle and our christianty found-
ed upon the gospel of love, truth and
justice. At 4 o'clock p. m. the Y. M.
C. A, rooms were crowded to hear his
address and his theme was in fact—
'True manliness—the central thought
^ Y of his remarks being—"Seek the truth
I and dare to do right." It was one of
the most practicle and true present
ation of christian and business life that
has been given the young men for
consideration since the \. M. C. A.
was organized and it will result in good.
Dr, Betts is thoroughly imbued with
love and devotation to the cause he
has expaused and his intimate know-
lege of all classes of business men gives
him wonderful opportunity for observ-
ation and he makes the application
through illusterations that are both
entertaining and instructive. His even-
ing discourse was baced upon the
following text "Cease to do evil, learn
to do well." The subject itself so
directly applies to practicle lifo that
the reader can not fail to get the
escence of his appeal to the mind and
concience. All men everywhere re-
cognize the fact that christianty, pure
and simple centers in the words of this
text and just as we obey the
injuction we approach that life of
purity and godliness practiced and
preached by the lowly Nazarene who,
throughout his eventful life upon earth
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PREDICTS A RACE WAR
"Asa slave the colored man is all
right, and he is all right as a laborer,
but as an educated man he is a mon-
strosity," said the Rev. Thomas l>ixon,
the noted author and leeturor, in an in-
terview in Cleveland, Dr. Dixon's
statements were extremely radical.
Discussing conditions in the South, he
said in part'
•'Thera will be a race war, repre-
Q | sentlng the most terrible conflict this
I world has ever seen. Nothing that
can be done by human hands can pre-
vent this. It will come just as certainly
as the sun continues to rise And set.
On one side will be the Anglo-Saxon
race and on tho other the negro people.
With :t,000 years of civilization in their
favor there can be but one result. The
Anglo-Saxon people will sweep the
negro people off the face of the conti-
nent."
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, the author
of "The Leopard's Spots," which he
calls a romance of the white man's
burden, has been prominently before
the pnb'.ic ever since ho began to advo-
cate his ideas from tho pulpit. In 1898
his denunciation of Dupuy de Lome,
the Spanish minister, caused his aud-
ience to rise and call for war, A year
later his attacks on the municipal
corruption of New York were respon-
sible for having bim indicted by the
grand jury, a proceeding that was
dismissed soon after he publicly
announced that the jury was packed.
Only a short time ago he was widely
quoted because of his declaration that
the church must be a machine in order
to succeed. He is a North Carolinian
by birth.
Probably Dead.
Tho Omnibus Statehood bill is
probaUy dead beyond resurrection.
It has been withdrawn by Q 4ay as a
rider from the Appropriation bills,
and these bills allowed to puss. If
dead, its death is chargable to the re-
publican party and it will forever dam
that party, beyond tho hope of re-
demption in this territory. They will
never deceive a single democrat into
voting with them on any kind of a
proposition in this territory again.
Their name is Ichabod.
VERY LIVELY-
CONCEIVED IN FRAUD MADE TRACKS
We have often had the question
asked us, 14 how did it ever happen
that a city council elected by the
people" would so far forget the best
interests of the town as to enter Into
a contract for twenty years with a Rock Island Avenue the Theatre
water company giving them the right
to charge the people five times what a
District Court.
The district court adjourned last
night after a very successful session
and the transaction of a large amount
of business. The last case tried was
that of the territory against A. Voor-
hees and C. S. Vincent charged with
robbing a traveling man of a diamond
pin at the Choctaw.depot last August.
After deliberating a half hour the jury
brought in a vcrdict of guilty. A
motion for a new trail was filed which
will be considered when court convenes
March 7th and undoubtedly the motion
will be denied and the prisoners sen-
tenced. The evidence was very direct
and conclusive and there is little hope
of their escaping the penalty for their
crimes. Voorhets especially is an old
offender and while these men were at
large robberies were frequent on the
railways entering here. Since Voor-
hees' and Vincents' arrests and incar-
ceration in jail not a single robbery
has been reported to the officials.
Judge Irwin goes to Kingfisher next
Monday to hold court there for several
weeks.
A Great Lecture.
Rev. W. E. Gross will give a great
lecture at the Rock Island M. E. chruch
on the "Rvolution of Bob" or "The
Why Not Organize?
The proposed movement to reor-
ganize the Oklahoma Press Associa-
tion, or to form a new association,
should not die out. Something should
be done along this line, and soon.
A perfect organiz itltm of the real
newspapers of Oklahoma would be of
great benefit. In this territory the
newspaper business is not in as satis-
factory condition as it might be. Iuis
true that a majority of .the legitimate
newspapers are prospering, but the
conditions surrounding the profession
of journalism are not always what they
should be.
Unfortunately, the newspaper bus-
iness is too closely allied to politics,
and tne present disorganized condition
of the press, politicians arejjenabled to
exert too much influence over the
revenues to which honest and'deserv-
ing newspapers are entitled. If the
newspapers were properly organized,
their united influence would be too
powerful for politicians toditnute, and
their efforts to place the profession
upon a higher and more honorable
plane would not go unrewarded.
We do not mean to say that politi-
cians in Oklahoma are worse than they
are anywhere else, bnt politicians any
where are keen to take advantage of a
disorganized condition of the news-
papers. 1 n Oklahoma every two-by-four
politician can have an "organ." □ A
half dozen disgruntled i fellows can
form a plot and hatch out a new "organ'
in a day. If a newspaper man dares to
assert his manhood, and refuse the
demands of a ring of peanut politicians,
he immediately has trouble on his
hands, although as a rule these fellows
who cannot handle him work against j
him in the dark; the power of even one
honest newspapers more than they
care to go up against fairly, in the
open. And under present conditions
the newspaper is expected to keep on
the good side of "the fellows," and not
offend any of them, or its cake will be
dough. The newspapers are against
each other more than they are against
anything else.
These thingsare nauseating to the man
who is seekeng to conduct a newspaper
honorably, and profitably to himself
and his patrons. Why should a news-
paper man be expected to "go to" a
water service is worth and then put
conditions in tho contract whereby
the people are powerless to supply I
themselves with water or compel the
| company to live up to a decent obsor- |
I vance of the contract.
Itisnot generally known that a
J number of the members of the city '
council who granted this outrageous,
onesided ordnance, granting permission j
to the water company, to commit high-
way robbery upon tho people of El
Reno for twenty years, each roc ived
$500 worth of stock for their services
in log-rolling the ordinance through
the council.
It is not generally known that tho
franchise was obtained through fraud
of this kind and that tho contract is
voidable and can bo annulled by any
court of competent jurisdiction. It
therefore matters not whether the city
wins the suit now pending in the Su-
preme court or lose it. Tho contract
with the water company and tho fran-
of a Red Hot Foot Race
Saturday Evening.
THE CITY MARSHAL WINS.
Three Smooth Guys Play a Sleek
Game at Mengers Shoe Store
And One of Them Gets in
the Lock-up.
Saturday evening soems to havo
been full of excitement all along tho
line. South Roelc Island avenue had
its little sensation which resulted in
landing a sleek thief behind the bars.
Three men entered the Monger Shoe
store in the early evening ostensibly
to buy shoes. Two of them entertained
the clerks and the third made timo
by tilling a sack with shoes without
trying to ascertain price size or quality.
When he got loaded to his liking he
made tracks south but ho had been
discovered by the clerical force and
Marshal Robaro being close at hand.
ehise upon which the contract Isjaurerry chase was on tap at short
founded will bo set aside by a new j notice. The thief was not slow on
action based upon the now evidence o foot but the Marshal is something of
fraud, practiced by the old water j a sprinter himself, and gained on the
fugitive, who whon bo got to
peths alley south of the Caddo
Huds-
hotel
saw Mr. l'enner of the Crowo Mercan-
tile Company coming aud he turned
west in the alley. Mr. l'enner joined
in the chase and be too proved to be
a hustler on foot and the thief was
soon overhauled.
The Marshal took the thief in charge,
the Menger Company got their shoes
back, but the two accomplices in the
robbery look a sly sneak and are not
now visible to the vision of ordi-
couipauy in securing tho orlginaljfran-
cbise.
Fraud vitiates all contracts and there
can be no more glaring fraud practiced
upon the people than that which was
practiced upon them by the old water
company, when they issued shares of
stock to officers of the city in order to
get a franchise.
The public may want to know why
the city did not bring suit in the first
place, to set aside this contract because
it was obtained through fraud, instead
of suing the company for a failure to j nary people hereabouts,
supply the town with water.
The reason is apparent that the city
and its attorneysdidnotknow that fraud
had been practiced in securing the
franchise, until tho suit had gone to
the supreme court. In fact they did
not know it until the city contracted
to bjy the water plant and found about
$2000 worth of the stock, to their utter
surprise in the hands of El Reno
citizens. Upon making inquiries as
to where these citizens got this stock,
it was found that it had been issued to
members of the city government and
transferred by them to the afore said
citizens.
The people of El Reno want to be
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School Master up to date." Rev.
went about doing gooil. At the morn- Qross ls a groat lecturer, Facts com-
ing service a free will offering was blne(j pure philosophy and brim-
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called for to aid the Bethel Hospital
work and $111,80 was subscribed in a
very few moments. A special and very
delightful feature of the evening
service was the grand musical chorous
in which 12 young men of the Y. M.
C. A. joined the magnificent choir.
Mrs. Rousch was in police court
yesterday afternoon charged with
keeping a disorderly hou-e and Judge
Meyer assessed a fine i f $11.00 and
then read the riot act to her in no un-
certain terms giving her a few
words of admonition which if heedec
will result in her own and the com
unites benefit.
ming full of the best fun, make the
hour pass all too quickly. He comes
to this place in the interest of good
literature, a subject that all and
especially, parents, should be interest-
ed. He will have a number of the
best and latest works of literature, as
he represents tho gr atest printing
establishment in the w* rid, the Metho-
dist Book Concern. This lecture will
be absolutely free to all and a cordial
invitation is extended to everybody.
Dou't forget the time and place, Sat-
urday evening at the Rock
church.
Mr. Simpson of the primary election
committee states that in tho Fourth
Ward two councilmen will bo selected
at the Primary.
It is possible that Mr. Sackett will
retire from the council and make his
residence on his homestead in Caddo
county. Should there be any change
in Mr. Sacketts plans in this regard
then the democratic candidate reciv-
ing the highest vote on tho council
part of the ticket for the fourth ward
will have his name placed on tho
democratic ticket at the city olection.
But under existing conditions two
councilmen candidates will be selected
released from this outrageous fraud and , at the primary, subject to modifications
their rights shall not be compromised 1 above mentioned,
as it lies in
or bartered away, so long
our power to prevent it.
This administration has been ap-
politician, or a candidate for office, j proached a hundred times to settle
when a political proposition comes up?
There are newspapers in Oklahoma
which follow the lead of one or more
politicians as blindly as a sheep follows
the bell wether; and while we are
able to say with pride that the Eagle
E J. Simpson has charge of lot sale
for the Highland Addition to the city
of Norman. Only 074 lots are
offered, and they are on the market at
only $25 each. For those seeking in-
this case out of court. Bribes have
been offered for a compromise. Re-
solutions
good one. The
from tho commercial club. Threats I take placc In March. Some lucky one
is not one of them, yet the fact remains and Intimidation emipted with persona! j will secure a $i0O0 building. Someone
that if none did it, all would bo better ,.nlreatle8 have been resorted to: but ! a *1000 buildin;' there are possibili-
off. j t|je pe0pie's rights have not been J ties; but each one will secure a
No association could make a success- j compromj8e(j away ani by the eternal i warantee deed to a good lot. Norman
ful newspapei man out o a e ° j a8 jong ag we have money enough left ^ js th0 University city and real estate
00 m ! to buy a pencil to light them with their , jg bound lQ raiBe .Q va,uQ Mp_ giml).
b*: rights shall not be sacrificed.
paper where there is no field; neither
could it a&sumo to adjust local differ- H. Piatt of Tipton, Iowa, one
ences, whetheref a pjlitical nature wide awake immigrant agents for
or not. But it would exercise a tre- Oklahoma and ( . O. Bailey, county ■■
mendous influence for the benefit of the attorney of Cedar county, Iowa return- The lucky number on the burned
profession in general, and a unied press | ed home today after several days travel woo(1 [)anne] was 285 held by Miss
would eniov a prestige which can : over Canadian county. Mr. Bailey
Island'never be realized under present con- j was very favorably impressed and wiU May Riley one of the teachers
| ditions.—Enid Eagle. | invest here in a short time. | south ward.
who dosen't have it in him to
one, or build up a successful
have been passed by the vestment this proposition is certainly
water works gang purporting to come ' a good one. The distribution wili
son will gladly give you all the^necess-
of the | ary information. His office is in room
No. 10, Jalonick building.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1903, newspaper, February 26, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112323/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.