The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1902 Page: 1 of 12
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The Chandler NewI.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, APRIL 1 7, 1902.
NUMBER 31
Help to Get the Ft. Smith & Western—The Commercial Club is Getting in Touch with it.
Two Sets of Officers.
Chandler has a double set of
cers as a result of the recent city
election. The old city officers "re-
fuse to give up th :ir offices, declar-
ing the election was «not legal and
therefore they can hold over until
their successors are duly elected and
qualify. The new officers declare
the election was legal, and as they
claim to have been duly elected each
has taken his oath of office before a
notary, and the new council has or-
ganized themselves into a governing
body. Mayor Collar 'called the
April election under that section
of the statute which reads as fol-!
• lows : "The annual election in all
cities of the first class shall be held
on the first Tuesday in April, 1897,
and each year thereafter. At the
annual election in 1897 there shall
be elected a mayor, city clerk, po-
lice judge, city treasurer, city attor-
ney, city marshal, city assessor,
treasurer of thcschool board, street
commissioner, and one councilman
and one membeV o; the school board
from each ward, who"shall hold their
offices for two years, and until their
successors are elected and qualified." j
At a meeting of the old city coun-
cil Wednesday night a week ago a res- ~
o'ution was passed, arter qanvassing the vote of the
* city, that the business of tha retiring council should
be closcd up and the new city officers be installed
on the fol!owing Monday night. This resolution
was spread on the minutes of the council by the
city (Herk. Last Friday Judg? Bur.'ord rendered
a decision in the Lawton election case brought to
him, which declared the Lawton petition did not
come to his gourt in proper form, hence he de-
•cided against the petitioners on that method of
presenting their case. This decision some inter-
ested Chandler lawyeriook to mean that the Law-
ton election was illegal, and 'the Chandler case
being similar, he advised the old city officers to
hold onto their offices. His advise was taken, a
special meeting was called for Friday night, and
the clerk was instructed to expunge that part o'f
the resolution relating to turning^ over the city
government to the newly elected officers the fol-
lowing Monday night. The council could mot
proceed to business without approving the min-
utes of the preceding meeting, and .the meeting
was for the purpose of disapproval. Instead of
passing a motion to reconsider the resolution,
the clerk'was ordered to expunge that part of the
resolution relating to turning over the city gov-
ernment to the new officers, and the clerk made
the erasure. Conceding for the sake of argument
that the election may not have been legal, the
offices of city attorney, police judge and council-
man from the fourth ward were clearly to be filled
at the April election, as the incumbents were fill-
ing vacancies "until the next regular election."
•HON. C. G. JONES,
Mayor of Oklahoma City, whose friends are urging him to become
a Candidate for the Republican Congressional Nomination. *
Monday night the old council met and refused to
recognize the new members as councilmen. Con-
sequently Mayor-elect Neal called a special meet-
ing of the new council, proceeded to organize,
appointing committees" etr. A committee was
appointed to confer with a similar committee from
the old council on a provable solution of the prob-
lem confronting them. These two committees
were supposed to get Jogether* Tuesday night on
a proposition, but failed to meet, and matters now
stand where they started. The newly elected
city officers are willing to submit the matter to
the supreme court on an agreed statement of facts
and have it settled definitely. Many of the old
council declare the decision of Judge Burford is
binding on them to remain in office, while others
say they will resign, but this only complicates
matters and in no wise settles the legality of it.
It is necessary that a supreme court decision be
had at once, as every official act of either the old
or new council can be questioned, and neither or-
ganization can bind the city nor pass ordinances,
until their standing has been determined.
jt' y."
Chandler is approaching the line of an epoch
in her history of progress. Thus far the city
has pushed forward slowly and by hard knocks.
The future glows with iridescent promise. Ac-
tive co-operation of the citizens is all that is nec-
essary to secure these promises. There is a rail-
road to be had at once, a cotton factory is proj-
ected and many other important measures are
pending. Join the commercial club.
Oklahoma Day Club.
Next Tuesday will be the thir-
teenth anniversary o.' the opening of
Cld Oklahoma to settlement, and the
pccasion w 11 be observed in a fitting
manner by the Oklahoma Day club,
the members of which will hold'their
first annual banquet at Oklahoma
City. The occasion is one that
should furnish aspiration for some
excellent addresses, and the speak-
ers who have been invited to respond
to toasts wi,l suggest sentiments well
worthy of the occasion. The Okla-
•
homa o today is the product of r>o '
many openings that the people of
different section might well rcmem-
jber different days asbeir.gof greater
| local importance, but until we shall
; know the date from which Oklahoma
! will be known as a full-fledged state,
i there will hardly be a day that will
rival in territorial importance 'the
one of which the youngest, th§ most
progressive, and the most richly en-
dowed of all the territories began its
separate cxistence. No better means
of observing tfiis anniversary could
| have been suggested than this bring-
ing together Jiom all over the terri-
tory of representative and earnest
men to recount the wonderful achieve-
ments of the territory and picture
the possibilities of the state that is to be. The
Oklahoma Day club is a social organization com-
posed of republicans.* Unlike the.Jefferson club,
it is not an incorporated stock company, nor does^
it place a ten dollar tax upon members. It was
formed with the belief that the friendly mingling
together of republicans would strengthen the party
and advance the interests of the territory. The
meeting of republicans ih a convention has a sim-
ilar effect, but there the interests of rival candi-
dates are* generally at stake, and so the social
features are less prominent. It is one of the fun-
damental principles of this organization that it is
not to be used to further the interests of any can-
didate, but that it shall work for the general good
of the party and the glory of Oklahoma. This
gathe'ring will be the first of the kind ever heli in
''the territory, and it may be'significant in the m-
fluence it will exejt on party success. When a''
state or territory'is growing in population at the
! rate of 50,000 a year the interval of two years
between conventions sees thousands of new voters
in the territory who are not acquainted with,each
other, and there is special need that these means
| of becoming acquainted should be utilized for all
I they are worth. There is need,*too, in.Oklahoma
that care should be taken lest there should grow
up a line of division between the "old settlers"
and the "new crowd." Those who have'eome to
the territory more recently should be made to feel
that they are at once a part of Oklahoma—that
I the right hand of fellowship is extended and the
j doors of the territory swing outward.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1902, newspaper, April 17, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117565/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.