The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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THE CHANDLER NEWS.
SEVENTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 18! 7.
NUMBER 14.
You Get Three Papers for $1.00 Gash if You Pay It to the Chandler Neois
REPUBLICAN CALL.
A mass convention of the re-
publicans of Lincoln county is
hereby called to meet at the
court house in Chandler, Satur-
day, Jan. 8th at one o'clock, for
the purpose of selecting seven-
teen delegates to the territorial
statehood convention to meet at
Kingfisher Jan. lli, 1M98.
J. W. Daukon,
Sec'y Central Com.
S. D. Dennis, Chairman.
The News wishes a merry
Christmas to everybody and a
happy new year to all paid up
subscribers.
The latest railroad news
makes joyful Christmas reflec-
tions for Lincoln county people.
We can afford to say "peace on
earth, good will to man" with un-
usual heartiness.
Every farmer, in Lincoln
county should make an effort to
attend the farmers' institute to
be held in Chandler next week.
It will be bot li helpful and enter-
taining.. Farmers have need of
cousu^at'od and co.op^'-itiona
here is a way where such may
be obtained readily and of the
best.
The Guthrie papers deny that
Gov. Barnes was a member of
I In* committer which went to St.
L>uis to promote the Red Fork
branch from Sapulpa to Guthrie.
Whether the governor was or was
not, does not effect Chandler and
Lincoln county particularly; we
are going to get our railroad,
willy nilly.
The "Sac and Fox Sketches"
which may appear in our col-
umns from time to time, should
be credited by our exchanges to
the Chandler New.s. Just be-
cause they are contributed by
the absentee editor whose teepee
is near, the border of the Indian
.territory, is no reason why they
should be stolen.
In the call for the statehood
convention Lincoln coffnty is giv-
en the second largest apportion-
ment of delegates of the counties
of Oklahoma. The apportion-
ment is based upon the vote cast
last year for delegate to con-
gress. In another year Lincoln
county \\;ill have outstripped the
one more populous county and
will be the banner county in pop-
ulation as she is now in nearly
every other respect.
STATEHOOD STUDIES.
j It is conceded by nearly every-
body that single statehood as a
final result is inevitable; that,
whatever the local opinion and
sentiment may be, the members
of this congress and of every
congress that will follow it can
not easily be made to see why
Oklahoma and the Indian terri-
tory should not successfully
work in tly same harness; and
that, even if the statesman of the
East and North and South were
convinced that reason demanded
double statehood, they never
would be so unselfish as to con-
sent that Oklahoma and the In
' dian territory should have four
votes in' the U. S. senate while
Missouri, with almost an equal
area, has but two, Kansas, which
is 12,000 square miles larger, has
but two, Colorado, one-half larger
has only two, and Texas, with an
area nearly four times as large
as the combined area of the two
territories, has but two senators.
It is folly for us to close our eyes
to the fact that these reasons, as
well as others, the very body to
which we must look for the right
to assume the garb of statehood
is and will be strongly opposed
to double . statehood. And, if
this lie true, we should lose no
time in fighting over a question
which is decided for us, in ad-
vance, by the powers that be.
but we should, rather, devote our
>est efforts to the solution of the
question that arises touching the
road by which our ultimate des-
tination shall Ipe approached.
Right at this point there is
a chorus of voices demanding
the four, and -suggestions fall
thick and fast. Nearly all who
are joining in the present* stali*-
liood clamor are of one accord.
There are many who hold differ-
ent opinions, but they are hold-
ing their peace also. But the
present agitators have called a
statehood convention, .and its
coucl usion (if it does not result
as the last statehood convention
did) will be heralded abroad as
the sentiments of the people of
Oklahoma, The men who have
the matter in charge are nearK
all in favor of immediate state
hood for Oklahoma -alone, with
the idea of adding the 1 ndian ter-
ritory later, as the several tribes
shall decide to accept the inevi-
table.
SAC AND FOX SKETCHES.
Harry Conklin returned
should be done to banish discord
and promote good feeling. If nai-rv , ()11KI1M
Oklahoma should succeed in get- Shawnee Sunday.
Iintr linmorlinro nUrv *
Ben Egnew was
Shawnee this week.
to
up from
ting immediate statehood she
would then proceed to adopt a
constitution of her own making
and to permanently locate ac- Mrs. Lee Patrick was'quite ill
cording to her own ideas, all the the tirst of the week.
state institutions within her own
borders, and would then an-
nounce that tlje doors were open
and the five tribes might enter Mamie Charles is home from
at their pleasure. No reason Shawnee to spend Christmas,
able person could blame the 15. T
Mrs. Rosengrant is assisting
at the Sac and Fox school.
T. for rebelling at such treat
ment. The fact that a chance
would be given for the five tribes,
or any one of them, to come in at
the beginning would not cover
up the real selfishness and nar-
rowness of the proposed policy,
Win. Jones, a Sac and Fox boy,
is attending Harvard University.
Supt. Mary C. Williams and
Mr. Burnett visited Shawnee
the first of the week.
Chief Clerk Haygood, of the
Chilocco Industrial School, was
for it is very apparent that not ? ; , u a , ' ?'as
one of them is ready for immedi- Yi'hZ \ hlSt
ate statehood ' ,011110 week.
This is a question which
Mrs. Caldwell, a teacher at the
Sac and Fox schools, left Wed-
in- nesday to spend Christmas with
yolve.s more than immediate wel- friend's in Wichita.
tare or local interests. We art
well aware that the people of the
territory are eager for an oppor- —•" «"« uum c
tunity to elect their territorial ^ young people from Gi
officers and be sure they are rep- ^ handler on Christmas
rese:itai.ive men of the party School Supervisor Pears was
from which they are chosen, visiting the schools under this
We k 1 >w that there are other
conditions which can only be . -
ch:i:i c • I when we become a full- Mr. Pears has the Indian schools
fledge.1 stiite. But these things,
however much they may seem
now, are of small weight when
compared' with the permanent charge. He is a thorough
weluire-and prosperity of a great very enthusiastic educator,
state. We ought to lay off the; is familiar, from long experience
habit of hasty, impulsive action with Indian school work,
acquired ffom the necessities of j
earl;, erritorial days; we ought
to as . . .me methods of conserva-
Mesdames Patrick, Conklin
and Patrick will entertain a par-
uthrie
agency.this week* and seemed
well pleased with their condition.
Pears has the Indian schools
of Kansas. Oklahoma, Indian
territory, Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona under his
and
and
Dr. Kelsey has sold his photo-
graph gallery to V. I. Haycraft
ti ve action and broad, patriotic ?f U'id,i^ ™ho will continue the
noi; , r —l.i 1: , business in the present location.
Mr. Haycraft is an adept in his
profession and we are glad that-
poli■ •/. We should realize that
the ti ii" has come for us to build
perm inently; that the work of a
cons:itutional convention is not
like that of a territorial legis-
lature to endure for two years
or until the next legislature has
ti me.to change it.
. * * *
There is another good reason
for moderation in Jhe statehood
business. The farmers and
homesteaders of Oklahoma coin-
While such a plan might bring
immediate relief from conditions
in this territory which are ex-
tremely distasteful to many, it
would only tend to increase the
hostility of the Indian territory
and render the chances of har-
monious union still more remote.
Since it seems ordained that
the two territories are to dwell
together under the same state
i government,every thing possible
he has located here.
Mnrrlitfif; Mcensc
Dec. 1st!), ('. A. Hudson to
Tillie Wilcox, Law; W. M. Pry-
or to LettieL. Prather, Sac and
Fox; '( 'has. H Irvine, Chandler,
to Laura Wanger, Carney; Chas.
II. Goode, McLoud, to Lizzie M.
Thomas. Clifton; Jas. R. Stev-
enson, Bichmond, to Mattie
Lincoln. Chandler; (Ilias. <' Az-
pnse nearly ninety percent, of ben to |,om r |{aker, Arlington;
011 population \\ hen have they Ethan A Liosecfans to Lm Lind-
e\er met and demanded imniedi- s.lv Welslon
ate statehood of any kind at any " Uec.i>0, Jas. B. Ryan, Flynn,
„ ^®n l™vethey ever giv- to Mattie A. Rolpli, Parkland;
enany expression ot any kind on Has A. Harrington, to Emma
this question.-' And is it not a irvin, Lydia; Allen Rider, Ba-
lUlepresumptious for the other, ker, to Bertha T. Groves
tenth of the population to its
sume to speak for the balance
without authority?
St roud;
Dec. HI, Andrew J. McAnally
to Estella Pitt, Arlington; G. P.
(lunch to Ella (Jillaspy, Flynn;
rhos. .]'. Mass to Jennie 15. Love,
to Mary
Mrs. Leas?: having announced
that she will defeat Jerry Simp- Clifton; Walter.!. Laws
son for. congress by going to Spcakman, Ingram.
congress herself should now hast- m?h! > if- llloS-.1V. H ll(lre.tl] t(>
. , , , ... , , Mattie Brown, Arlington, joined
en to deny that she said it or the-j,, marriage by Judge Cordell,
people will begin to doubt that Fifteen licenses in four days is
she did say it. ! not bad.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1897, newspaper, December 24, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115364/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.