The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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parchment or wrtfc pen:
Before the la* made citueua. the moral
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^ it fail* thoat rights to Kiva.
Thau let law die my brother. but let bu-
Diau baiuir* live.
f ite peoples
"Our Republic can only exist
s<> Long as its citizens respect
andobey their self iiniHwed laws."
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VOL. 5.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. )UU 31^
i«ot
NO 1
republican convention.
The Republican county conven-
tion met in the opera house in Nor-
man, Wednesday forenoon, and or-
ganized with the usual temporary
officers, and after appointment of
committees adjourned till 2 p. m.
Upon reassembling of convention
in the afternoon, the committee on
credentials reporteil list of delegates
selected—several townships being
unrepresented.
Committee on permanent organ-
ization reported, c. H. Harington
for chairman, E. F. Sliinn secretary,
and B. A. Reudy assistant secretary.
Committee on order of business
recommended rules of H. of K. for
government of convention, and that
candidates be nominated as given
hereafter.
Committee on resolutions returned
a string of resolves as long as your
arm—praising the g. o. p. with great
fervor for everything it has ever
done or failed to do; incidentally
mentions Flynn and the homestead
law, which Flynn inferentially in-
vented; says something about pro-
tection; with great earnestntss en-
dorses Flynn, the man "without a
parallel in congress;" vigorously
upholds reciprocity (free trade); as-
serts that F'lynn passed twenty bills
through the House, (but considerate-
ly refrains from naming a few of
them); vows eternal loyalty to "bi-
metallism," of the Frank Greer spe
cies; calling on everybody—even
Pops—to help Flynn; declare a Re-
publican congress's voting for gulf
harbors is responsible for the pres i
ent freight rate war between the
railroads; insists that Flynn and his
free homes-for office idee must be
supported, or free homes will be lost
forever and forever; and closes de-
nouncing the wicked and awful ex-
travagance and incompetency of the
Populist administration of Cleve-
land county. Some of the resolu-
tions, especially the Flynn ones,
were vociferously applauded, but
most of them were received in si-
lence; the last one was merely
laughed at, as a pretty good joke.
Nominations followed.
Chas. P. Gorton's name was pre-
sented for sheriff. There being
some curiosity to see him, a cry
arose for "Gorton ! Gorton !"
Whereupon he went forward, and to
the consternation of the convention
proceeded to deliver a speech of ac-
ceptance of the nomination—which
he had not yet received. In fact,
the nominations had not yet been
closed. This so rattled the con
vention that they proceeded to
nominate treasurer, when some-
one recovered himself enough to
observe that no sheriff nomination
had yet been made. Then they sus-
pended the rules and nominated
Gorton by acclamation—leaving no
chance for other nominations 'i hen
they suspended the rules some more.
Then lliey concluded the rules did-
n't need suspending. By this time
the chairman probably wished he
had stayed at home.
For treasurer, Win. Thomas, R.
E. Leach and B. F. Williams were
proposed, Mr. Thomas being nom-
inated on first ballot.
For county attorney, E. E. Hen-
nessey and C. L. Botsford were
placed in nomination. Hillyflynn
Walker championed Hennessey, and
it was only owing to the deplorable
fact of the English language not
having words to do the emergency
justice that hindered him from giv-
ing his ward a send off that would
go thundering down the ages.
Before the ballot was announced
Walker tried to cut Botsford out
with a suspension of-lhe rules gag,
and nominate Hennessey by accla-
mation. Some of the delegates who
didn't know much about the rules of
the house of representatives began
to give evidence of thinking this a
queer proceeding, cut-and dried, and
a kick was brewing when Botsford,
in disgust, withdrew his name.
Thereupon Hennessey was selected.
For county superintedent, Charles
Reynolds and D. C. Cowger were
presented. On demand of the irre- stamp is placed i._ called
r.re«<ihle Walker the candidates coin may be meta , p
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them if they ever saw them again
Reynolds was chosen.
For county elerk four names were
offered—Ben Williams, B. A Reudy,
Henry Bromwell, and E. I- Sliinn.
Sliinn and Reudy wanted to with-
draw, but were prevented for a
.time, by a ruling of- Walker's that
they couldn't do it without some-
body else's permission; they finally
succeeded however, when Bromwell
was nominated.
F'or register of deeds, there was
only one name presented—William
Partridge, an amiable-looking young
man whose appearance aroused
more enthusiasm than anybody else
—except Flynn.
For probate judge, there was no
nomination. Botsford could have
had it for the asking, but he hadn't
forgotten the disastrous county at-
torney race, and not knowing what
more might be up Walker s sleeve,
he declined.
The ticket was completed with:
Surveyor, J. C. Clark; coroner, Dr.
W. S. Hamilton; commissioners:
1st dist., Wylie King; 2d dist., U. G.
Kfener.
It was Bill Walker's convention.
It is a very fair ticket—for a Re-
publican ticket.
Chairman Harington doubtless
hopes to do better next time.
It was a respectable body of men
both as to number and appearance.
Asa convention boss, Billy Walk-
er is without a peer in souther^
Oklahoma. The candidate Billy
was "agin" found himself in lots of
trouble.
When Delegate Harris wanted to
know how many of the delegates
were owned by Bill Walker, he put
in words a query many of the ctn
ers were meiually asking.
The resolutions call for "bimetal-
jsm"—and Kennedy is sick; says if
they pretend to to be Republicans
they should stand on the platform
Hanna has provided—the "existing
gold standard." Ollie is right.
The resolution denouncing the
Pop. county administration, was an
afterthought, and was thought to be
a stemwinder, intended to raise
a storm of cheers—and the crowd
only laughed. Fact is, the delegates
knew the county management since
894 has been honest and efficient.
— tiffany's "Constitutional Law,"
page 221, chap. 1 2.
"Whatever the government agrees
to keckive in pajtnent of public
dues, as a medium of circulation,
IS MONEY, NO MATTER WHAT ITS
form may he, treasury notes, drafts
etc. Such bills, or paper, issued un-
der the authority of the government
of the United States, is money.
— Henry Clay.
BENNETT FOR CONGRESS.
Following a graceful editorial
WHAT IS MONEY?
" We repeat, money is not a sub-
stance, but an impression of legal
authority—a printed legal decree."
—Acker-man, (U. S. Attorney Gen-
eral under Grant.)
"The theory of the intrinsic
value of money has been aban
doned by the best writers and
speakers." — Encyclopedia Britan
nica.
" Metallic money, while acting as
coin, is identical with paper money,
tribute to the recent Canadian co.
Populist convention which suggest-
ed E. E. Bennett of that county
for congress, the El Reno Democrat
gives the following sketch of that
gentleman :
" Mr. Bennetf is a New Yorker by
birth, and a Kansan by adoption.
About fifteen years ago he moved
to Washington county, Kansas, and
resided there until he came to
Oklahoma in March, 1894. He
was elected in 1891 register of
deeds of Washington county, Kan
sas, and served one term. He
settled in the C. and A. country on
a claim in March, '94. where he
still resides. He is a Populist, of
course, and has been an advocate
of fiee silver since '78. Many of
our readers from a distance will re-
member him as chairman of the
Populist convention of '94 at 'his
place which nominated Ralph Beau-
mont. Mr. Bennett is a farmer, a
man of character and good ability
and our judgment, taking all things
into consideration, the strongest
man the Populists have.
" Of course no one is authorized
to speak for the Democracy, but it
is o.ir opinion, based on interviews
with prominent Democrats, that if
Bennett is the Populist nominee at
Guthrie, the Democrats will put out
no candidate, and vote for Bennett.
We are satisfied in our own mind
that the rank and file of the Democ-
racy, knowing that we eannot elect
a candidate of our own, are in fa-
vor of this plan and will carry it
out, if permitted to do so by the
politicians.
" Bennett is not only a free home
man from principle, but lives in a
section of the territory directly in-
terested in free homes. He is a
homesteader, with the mortgage
which the government holds on ev-
ery claim in this territory, except in
old Oklahoma, hanging over his
head, to make him mindful of his
duty to free homes, if elected."
The New York Ptess has found
out all about it, and prints it :
"THE Hdlio CABINET."
Secretary of state, John P. Altgeid
Secretary of the treasury, Rich-
ard P. Bland.
Secretary of war, J. S. Coxev.
Secretary of the interior, Jerry
Simpson.
Secretary of the navy, B. R
Tillman.
Postmaster General, Tom John-
son.
Attorney General, Win. A. l'effer.
Secretary of agriculture, George
Fred Williams.
Comptroller of the currency, W.
H. ("Coin") Haivey.
Well, now, seriously, that isn't a
vev bad selection. Altgeld, Bland,
Simpson, Tom Johnson, Peffer am
Harvey, are first-class, for the posi-
tions suggested, and the others
named could not be worse than the
present officials, if they tried. What
the executive department needs is
more brains and less belly and blue
blood.
The last sentence of the Repub-I JOHN A. LOG AN ON SHKUM ANHW
lican financial plank given below is
as Hanna at first proposed it, ex-
cept the clause referring to "the ob-
ligations of the United States,"
which was inserted on resolution of
Senator Lodge who acted as confi-
dential agent of the bondholding
syndicate : " All our silver and pa-
" Well," triumphantly retorts the
gold standard free plate editor, "if
more money would double the price
of the farmer's produce it would al
so double the price of what he pur
chased—so he would gain nothing,
after all." Now, wouldn't he? Sup-
pose Farmer Haddock sells $500
worth of produce at gold prices, the
result of a year's work. His neces-
sary purchases and help call for
$350; interest, •$50; taxes, $50; to-
tal expenditures, $450. Balance,
$50. But if prices double all
| around, the aecount will stand this
way: Produce brings #1,000; has
to spend for supplies and help, $700;
for interest, #50; taxes, $50. lota!,
#800. Balance, $200. And the far-
mers see the point !
Extinct from a by John A.
K<'|ail lt«inn -wimtor from llltiml*. In thereuntil,
January Itt. I*;*. >«•«• < «>im regional Ueeord,
volume 2, purl <.lft !
1 cm 11 lien*til only to the mnii**y
holdufb an J (hone who receive interest
and have fixed Income*. I enn sec a* a
;e ull of thl* leglt'ation our bu*ine«l
operalioaa crippled and wajfeaof 1 iht r
reduced to a pill a nee. I can nee Ihn
, ( beautiful prairie* of ray own state and
per currency must be maintained at ihe ^jreat wt>i, which are biootuioir a
a parity with gold, and we favor garden*, with cheerful home* rising
all measures designed to maintain like while lower* along the pnthway
... . .J ,u,. of Improvement, a^alu winking back to
inviolably the obligations or me,
I Idienean. I can bee mortgage fiend* at
United States and all our money. hB(lllh w)irk , oall seB lhe
whether coin or paper, at the pres j ^ tnduntrioun farmer# blaaied
ent gold standard." In speaking of burn corn for fuel, beeau.o lis
this, the London Times said: "If price will noi pay th«t com of iraDH|air-
the news that Mr. Hanna has ac ullon and dtvMemU of million* of ac-
cepted Senator Lodge's resolution j of BotHlou. railway ^nd
.. . , bonds. lean aee our people of the
is true, the battle for gold has been ^ burdelied under
won and a great victory achieved. ,HXHtj0„ i() pay dehu of stale*, eottntle*
Hnd cltlea, Incurred when money was
c.oldbugs want gold for a "meas- I nbundam and hrlirht hopen of the fu-
ure of value," because, they say, it | ture were held out to lead them on. I
has an unvarying value in itself, j can see lhe people of our western slates,
This "argument" is dealt a cruel who are producers, reduced to thecon-
... . Oil ion of Hcrfa, to pay interest on pub-
blow by Prescott, the historian, who
blow by Prescott, the historian, wno | (u a| (i ^ ^ ^ |uonev
states, (Conquest of Peru, page 4S 4 1 ah|ll.|(H „[ vVhII street, New York, and
that when l'izarro came to divide ' ()[ •ptareadneedle street, London, E.itd-
among his followers the precious |HMd. And this will he accomplished
spoils stolen from the Indians, it by withdrawing the treasury notes
was found that the quantity of gold from circulation and
, ... until the hanks can control lhe enure
was so great that it exchanged foi ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ lhe
commodities at these prices j ,|e()p|e to U8e personal checks ln lieu
A bottle of wine S 700.20 „f money checks passing through the
A.sword 466.80 elearlrn houses, which the hanks will
A clock 1,160.00 1 establish in all the larger cities, to eii-
A pair of shoes 35° '° I able them to make a fictitious showing
\ horse J9>'75-°° jot prosperity and fool the people with
«.•« the Brent volume of business, which
The losses suffered by this coun- ! they will cause to be published in lhe
try from financial maladministration 1 daily and weekly newspapers. Hut re-
11 nf the ' member, check# are not money,
is appaling. Here are a few or me
items:
I lie Scientific American.
The 60.h anniversary number of the
<, * lii*t v< iu\ on farm products«*x-
ported (i'roiii IH73 prlean; # MO,Wl,QOO
Hi-nil • tif I rates, abuve cmimI ot
,,i,„ two,000,0110 --- - ,
inieiUt ..a public uiiil prUutu In- Scientific American, Now \ork, just
lelaeUNMM out, is a really and valuable
Aniel'lcaus ulm.H'1
The Chicago convention came
and went, without attracting partic-
ular attention from the London pa-
pers, for they did not regard it as
seriously threatening the safety of
McKinley and goldlrugismi, but the
Populist convention has put a dif
ferent face on matters, and the Lon-
don press is thoroughly alarmed
Monday's Globe says: "lhe vic-
tory of Bryan could not fail to pro-
duce a financial convulsion which
might shake the old world to its
foundations." The Daily News
says: "If the people [?] imagined
that free coinage was really coming,
there would be a panic, and the
chief sufferers would be the Amer-
icans. It is also pointed out that
the supreme court stands between
investors and unconstiiutional laws. '
publication of 72 pages. It reviews th
Partial lo*s, last year .. 3,067,S81,000 progress of the past 50 years In the
Now add to these three billions various sciences and industrial art.;
r, f tliM trusts und llie various articles by the be#t
the excessive profits of the trusts, w|.U(J|.s „[ the day are racily
moneylenders, national hanks, in- j wriU(jn and richly illustrated. The
surance, city corporate monopolies, e(jjlorH |lave accomplished the difficult
etc., and imagine the enormous bur- 1 t!)!lk 0( presenting a compendium of in-
den resting on the wealth prodtic-j formation that shall lie at once historl-
i nav it all I cal, technical and popular. The inter-
ers, who, finally, pay " all. , ^ ^ fop a ln(Mnenl) „„d the
, oinj, I story of the half century's growth Is in
'Vhat draws our gold away? Siud) ^ ^ ^ voritable compendium of vaiu.i-
the following account of the United j
States with Europe. For U. S.:
Trade lml n
S««t gold und stiver expo
7!S,M8.200 !
B0,O82«SAO ,
| hie scientific information for futu
reference. Price 10 cent# per copy.
Total, lust year .. 134.WW.560
Against the United States:
IntereMt on foreign lin
linlance oeenn trelKlits
Imvelei-Hln Kurc pe
'lhe '•editorials" sent out from
the New York goldbug brains bu-
reau, and reprinted in the Hanna
country papers, are so weak as to
make one tired in reading. One of
these literary abortions restates the
lying old chestnut that greatly in-
creased produc'ion of wheat has
caused its fall in price, and proves'
case by comparing the very
COin, IS lticnucai I"*!"- j- ' ... ,
in respect to being destitue of in- small yield of '72 with the phenotn-
11 t_* -.:..1-lrt# 'n 1 .r*r niilation
trinsic value." — North American
Review.
" An article is determined to be
money by reason of the perform
ance by it of certain functions, with-
out regard to its form or sub
stance."—Appleton's Encyclopedia.
enally big yield of '91—population
not counting, either year ! I here
j is honesty for you, as measured by
the gold standard! We have not
the figures at hand of wheat yield
previous to '85, but from that year
we find the following yield, per cap-
ita, and prices:
When Mr. McKinley went to the
wall, financially, during the '93 pan-
ic, it was Marcus Hanna, Myron 1.
Herrick, Hermann Kohlsaat, and
others of his present political man
agers, who took up his notes and
now hold them. It is also worthy
of note, that of Hanna's recently-
appointed campaign fund commit
tee at Chicago, twenty members are
millionaires, sixteen are worth from
$250,000 to 1,000,000, and the rest,
sixty-three, are worth from Stoo,ooo
to $250*100. It is daily more evi
dent that, as to the Republicans,
this is to be a campaign by and for
the very rich, with McKinley as
their masque before the people.
tSOO^XJO.OOO
7.r ,lM)0,0U0
;n 4.7(H), (M*i
IHO.lflMW
Total, lost year
JlHlunce due und unpaid
How long will it take the gold
jtandard to make us free when, on
our foreign account alone, we are
annually adding 180 millions to our
indebtedness ?
ropulist County Platform.
1'ltKAMItl.K.
We, the .tBleioces of the People s Party ol
Cleveland cuuiit.v, Oklahoma territory, In mmi-
ventlou aesemlileil, coiwralulate I be people ol
mill eoutitv on the Just, ecpiltable anil economic
muuageuietil of county affairs under the l>i'es-
I administration. \W cull attention to the
Improvement 111 the tlnuncliil condition and
xedit ol' tlte couaty, under Populist manage-
it, anil elialleaxc Hie Diuaocraile party to
a strict, Impartial and llioroiiijli liivesllgatlon
(I (iiHcie* ion of the record* made.
Oil, it'll drive all the gold out of
the country," wails the goldbug
croaker, referring to 16 to 1 coin-
age. He said the same thing in the
same words when the Bland-Allison
bill was before congress, in '78. In-
stead of that law driving gold out
of the country, the treasury gold re-
serve increased from 5119,000,000
in '79 to $190,000,000 in 90, when
the Bland law was superseded by
the Sherman 111 ake-sliift. It is to be
hoped these "honest money" gentle
men will cease lying sometime.
KHSOl.t'TIONS.
l, flint we reiterate
1 the principle
Money is a value created by
law: its basis is legal, and not mate-
rial It is, perhaps, not easy to con-
vince anyone that the value of ine
tallic money is created by law. It
is however, the fact. It makes no
difference of what material money
is composed, whether it is costly or
otherwise ; the law of legal tender
^ives value to money, and that val-
ue increases or diminishes in pro-
portion as the volum
less—Cernuschi.
1S85 .
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
lieln per capita. Prices.
6.35 740 to 92c
air iiiidrviutmtf
there nee lo the principle, of the People's
party as set forth In lite Omaha platform, and
believe that thenatonal convention tonssemble
in m. Louis, July 22d, should a. to the ba-
sic prlnctp.es of said platform: and we lurther
believe that no pro-peel of any temporary
I,arts success should cause our delegatus to
,„id convention lo saciitlce or abandon those
favor the .ubstltlltton ot the
foxcy Non-Interest-bear lag bond bill in our
national platform as better, and In lieu of, the
.ubtreasun plank.-We also favor the Initia-
tive and lli fereadilin method of legislation, a.
a part of our national platform.
involved, lliat our county official* l «' re-
quired to Join in a petition to the next legisla-
ture to reduce the salaries of county otll-iaia,
believing the same to be too high compared
with the present low prices ol labor and Its
'"loSve.l, That our legislators he required to
♦♦ •• t In Ilielr power lo sut ure Hie
" Money is the sovereign author-
ity impressed on that which is capa J
..8.oo 70c to 85c
... 7.00 66c to 95c
...6.85 72c
...8 00 75c to 1 08
.. .6.50 74c to 1.08
.. .9.60 85c to 1.16
...7.90 69c to 92c
..,6.00 54c to 88c
As you will perceive, Mr, Quill,
I nolwitstanding that the yield was
j nearly the same in '93 as in 85 the
I price fell about 30 per cent. What
is greater or al)out "overproduction?" And al-
though the yield in '91 was 50 per
cent greater than in '93, the price
in the latter year was 11 to 28 cents
ble of taking and retaining the im- j less per bushel than in '91. But the
[ pression. That upon which the the gold dollar got bigger every ay.
Saturday a Kentucky man who
had one of those mortgages payable
in gold to meet, in Chicago, was 111
111 that city vith $ 1,000 (amount of
mortgage) in greenbacks, trying to
get the gold, but the banks would
not let him have a dollar, although
the banks had many millions of
gold in their vaults at the time.
13y this time the Kentuckian prob-
ably has an opinion of his own about
the specie basis, coin redemption
humbug. Practically all the gol^
alleged to be in circulation, is being
hoarded by the banks, for handy
"object lesson" use in this cam-
paign, against silver.
The first state election this year
will be in Alabama, on August 3d,
the contest being between the Popu-
lists and Democrats.
lad uieilt
elglier in
H«*olved,
That
for a public
in the territory,
denounce lhe .nippMiie
•lliiig "lu<' tllt" l,,w
mire in relatioi to
I 'li-trlct clerk Tees In territorial cast**.
i iteMived. That we heartily endorse the ..«•
Why don't you fellows give proof ,^notour ...i«.iimeis m then m-
The raisers of sugar beets^ ii
Nebraska 'won't do a tiling to Bry
an He voted to take away their j cm,ri ot the territory tor
bounty, thus killing the industry in
that state.—Shawnee Quill
for your assertions, for a variation ?
How would these figures suit you?
veat Itfatlon of lhe r<*c
flcials of this county.
Unsolved; That
riOW WUUIU -O"- - | UP"""-
Beet sugar production in U. S. 0>!- j
most all of it in Nebraska,) pounds : 1 l!1.ty lu territory.
.t the ex county «d-
iiiileinn tin* action of
i, last year,
of till prop-
1892 .
1893.
1894
. 12,004,83s j
.27,083,355
Sir Robert Fowler, M. P., and ex-
lord-mayor of London, said: "lhe
effect of the depreciation of silver
, Member* of County
45>i9i>29^) 1 in 1
mow—1 K."Mlte'bell
10-1 W—II. •' •
„ t e—A. William^
V:' A.IMI ' Yi" ...
Jl" «_P. Mcl'
Central Committee.
\U
N<i
•: 1
,1.' \\ wtlliama
must finally be the ruin of the wheat « j " ai.Vv. ah
and cotton industries of America
and the development of India as the j
chief wheat and cotton exporter of 1
the world." India is one of Lng-i
Norman
Norman
Linden
II till
land's tributaries,
publican party.
So is
the Re-
_jK blIiUer
, , —«' I nnvl;'"1 n,,:ji«
HSW—.11. It. Mcadol Uxlii 'ton
w-t:,i,U\V«oril Ktawah
7 1 1—.1. Altopt Hurfclicail
e-c 1—I. Lexington
Hi«o^.ra^onM«, 6khi.
,Vohil's1Anan,Terl'it.,r!aic...umltt«;u.an.
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