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Tnfi Perry Daily Times.
Vol. i
PKRRY OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, MAY, 5, 1894
No 194
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THREW A BOMB.
S. C. Whitwam R ises a Commotion
in the Coxey Meeting;.
KKYKALKi)
An Attempt Nude to Turn ll *
Tliiuiilrr Into a Coxey l ulltl<«l Pull,
flow Wlill U'u 111 Nl i w« «l Tl t ll «
I'o|iiiIIhI ut
WiinliliiKtoii llmirU'il
Coxry'4 Army.
(hniuiK okla.. May 5.—[Special.)
The local Coxey contingent had a
great meeting in their headquarters
lust evening in more ways than one.
Thev were moving along with a Salva-
tion army hallelujah anil a great you*
kiss-ine gait, when a little accident oc-
ean-.1 that ran the mutual love feast
from its boiling point way down be-
low the freezing mark.
For a long time it has been observed
that while it wa* claimed that the
Coxey movement was absolutely inde-
pendent of any political party that
certain populists made it a point to
run matters into politics whenever
possibV, until the meetings from the
speeches made, were none but popu
list Last evening. Shippy,a preacher
from near Chandler and others got up
and made their usual populist speech-
es under cover. At the unguarded
moment they a lowed the popular
clamor of the audience to calls. I.
Whit wain for a speech.
Whitwaui was a populist leader un-
til things went on in such a manner
that he oiild stand it no longer, ami
he quit the party. The party leaders
have been trying to groom him ever
since, but he won't be curried. Last
evening he g< t up and after pleasii g
the audience by showing that the
Covey movement was one of inspira-
tion. like that of the pilgrims that
came to this country on the May Mower,
that of lohn llrown, who was one of
the causes • f the liberation of the ne-
groes of America, and other great
movements of the world: after he libd
his hearers all with him, he launched
a statement that raised every populist
from his chair. He gave away the
snap that populist leaders were
secretly turning the Coxey movement
for populist political purposes; he
turned into the populist representa-
tives at Washington, in the two
houses of congress, and showed that
their attitude on the Coxey movement
wai cowardly. His facts were start
ling, lie said that it was alright f« r
populists to profess sympathy f« r
Coxev when he was on his way to
Washington and was being kindly
tal.en eare <>f by the people along the
road: but what did the leaders do
with him when he reached Washing
ton ' They played the coward's part.
WhenC ixey reached Washington Sen-
ator I'etTer, Congressman Pence or
any of the populist leaders could have
e\tended to hint the courtesy of mak-
ing him their guest, and so take him
in the house or senate. Any of these
could have made a speech for him
from the steps of the capitol or gotten
him a hearing in either house of con
gre s. for they had such a privilege.
They could even have taken the whole
ariny and given them seats in the gal-
lery of the house, as guests, for they
11:i<i such a privilege; but they did no
such thing. Neither I'etTer nor any
other populist appeared on the
steps of the capitol when Coxey
was being dragged away by the
police and gave any aid. None of
thein offered to go his bail to get him
out of jail, lie denominated the pop-
ulist sympathy, as a party, for Coxey a
sham. Many democrats and republi-
cans were iu favor of the Coxey move-
ment that did not endorse populism.
Hi' himself was a strong Coxey fol-
lower, but wanted nothing more to do
with the populist party in Oklahoma.
Whitwam's sneech was a stirrer and
carried conviction. Several tried to
answer it, but could not. All day to-
day they have been trying to pacify
him, but without avail.
UBIQUITOUS BILL DALTON.
Report Now linn it I n «t lie Ik Secreted In
Joseph.
St. .Ioski'H, Mo., May 4.—Hill Hal-
ton, the notorious outlaw, is supposed
to be secreted somewhere in this
city. He arrived here last night on a
Burlington train from KansasCity and
had a ticket for Omaha. Between St.
Joseph and KansasCity Frank Prather.
an attorney of Cherry vale, Kan , rec-
0,r li/.ed the outlaw, audit is evident
Dal ton recognized him. As soon as
the train reached the union depot
I'rather stepped off to find a police-
man, and as he did so Daiton mixed up
with the crowd and escaped. The
avenues of escape from the city are
very closely guarded.
WHAT IS THE REMEDY/
The men who are in Coxey's army
and the hundreds of thousands of
other idle laborers in this country
want but one thing —work: of course
there are always half a million of pro-
fessional tramps in this country who
hunt a 'hand-out" only and run
from work. We take a majority of
the Coxey army to be nit n of good in-
tent, men of energy, who are idle per
force of circumstances. These men
declare for the issuance of $.".00,000,000
of greenback promises to pay—want
the government to go in debt to give
them employment. No man declares
good roads are a necessity—they would
be only an added convenience and
comfort, and everybody knows that
$.*>00,000,000 would not make good all
the roads and bridges in two of our
great states. The Coxeyite scheme
would relieve, then, only a modicum
of the communities of a local burden;
and after the S"i(H),000,000 were spent
on the roads, who would keep them in
repair? The repairs would fall back
where the first burden should fall —
on the communities themselves.
There are 2.">,000,000 males in this
country of mature age—that is, at an
age where "they are self dependent
laborers and must live on their own
earnings. The 9500,000,000 of Coxey
promissory notes would give these
work at SI.50 a day each for thlrtciii
ami ahull thiyn. What would the poor
devils do after the thirteen and a half
days were exhausted? These govern
ment notes would then be in the
hands of the grocer, clothier, dry
goods man, butcher, etc.. and through
them go on up to the wholesaler. The
country would have added half a bil-
lion to the national debt one-fifth as
much as the entire war debt—and only
a little over two weeks of labor given
each man and one or two good roads
scattered through each state!
\\ hat do S'nn.ooo.noo amount to in a
country whose internal trade, one
man with another, amounts to over
lu-i> huwhul nifl tmiitii-tirf It'll linn ilol-
hir*. Coxey and his followers know
men need labor? They jump at the
sentimental side of the country's de-
pression and concoct ami clamor for a
remedy which would be about as etti-
cacious as to hand a starving man a
penny! They do not reason from
cause to effect.
I n the fall of all the factories
were running. Then men had at good
wages plenty « f what they are now
out of and can't get—labor. Then the
factories, the mills all the avenues of
manufacture and commerce were in
active operation. We had then only
M<>,ono,000 more of currency than we
have now this amount of Sherman
bill notes having been redeemed.
Nature has been turning from its
rich bosom products in magnificent
abundance. \\ .• have the same people,
the same magnificent country, the
same ambitions anil energies in the
hearts of men: but now all is stagna-
tion.
'1 his nation exist's on confidence.
I.very trade made, man between man.
has a basis of confidence. Take from
a business man public confidence in
his integrity or his ability to pay and
how long could lie run? Take from a
laborer his reputation for honesty, so
briety and decency and how many
would immediately turn their backs
on him? So w ith the nation. I proot
the confidence of the people in exist-
ing conditions and wreck and ruin is
consequent. That is what ails the
country now; that is what has made
idleness, want, misery and the Coxey
army. Manufacturers will not pro-
duce for a doubtful and falling mar-
ket; merchants will not buy goods
they believe the people are unable to
buy; all business goes to the lowest
ebb; the skilled laborers are thrown
out of work: the unskillea laborers
can find no employment because ail
development in building, etc., ceases
entirely, or is curtailed: the creditor
gets uneasy and calls for liquidation—
and out of this we have the present
depression, which has created idle-
ness, want and unrest all over this
country.
The people do not need to be re-
minded of the immediate cause—the
incompetency of the democratic party:
the elevation to power of the men
who stand for principles history long
ago proved wrong: an attempt to up-
root all values, all stability, by an ap
plication of these wrong theories to
the commercial life of the nation.
Had the people as a whole been eco-
nomical and in prosperity saved for
depression, there would not be the
hunger and suffering now extant; but
the avenues of trade would have been
stagnant and chances for safe invest-
ment and development would have
been just what we find now.
Too many people do not think be-
fore they leap, but leap and then, with
broken limbs and bruised phiz, set up
a deal of a thinking. Since they
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latent U. S. Gov't Report.
Powder
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
cleveland, there is no lack of time to
think now. Let this thinking be of a
practical kind let it be for labor
permanently not for thirteen and a
half days for a reclamation of the
confidence which, two years ago, hung
over the nation like a benediction of
love, looking down on a busy, pros-
perous and happy people.
There is no man but will say the
times of two years ago will be good
enough; such would be hailed with
shouts of delight. There is a chance
this fall to return to tlio lines par-
tially, at least—to put a congress
which will stand as valli insur-
mountable by the pernicious theories
the attempt to legalize which has
brought us ail these woes. Hlock the
possibility of free trade and place men
in congress who will utilize all the
money metal of America, adding to
our circulation £7o.000,000 a year of
intrinsic money—not Coxey promises
to pay—and the redemption of the
country from its present slough of de-
spond will have been accomplished.
WITHOUT A HEARING
Leader: Oreer's long-distance edito-
rial that traveled over three columns
to prove liurk.'-Hrown-McMaster not
guilty, made no mention of the fact
that each of the defendants pleaded
guilty to contempt as charged.
They did no such thing. They
plead not guilty. They demanded a
hearing ami got none. On ex parte
testimony, they were tired to jail.
The judge even refused an appeal in
the McMaster case, when every lawyer
who ever saw a law book knows that
appellate courts em review and have
reviewed many similar cases on peti-
tions of error. Burke A: Brown have
maintained all along that they had
told only the truth.
The law gives judges the power to
enforce decorum io their courts, and
tines and light imprisonments for di-
rect contempt contempt in open court
ami of which the court can take judi-
cial knowledge—are admissible on
peremptory judgment iu all states;
but the statute of Oklahoma says no
newspaper can be in contempt for
• publishing a true, full and fair report
of auv trial, argument, decision or
proceeding had in court Is it proper
for the judge, the offended party, to
determine whether the paper has lied
or told the truth about him? Such
contempt—constructive, that is, com-
mitted out of sight of the judge —the
law says is a misdemeanor—a public
offense—and the same law says 'no
person can be convicted of a public
offense, unless by the verdict of a jury,
accepted and recorded by the court,"
etc.
Burke & Brown have had 110 hear-
ing as to the truth or falsity of their
publications and have been thrust into
jail purely in violation of a law the
phraseology of which is as plain as the
ego of the judge who incarcerated
them.
Tiik Coxey army and the fool acts of
the democratic administration are the
chief talk of the people now.
Mil. Siiippky said last night that
less than two out of five of the Coxey-
ites wi fe populists. They will all be
republicans by fall
J. V. N. CRECORY, Pr<«. F. W. FAHRAR, Caahlar.
V. C TALBERT, Aaiit.Caah.
BANK of PERRY
CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIRECTOPJS-
J. V. N. OUEOORY, K. \V. FARRAK, V. C. MALBERY,
GEO. S. HARTLEY, J. T. LAFFEBTY
This Bank has the latest improved safe with automatic bolt
work. Also a fire proof vault.
And now Whitwam, the greatest
Roman of them all, has left the popu-
list party and will come into the re-
publican fold. The whole country is
turning republican.
The Oklalioman: It may be the
rabble and the scum of this city that
arc protesting against Judge Scott's
action, but it scarcely looks so to men
who arc familiar with the parties who
signed the resolutions adopted at the
citizen's meeting last Tuesday night.
Neither does it look altogether as if
it was a republican move. \V. J.
(iault is an e\ democratic mayor; O.
W. II. Chi 1111 is the present chairman
of the democratic city central commit-
tee. II. F. Butler is a democratic
member of the city council: O. H. Vio-
lets and J. s. Lindsey are prominent
democratic citizens—one a lawyer and
the-other a real estate man; 0. A.
Mitseher is an ex-republican mayor;
F. M. Riley is an ex-republican mem-
ber of the city council; B.J. Streeter
is a prominent republican merchant,
and Dr. Delos Walker is a leading
populist. The hoodlum and scum cry
would better have not been raised.
Where were I'etTer, Allen, Pence,
Davis and the other pops who claim
the Coxey movement as purely popu-
listic? Coxey could have been conduct-
ed to a seat in the senate or house by
any one of these. Instead the friends
i whose guests they expected to be' al-
lowed them to be kicked from the
capitol steps at the toe of the national
democratic boot! This was shame-
ful kinship—and every populist ought
to resent such treatment by their own
brethren, by the men they have sent
A thousand hornets using their
business ends simultaneously could
not have stirred up the Coxey army as
did S. C. Whitwam last night as lie
poured hot shot into the populists.
It Ik a mean father who will kick
out his own offspring. Cleveland and
his party made the Coxey army and
gave the vanguard a swift kick 011 its
arriva at the domicile of its dad!
Tiik attorneys ot Burke & Brown
will apply to the supreme court, as
soon as it can be caught, for a super-
sedeas and bail, pending the judgment
of the court on the appeal, on writ of
error.
failed to think when they elected 1 to Washington to represent them.
Thi- Burke & Brown case has been
appealed on the ground that if con-
tempt at all, it was constructive and
declared by law a public offense, and
under the law the accused were en-
titled to a jury trial.
Aiia/. N. J. Ckookk was yesterday
confirmed by the senate as register of
the land office at Outhrie. Every man
who knows Judge Crooke will rejoice
that he has got this place, lie was
ottered a 82,000 position in Washing-
ton, but could not leave his claim, and
refused it. He is a splendid land law-
yer. an honest man, a sensible demo-
crat and will make an able register.
Thk law says so now, but if the su-
preme court decides that it don't say
so, the next legislature should, and no
doubt will, amend the law making it
declare beyond ambiguity and evasion
that all accusations for contempts com-
mitted out of the presence of the
court shall be triable bjr jury. It
couldn't say this much plainer than it
does now, but it would appear that it
needs to be said so plain that even "in-
herent" power could see it.
Tiik law says the court may suspend
an officer against whom is pending a
petition for removal, pending the trial
of the cause. Judge Scott, as a judge
in chambers, at ? a. m., suspended
Judge Stewart. Every decision yet
rendered declares duties by law given
to the court" means that the action
must be had in open court in term
time. Judge Scott seems to think the
judge is the "court." The next legis-
lature should change the law so that
no public officer can be thus suspended
without an indictment by a grand
jury, and thus free officers from the
spites of small bore malcontents.
A.
Real -
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Estate - Agency,
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Special Attention Given to Contest Gases.
I have a large list of claims and town lots for sale. If you want to
buy any kind of a claim or town lot give me a call. If you have
a claim or a town lot for sale, list them with me.
PERRY,
OKLAHOMA
HIRAM L. H0YES, Pres. L. D. TURKMAN, Cask.
FARMERS and MERCHANTS BANK
Corner of 11. and Seventh striata, Firry, 0. T.
Does n General Banking Business,
Smith Brick Manufacturing Company'
NORTH PIRBY, EABT OP RAILROAD.
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Cheap as the Cheapest,
M RICHARDSON,
President.
D. C. RICHARDSON,
Vice-President.
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Caahlsr.
T.
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Lawyers and Land Attorneys.
Office etnter of block on D St., bet.,
Oth and 7th, north side square. Mr.
Stone has had live years practice be-
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C. A. MORRIS
W. JOHNSON,
Oklakoraa City.
JJB1WIS S J0H1W,
LAWYERS,
Will practice In all the courts of the Territory
and the Federal Courts also In the U. h Land
oftiees of the tereitory and the Interior De-
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Ottiee In Morrl* liloek Southwest 7th St.
near I,and Office.
References by permission—'T.
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Ollice—Room 4 Morris Block, Corner
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