The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1901 Page: 1 of 12
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The Chandler News.
ELEVENTH YtAR.
hrst paper published in lincoln county. h. b. gilstrap, editor
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, SEPTEMBER 26, 1901.
and publisher.
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Pont Forget the Date of the Reunion and Logrolling-October
NUMBLR 2.
About Roosevelt.
T^HE FOLLOWING discussion
of the characteristics of Presi-
dent Roosevelt is from an excellent
article by William Marion Reedy,
editor of the St. Louis Mirror:
He attains to the presidency, if
not against his will, at least in a
manner that disappoints and grieves
him. Pie aspired to the office, but
he wanted to win it in a nation-wide
contest. He accepts destiny frankly
as destiny, declaring he will pursue
-the policies inaugurated by Mr. Mc-
Kinley, without change. The coun-
try accepts him as safe. With a
word he unfangs the sarcasm that
pictured him as strenuous and erratic.
T he youngest man that ever filled
the chair, he is also the only city-
born man to occupy it, and likewise
the only college man in the modern
sense of the term. He is an aristo-
crat, using the word loosely. His
family has been prominent for two
hundred years. He is a writer of
books, a votary of athletics, a man"
of the study, a. passionate lover of
the open world of woods and streams.
He is a politician cleanly practical
who believes in the merit system in _ ^
the public service. He has worked in his ward,
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16th ar 1 17th
the junior editor.
Lee Frazier Gilstrap, Age 13 Months.
Our Eleventh Year.
A S OUR readers have already
noted, The Chandler News
has completed its tenth volume and
entered upon its eleventh year.
Birthdays to newspapers, like indi-
viduals, are of some importance, and
newspapers, unlike some individuals,
take special pride in the fact when
they begin to grow old. In a new
country like Oklahoma many more
papers are started thari ever become
established, and when a paper.has
survived the troubles common to in-
fancy and attained its first birthday
its publisher usually feels that he has
a chance of success. The readers
of a paper, too, are inclined to feel
* easier as the papers grows older, for,
when one is first started they have
good reason to feel that they are
taking chances when they pay in ad-
vance— chances that the new "sheet
will benumbered with the "has beens"
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or that will, at best, be merged into
another paper of, perhaps, different
politics. As the years go by and the
.paper becomes mo;e firmly establish-
ed, its readers may not only feel cer-
ain that it is a fixture in the commu-
nity, but they have a,right to look for-
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a member of a pql.ee board, assistant secretary Whatever ho did was natura' uopfw-. rf CXp "n,',',0 "me a£ter ,he W lws Pa^ed the eaperi-
enavy a gallant soldier, governor of our The supreme quality of his mind Ins' h ' "T mental stage. Sometimes a paper is started tinder
g catest state, vice-president. Wherever he has ness. Yet he has been ai , been alert- very favorable circumstances—with political
een p.aced he worked .hewing aiways t° the line. when enthusiastic. SincerityTon^f 7^ patronage at hand*whi(,h removes the necessity
-a eve, he was called upon to do he did it, and his ways and days He ha's ' ' " y mar.ked a11' for a struggle for support—and such a paper
ost no time in doing it.* He enforced vigorously catholic interest His blunts ' CdPacity for usuall>' sails al°ng smoothly until the time comes
laws in whlch he did nol beiieve, as pJce CJ a gentleman s pln6h H b" ^ ^ ^ when ^e patronage is cut off, and then something
missioner. He shaped a chaotic force into an Hfs AmeTJiS fs not^' kmdly" haPP™' Usually it dies or changes hands, for
efficient municipal army. He used political He ha, preached nothing^g°iSm>e man whose lo-of the newspaper business
bosses when they were useful. He turned them try, duly to one's self There ,, ° ^ °ann0t be Separated from dreams of Poetical
down when they would interfere with his duty, in which he has talked for talk's^ke' wh ^ Patrona?e seldomMs the abUity or the energy to
He put the navy ,n fighting trim for the war with has been bright at the expense of f t n g °Ut * g°°d paper after that S0UrCC °f revenue
Spain then he raised a company of gentleman is no subterfuge fbou hm lif\ ^ " ™-ed, a„d he seldom hesitates if he meets an
adventurers went to the war, had his baptism of square to all thS windTL Lw No H Z* °PP°rtUnUy to sel1 the that J,is party has
fire,emerged a hero. He saved the army at his attitude on any issue H T N°°nedoubts made a source of profit to him'to one who will
Santiago from annihilation by fever, through the larity without sacrificing his ^ u* make it the organ of the opposition. Oklahoma
amous unconventional round robin to Shafter. nevertheless, healthily aware of his" V !u' ^ fCW inducements to one to engaf?e in
e urned from the war, this representative of the He accepts himself at a fair valuation °7r !°W3paper business as a temporary mak^hift,
staid East became the idol of the wild West, criticizes others in ^rsZeZ UrRol^n " ™ places *** Promi- — to
ome said he posed. But men do not wear even- an American citizen without sin *, "f •„ bC/ 'S Wh° are Wllhng to put their h?arts and their
ing clothes as knockabouts. He did not force but contained, romantic but rati^l hVPS int° thdr work and to ^ in one place and
himself before the people. They called for him. but matter-of-fact, nervousb^V t ,tT ^ Ten yCarS WOuld "ot be very long for a
en he was, supposedly, politically retired, the He is dreamfully practical one mipht ^^iw t0 endured msome places, but it is a
people resented it with a louder call. When he sense and sentiment each Culatfn * he' h ?°°? fa Oklahoma" Only one paper in the
spoke, it was no highfalutin, but hard sense. His He is accused of pose ' What he has i ' terrU°ry ^ continued lon&er «nder one
ideals, as expressed, were all manly, individual. This, then is President Rnn-^if ' b poise' name and one management than The News. We
He dodged no isssue. He stood for his country thus far reveals him The e ,1S ^reer feel that, at the end of the first decade, The News
and for all that its past and present represent only apparent. There nls through's " *** — <* established
He poured soorn on class feeling, and upheld the consistency. He is ve"v human 5" * T °' 0kbhem a"d «" °< permanent
law and all authority. He was more democratic mav oxasoerate th 1/ ls calth business fixtures of Lincoln county. Each year
than the democrats. His speech was p,^ ZZ ^ yoZTo ^ ^
actions tn sight of all men. of a chi^aLt^S^^ ^ j ^ ^
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1901, newspaper, September 26, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117438/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.