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OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
Oklahoma State Register
Published Every Thurrday by
THE OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY
J. M. DOLPH, Pres. JOHN GOLOBIE. Set.
Betahlis' • ■ ! I>ec. IT. 1890.
Inc., Dec. 17. 1903.
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THURSDAY, APRIL. 21, 1310.
JOHN GOLOBIE, EDITOR.
CAN McCillKK HELP THE REPUBLICAN STATE
TICKET I
We do not agree with Congressman McGulre's good
intentions when declared in his address in Guthrie that
he ddl not care about his own election, but had simply
come sixteen hundred miles to help the republican
party win the state.
The way for Mr. McGuire to help the republicans
■win the state is for him to have acquitted himself to
the credit of the party in Congress. If he had served
the state s interests there with fidelity and industry, he
■would not need to come sixteen hundred miles either
to assist himself or the state party, As it is, by his
lack of ability, industry and integrity in the service of
the people as against the trust interests, he is one of
the heaviest burdens the republican party of Oklahoma
has to bear.
Roosevelt is showing the peasants of Europe the
royalty of democracy in the way the crownheads are
kowtowing to pay homage to a private American citi-
zen.
SIPP0SE YOU'D WALK OUT?
The Stillwater Gazette says manfully:
"The Gazette, for one, refuses to be read out of
the republican party. It is a republican newspaper,
always has been, and is now just as much as it ever
was; but it does not recognize the tight of any man
or set of men to dictate to it the policies which it
shall approve, recommend or advocate. The Gazette
■would make this a republican state, controlled by Ok-
lahoma republicans, and not by a federal office-holding
ring."
Suppose you and the other republican newspapers
and the voters against McGuire were to walk out of the
party? Who would elect a republican congressman in
the First District?
It shows how foolish it is for these fellows talking
about "riding" any one out of the party.
It is so natural for the older to fight the younger
communities, that Kansas City, which is fighting for
fair rates from the East, is denying them to the new
commercial centers of Oklahoma and the Southwest.
GETTING IN WRONG BOAT
There is an attempt by the McGuire managers to
drive candidates for county offices on the republican
ticket into an alliance to support McGuire's nomina-
tion. This would be a fatal error for any man who
expected to be nominated to a county office on the re-
publican ticket. The republicans will stand no gag
rule in their selection of county officers, "^hey de-
mand a free selection by the primary ballot of the best
men to place before the people. Any man that joins
the McGuire machine in order to override the voter is
Eure to be defeated for nomination, and if not for nomi-
nation is almost sure to be slaughtered for election.
The voters are already watching the McGuire ma-
chine. with its money, and marking the aspirants for
county offices who are joining their forces with it.
They are sick of the machine rule that used to crush
them during the days of convention domineering.
Especially is this true of Logan county. Do the pres-
ent county officials not remember that they were
nominated against the will of the party bosses, and
electrd to the last man of them because the people
found out the bosses were against them? It will be
the same this time. The man who runs for a county
office with a McGuire collar around his neck will be
defeated for nomination.
Who was the gentleman who, when he asked the
privelege of the Oklahoma street car company to tres-
pass across the Capitol Hill square, said that John
Bhartell would be found to be the best friend that
Guthrie had, when the time came? Will Mr. Shartell
please come forth.
A STRONG CONTRAST.
Before the building appropriation committee Con-
gressman Morgan of the Second district declared that
"Oklahoma had a population of not less than 1,750.000."
Congressman McGuire of the First District recently
declared, in Munsey's Magazine, that Oklahoma had
1,200,000.
Which declaration do the McGuire followers ap-
prove?
While Mr. Morgan was before the committee getting
consideration for $250,000 more for Oklahoma City
building making $500,000 and $140,000 for additional
ground; and also appropriations for El Reno and Wood-
ward, Mr. McGuire was in Oklahoma looking after his
decayed fences. No wonder all opposition is with-
drawn from Mr. Morgan's district, He doesn't have to
absent himself from Congress to strengthen his stand-
ing at home, he grows strong at home by work in
Conpre.-*.
IT l> THE TIME RISE,
Oklahoma City instead of finding the wave of its
boom rising to a higher crest will find it crash and
recede under the political onslaught of its attempt to
float hundreds of thousands of lots on the public at
the expense of serious consideration of the state's
good name. No such gigantic real estate scheme was
ever before attempted and It will draw the attention
of the Eastern money centers to a condition of Inflated
values that are bound to crash and sweep Investments
with it. Oklahoma City ig mad and beside itself.
When It gets through it will find itself in the condi-
tion of De Lesepfl Panama Canal bubble and other
schemes of like character.
In Monroe County, New York. 16,000 voters changed
from the republican to the democratic column, and elec-
ted a democrat to Congress for the first time in tweny,
years, on the Issue of standpatism and tariff reform. In
the opinion of the first district McGuire followers that is
another sign that progressive republicans are endager-
Ing the republican majority in the next congress.
why impossibility of socialism.
(I. N. Smithson.)
I have not seen in print, nor heard an orator out-
line a plan for the construction of a Socialist State.
Much has been printed and spoken however, on the
workings of such paradisaical country after socialism
Is established. But how to establish it? Of this, neither
the social philosophers of Europe nor America offer
a solution. They speak volubly and often of the sins
the Ruling Classes commit against the Proletariat, and
of the elysium that will prevail on earth when socialism
shall pilot the ship of state, but It seems to me that
until a workable and feasible scheme is definitely
agreed upon as a fouudation. a starting point, socialists
will remain only doctrinaires and propagandists of the
impossible, without cohesion, and minus that force of at-
traction that is absolutely necessary to accomplish
revolution in government.
About 800 years before the birth of Christ, as Plu-
tarch tells us, Lycurgus, the autocrat of Sparta, whose
Ipse dixit was the supreme law of the I>acedamonlans
instituted a system of socialism,
To the end that he might expel from the
state arrogance- and envy, luxury and crime,
and those yet more inveterate diseases of want
and suffering, he obtained of them to renounce
their properties, and to consent to a nev di-
vision of the land, and that they should live all
together on an equal footing; merit to be their
only road to eminence, and the disgrace of
evil, and credit of worthy acts, their only
measure of difference between man and man.
Laconia was divided into equal lots. A lot
was so much as to yield, one year with an-
other, about seventy bushels of grain for the
master of the family, and twelve for his wif ,
with a suitable proportion of oil and wine.
And this he thought sufficient to keep their
bodies in good health and strength; super-
fluities they were betttr without.
It is reported that, as Lycurgus returned
from a journey shortly after the division of
the lands, in harvest time, the ground being
newly reaped, seeing the stacks all standing
equal and alike, he smiled, and said to those
about him, "Me thinks all I^aconia looks like
one family estate just divided among a num-
ber of brothers."
Laconia was the most powerful state In Greece
and was able to defend and extend her socialistic ideas,
if they had been permanent and practicable, but there
Is no record of socialism spreading to and taking root
in neighboring states, or that it long prevailed in
Sparta.
There is one all-sufficient reason why socialism can
never prevail, if there were none other, and that Is,
the INEQUALITY OF MEN. Our Declaration of In-
dependence holds "that all men are created equal,'' a
declaration farther from the truth is unimaginable, for
men are in no sense equal; before the law, the altar of
the church, the rulers of the state, mentally -or physi-
cally, and It is against the entire plan of Nature that
they should be, for inequality marks every livinng
thing, both in the animal and vegetable kingdom.
Moreover, the domineering of the weak by the strong
prevails among peoples, and among all of the animals
of the earth, the fishes of the sea, in every forest and in
every field.
Socialists clamor much for liberty and equality and
promise that if they are given an opportunity they will
wipe out all the ills that afflict the body politic, and
every man will be equal to every other man. Their
own organizations destroy this promise of equality,
as witness Germany, where the Socialistic Democratic-
party, composed of three million voters, is governed
absolutely by a few men. This is also true in America
today, and would be true if all the world were social-
ists.
The Enid Eagle states that McGuire again is making
a campaign of promises. McGuire had a convention of
about one hundred and fifty to whom he has kept his
promises; now, if those of unfulfilled promises were
to hold a convention, there would be about twenty
thousand of them.
ThE DREAMER
Fardel Bearers.
Upon the sun-bright, dusty, hot high-way
A fellow bear r met I on a weary day.
Too slight the form to be so burden-bowed,
But a spirit yet unnuenched, and a soul u wowed.
A glance, a pause, the lure of voice and hands,
And fain would 1 have sought the shady, pleasure lands,
Thoir mossy nooks, the flow is, the birds, the stream,
To waLiier hand-clasped, joyous, in a fond, fond dream.
But high the golden fence and massive .gate
For those who take and hold fast of the Ixml's Estate,
Gold-locked and tripple barrel from entrance free.
And 1? Ah. me, 1 had no pass, no goMen key.
So. to lift the burden or to stay the tear
I might not longer linger, for the night was near;
Still must I earn my wage where hours wer fleet,
And lay at last my fardel at it's owner's feet.
The Dreamer.
tact's possible release from his kriendsi
There are evidences that President Taft will be re-
leaved in the coming year of some of the chief hind-
rances to the popularity of bis administration. Cannon
is almost sure not to be a candidate for Speaker again,
Senator Aldrich of New Jersey has given it out that he
will retire from public life, and Senator Hale of Maine
has written a letter that he will not stand for re-elec-
tion again.
These are old men who have acquired power 'n the
long years of their service beyond their present use-
fulness. They belong to another era of public life
and a training w hich is no more compatible with the
present problems confronting the country than the sickle
and flail are to the riding binder reaper and the
steam threshing machine in farming. A younger
generation of statesmen is needed for the newer prob-
lems of the gigantic commercial conditions of the
country. This is an era when it is no longer wisdom
to give the public domain away to exploit ng corpora-
tions but to prevent them from gQtting complete con-
trol of public resources; of no longer aiding railroads
to control commerce but prevent their enUre domination
of it; from no longer aiding national hanks to control
the money of the country against foreign domination,
but distributing that power equally over the country;
from no longer aiding manufacturers with special
tariff privileges, but preventing the fixing of arbitrary
prices on their products.
Mr. Taft himself belongs to that younger generation
of statesmen, but has been hampered by a Congress
domlnatd by these old heads, trained In their old way
of thinking. Seeing a possible democratic Congress if
they persisted in remaining In public life, their retire-
ment will give the more progressive element control,
which is the way the republican party always has
or leading the country in a peaceful revolution
from one era to another in its growth and commer-
cial development.
These old line republicans were not for Mr. Taft for
President and had their program of legislation fixed be-
fore his inauguration, which was in the main antago-
nistic to the Roos' It policies. The President's per-
sistent fight to have tbe Roosevelt policies carried out,
through his judicial respect for the division of power
of the legislative and administrative departments has
kept him /rom driving them before him as did Roose-
velt, but brought these statesmen of a past age are to
realize their unavailability and they wish to retire.
It is the beginning of the President's final winning
of the public and the vanishment of Its critical atti-
tude towards him,
Guthrie Wants The
State to Vote "NO"
Continued ironi lirst page
capital of the suite, it shall be the
duty of the governor aim ae is h re-
uy uuccted to issue his proclamation
tailiiij, a uaal election not later than
ity ua>s from and after the date
on walcr. tae nrst election was held,
;o locate tae capital, which said final
lecuou shall be conducted under the'
gt neral election laws ot' tue state, and
each and all election othcers in the
state snail pertorm the same duties
at said final election as they ar. re-
quii'ea to pertorm at tue general elec-
tions, and tae returns tuereof suall
be made in the same manner as re-
quired by tae general election laws
of the state; provjJed, that no such
final election shall be called unless
tri-- city, town or place receiving
next to the highest number of votes
cast at said first election shall exe-
cute or cause to be executed a good
and sufficient bond, payable to the
state of Oklahoma, in th; sum of
one hundred thousand dollars, to be
payable to the state of Oklahoma, in
tne sum ot one hundred thousand
dollars, to be prepared by the attor-
ney general and approved by th2
governor, conditioned for the pay-
ment of the expenses of said final
election within sixty days after the
same shall be held in casj such
city, town or place shall not be se-
lected as the permanent cap.tal of
tiie state. Provided further that if
said petition shall not ba filed and
said bond shall not be xecuted by
or on behalf of such city, town or
place, within the time herein provid-
ed,then it shall thereupon become
the duty of the governor to Issue his
proclamation rec.ting and proclaim-
ing th result of said first election to
be that the city, town or place which
received the highest number of votes
cast at said first election to ba that
the city, town or place which receiv-
ed th highest number of votes cast
at said first election was selected as
the permanent cap tal of the state of
Oklahoma.
Section 5. A commission to be j
known as the state capital coinmis-
ion Is hereby creat d. Said commis- i
sion shall be composed of three quali-
fied electors to be appointed by the
governor within thirty days after the
capital shall be located, as hirein pro-1
vided, but not more than two of them <
shall be of the same political party.
Each of the members of said commis- I
sion shall subscribe the oath required j
by law of other state officers and shall
xecute bond, to be approved by the j
governor, in the sum of fifty thousand .
dollars, conditioned for the faithful j
performance of the duties impose f ]
upon them by law, and each of :bein
shall be paid a salary of four thous-
and dollars per annum. The term of
office of said commissioners shall b>
two years, and said commission i hall
terminate at the expiration of two
years from and after the first day of
January, 1911. unless it shall be con-
tinued by act of the legislature.
As soon as practicable after their
appointment and qualification they
shall organize by electing one of
ine.r number chairmai.. A majority
01 the m mbers shall constitute a
quorum to do business and perform
tne duties and exercise the powers
conferred on the commission. Said
i commission is hereby constituted
i body corporate, and shall have the
J pow r to sue or to be sued, and to de-
I fend or be defended, in any and all
actions or proceedings in any way
I affecting its duties or powers. Said
commission shall have power to defi-
I niteiy locate and procure for and on
b fcaif of the state, the title to all
land necessary for capital purposes,
and for all buildings and institutions
wnich the state may establish there-
on and to create the special fund
herein provided for, not to excecd two
thousand acres; said land to b- loca-
ted within or at a distance of not
more than five miles from the city,
town or place selected as the perma-
nent capital of the state.
If said commission shall be unable
to agrte with the owners, occupants
or lessees of any land selected by it
for capital purposes to exercise the
power of eminent domain and to insti-
tute and to prosecute to final d term-
ination, proceedings for the condemn-
ation of such land as provided In the
act of legislature approved May 20,
1908, entitled: An act amending Sec-
tion 28 of Article xix of Chapter 17
of the statutes of Oklahoma for 1903,
regulating the method of procedure In
the condemnation of private property
for both public and private use.
The fee simple title to all land con-
demned and on behalf of the state as
herein provided shall vest in the state
and the owner thereof shall receive
compensation for such fee simple title;
If a!d state capital commission
snail s leet any land for capital pur-
ijuscs oeionging to the state, said
state capital commission and the
school laud commissioners of the state
snail be and are hereby authorized
<iiid empower d to appraise the value
v£ saia iand as well as the value of
any improvements, claim, right, lease
or preference right to lease the same,
h Id by any person pursuant to the
constitution and laws of the state or
any act of congress.
The value cf such improvements,
claim, right or lease and such land
shall be appraised separately. The
appraised value of the land shall be
paid by said capitol commissioa into
t.,e state treasury, out of the m >.i ^y
hereby appropriated or out of the
special lund hereinafter creat d, and
held by the state in trust to be de-
voted ai.d appropriated for tl'.o pur-
pose for which said land may have
oeen appropriate, as may be provid-
ed by iaw; and the appraised value
ot such improvements, cla m, riglit
or lease shall be paid to the owner
thereof.
Section 6. When said land shall
havi been procured and the fee simple
t.tle thereto vested in the state for
capital purposes, as herein provided,
it shall oe the duty of the state capi-
tol commission to set apart a portion
of said land as the sit- for the capitol
of the state, and for such other build-
ings or institutions as the state may
probably locate thereon; and to sur-
vey and plat the remainder of said
land into parks, squares, blocks, lots
streets alleys, and, to make in dupli-
cate an accurate map thereof, to be
approved by the governor and file one
oi said maps in tne office of tne regis-
t r of deeds in the county where said
land is located, and keep the other for
the use of the commission in its re-
cords; said maps shall be executed by
said commission in the same manner
maps and piats of lands are required
uy law to be executed for town-site
purposes, and said map shall have the
same etfect as is given by law to
maps aim plats when executed and Al-
io; townsit. purposes.
oaid commission shall have power
to employ a competent engineer and
architect and to procure all help ani
assistance, legal, clerical and other-
wise, nee ssary to facilitate the proper
discnarge of its duties and to fix the
compensation thereof. '
It shall be the duty of said com-
mission as soon as practicable, to pro-
cure Sucn information as in its judg-
ment will be useful in determining
what would b? a suitable capitol for
tae state of Oklahoma, and to cause
to be prepared plans and specifications
for the same, and make estimates or
receive bids lor the cost of the con-
struction thereof; and report the same
together with such information as it
may have procured, with its recom-
mendations to the governor.
Said commission, with the approv-
al of the governor, shall have power
to make and enter into all necssary
contracts and agreements for the con-
strutcion of the capitol, but 110 such
contract shall be binding on the state
until approved by the legislature.
It shall be the duty of tbe governor
to transmit the report of said com-
mission any contract it may have
made for the construction of the capi-
tol, to the legislature as soon as prac-
ticable.
The capitol shall be constructed of
granite, marble or other material
quarried within the state of Oklahoma.
Section 7. The state capitol com-
mission, with the approval of the
governor, shall have the power to
make and publish rules and regula-
tions governing the sale of all lots
surveyed and platted for sale, and
shall publish therein the methods and
terms of sale, and fix a minimum
price at which said lots may be sold.
Said commission shall have the gen-
eral supervision and control of the sale
of all said lots, but the title to no lot
shall be vested in any purchaser
thereof until the sale thereof has be n
approved by the governor.
All lots shall be conveyed by patent
from the state, to be xecuted by the
governor.
The proceeds of the sale of said lots
shall constitute a special fund to be
known as the state capitol fund, and
shall be deposited in th state treas-
ury. Sa d funds shall be used to pay
the expenses of procuring the title to
said land and platting, mapping and
selling the same, and for the purpose
of constructing a state capitol, as
may b hereafter provided by law.
The sum of six hundred thousand
dollars Is hereby appropriated and
shall be immediately available out of
any money in the Btate treasury not
otherwise appropriated for the pur-
pose of carrying tbe provisions of this
art into effect.
The state shall be reimbursed for
the amount of money hereby appro-
priated out of the special fund hereby
created as may hereafter provided by
law.
YOUNG PEOPLE
The Salary Question.
Have You Solved It?
Let Us Give You A Tip.
Do you know that there is not a
grauduate of Bookkeeping and Short-
hand of the Moberly Commercial Col-
lege who has been out of employment
over ten days from the time he finish-
ed his course, unless of his own ac-
cord? What does this mean? It
m ans just as sure as two and two
are four that if you will enter this
school and do a few months good
hard work, you will be placed thru
their Employment Bureau in a good
salaried position promptly.
Write for catalogue, see what we
offer, what we guarantee,
Capital City Business Callege, Guth-
rie, Oklahoma.
DOROTHY RUSSEL IS WED
Mother Lillian Must Look to Her Matri-
monial Record.
New Vork, April 18.—Lilian Russell
made the announcement today that he
daughted, Dorothy Russell, was married
in Paris on April 6, to young Dunsmulr,
Dunsmuir of San Francisco, British Co-
lumbia and Brasfl and that the happy
pair have sailed on a honeymoon trip to
South America, where the young man
has business interests. Lillian Russell
has been married three times.
Miss Russell has already had one brief
matrimonial venture and her martial ex-
perience as Mrs. Abbott Einstein caused
her to view a second marriage with un-
concealed aversion. She obtained a di-
vorce from Abbott Einstein in October
1906. She was married to him In 1903.
In October, 1904, Dorothy went home
to her mother. She appeared in sev-
eral plays, among them "The Girl from
Kay's" and later on the vaudeville stage
in this city and vicinity.
SALES DISTRICTS FORMED; FAIR
GROUNDS TO BE SOLD
Land Auctions—Preliminaries
To Start.
At a meeting of the school land
board the third, fourth and fifth sales
districts were arranged, and plans
made to take the necessary steps to
start the sales.
The districts are as follows; third
sales district, agricultural land, 150,-
000 acres, located In the following
counties; Jefferson, Stephens, Har-
mon, Greer, B ckham, Pawnee, Noble,
Kay, Grant, Alfalfa, Major, Woods,
Woodward and Harper. Fourth sales
districts takes in special sales author-
ized by the legislature as follows:
City addition at Lawton, Hobart and
Luther and Woodward, the fair
grounds at Oklahoma City, 80 acres at
Shawnee for the location of the Bap-
tist University, and a section of land
at Guthrie for the location of a park.
The fifth sales district takes in 1,006,-
000 acres of unleased land In the nor-
thwestern part of the state.
The sales will begin with the third
district, Before they begin, however,
a pamphlet must be prepared and
printed and then the sales must be
advertised thirty days. Consequently,
it is expect d about six weeks will be
necessary before the sales start.
At the meeting today, O. H. P. Brew-
er assistant secretary of the land of-
fice. and head of the loan department,
resigned. C. L. Hobdv, formerly a
mortgage clerk, was appointed to take
his place and Hobdy is succeeded by
R. P. Wyatt, title record clerk.
LORD KITCHENER,
As Col. Roosevelt was looking over
Khartum, the scene of that historical
battle between the English army and
the .Mohammedan Arabs In 1898, the
hero of that fight, Ixird Kitchener oC
Khartum, was on his way to look us
over.
He lias been making a tour of Aus-
tralia, examining carefully the mili-
tary resources of that country. He
advocates the establishment of a mili-
tary college similar in ideals and prac-
tice to West Point.
Upon his arrival in San Francisco
he expressed the desire to be received
as a private citizen ant} that no pub-
lic reception be accorded him. He dis-
likes society, and across the big wat-
ers is known as a "woman hater." In
Japan where Lord Kitchener recently
visited, even the pretty geisha girls
were barfed from all the star enter-
tainments given in his honor.
FIELD OE CORN WITH ONLY ONE
ROW.
Grandfield, Ok.. April 14.— H. H.
Parks has one row of corn that cov-
ers sixty acres. It is circular and
resembles a clock spring ending in the
center of the field. He says that more
than" thirty years ago he aroptcd this
system of farming anl assigns two
reasons for it. First, it prevents er-
sion, and second it is time saved. He
says that in the life time one crop
seanson would be lost in turning at
the ends. Mr. Parks will put in an-
other row of cotton soon, covering for-
ty acres. It required two weeks to
plant the one row of torn.
AGAINST RAILWAY V.MENIIMENT
Samuel Gompers, head of the Amer-
ican Fed ration of Labor, will proba-
ly come to Oklahoma and. make
speeches against adoption of the pro-
posed Section 49 to Article IX of the
Constitution. The amendment was re-
cently initiated under direction of the
Oklahoma F deration Commercial
clubs, and has the active opposition
of the Federation of Labor. Mr.
Gompers would also analyze the re-
cent federal court decision affecting
the commission's freight rate orders
and the Oklahoma 2 cent rate law, it
is planned to have about six speeches.
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