The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1901 Page: 1 of 10
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The Chandler News.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY.-H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
TENTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1901.
NUMBER 18.
By Passing a Good Roads Law the Legislature Can Immortalize Itself
WE spoke last week of the possibilities
which were in store for Oklahoma dur-
ing the coming year and tried to emphasize
the importance of the people of Chandler and
Lincoln county placing
themselves in a position to
get their share of whatever
there is to be had. This is
really a very important matter. There is no
section of Oklahoma which has a stronger
lahoma City, whose statehood ideas are cut' claim to recognition along all industrial lines
ANOTHER statehood convention has been
called. It is to meet in Guthrie on the
30th of January. We do not know whether
J urlge Burford has passed on the matter or
not. and so at this lime it is
SEPARATE impossible to say whether it
STATEHOOD . . . 1 « .
CONVENTION. isan"illegi imateoffsprmg
or whether it had an "au
thorized creation." We note, however, that
the call was issued by Sidney Clarke, of Ok-
G00D TIME
TO
WAKE UP.
by the same pattern as those of the chief
justice, and that it is to be a convention only
of those who "are in favor of the immediate
admission of the territory into the Union as
than Lincoln county has. Crop statistics
and government reports will verify this.
The county has more people to the square
mile than has any other county in Oklahoma,
state,"and so we do not suppose that the •,and yet the largest town in the county has
chief justice will consider this convention
"an abortion" or will try to overrule its pro-
ceedings. We are glad that the separate
statehood boomers have decided to hold a
separate statehood convention. It would
have been better if they had been frank
enough to call it what it is, but the fact that
it is under the guardian care of Sidney
Clarke will make it cl&ir that no one is ex-
pected to participate or to be heard in the
convention unless he believes in the Clarke-
not much over 2,000 population; while in
other counties with a much smaller popula-
tion and producing much less of the valu-
able crops are towns of two or three times
the population of Chandler. This fact makes
it very clear that much of the trade in this
county goes to towns in other counties and
helps to build ihem up and to increase their
wealth and taxable valuation This is not as
it should be. The county seat of a county
with a population of over 27,000 should be a
Havens remedy for the quick relief of polit- jtown of from 5,001) to 10,000, and that would
ical yearnings. These opponents of ex pan- j undoubtedly be the case if the trade of the
sion in statehood matters indulged inconsid- county were kept at home. This, then, is a
erable abuse of those who issued the call'problem that should engage the attention of
for the South McAlester convention be-!all our people. If anybody is afraid that
cause the invitation to attend was extended J Chandler will become too big a town he might
only to those who believe in a big state. It! well work for a continuous of the present
is interesting, therefore, to note that 'hey j system of ignoring the various means of ex-
are sufficiently worried over the interest]tending and increasing our trade. If, how-
shown in the South iVlcAlester convention
to think it best to exclude the friends of
single statehood from their conventit >n. By
this method and by calling the convention to
be held in Guthrie while the legislature is in
session and where the politicians are in the
ever, one wants to see Chandler grow in pop-
ulation and wealth and in volume of business
and in her friendly relations with the people
of the county, he would do well to organize
himself into a wake-up committee and labor
for a change. This trade-expansion busi-
majority they hope to eliminate all opposi- Iness and the things that go with it, such as
tion to their pet scheme for the immediate
creation of senatorships Perhaps they will
succeed in securing a r< - idoption of Mr.
Clarke's stereotyped resolutions, and doubt-
less Mr. Havens will get to make his speech
explaining how much better a small state is
than a large one. All the would-be senators
good roads and good markets for what the
farmers have to sell, are of the first im
portance to Chandler. Then there are other-
things. Two or three railroads are pro-
jected which are likely to build through this
county during the coming year. If we
don't want them to come to Chandler all we
and governors and judges and congressmen | have to do is to keep still and go ahead just
will probably be there, and the air will vi- as we are doing and they will probably leave
brate with eloquent speeches in favor of im-
mediate otticehood. But will it cut any ice?
Not a great deal, even though the weather
be chilly. Congress has read Sid Clarke's
resolutions several times and has made up
its mind long ago to do as it pleases about
statehood. The members of congress are
nearly all politicians and they know the ways
of politicians. In the meantime the only at
tention they are giving statehood is as to the
best time and manner of bringing about
single statehood. But the holding of state-
hood conventions is a harmless pastime.
us alone. But if we want them we should
hustle with a big "H." The Ft. Smith &
Western, the Santa Fe extension south from
Ripley, and the Frisco extension from Enid
are all possibilities if we will go after them
hard enough. We ought to be on the look
out formanufacturingenterprises. Chandler
might just as well catch some of those that
are in the air as not We need a good,
first-class hotel and an opera house. We
ought to study about incorporating as a city
of the first-class. Isn't it time for us to
begin?
WE have received a copy of the report of
the governor of Oklahoma for the year
ending June 30, 1900. It is certainly the
most exhaustive and ably-prepared compen-
dium of information con-
THE
GOVERNOR'S cerninf? the territory that
REPORT. 'ias ever been issued. It
contains 120 pages, exclus-
ive of thirty full-page half-tone engravings,
and gives information on every phase of
Oklahoma life and upon all of her varied re-
sources and industries. It is one of the
best advertisements for Oklahoma that could
be issued, a,nd every citizen who wishes to
give to his friends in the East the right sort
of information concerning the territory
should have copies of this report sent to
them. The story of the growth and develop-
ment of the territory and of the territorial
institutions which is told in this report will
surprise and interest not only the people
who live in the "states," but our own people
also. Oklahomans have been so busy during
the past few years that they have paid little
attention to what has been accomplished in
parts of the territory other than their own,
and while, they are all confident that Okla-
homa has broken all former records in the
matter of development along social, educa-
tional and industrial lines, they do not know
how far this territory is ahead of the con-
ditions in the older states when they were
no older than Oklahoma, nor how superior
are the advantages which Oklahoma offers
to those in most of the states at the present
time. We have in Oklahoma no board of ag-
riculture or other agency to collect and pub-
lish the important statistics in regard to the
material resources of the territory, and so
the statistical features of the governor's re-
port are especially valuable. The news-
paper man finds it an invaluable book of
reference, and there otight to be a copy of
the report, with its maps and illustrations,
in every school room in Oklahoma, so that
the school children might become familiar
with the history, resources, geography, and
other facts concerning the "Land of the Fair
God." One of the interesting conclusions
which one must draw from a careful reading
of this report is that Oklahoma's develop-
ment has not been seriously retarded by the
delay in statehood, notwithstanding the
arguments which politicians have advanced
for the purpose of showing that our real
prosperity would begin only with the end of
the territorial government Oklahoma has
the soil, the climate, the rainfall, the seasons,
and other natural resources: she has people
who are energetic, intelligent, enterprising,
and law abiding. With this rich endowment
her development cannot be retarded, even
though the tardy arrival of statehood may
be a disappointment to politicians. The
business interests are not so impatient.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1901, newspaper, January 17, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117238/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.