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SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. 22
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, JUNE r>, 190S.
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New York Criticizing Oklahoma? What Does the Most Prominent City in the World Know of the Tost Progressive State?
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Personal Impressions ol the National
Convention That Will Nominate Taft
Received too late for last week's iaaue.
Chicago, 111., Jtiue 17.—Just before
adjournment, at 5 o'clock this after-
noon, the delegates and the vast au-
dience In the galleries of the Colise-
um shouted themselves hoarse, crying
"Roosevelt! Roosevelt!
Four years more!"
"Roosevelt! Roosevelt!
Four years more!"
"Roosevelt! Roosevelt!
Four years more!"
It was a spontaneous college yell,
the genius of the moment, framed by
Graham O. M'Omber of Barrier
Springs, Illinois, who sat next to me,
who had used his voice as a foghorn
and his stomach as a bellows, with
thousands of others, to shake the
great Coliseum to its foundations, or
have Roosevelt declared the nominee
for president without even the for-
mality of a ballot.
The expected outburst for Roosevelt
came at a point in the great speech
of Senator Lodge, permanent chair-
man of the convention, when he de-
clared that "the President is the best
abused and the most popular man in
the United States today." He made
his speech from a carefully prepared
manuscript, mostly committed to
memory, and slipped a word, starting
oft with, "President—(and seeing he
would have to pronounce the word
"Roosevelt," he substituted, to catch
his written text, "the President") —
and that was as far as he got. It was
forty-seven minutes and a half before
he was allowed to take up the words
of his speech and go on. In the mean-
time a world of history was written
by the shouts of twenty thousand
throats, that may change the destiny
of this republic.
At first the great boom of voices,
like the ocean lashing against the
American continent, all around the
would not stop until a life destroy-,
ing cyclone swept the sea of human
beings?
Congressman McGuire got hold o
the bear and sat on it on the floor. He
did it as a measure of precaution to
save life, Men and women piled onto
him. Joe Norris, catching the same
idea, got hold of it and ran down the
aisle with it into the street and hid
it. In the meantime, the audience
gained the impression that the police
had arrested the whole Oklahoma
delegation for rioting and were
marching it out of the Coliseum.
The action of the Oklahoma dele-
gation, if Taft is nominated, will be
its greatest strength in the future,
Urey Woodson.
C. Sullivan of
the subcommit-
the final ar-
onal conveii-
| Men who will play important parts
! in the Democratic national conven-
jtion are in Denver.
'secretary, and Roger
I Chicago, chairman of
tee on arrangements,
Denver to complete
rangements for the na
tion.
Colonel John I. Martin, sergeant-
at-arms of the national committee
met the party leaders.
Mr. Sullivan is satlsfi"il that Den-
ver will outdo his home city in caring
for a national political gathering. He
was quick to admit that so far the
arrangements surpassed those'in Chi-
cago at a similar time previous to file
Republican convention. Secretary
Woodson was equally pleased with
the outlook
The visiting national committ "nieu
agreed that Denver would entertain
such crowds a .a it never before lia'd
seen. They were inclined to issue a
warning to be l iepar 1 to the ut-
most. Etch one sai l the e-timates
probah'y would be bro\ n as to the
nates, poii-
m-
iTIiANGX DECISION
gets wide ri m um
lire
and if not, it will be taisen as an in
tention to squelch the storm that was ! numl)'-r' of delegates
carrying-Roosevelt to another nomi- !tic)alls am] sightseers.
The committee 011 arrangement;
national c
nation and another election.
The convention was tailed to order
the forerunner of th-
mirt^e, which will convene next Sat-
by Harry New, the chairman of the urd ,v to ,e)ecl fniporarv officers
national committee, Tuesday noon, .Qf tfce conventlon. Henry D. Clayton
and he announced that the commit- Alabama appears to be ahead in
hurt r>hr «m Spnntnr Riirrnws rvf .
te had chosen Senator Burrows of
Michigan as temporary chairman.
Chairman Burrows took the plat-
form and made his keynote speech,
and the usual committees were ap-
pointed and the convention was ad-
journed until Wednesday noon.
Senator Burrows' speech is a
great history of the growth and
achievements of the republic, and es-
pecially during the Republican rulj.
It will read well, but Senator Bur-
rows has no voice and nothing but
now and then Roosevelt's name could
be heard, and the audience, patient in
its own deep interest, cheered when-
ever it thought it heard the name ot
Roosevelt.
Wednesday, today, noon, the differ-
ent committees made their reports.
The committee on credentials made
great Western hemisphere, was irreg- Ug report seating all tlle deiegate8
ular, but the accidental catch of Gra-
ham O. M'Omber, a simple and incon-
spicuous citizen of Barrien Springs
Illinois, was caught by those around
and widened and widened until it be-
came a note sufficient to sway the
storm. Circle after circle, it went in
its storm eddy. Mrs. Nicholas Long-
worth (nee Alice Roosevelt), sitting
below the balcony, who had pretended
to be Indifferent, caught It and looked
up with a smile; then the especially
noted guests behind her and the pre-
siding chairman's platform took it up,
and then, like the leap of a hurricane,
the Oklahoma delegation was seen to
stand on their chairs in the center of
the vast hall, and send the reverbera-
tions in every direction.
"Princess Alice" became agitated
and twisted her fingers, and then
pulled off her gloves. (I would have j
given a hundred dollars to have heard
what she said to her husband and
those around, had I been near, for
it must have given the secrets of the
family hearth, whether the President
—her father—did or did not want the
ocean of the people's passion to en-
gulf him; and yet there sat the great
correspondents nearby, and never
caught the fact that what she said
was, for the moment, the most mo-
mentous piece of news of the conven-
tion.) Here the press gallery lifted
up a life sized Teddy bear and frossed
it into the first row of delegates. At
the sight the pandemonium increased.
The Teddy bear was tosBcd from dele-
gation to delegation, back into the ■
center of the arenn. Cries were
heard, "Toss it up into the gallery!
Toss it up into the gallery!" The
Roosevelt shouters were hurling It
forward and ever forward, and the
few "allies" were buffeting it back,
when, with a bour.d, it leaped into
the Oklahoma delegation. There was
a momentary scramble, and then a
football mass pileup took place, and
the Teddy bear was lost. It was evi-
dent that the Oklahoma delegation
had captured the bear and meant to
hold it. The spectators, seeing the
capture, cried "Fatal! They can not
hold it. The number that desire it to
leap over the vast Coliseum as an
impersonation of the loved man in the
White House will surge upon the
delegation and crush it like a toy In
the breath of a simoon."
The purpose of the Oklahoma dele-
gation was not known. Was it the
spirit of resentment of the Roosevelt
sentiment? Was it loyalty to Taft?
Was It the prescience that knew that
if the Teddy bear got momentum It
decided upon by the national commit-
tee, and it was adopted without a dis-
senting vote. The report of the com-
mittee on permanent organization and
order of business did not fare as well.
There was a minority report on rules
governing representation. A repre-
sentative of the Pennsylvania delega-
tion on the committee, in an impres-
sives peech, declared for an amend-
ment giving future representation
based on the Republican vote of the
states, which would cut down the
number of delegates in all the South-
ern and most of the Western states.
A great many speeches were made on
this question. It was seen to be a
move of the "allies" to give domi-
nance of national nominations to the
conservative states, and thus defeat
the Roosevelt spirit of the people in
choosing a liberal policy of the par-
ty. The vote was the first test of the
allies' 'to control the convention and
effect the choice of the presidential
nominee, ar.d they were defeated, al-
though the vote was not strictly on
the nominee, and many states split
on the question.
the running for chairman. As a per-
sonal friend of William J. Bryan, hf
will have a commanding position.
But others have strong claims for
the position. Among them are T. E.
Bell of California, Benjamin Shiveley
of Indiana and Free P. Morris of Illi-
nois. Mr. Woodson probably will be
the temporary ar.i permanent secre-
tary.
HONORS IN OKLAHOMA CHICAGO
DELEGATION.
The following honors were distri-
buted among the Oklahoma delega-
tion at the Chicago convention;
Chairman of delegation—Congress-
man Bird S. McGuire.
llororary Vice President of Con-
vention—John M. Kirkland.
Committee on permanent organiza-
tion—Geo. Dodson.
Credentials—Walter Falwell.
Order of Business—A. E. Perry.
Resolutions—Jim Harris.
To notify the President—Charles
Seely.
To notify the Vice President—Pat
Dore.
Cash Cade re-elected national com
mitteeman.
It Is thought by many that Sena-
tor Lodge gave opportunity, on pur-
pose, to the convention to break loose
for Roosevelt and exhaust itself be-
fore the balloting begins, in order that
It may be calm, to vote dispassionate-
ly for Taft, in accordance with the
instructions of the delegates. When
he was allowed to take up his speech,
he declared that the ^resident, when
he said ho would not accept the presi-
dency, ' "said what he meant, and
meant what he said." This is a clear
warning, and it is expected that Taft
will be nominated without any trou-
ble, although a stampede is .still
feared, many not believing but that
Roosevelt will be the nominee.
But the resolutions have no such
smooth sailing. There will be a big
fight on the anti-injunction provi
sion, and Speaker Cannon is prom-
ised to go on the floor and oppose
the plank in person. The flght may
occupy the whole afternoon, and the
nomination may not be made until
Friday.
As far as exterior indications go,
everyone is as big a statesman at the
national convention as anyone else.
You cannot see the real force that is
shaping things No one really says
anything, and no one is responsible
for the public opinion that finally
forms and is the thing that happens,
(Continued on Page §.)
* HE ACTS AS HE TALKS.
* Editor State Register;
* Enclosed find the price of your *
* pa|>er for one year. I believe in
* practicing what one preaches. *
* In a former article I said we *
* should get your paper in the *
* hands of all or a sufficient num- *
* ber to keep ourselves informed in *
* regard to the school land sale *
* proposition. It is now up to us. *
* It seems to me the fool killer is *
* taking a vacation, if the lessee *
* is so stupid as not to be able to *
* see at a glance what the politi- *
* cian is arranging to do to 'em. *
But the day of reckoning will *
* dawn and find him short in ac- *
counts. "Taft, the leading can- •
* didate for president." said in one *
* of his Ohio speeches, that he was *
* in favor of Individualism against *
Socialism. Thos. Huxley says: *
"Individualism is anarchism," and *
as all good citizens are opposed *
* to anarchism, we are forced to be *
* Socialists to the extent of look- *
* ing after each others' interest at *
* least—and as Taft will be the *
* next president, we will have him *
* on our side of each individual *
* ownine his land, he so laboriously
* tried to beautify and improve, *
* thereby enhancing the value of *
* said land to the interest of the *
* state; "and now. under the lni- *
tlative bill, makes it detrimental *
* to himself," not only taking his *
* improvements awav from the *
* humble lessee.' but putting the *
* land where he can't buy at all. *
* This is the good old law given to *
* the subjects or serfs of the land *
* of the free and the home of the •
* brave. Now boys, get wise, the *
above will be denied. I dare you *
* to do It. or to even try. .
Mr. Editor, Many things I wish *
* to speak of. but will desist, owing •
* to this piece getting too lengthy *
* Later on, will take up facts and *
* figures. Success to your valua- *
* ble paper. "Rl!BE," *
* Waiter, Okla. *
carriers, from bringing liquors intc
the state has been widely copii',1 aud
commented upon in the Eastern pa-
pers. A N -w York clipping bureau
sent him the following and wanted to
kno \ it' lie desired all the comments:
A decision of the United States su-
preme court could hardly be more
conclusive than the opinion in which
Judge J. C. Strang, of Oklahoma, re-
fu ; s the application of the attorney
general of that state for an Injunc-
tion to restrain the circulation of
newspapers advertising commodities
described as unsalable under Oklaho-
ma laws. The opinion involves more
than the freedom of the press. It de-
velops the importance of preventing
the attempt to use against other states
laws every state has a right to pass
M- • itself.
Mobile tills has been taken for
rafted until within the last ten
ears, it is challenged now only rare-
ly and never effectively in attempt-
ing to use the courts of one state
tgainst another. The most serious
form this cramping impulse threat-
to take is the attempt to subject
business intercourse lietween one
state and another to federal license
under which injunction and other
methods of putting a stop to freedom
f trade among the states would be-
come available for use against all
who were not licensed.
The Oklahoma court upholds the
rights of Oklahoma and of every oth-
er state in refusing to use its power
of injunction to interfere against
what is lawful In Texas, Missouri or
New York. Newspapers which are
chus assured the freedom of circula-
tion from state to state could hold it
against federal licemje only by falling
back on the special clause of the con-
stitution under which they could fight
for exemption from the license sys-
tem of controlling and restricting all
other 'business which extends beyond
the lines of the state in which it orig-
inates. As far as this can extend it
must work against the most powerful
influence for progress in the United
States. Beyond question this has been
the freedom from restriction which
supplied Oklahoma with a population
and outfitted it from other states. It
cannot be prohibited at the capital of
any state or of the United States. It
is rhe fundamental law of American
freedom.
In a case brought by Attorney
General West to prevent the railroads
carrying liquors into territory where
Indians are 3till the wards of the fed-
eral government. Judge Stlllwell H.
Russell, of the Eighth judicial district.
Ardmore, followed the principles laid
down in Judge Strang's decision. He
held that the state cannot usurp the
jurisdiction ot the federal courts, nor
Ignore the interstate commerce law
GROVER CLEVELAND, M GREATEST
DEMOCRATIC pfeDEHT IS DEAD
INDIAN CURATORS APPOINTED
Following the departure of the
party of government officials for the
southern pa'rt of the state the set of
regulations prepared by Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Jesse G.
Wilson, governing the future policy
and proceedure of the department in
former Indian Territory under the
McGuire removal of restrictions bill,
was made public.
The appointment of the various em
ployees provided for in this bill have
been made, although not, officially an
uounced. It is understood that the
following are the appointees. They
were called in for a conference with
Secretary Wilson's party prior to his
leaving Muskogee:
District Agents—H. C. Cusey, W
S. Cochran, John Cordell J. E. Dyche
S. S. Cate, Charles Knapp, David
Shelby, W. H. Angell, William A. Bak-
er, S. A. Mills, Hugh Pitzer, Frank
Robb, Fred S. Cook, Thomas T. Far
rar and J. H. Cobb. Indian Aspir-
ants—Victor M. Locke, Jr., andJ. E
Tiger. Supervisors of district agents
—W. W. Bennett and J. Carter Cook
SUCCEEDS TAFT
Luke E. Wright Is Appointed Secre-
tary of War In Place of Itepubli
can Nominee,
Secretary Taft presented to the
president Ills resignation to take ef-
fect June 30, and it was announced
at the White House that Luke E,
Wright, of Tennessee, would be
pointed secretary of war to succeed
Taft.
Princeton, N. J., June 24.—Grover
Cleveland, twice president of the
United States, died at 8:40 o'clock
this morning at his home, "West-
land," ill this quiet college town,
where he had lived since his retire-
ment as the nation's chief executive,
almost twelve years ago.
An official statement given out and
signed by the three physicians, gave
heart trouble, superinduced by stom-
ach and kidney ailments of long
standing as the cause of death.
When death came, which was sud-
den, there were in the death cham-
ber on the second floor of the Cleve-
land residence, Mrs. Cleveland, Dr.
Joseph D. Bryant of New York, Mr.
Cleveland's family physician and per-
sonal friend; Dr. George R. Lock-
wood, also of New York, and Dr. John
M. Carnochan of Princeton.
While Mr. Cleveland had been lit
poor health for the last two years
and had lost a hundred pounds in
weight, his death came unexpectedly.
Some three weeks ago he was brought
home from Lakewood, N. J., where ills
condition for a time was such thut
the ohtel at which he was staying
was kept open after Its regular sea-
son because he was too ill to be
moved. But when Mr. Cleveland was
brought back to Princeton he showed
signs of improvement and actually
gained five pounds In weight.
Although confined to his room con-
tinuously after his return to Prince-
ton, it was not until yesterday that
Mr. Cleveland's condition aroused un-
easiness on the pait of Mrs. Cleve-
land.
Undoubtedly affected by the heat,
Mr. Cleveland showed signs of failure
uid Mrs. Cleveland Telephoned to Dr.
Bryant to come over from New York
on the train. He arrived at 4:24 p. m.
Dr. Lockwood followed Dr. Bryant
from New York and when they reach-
ed here Dr. Carnochan, who had been
Mr. Cleveland's local physician since
the former president came to Prince-
ton, was also called in. During the
evening Mr. Cleveland seemed to rally
and Mrs. Cleveland, who always has
been optimistic about her husband's
health, felt assured that it was merely
another of the many attacks Mr.
Cleveland had suffered, and she In-
formed those who inquired that Mr.
Cleveland's condition was not serious.
Last Words Inaudible.
Mr. Cleveland became worse dur-
ing the night and Mrs. Cleveland was
ailed to the bedside of hen husband.
The distinguished patient sunk into
unconsciousness from which he re-
covered at times, only to suffer a re-
lapse. This contiued throughout the
night and early morning. The last
time he became unconscious was
about two hours before he died. Death
was peaceful. Just before he died Mjr.
leveland sought to say somethl
uut his words were inaudible.
The text of the official statement
given out a short time after Mr.
Cleveland's death was as follows:
"Mr. Cleveland for many years had
suffered from repeated attacks of gas-
tric intestinal origin. Also he had a
long standing organic disease of the
heart and kidneys. Heart failure com-
plicated with pulmonary thrombosis
and oednia, were the immediate caus-
es of his death."
Some two or three hou.-s later Dr.
Bryant, in answev to a question, said
tha "the heart failure which occa-
sioned death was induced within 24
hours of the end and death was final-
ly due to that," thus corroborating
the unofficial information that Mr.
Cleveland began to grow weak jester-
^lay afternoon.
Dissolution unexpected.
The news of Mr. Cleveland's death
came as a sudden shock to the people
of Princeton, as It did to the people
of the rest of the world. Everybody
in Prlncton knew he was sick and
was interested in him, but none
seemed to think the end was so near
As the news spread about the univer-
sity, flags were placed at half mast
and everybody was disposed to stop
and talk and express regrets and ex-
toll Mr. Cleveland's virtues.
Many intimate friends of the-famiiy
and many others not so close, called
at the Cleveland home. Few were
able to see Mrs. Cleveland, and all of
them left cards. The visitors, news-
paper men and photographers and
others became so numerous that the
police authorities placed a policeman
on guard at the Cleveland home and
no one but intlmatef riends and those
in charge of the funeral arrangements
I were permitted to approach the house
Funeral Tomorrow.
It was not until iate in the day
that messages of condolence began to
come In from all parts of the world
to Mrs. Cleveland. One of the first
was from President Roosevelt, who
will attend the funeral, which will be
held on Friday afternoon and which,
In deference to Mrs. Cleveland's
wishes, will be as private as possible.
Mr. Cleveland's body will be bur-
ied in Princeton cemetery in the
family plot, where lie the remains of
Ruth, the eldest of the Cleveland
children, whose death was a sad blow
to her father.
Mrs. Cleveland denied herself to all
but a few callers. Prof. Andrew F.
West, Prof. John Hibben of Prince-
ton University, and Bayard Stockton,
a Princeton lawyer and a member of
the famous Stockton family, were at
the house all day and were in charge
of all arrangements.
Among those who fame here today
to extend their sympathy was Cleve-
land F. Bacon of New York, a nephew
of Mr. Cleveland's sister, Mrs. M. B.
Bacon of Toledo, Ohio. He came here
in response to a telegram and is as-
sisting Mrs. Cleveland in the funeral
arrangements. Others who came to
Princeton were Paul Morton, Presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, of which Mr. Cleveland was
a trustee, and Richard Watson Glider
of New York. Mr. Morton returned to
New York In less than an hour after
hi^ arrival here. He came to Prince-
ton for the sole purpose of extending
his sympathy to Airs. Cleveland and
to tender his services. Another caller
was Col. Frederick Gilkyson, assist-
ant adjutant-general of the national
guard qf New Jersey, who came as
the personal representative of Gover-
nor Fort. Col. Gilkyson did not see
Mrs. Cleveland, but through Frof.
Hibben, extended Gov. Fort's condo-
lences and also tendered on behalf of
the governor the services of all or
any part of the national guard of the
state as ail escort for the funeral.
The tender was declined because of
Mrs. Cleveland's preference for a
quiet funeral.
Children were Absent.
So unexpected -lid Mr. Cleveland's
death occur that not one of his four
children were at home. The child-
ren are at Tamwcrth, N. H., under
the care of Mrs. Perrine, Mrs. Cleve-
land's mother. Word was sent to them
of their father's death and they will
start at once for Princeton. The
children are Esther, aged 14; Marion
aged 12; Richard, aged 10. and Fran-
cis Grover, aged 5.
Ever since Mr. Cleveland's arrival
in Princeton 11 years ago, he has
been a conspicuous figure in local
life. Although his only official con-
nection with the Princeton Univer-
sity was his lectureship, known as the
Stafford Little Lectureship In public
affairs, and his membership In the
board of trustees, he was regarded as
a strong friend of. the Institution.
As a member of the board of trus-
tees his counsel and astuteness were
invaluable. The last trustees' meet-
ing which he attended was October
17. He walked from a carriage to the
trustees' room leaning on a heavy
cane. This was an important meet-
ing of the board and Mr. Cleveland is
said to have taken a prominent part
In the discussion concerning pro-
poseed changes in the university so-
cial system.
Mr. Cleveland wan icartlly inter-
ested in the welfare of the university
and a story is told that he practically
Induced Andrew Carnegie to present
Carnegie Lake to Princeton.
Grover Cleveland was well liked
among students and faculty. His last
public appearance in the university
was while delivering a public lecture
about two years ago. On the last Fri-
day of the college year it lias been the
custom of the freshmen class on be-
coming sophomores to serenade hini
at his home. On June 5th ot this year
"the freshmen parade" was held, but
owing to the former president's Ill-
ness "the parade" did not serenade
the Cleveland Twine.
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