The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1901 Page: 1 of 16
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The Chandler
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
ELEVENTH YEAR
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBER 28, 1901
NUMBER 10.
Chandler's Cotton Shipments to Date Are 2000 Bales Greater than at This Time Last Year.
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GIRLS' DORMITORY, SAC AND FOX SCHOOL.
This building was erected in 1JS92. With the other buildings belonging to the
school, it has one of the finest locations in Oklahoma.
About Land Office Removals.
Misdirected E-nergies.
VI/E DO not wish to criticise the
" methods of work pursued by
the single statehood executive com-
mittee, for the gentlemen comprising
that committee are doubtless sincere
in their efforts to secure immediate
legislation looking toward single
statehood, but from our point of
view they could spend their energies
to much better effect than in the
raising of money to send the Okla-
homa members of the single state-
hood lobby to Washington. It is
unfortunate but it is true that the
personnel of this Oklahoma delega-
tion is such as to lend a color of
truth to the assertion frequently
made by some 'of the seprate state-
hood advocates that the single state-
hood movement is simply a demo-
cratic scheme to promote factional
differences' in the republican party.
Of the three Oklahomans selected at
Muskogee recently to go to Washingtoji
the interest of single statehood, two are demo- I "HE proposition to abolish the land office at
crats and the third is a republican whose bittjr Oklahoma City and to divide the land in
antagonism to Delegate Flynn is as well known the Oklahoma City, land district among the other
in Washington as in Oklahoma. It will be hard, districts may have been offered in good faith by
to arouse enough enthusiasm among Flynn's som'e one who thought that such a step would be
friends notwithstanding the fact that a majority a good thyig for the interests of the service, or it
of them probably favor single statehood—to get may have originated in the brain of some one
them to give up any of their money for the pur-: whose desire was to look out for personal inter-
pose of sending Mr. Barnes to Washington to ests or to protect some other town from a threat-
fight Mr. Flynn. That Barney" would use what- ened loss of a land office. However that may
ever prestige his position on this delegation might be, _ the suggestion would, if carried out, work a
give him to embarass the man he regards as his hardship upon many people. If .it seems best to
enemy can hardly be doubted by those who know reduce..the number of lapd offices in Oklahoma,
what a game fighter the ex-governor is and who the rule to be followed in deciding which shall
realize how hard he and his lieutenants worked be continued should have more regard for the
to have him placed on this delegation. This convenience of those who have business with the
paper is sincere in its support of single statehood, land offices than for the interests of the towns
and that is why we regret to see anything done concerned or the wishes of persons wnose jobs
that will.tend to inject partisan politics or faction- .might be in danger. It would seem quite reason-
al differences into the settlement of so important able, other things, being equal, to abolish those
a matter. The ihternal warfare that has been offices whose wort is most narly completed and
raging in Oklahoma in.the past has done its part and to continue those that have the greatest
already toward creating an unfavorable impres- amount of unfinished business. .The. Oklahoma
sion at the national capital, and jfs continuance City land district contains a large amount of land
will not materially hasten statehood. We are that has not been proved up. If the Oklahoma
inclined to believe that the Indian territory peo- City land office should be discontinued and the
pie have shown better judgment in the selection Oklahoma City land -district should be divided
of their delegates than have the Oklahomans who between Guthrie and El Reno—as the papers
attended, the Muskogee convention,'and we be- have suggested that it'would be—the people from
lieve that the Indian territory delegates will go i Lincoln, Pottawatomie, and Cleveland counties
to Washington and labor faithfully and effective- who now live in the Oklahoma City district would
ly for statehood and that they will deport them- have to pass through Oklahoma City in order to
selves as gentlemen while they are about it. get to Guthrie or El Reno, and in some cases
But.we started out to say that it seemed to us they would have to stay over night in Oklahoma
Uiiwise for the committee to concentrate all its City and take a train at a very inconvenient hour
energies on the sending of lobbyists to Washing- in the morning. Mail sent to or from the land
ton when a letter-writing campaign, such as was offices would be subjected to a like delay. All
pursed in connection with the free homes move- this would mean unnecessary trouble and expense,
ment might do so much good. Washington has We feel no prejudice or favoritism as between the
heard from the politicians of Oklahoma very often, land offices, but we hope, for the sake of Lincoln
Perhaps it would rather hear from the people, county people, that the change will not be made.
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In the Right Line.
HE steps taken at Oklahoma
City last Monday to organize
the members of the newspaper fra-
ternity in the two territories into one
strong association will doubtless be
productive of much good. The pur-
pose is to bring the two territories
more closely together and to enlist
the territorial newspapers in a sys-
tematic and harmonious effort for
the advancement of the mutual inter-
ests of the two territories and their
ultimate union into one great state.
In the past the Oklahoma editors and
the Indian territory editors have not
been very well acquainted with each
other, and this fact accounts for a
great many ,of the misunderstandings
and prejudices that have existed be-
tween the two territories. But they
are beginning to cross the line that
separates the territories and to get
acquainted with each other, and they
find their respect for each other increasing as
they come to know each other better. The Ok-
lahoma boys have found that the Indian territory
Lis not the howling and uncivilized wilderness
that designing politicians woqld have them be-
lieve ; and the Indian territory fellows have dis-
covered that Oklahoma is not the barren, pov-
erty-stricken, tax-ridden prairie-dog village that
squawmen and federal office-holders have told
them it was. Both have learned thet the people
of the two territories are intelligent,* honest, and
and progressive. This means a great deal, for
newspapers can remove prejudice as well as cre-
ate them, and it is in their power to do more
! toward bringing the two territories together than
: all the other influences combined can accomplish.
The meeting at Oklahoma City last Monday was
! not very largely attended because of the very
short notice given, and st> but a temporary or-
ganization was formed and another meeting was
arranged for, at which the organization will be
completed. An invitation is extended to all the
editors of Oklahoma and the Indian territory
to attend this meeting and become charter mem-
bers of the association. It is a matter of general
comment that the Oklahoma Press Association
is hardly up to the standard that it should seek
to attain, and even if it were all that it should b'e
the formation of a single statehood press associa-
tion would not conflict with the work pf the pres-
ent Oklahoma association. An interesting pro-
gram is.being arranged ^nd it is expected that
this will be the biggest meeting of newspaper
workers "ever held in the two territories. A
prize is offered for the best suggestion for a de-
sign for a suitable label to be carried iu.the col-
umns of the single statehood papers, and compe-
tition is open to everybody. Oklahoma City
took the initiative in the formation of this asso-
ciation and Oklahoma City will doubtless enter-
tain her newspaper friends in a manner befitting
the metropolis of the twin territories.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1901, newspaper, November 28, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117492/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.