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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 7.
NOKMAlf. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. AUGUST W, t8Q8.
The New Crusade.
Derive populism as we may;
grant that some of the remedies it
proposes are far-fetched and are for
that reason impracticable; never-
theless the movement stands for
liber'y and a better life here and
hereafter. And callous as his na-
ture may seem on the surface, deep
down in man's heart rests a pro
found love and reverence for liber-
ty. But we are advancing, not,
however, without making the nec
essary sacrifices. All forward move-
ments require a struggle. Every
forward step by the human race has
been made red with human blood.
Two centuries ago the world made
its great struggle for freedom of re-
ligion and thought; a century ago it
made its struggle for political free
dotn and freedom of speech, and
proclaimed the great principle that
all men are created equal and that
governments derive their just pow-
ers from the consent of the gov-
erned as expressed by the majority.
We have moved a century forward
and the world is again ripe for a
mighty onward stride. Only those
men who are willing to make sacri-
fices; only those men who have the
courage to stand erect and defy the
powers of darkness arc worthy to
stand with the men ready to lay
down their lives, if need be to usher
in a newer and a brighter day. It
"worked" in Union county, Oregon.
The Republicans nominated a
straight county ticket, while the fu
sionists nominated a alf and 'alf
ticket. Then the Reps and Denis
went to bed together, and next morn-
ing after election it turned out that
one half of the Republican ticket
and the Democratic half of the fu
sion ticket were elected. And the
Assistant Democrats were left in the
soup, where they belong.
"Thinkalikers'' in Utah.
Utah politics are becoming heat-
ed. I wo years ago fusion was ef-
fected in Utah as in other states be
tween Democrats, Populists and sil
ver Republicans. But the Demo-
crats, feeling that they can carry
the state without fusion, will m t
now listen to fusion propositions
and a division of the offices—es-
pecially the latter. They believe
they can carry the state unaided
and keep all the spoils for them-
selves. And they are going to try
to do it. What is more they are re-
solved to get the United States sen-
atorship as well as all the state of-
fices if they can. In other words
they are going to try to leave Sen
ator Cannon at home.
Such is the reward the Democrats
have for one who h"s done so much
to strengthen the Democratic party
0 j. nationally by leading the silver Re
is or such as these only that heroes I lmlj,icans int<> the Democratic camp.
is such as these thatjAm' this has 'c>l Se at«>r Pettigrew,
who accidentally happened out
NO 4
Appointments for Wise anil Pool.
are made; it
have made the world brighter
by having lived in it Shall we be
soldiers of the new crusade, aiid
wear the white cross of reform? Or
shall we be Democrats and Hanna-
crats, anil forever wear the badge
of serfdom ?—Ex.
A Kansas Democrat.
Col. Whoop Tomlinson flies the
Utah, to see if he could not straight-
en things out, to heatedly declare in
an interview that "you [Demociats]
want to elect a president in 1900,
and with our assistance you may do
it. 1 he result was very close last
time. But go back on us in this
emergency, and we will forsake you.
You shall not slaughter our friends
D . .. - . . because you think you have the
Republican state ticket at the head power so to d and „ us
of h„ columns. I his will be of no ci,>rorate wjlh kin(,
special advantage to the Republican
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Say, boys, won't it be angelfood
smothered in maple 'lasses, to hear
Judge Keaton roast G. Cleveland !
The Texas and Kansas Populists
of Oklahoma will stand shoulder
to shoulder this year on this propo-
sition as to congressman — " No
Texas Democrat need apply."
Democratic party. This, if true,
ought to be of interest to the Dea
COn' because, if Craven* is really a
i boodler. he will be a congenial
companion for Nib. and Greer who
already have an odorous notori-
ety for wide and deep boodling ex
ploits in the several treasuries of the
territory and counties of Oklahoma;
and further, because, if Cravens is
on the market, and the Republicans
have bought him for the fabulous
sum of $200—why, the Democrats
can buy him back. Cheer up, Dea
con, don't give way to your grief.
Remember that while there's cam-
paign life, there's''soap."
ticket, but it is a good thing for Col.
Whoop—he is as a mourner who,
having long stood out, finally seeks
salvation and forgiveness of sins.
The colonel has been a great sinner.
Ever since he put on the cloak of
Democracy it has gnawed at his
soul, and the beckoning angel who
has stood appeaiingly for him to re-
turn to his only love has but anger-
ed him. He felt as a black sheep
cast into outer darkness, and lived
011 in hope of temporal reward from
his new associates. Then came the
Pops. Ah, the Pops! But they had
no odd jobs for him, and now.
homesick and heartsick and weary
of life, he has returned to the party
of his earliest love to die; dear man,
his conscience is at rest—here hap-
py at last. I he colonel has had a
political career like a stake and ri-
der fence. He began in Kansas
sas away back in 1855. He was the
advance guard of Republicanism.
He was with John Brown and Mont-
gomery. To him everything Demo-
cratic, even the name, was hateful.
He went west to Ness county, where
he published papers. He was a
Prohibitionist, before there was anv r,r,f 1 1
..... . ^ j not over when he was exchanged
prohibition, and advocated it with | nan„er<i e,;ii 1 , , ,,
11 Dangers still confront him. and he
with all the eneigy he could sum- I 11 ,i; 1 , .
r-- 11 . „ wl" display courage that is suner-
mon. Finally he floated down to 1 ■ / , f P
Torwlta In .S£ .1 ,. 1. , ll,lman lf he marches boldly on them
i optica. in 1002 came the ( irk':. , ,• n •
instead ot fleeing to the safe retreat
So the hoggish Democrats and the
silver Republicans are at logger-
heads out there, and the remaining
Populists, snubbed to desperation,
will put out a ticket—made up of
real Populists !
Political Quackery.
1 he South Dakota fusion or "un
ion of forces" is a daisy, and dem-
onstrates pretty clearly that the "re-
formers" of that stale have been
transformed into a crowd of office-
seekers. The Populists laid consid-
erable stress 011 two planks in their
platform—the initiative and refer-
endum, and the nationalization of
public monopolies. The "new"
Democrats endorsed the former—
probably not knowing what the
strange words meant,—and rejected
the latter; and the silver Republic-
ans rejected both. Then all hands
favored free silver and a lot of other
secondary matter, denounced the
crime of 1873," divided the offices,
shook hands and went home. Cleve
land Citizen.
Still in Danger.
Lieutenant Hobson's dangers were
campaign, and Colonel Whoop got
into the Click band wagon by the
resubmission ladder—think of it!
By the resubmission ladder ! Then
came an office, *900 a year, and
Seme of the leading Kansas Dem-
ocrats—Eugene Hagan, " Whoop"
Tomlinson, Barney Sheridan, and
other relics—are trying to work up
an insurrection against the I.eedy
ticket.
The Guthrie correspondent of the
K. C. Times estimates Keaton's ma
jority at 10,000. That revised and
amended election law will hardly
work so great a wonder. A cautious
man would take a percentage of fact
from such a pile of wind.-McMaster.
A. D. Hickok was in town, Satur-
day, and after carefully looking over
the Democrat 1 opic, which was so
frantically asking him to spank it,
said lie could find nothing to spank.
It put him in mind of the woman
who had a very small, puny baby
which was very cross, and one morn-
ing when it was unusually mean and
irritated her husband a good deal,
he demanded, "Why don't you
spank it?" She handed the squall-
ing little bundle over to him, saying,
"Vou spank it—I can't find nothing
to spank."
In the Missouri Democratic con-
vention last week the issue was ter-
ritorial expansion — imperialism—
lead by Gov. Stone, and opposed by
Congressman Bland who wanted to
keep the silver question to the front.
I he victory of the impeiialists was
decisive, and the rout of the Bland-
silver faction was complete. That
is genuine latter day Democracy—
whatever happens to be the "hur
rah" for the time being has the right-
of-way, as a more likely policy to
catch the average voter, while re-
form questions will take a back seat
—except where the Populism is dan
gerously strong.
With a well-filled pocketbook and
paunch a Kansas City pulpit pound-
er named Brown preached Sunday
evening on the beauties of "imperi-
alism." How naturally it comes to
the Godless element of this be-han-
d'ed class .' In the Old World it is
the strong arm of imperialsm, and
it is the first to welcome it to the
land of Lexington and Yorktown—
of Washington, Jefferson and Lin-
coln. These social mercenaries and
enemies of the people should be
kicked to Russia, where they could
slobber over a real euiperor to their
heart's delight; they have no busi
ness on this side of the world.
The Palestine exploration society,
after twenty years of investigation,
announces that the church of the
Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem stands
over the exact spot where Christ
was crucified.
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Good, sound.v
COMMON
SENSE...
Will tell you the time has come when Summer Goods
.... must be got rid of quicky, if at all. We have
.... made prices to sell the goods before the season
.... wanes, and if we could reach every lady in Cleve-
.... land county, and show her the values we give,
there wouldn't be a piece of summer goods sold
.... elsewhere in town.
Standard prints, per yd 4<:
25, 35c straw hats 15c
125c slippers 85c
150c slippers 1.25
200c slippers 1.5Q
250c slippers 2.00
Wash goods, 33 1-3 per cent off regul.tr price.
GRAND LEADER.
□nrrnrn
Alva Pioneer (Pop., but late Dem):
"J. R. Keaton wants to go to con-
gress, and he should not get a sin-
gle vote from any Democrat or any
other man in the Strip. Keaton was
back of the infamous proceeding to
enjoin the building of the north-
western normal at Alva, but getting
scared, unloaded the thing on Hor-
ace Speed."
* • | L—-J TURK & CO
The Democrat-Topic likes to re-
print from the Wichita Eagle, but
fearing it might overlook the follow-
ing item in Thursday's paper we'll
reprint it ourself: "Judge Keaton ■
SMITH & WILLIAMS,
found a big factional row on among THE REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE MEN,
the fusiomsts and he got out of town Abstracters and Conveyancers,
■IS q ink as lit ( ould |i«rllave the best set of Aostract Books in the county, make deeds, morl
Well, the war seems to be over;
we have destroyed most of the
Spanish navy; have sent some 2,000
Spaniards to h— or h—, by process
thorouchly "legal" and up to date,
at a cash cost of about $7,000 per
victim; have appropriated Spain's
most valuable possessions at the
close of a "war for humanity," be
gun by us with the solemn assurance
to all the world that we were not
after territory , and have added
several hundred millions to our na-
ional debt, permanently increased
the volume of our taxes, vastly add-
ed to our military establishment, and
almost obliterated interest in reform
work for the advancement of the
common people of our own country.
There has been "glory" for Teddy,
Dewey, Sampson, Hobson, Bob Ev-
ans et al.,—but has it, as a matter
of fact, PAID THE NATION ?
gages, and all kinds of legal papers, in proper form. Money to loan ai
Front room* over Norman Mate Dunn
Norman, Okln.
low rate. Notary public in office.
of war, says the Chicago Journal.
The new peril took form at Long
Island beach, where some hotel
guests presented him with a sword.
Before the whole assemblage a St.
presto, change! the colonel bobs u„ , , T aSSen,'"a«e a bt'
smiling in the Democratic camp, ! X rT
Jeffersonian Democrat, any ^1 " >OU?
thing, a yaller dog Democrat when 1 „ ' *, , 3 P°°r her° d°?
it came to choose between a bad I P .then b'UShed' and'
Democrat and a good Republican, i J"?.'TTh '"s for,l"lde> co«-
In two brief years the *9oo job1T, '' She.w" ■«>"">• girl and
played out, and the colonel, after ! £ "' h'm " ""*Ule. l° retreat-
bravely hoping for more good luck, i ,u .1 f . ■ ' roann& "-inch
began ,0 fret, finally to yearn for' ° a k,S8> but on'y a little ,-
his old sweet'art, the love of his C" ' ra^'d fire ,h' f >et
youth, and now, sobbing his repent-1 J r X ^ S° g°°d U'at " hit
ance, he is at peace. A fattedc,11,! he,."eUte,,ant below the pro-
Oh, perhaps.-Kansas City Star. | T'T. .tnU,tache' exploded and
| shook him in every plate and tim-
A correspondent of the Noncon- !;7' S?n say hl; cauSht ure in-
,.n u .1 «onc°n ; side and blazed furiously auj .had
foroitsi tells how the recent fusion to beat 4 port in distress.
E. M. Clark, of the Perry Demo-
crat-Patriot, an alleged Populist, was
one of the most offensively active
of the fusion heelers at the Oklaho-
ma City convention. Since then the
"union forces" of his county (Noble)
had a j'int convention, and every
nominee likely to furnish any coun-
ty patronage to a Pop. printer was
given to the Democrats. Knockout
1 on Clark. The Pops were allow
ed member of lower house of the
legislature, and Clark set his heart
on that job—but another man got
it. Knockout 2 on Clsrk. Then as
a fitting climax to the grand display,
the Democrats went back on the
Pop. nominee for legislature and put
up a candidate of their own. On
with the dance !
After a short time peeping through
the keyhole Deacon Niblack an-
nounces that the State Register is
At an elementary examination in
English in a school near New York
these sentences were given for cor-
rection: "The hen has three legs."
'•Who done it?" One bright young-
ster, thinking they were one sen-
tence, straightened the statement
paid £200 by the Republicans for out thus: "The hen didn't done it.
standing by Popnlisni instead of the ' God done it."
A while back a prominent Texas
Democrat was conversing on a street
of Brenham, with a fellow Demo-
crat, (who is also a confederate vet-
eran, and was an old friend and ad-
mirer of the party of the first part.)
Across the street was a laundry, and
in the course of the conversation
the p. D. remarked, "It is not free
silver that the people need to make
them prosperous, but it is harder
work and closer attention to busi-
ness. They ought to wear their old
clothes longer. I have been watch-
ing that Chinaman over yonder
since we've been talking, and he
hasn't lost a moment. How much
do you suppose he has made ? I'll
bet that he isn't bothering his head
about free silver. If our farmers
would work like he is doing we
wouldn't hear so much about hard
times." 'The true yum yum of the
above can only be appreciated when
it is understood that the aforesaid
p. D. is the candidate of the Re-
generated Etcetera for governor of
his state, and that "the Sound mon-
ey Democrats are supporting him,
to a man."
The Spaniards .
* have retreated!
And so have our competitors ; but still you can
hear the artillery of the Famous Grocery thunder-
•n8 against the walls of high prices, at any time
you put your ear to the ground. The Famous is
loaded to the water line with the Best Line of
Groceries carried in Norman by any grocery
firm, and they don't ask any more for their goods
than other grocers ask for goods ot inferior quality.
.'. Give us a trial and be convinced
Famous Grocery Co,,
Norman, Okla
SAY? Did You Know that
A. O. McGILL, "DOC."
Is running one of the best
M 15 a T M A H K li T
IIST T HE CITY <?
To be convinced of this fact, ynu have; lut
to rttep into his market and purchase some ot
nieaiM. \ iiu will finil hia place of business jusl
East of the old Post Office Building.
EAST MA FN STFtEBT, - - . NORMAN. OKLAHOMA
Bronko Pete—Did yer lynch that
boss thief ye caught over to Red
Dog? Aklkali Ike --- Nope. The
durn sneak had done got out an in
junction forbiddin' it before he i
done stole the hoss.—Ex.
COUNTY COMMIT!
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•I M 8tOW 10 1W
OH Nye . |() 2w
ti W Leveiich 10 3w
J A VjimU'ifont . KHw
John Alls 9-ie
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A I) Hickok !> 3w
l)avl<l iit-ihlor-HMi .h 10
T.I McClain . 8 Iw
.1 W SI 111 MMI H2w
T li Wilson . 7 lo
K Duffy . 7 |\v
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