The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1901 Page: 1 of 16
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The Chandler News.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
ELEVENTH YEAR
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 5, 1901
NUMBER 11.
The Cotton Shipments from Chandler to Date Aggregate Nearly 10,000 Bales.
Removal of Jenkins.
TT WAS certainly quite a character-
* istic of President Roosevelt to
plainly state, in removing Wm. M.
Jenkins from the office of goveinorof
Oklahoma, why he did so. This
statement of the president's, which is
published in this issue of The News,
brings to light a phase of the situa-
tion that seems to have been very lit-
tle understood—the fact that Mr.
Jenkins admits that in letting the
contract for the care of the insane of
the territory he asked that a certain
amount of stock in the company to
which the contract was being awarded
should be reserved for friends of his
to whom he owed political obligations
that he was unable to pay with ap-
pointments. Mr. Jenkins seems to
have admitted this in his explanation
to the president, and it was upon this
admissfon that the president decided
that Mr. Jenkins was not a proper
man for the responsible position of governor. It
jMgpfet
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CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOMS—SAC AND FOX SCHOOL.
This building is situated between the two dormitories and contains the assembly
room and three recitation rooms.
They Ought to Resign.
Governor Tom Ferguson.
/^""NKLAHOMA'S new governor is a
different type of a man from
any of those who have preceded him.
There have been handsomer men in
the governor's chair in Oklahoma,
there have been men of greater polish
socially and men with greater exper-
ience in official life and more extended
acquaintance with the big men at the
national capital, but of the five men
who have served the territory as its
chief executive there have been none
who possessed a stronger character,
a more rugged honesty, a more abid-
ing faith in the great destiny of Okla-
homa, a higher ideal "as to what a
public official should be, a stronger
devotion to the principles of his party
nor a truer loyalty to his friends than
is possessed by Tom Ferguson, the
country editor, who has been named
by the president as governor of Okla-
— homa. He is thoroughly identified
with the best interests of the territory and is well
acquainted with Oklahoma people and conditions.
Ferguson is a strong partisan. He believes thor-
oughly in the principles of his party and is un-
compromising in his loyalty to its interests. He
is evident already that President' Roosevelt intends jt CERTAINLY would be the right and the fair
to exact from his appointees the most careful pef- 1 thing to do to give Governor Ferguson every
formance of their duties and the most intelligent j chance to make his administration a success in
appreciation of their responsibilities. He not every way> and) since he will and should be held
only intends to follow the merit system in his ap- reSponsible for Ihe acts of those officers who hold is a hard fighter, but a fair one. Hispaper, the
pointments, but he will not tolerate any.attempt the prions by appointment of the governor, it Watonga Republican, wages a campaign fifty-two
on the part of officials to profit at the expense of: seems te The News that all such officers should ; weeks in the year, but it does not stoop to abuse
an honest and efficient performance of their duties. prcsent to him their resignations as soon as he or misrepresentation, believing that truth and
In the case of Governor Jenkins the punishment takes charge of the office. This would make it reason are stronger and better weapons. Fergu-
seems very severe in comparison with the lenient ;.caSy for him to see that all his appointees were son >s a strong writer and a hard hitter, a fact to
way in which offenses even more serious have been men in whom h'e had confidence without his having
treated in the past, but the action is certainly con- asjc for resignations, and it would possibly re-
sisted with the president's well-known views on Ueve the governor and many of the appointees
civic honesty, and no one in the territory will feel of much embarrassment. If the governor should
disposed to complain that a policy has been com- desire to reappoint any of the present officials
menced which should have begun long ago. It ^ere would, probably, in most cases, be no serious
will be difficult enough to approach the standard. objection, but none of-them should wait t,o be re-
no matter how high it is set* The disposition of moveci. If the* new executive should not see fit to*
a few democratic papers to regard the removal o? re^in the appointees of his predecessors il Vould
Jenkins as a disgrace to the territory is amusing. n0t'necessarily follow that they were incompetent particular section of the territory, of course, a
but it is none the less" characteristic of these 0r unworthy, but it would mean, rather, that the fact which has led him to align himself with the
papers. To rebuke misconduct in a public office governor had merely done the reasonable and separate statehood element, in the belief that the
•may seem a disgrace in the eyes of the Guthrie i0gjcai thing jn selecting the men whom he per- formation of a state within the present boundaries
Leader and other beneficiaries of the Renfrow sonaHy knew and in whom he had the "greatest would be most favorable to the interests of west-
confidence to fill the offices for which he must stand ern Oklahoma. _ He has always been a close friend
responsible to the president. j and an able supporter of Delegate Flynn, and he
^ ^ maintains the same close friendship for National
Committeeman Grimes and the other leaders of
About Illegal Licenses.
which some of the opposition editors who have oc-
casionally attacked him can testify. Ferguson is
courageous and direct. He is not afraid to dis-
cuss things plainly'or to condemn wrong, even .in.
his own party, nor does he make himself ridicu-
lous by inventing labarynthine excuses for the
wrong-doers, as some editors do. He is indepen-
dent and thinks for himself, rather than adopt the
ready-made ideas of others. He is loyal to his
administration ^ but in the eyes of most people it
would be far more a disgrace if the president h&d
been willing to shut his eyes at impropfy acts on
the part of his appointees when brought to his
notice. Perhaps the thing that grieves our dem-i
ocratic friends most, h'owever, is the thought TT SEEMS to be necessary for The-News to
that republicans are incline^ to do their own ^ again call attention to the provision in the
house-cleaning, whenever any becomes neces- Oklahoma statutes which requires that notices of
sary, without the aid of their political opponents, application for liquor licenses must be published
As to Mr. Jenkins, we believe that most people in the two papers having the largest circula-
who know him are inclined to regard his conduct tion in' the- county. The attorney-general and forgetful that some very fashionably dressed men
in connection with the sanitarium deal as an act; the courts have held that failure to comply with ! have proven unsatisfactory officials. The editor
the party in Oklahoma. Some of the papers that
have got the worst of it in controversies with the
Watonga man have been inclined to ridicule him
on account of his personal appearance, but the
sensible people of the terri^ry will not care if his
hfead is red so long as it is level, nor are they
of indiscretion," rather than a deliberate wrong,
and, while not disapproving the president's ac-
tion, they still sympathize with Mr. Jenkins,
and regret that his removal became necessary.
this provision of the law invalidates the license.
In Lincoln county The News is one of the two
papers having the largest circulation, as shown
by sworn statements published monthly. To be le-
But such things are the fortunes of political life ! gal, Lincoln county notices must be in The News.
of The News has known Tom Ferguson for
nearly ten years, and, judging by his past course,
we are confident that the president will not be
disappointed in the man he has chosen The ap-
pointment is a compliment to the Oklahoma press.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1901, newspaper, December 5, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117498/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.