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Okla. Hist, Sooiaty
The Chandler News
THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
NINTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1900.
NUMBER 87
Free Homes Will Double the Valuation of Lincoln County Next Year
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>1 FREE HOMES-THE MAN AND THE MEASURE I:
Reprinted from the Wichita Eagle {)
We subscribe to the tenet that
for every measure in this world
there is a man above all other
men identical with that measure,
who imparts to a cause the stamp
of his personality.
We believe that without Dennis
Flynn free homes would not
have been a possibility. We
believe that if Dennis, Flynn had
been ten' years younger,''free
homes would have failed; that if
he had been ten years older it-
would have failed; that had his
personality differed one iota from
what it is, with all his graces and
his faults, it would have failed.
We believe that if Dennis Flynn
"had been by the slightest shade
engaged would have lost their
interest in him. Hut the' men
who felt a kindly interest in the
member from Oklahoma, who
liked not Mr. Flynn or Delegate
Flynn, but -'Dennis" Flynn,
never heard but one desire from
his lips, "I want free homes."
Few men in congress which is a
net work of obligations and re-
turn favors, can or do refuse a
single request. So it. happened
that scores of congressmen, who
were for free homes, would never
have been for it had they not
been asked by a man named
Dennis Flynn, without a vote,
from the wild and wooly west, a
good fellow and a rustler in their
and Wichita. The man who
breathed the breath of life into
that measure who grew up with
it, nursed it with undivided
maternal solicitude, who made
its life his life, was Dennis Flynn.
Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
today are thirty years in advance
of where they would be if free
homes were dead.
Oklahoma will never again re-
ceive so important a beneficence
I from the government, and what;
ever his future political rewards,
the greatest work the little Irish-
man can ever accomplish stands
now accomplished.—Wichita
Ea^le.
which is due our delegate for his
tireless efforts in behalf of the
homesteaders. We reprint some
of the tributes to Flynn which
we have noticed in our territorial
different from Dennis BMynn, | behalf as well as'his own. He
free homes would have failed* belonged in the house, of course,
In other words, his personal-
ity, his age, manner and faculty,
his environment gave life to a
free homes measure, and made
free homes Flynn's bill.
Why? Seven or eight years
ago this young man went
to Washington. He had youth
and inexperience, and almost
total inability, thank heaven, to
deliver an oration, no surplus of
official dignity, and not enough
parliamentary knowledge to wad
a shot gun. But lie had in place
of all these omissions one idea.
The government paid the Indians
for ihe.bulk of land of Oklahoma;
the settlers, under the law, were
to pa.v back to the that motley, to
the amount of $l.">,0O0,rt00 or so.
Oklahoma was an infant trying
but he was just as active in the
senate a*s in the house, and more
active in the departments than
in either branch of congress.
He came within an ace of pass-
ing several year ago. The peo-
ple of Oklanoma defeated . him.
His successor did nothing. That
man, Callahan, was no more
identical with free homes than
he was identical with the Monroe
Doctrine. One day the perma
nent element in congress, the
men who are elected and re-
elected for years, saw Dennis
Flynn in their midst again, lively
and friendly as ever. They
listened for his request. It was
still free homes. The idea of
free homes then took
strong and beautiful
to crawl, and the pay ment of t his sentiment. Here was
sum of money was ;i tif'teen-ton
cannon ball chained to its baby
ankle. Flynn decided to tile that
chain. On that he centered his
thoughts, his efforts, for that he
sacrificed everything. For that
he studied the whims and
crochets, the ' ambitions and
•personal wishes of every leader.
He worked for them. He listen-
ed to them in humility. He took
their advice with admiration for
their wisdom. And he never
asked anything in return but
their support for free homes.
The great bulk of them at first
told him they were for ft, because
they wanted to please him, be-
cause he was young and inex-
perienced, because he was not
self important, because he was
from the wild and wooly west
and without ti vote. If Flynn
had labored under the impres
Ision that he was a statesman this
would not have I een possible.
If he had had more than one
idea, the men wlnjse interest he
on t he
coat of
a new
country full .of pioneers, asking!
not help but felief from a positive!
and serious impediment. Here j
was the pioneers' son again!
pleading for this, and nothing
else.' The men in congress who
had been for free homes before
because Flynn was a good fellow,
came to be for it because it was
right; because for the most part
unconsciously "the little delegate
from Oklahoma had imparted;
to them the fervor of his cause, 1
because his persistency and his
fidelity to the single idea in-
fected them. Other strong advo-
cates of the bill sprang up In
the coming campaign in Okla '
homa, if Flynn cares to run !
again, his opposition will claim ;
that these advocates, and not
Flynn, were responsible for free
homes. They must have a
defense. Let theiy have. this.
It i^ harmless, being untrue.
The chief beneficiary of the
free homes measure is Oklahoma,
its neighbor southern Kansas
Flynn Deserves the Credit.
The following article, taken
from tlie Butte Gazette, pub-
lished at Butte, Boyd county,
Nebraska, shows how the people
on the homesteads up there feel
toward Dennis Flynn and also
gives their views as to where the
credit for the passage of the
free homes bill belongs:
"After a fight of over eight years
the free homes bill lias passed both
houses of congress and now only
awaits the signature* of President
McKiniey to become a law. That he
will sign it, no one doubts, as it is
a just measure and right in line with
the free homes plank of the national
republican platform.
To Congressman Dennis Flynn, of
Oklahoma is due the credit for its
passage, while Gamble, of South
Dakota, was an able assistant.
During all these years the Big Sixth
has b en represented by nonentities,
who not only were of no assistance
Tint were a positive detriment to the
men working for the measure. Kem
( populist) opposed free homes on the
ground that it was "class legislation,"
and we published a letter from him to
N. H Heed in February, 18!t.'i. Green
(populist) paid no attention to the
matter and completely ignored the
monster petition sent him from this
county asking for free homes. Neville
( populist I has never been mentioned
in connection with the bill, although
he told the settlers of Boyd county,
with tears str. aining down his face,
that it would be the one measure he
would move'heaven, earth and several
big planets to have passed. It now
develops that he was busy swiping the
salary of the late ('ongressman Greene,
that should have gone to Greene's
widow, and had no time to look after
the interests of Boyd county bonie-
st aders.
Such is the brief history of th(5
misrepresentatives we have l>ad in
congress, and it should be a warning
in ihe future. But the bill.has passed,
the homesteaders of this county will
tie ahead over MOO.(X)f), and we are all
hilariously happy, and every man will
doff his tile to Dennis Flynn, of Okla-
homa
Spoken in Praise of Flynn.
At tlii.s time, when there is a
disposition on the part of some
politicians to deprive Flynn of
the credit for the enactment of
the free, homes bill into law, it is
it satisfaction to note that the
majority of the people of Oklaho-
ma *are loo .broad minded and
generous to withhold the,praise
exchanges.
We are pleased to note that the
newspapers all >ver the country*
regardless of of politics, are giving
Flynn just praise for his noble efforts
in behalf of the most deserving people
of this country—the homesteaders.
The Enid Wave, the most ably edited
democratic paper iti the territory,
says: ' The hearts of the people of
Oklahoma are overflowing with grati-
tude towards Dennis Flynn today.
He is justly entitled to anything he
desires in the gift of his people. The
best position in public life the people
of Oklahoma have-to bestow is the
oftice he now holds and the Wave is
willing to make his nomination and
election for delegate to congress, this
fall, unanimous.*—Tecumseh Republi-
can.
The following resolution was intro-
duced by Mrs. Douglas at the King-
fisher meeting of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, and adopted without
a dissenting vote:
"Resolved that thanks and the con-
gratulations of the Federation -of
Women's Clubs of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory are hereby extended
to Hon. Dennis T. Flynn for his brave
and successful efforts of securing' the
passage of the free homes bill through
both houses of congress, and the
blessings of free homes ,o the people
of Oklahoma."
The ministers of tin; Christian
church in Oklahoma, met in conven-
tion at Norman recently and unani-
mously adopted the following reso-
luti(jns.indorsing Delegate Denpis T.
Flynn:
"Whereas, It is to the best inter-
est of every Christian as well as every
other citizen to own his or her' home
and that whereas, the free homes bill
has by the untiring energy and un-
swerving honesty of Dennis Flynn now
now become a law by both houses of
congress, therefore be it.
'•Resolved, That it is the^sense of
this convention of t,h • ■ Christian
church of Oklahoma, in Norman now
in session that Delegate Flynn is
entitled to our hearty congratulations
and thanks for his aide efforts in
securing the passage of the bill and
thus securing the passage of the bill
andthus securing the homesteader his
well-earned hopie in the ('herokie
Strip
In figuring on Mr. Flynn's probable
vote in the territory this fall, they
figure sure that be will carry every
county except Cleveland, Pottawat-
omie and Greer. And why should
Cleveland be exceptedV Mr." Flynn
carried it by ~:i majority in IM'.is, and
we know of no reason why he should
not do so in liHHi Our people art! not
ungrateful, and it is The Transcript's
opinion that they will piove this
assertion at the coming election. In
addition, t.h<y know >luit then' are
many measures of much moment to
Oklahoma and Oklahomans that will
come up in congress very hoi n
and that Mr. Flynn's pretence in
congress is absolutely necessary to
secure them: or, at least, that ito one
ehse can do the work as he can. We
believe Cleveland county is all i ight.
Norman Transcript.
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