The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1901 Page: 1 of 10
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The Appointment of Jenkins and Defeat of Barnes Will Suk Lincol ^ounty
The Chandler Ne^s.
TENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN C0UNTY.--H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1901.
NUMBER 81.
Chandler Will Make No Mistake in Electing the Entire Republican Ticket
ON MONDAY of this week President Me-
Kinley announced his determination to
appoint William M. Jeukins as governor of
Oklahoma to succeed Cassius M. Barnes.
This announcement was not
HURRAH ^ surprise to most of the
F0R people of the territory, for
JENKINS. it had been pretty well un-
derstood, for some time that Mr. Barnes
would not be reappointed, but the news that
the matter was at last settled was none the
less gladly received by the large majority
of the people, who have wearied of Barnes
and his factionaldisturbances in the party
and who have waited for four years, patient -
* ly when they could, but anxiously all the
time, for a change. The News believes
with Delegate Flynn that the appointment
of Mr. Jenkins will be satisfactory to ninety-
nine per cent of the republicans of Oklahoma.
Many, no doubt, would for personal reasons
have preferred the appointment of some
other man, but there is no one who will
question the honesty of Mr. Jenkins or his
loyalty to his party and the interests of the
territory. Not republicans alone, but peo-
ple of all parties are sincerely glad to have
as our next governor a man without a stain
upon his character and one who will be too
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To The Voters of Chandler.
The republicans of Chandler, assembled In
mass convention for the purpose of nominat-
ing the first city officials of Chandler, declare
that the paramount considerations in the com-
ing city election are the prosperity and gener-
al advancement of Chandler. We are in favor
of public improvements, and to this end we
favor a careful handling of the financial af-
fairs of the city so that the greatest amount of
good can be accomplished without unreason-
able taxation. We are opposed to the grant-
ing of franchises for public utilities to private
individuals or corporations, and we favor the
improvement of our present system of water-
works, and the addition of a city electric light
system as soon as practicable and such other
improvements and expenditures as are for the
best interests of the city. We belelve in good
government, and to this end favor an impar-
tial enforcement of existing laws and ordinan-
ces. We pledge our candidates for council-
men and for mayor to give to the city their
best services without compensation.
Upon this declaration and upon the charac- 3;
ter and fitness of our nominees, we iuvite for
our ticket the support of every voter who has
the welfare of Chandler at heart.
REPUBLICAN
CITY
CANDIDATES.
ILLIAM M. JENKINS, the next gov-
was born at
tilled the office of secretary of the territory | Alliance, Ohio, in 1856. His parents were
broad and patriotic to use his high office for TJ7T]
his.personal ends.. He has for four years I W eruor of Oklahoma,
ie adhered to their faith dur-
■ ing his early manhood, later
' affiliating with the Presby-
terian church. He grew
up on a farm near his birth-
with such ability and fidelity as to escape | Quakers, and
criticism of any importance, even at the]
hands of his political enemies. He will en- AB^^r
ter upon his duties with a thorough undei-j GOVERNOR.
standing of the conditions in Oklahoma and j ,
with the cohtidelicti and the loyal support of place, enduring the hardships and partici
1 he administration at Washington and the gating in the Held labors and the rura joys
party organization and practically its entire 1 that have so well combined to produce the
membership here at'home. 'Under such i sturdiest types of manhood in tlie nation
circumstances, wilh his well-known ability He graduated from the Alliance high sclioo
and his concieutious desire to do his whole I and afterwards from Mt. Vernon college,
duty as an official and to promote the har j [n 1887 he moved to Shelby county, Iowa
mony and general good of his party as one |and there was admitted to the practice o
of its leaders, there can be no question as to haw. Soon after he moved to Arkansas
the success of his administration as gover- city, Kansas, and there practiced lus pro-
nor. It is a happy circumstance that before j fession until he entered the Indian service
the president announced his decision he con-
ferred with a dozen of the recognized leaders
of the republican party in Oklahoma—Flynn,
Ferguson, Grimes, Speed, Winkler, Sea.\,
Robberts. McNeal, McGuire, Hammer, and
Tate—and they expressed their satisfaction
willi Jenkins for their governor and promis-
ed with one voice that they would do all in
their power to make his administration a
success. Three names were considered by
the president at this conference—Jenkins,
McNeal, and .Winkler. Either McNeal or
Winkler would have been satisfactory to the
republicans of the territory, and either of
the two would have made a good governor,
but both are broad enough and unselfish
enough to give Jenkins their loyal suppoit.
in 1891, completing the alloting of the Paw-
nees in 1893. At the opening of the Chero-
kee Strip he located on a claim a few miles
east of Newkirk, where he resided until
appointed secretary of the territory, June
11 1897. Having been horn.in the home
county of President McKinley, and having
enjoyed a close friendship with McKinley,
it was but natural that Mr. Jenkins, when a
delegate in the republican national conven-
tion in 1892, persisted in casting his vote for
William McKinley for nominee for president.
McKinley's confidence in Jenkins was shown
in his appointment as secretary of the ter-
ritory, and the fact that Mr. Jenkins has
been promoted to a higher office is the
strongest kind of evidence that he has been
founcf faithful in his present station.
THE MEN who were nominated on the
republican ticket Monday night for the
first city officers of Chandler are an excep-
tionally strong set of candidates. They
are, without exception, ex-
perienced and successful
business men whose inter-
ests and success are insep-
arably linked with those of Chandler. They
are, without exception, men who do not seek
the offices for which they have been nomi-
nated as a means of promoting their per-
sonal interests, but they have accepted the
nominations tendered them because they
believe in the possibilities of the future foi
Chandler and want to see all those possibil-
ities realized and because they believe.it is
the part of good citizenship to accept as a
sacred trust any position which carries with
it the power to build up the interests of
Chandler. They are, without exception, men
who own their own homes in Chandler and
who are, therefore, interested in making
Chandler a good place in which to live as
well as a good place in which to do business.
Most of {liem are men who have lived here
since the infancy of the town and who,
knowing'the past history, are the better
qualified to shape its policies and protect
its interests for the future. They are men
of good character and repute, and they are
representatives of the various lines of busi-
ness in an unusual degree. More than this,
there is a special fitness which is possessed
by each candidate that commends him to
the confidence of the voters of Chandler. If
there was any doubt as to the executive
ability and the personal integrity of Mr.
Hale, the candidate for mayor, it. would be
set aside at once by his long and successful
business record and iiis six years, manage-
ment of the United States marshal's office,
where, though serving under three different
officials, his work was so acceptable as to
escape criticism from any source. Mr. Un-
derwood's character and qualifications for
the office of police judge are well known.
George Bateman, the candidate tor city
clerk? received his clerical training in the
most thorough of all schools-a good bank-
ing institution. He is careful in his work
and conscientious in the performance of his
duties and courteous in his treatment ot
those with whom he comes in contact qual-
ities that are much needed in this important
office. E W. Hoyt has already served two
terms as city treasurer, and no better man
for the place could be found. V. A. Ash ton
is our present street commissioner,
and he is the best one that Chandler ever
had. Emery Foster is certainly the man tor
city attorney, and Orin Ashton should by
all means be elected as treasurer ot tne
school board Two of the nominees for
councilmen are now serving on the town
board and have proven their worth, while
the others are equally strong. I he selec-
tions for members of the board of edi cation
are as good as could have been made.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1901, newspaper, April 18, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117305/m1/1/: accessed May 14, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.