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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 10.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, APRIL, 18, 1902.
NUMBER 89
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Democrats Elect Delegates to Enid Con-
vention.
Last Saturday a county mass con-
vention was held in the Probate
Court room in this city by the demo-
crats for the purpose of electing 14
delegates to attend Democratic Con-
gressional convention to be held in
the city of Enid on April 22nd. For
several days preceding the conven-
tion the Democratic politicians in
the county and from other parts of
the territory had been active in fix-
ing for the convention. The time
set for the convention was 1:30
o'clock p. m., but it was 2 o'clock
before territorial committeeman H.
T. Miller called the convention to
order and called for nominations for
chairman of the convention.
The democratic machine placed
A. W. Fisher in nomination and W.
M. Newell was placed in nomination
by the Anti-machine forces. The
vote stood 35 for Fisher and 38 for
Newell. Mr. Newell assumed the
duties of Chairman and called for
nominations for a secretary. E. J.
Keller of Lexington was chosen
secretary by acclamation.
A motion was then made that the
chair appoint a committee of five
who were to report 14 names to the
convention to be voted upon for dele-
gates to go to Enid. This motion
precipitated a wrangle until motion
was amended so as to give Lexington
2 Norman 2 and the county 1 of the
members on this committee. Cralle
and Hayes of Norman and Wynne
& James of Lexington and Roland
Hughes of Noble were appointed as
members of this committee. A com-
mittee of 3 on resolutions, Wolf,
Fisher and Lydick was appointed by-
chair. The candidates for congress
present and parties representing
them were invited to address the
convention. In looking over the
persons present at this time we
made the discovery that among
the 73 persons presents (only two
farmers, E. E. Alkire and Roland
Hughes, unless Col. Stovall atid Rob
Green could be counted as tillers of
the soil, appeared in the convention.
The convention was composed of
men from Lexington and Norman
and the farmers of the county seemed
to have taken no interest whatever
in the convention. E. Giddings of
Oklahoma City was called upon , first
and he spoke eloquently in behalf of
the candidacy of Wm. Cross and
urged democrats to get some ginger
and enthusiasm into themselves and
to line up for the ticket and scalp
democrats who refused to "vote'er
straight." To see so many able and
fearless democrats in the field for
the nomination was to him a har-
binger of success.
Character, ability, and popularity
were three essential things to make
an ideal candidate and of course
William possessed ail these in super-
lative degree. Single or double
statehood was going to be the issue in
the campaign and Cross was sound
on single statehood having taken the
initiative on this question making
him the logical candidate when this
question was made the issue. Tom
Doyle was then called upon and he
told many things Tom Doyle had
done for the territory and carefully
omitted to tell of many other things
he had done and in this particular
showed his craftiness by knowing
what to tell and what to forget.
Tom Jarboe was then called and he
came forward and stated that owing
to a bath he had recently taken the
pores of his skin had been so opened
as to permit the escape of all of the
oratory in him and he would not at-
tempt a speech at this time: but
thought he should be favored with
the endorsement of the convention
as candidate for delegate to con-
gress. The committee on resolutions
reported and read a newspaper clip-
ping on resolutions adopted, we
think by democratic convention held
at Perry, with a few amendments
one of which was to instruct dele-
gates from this county .to have noth-
ing to do with a fusion with Popu-
lists at Enid; but that they might
permit the Populists to endorse the
democratic candidate nominated
The resolutions also recommended
that delegates go uninstructed. The
report of this committee precipitat-
ed a lively scrap by refusing to en-
dorse Tom Jarboe's candidacy and
also its pigeon-holing resolution on
school lands submitted to committee
by Prof. Elder. As soon as report of
committee was read an effort to
adopt was vigorously pressed; but
Prof. Elder and a dozen others were
on their feet demanding to be heard
and as soon as the tumult subsided
Prof. Elder offered the following
resolution as an additional one to
report of committee and moved its
adoption.
"We hereby declare our belief that
the school and other public lands of
Oklahoma should never be sold but
should be kept as a common heritage
for present and future generations.
We believe a permanent system of
long time leases should be adopted
with preference rights to present
occupants and with provisions for
fair and equitable reappraisements
at reasonable intervals.
We believe that an equitable por-
tion of the net income from each
tract of Public Land should be re-
turned for local purposes to the
school district or township in which
such tract lies.
We hereby instruct our delegates
to the Enid convention to use all
honorable means to secure the ad-
option of this plank as a part of the
Democratic Territorial Platform."
This brought the members of the
committee and several others to
their feet and a motion to table was
made but Prof. Buchanan and several
others took up the fight against
tabling and a fight royal was opened
up precipitating Tom Doyle into it,
who it was believed was favorable
to a sale of the school lands of Ok-
lahoma. All efforts to defeat the
resolution failed and it was adopted
by a vote of 2 to 1 and delegates to
Enid instructed to introduce and
battle for its adoption in the Terri-
torial Democratic platform.
The resolutions were also amended
instructing delegates from this
county to use all honorable means to
secure the nomination of Tom Jar-
boe as delegate to congress. The
following is a list of delegates selec-
ted to attend the Enid convention
Frank Wynne, Lackey, Stovall,
Keller, Jones, Little, Coombs, of
Lexington. S. P. Render, Newell,
Norman, Cralle, Hess, and Hayes
of Norman, and Cowan of Moore.
After Jarboe the majority of dele-
gation will probably be for Forrest or
Doyle and minority for Cross.
Public Lands of Oklahoma.
Prof. Elder sometime ago took up
the question of the Public lands ot
Oklahoma and delivered a lecture on
the subject which he had printed in
pamphlet form and he
sending this pamphlet al
has been
over the
territory. It is the best treatise on
the Public Land question ever
written in Oklahoma and every one
interested in the preservation of the
Public Lands of Oklahoma for the
purposes they were set aside should
secure one of the pamphlets.
There is a move on foot now to
sell the Public Lands of Oklahoma
as soon as Statehood is secured and
unless Oklahoman's arouse them
selves and pay more attention to the
protection of the Public Lands of
the territory than to partisan poli-
tics they will awaken someday to
find out that the public lands of Ok-
lahoma have been frittered away
by the politicians. The preserva-
tion of the Public Lands of Oklaho
ma is of vastly more importance to
the people of Oklahoma than which
political party shall hold the reins
of government and for the people to
be more interested in the latter than
the former is to sacrifice the Public
Lands of Oklahoma. It would be
well for Oklahomans at the present
time to firmly make up their mind
not to support any party candidate
for a public office which party did
not declare and which candidate did
not announce himself as in favor of
the retention of the Public Lands of
Oklahoma as the property of the
commonwealth. This kind of a stand
taken by the citizens of Oklahoma
and this kind of a stand alone will
save the Public Lands of Oklahoma
from spoiliation and going the way
of Public Lands in the older states.
In conversation with Tom Doyle, re-
cognized as the leader in the move-
ment to sell the Public Lands of Ok-
lahoma, we learn that it is the
system of tenantry in Oklahoma
entailed by the Public Lands which
he very much opposes and favors
the sale of the Public Lands on the
ground that men owning homes
make the best citizens and that
a system of tenantry is repugnant to
a republic. He overlooks the fact
that the percentage of tenants in the
United States shows a large increase
with every succeeding decade and
it is only a question of time, with
present conditions continuing, until
practically all the homes of the
people in the country will be owned
by landlords and occupied by tenants.
The last U. S. census showed that
ten states over 40 per cent of the
farms and homes were held by ten
ants. In 11 states over 50 per cent
in 8 states over (>0 per cent, in 3
over 70 per cent 'and if only the
Public Lands of Oklahoma were held
by tenants it would amount to only
8 per cent, and with the state as a
landlord we believe tenants in Okla-
homa would not be so severely
pressed as to make anarchists of
them, at least, not before the land-
lords in the other states had so op-
pressed their tenants as to cause |
such an uprising as would result in
the restoration of the land as the
heritage and home of the people who
occupy it. Mr. Doyle did not hesitate
to state that capital was seeking • in-
vestments in land because it was the
safest possible investment for capital;
but in answer to question ' 'That if
this be true why should Oklahomans
sell their Public Lands when money
was now invested in the safest pos-
sible security? he proceeded to take
a fall out of the land theories of Henry
George and Ignatius Donnelly and
hung himself and his argument too;
for he was forced to admit that
unmistakable trend of the times in
this county was towards landlordism
and tenantry. When treed he ad-
mitted that the people of this coun-
try was paying too much attention
looking after the wellfare of their
particular political parties and too
little after matters affecting the
wellfare of the state and the in-
dividual; but he stated that men had
and always would do this thing.
Tom's conclusion is a strong one but
we cannot believe it sound and
the language of Tom Watson,
"And yet, ever yet we believe that
right will triumph over wrong" and
that men will not be blinded forever
and led to the ballot box to deposit
a ballot which records their partis-
anship rather than their intelligence.
Intelligence and the ballot will
someday go hand in hand to the
ballot box and when that time comes
the ballot will "llecorda freeman's
will As lightning doth the Will of
God.".
The educational work of Prof.
Elder's pamphlet showed up in the
Democratic convention held in this
county and such a furor as his reso-
lution declaring against the sale of
the school lands did raise was amus-
ing to witness. The politicians un-
derstood what the adoption of such a
resolution meant and fought its ad-
option: but they were defeated by
2 to 1 vote in the convention and the
delegates instructed to urge the ad-
option of sucli a Public land Resolu
tion in the Democratic Territorial
Platform adopted at Enid and if the
delegates from this county do their
duty at Enid the Democratic party
of the territory will be put on record
on the Public Land question in the
territory as will also l?e the Republi-
can party at its territorial conven-
tion.
McGinley & Berry,
Still have Bargains
to offer for a short
time yet, which are
too numerous-to-
mention in detail.
Our
will only continue
a few days longer
and if you wish to
take advantage of
it. Now is your
time.
McGinley & Berry.
An American Girl's Triumph at Berlin
The German Emperor, not Ion ' ago,
commanded that a special musical and
dramatic entertainment be given at
the Royal Opera House in Berlin
with the most eminent talent in Ger-
many participating. A vast and bril
liant audience assembled. The Em-
peror, owing to illness, was absent,
but the Empress, the Royal Family
and court were there, together with
the most notable personages of the
capital. On the programme, placed
between twoof Germany's most re-
nowned singers stood the name of a
new star, the violinist who but three
weeks before had made so success-
ful a debut as to set Berlin talking.
"A prize pupil of Dr Joachim, the
Director of the Royal School of
Music," it was whispered in the au
dience,
have re
The artist proyed to be a young
girl in her teens who came forward
clad in modest white, timorous yet
of rare sweetness and charm of
manner. The hush of expectancy
settled over the great opera house.
The little maiden in white grasped
her violin, and soon the strains of
beautiful music poured forth touch-
ing the hearts of the immense throng
witli magic power of genius. The
solo ended, there followed such a
scene of enthusiasm, such a storm of
applause as all present will long
remember. The young violinist with
one step become famous. Americans
present that evening will never
forget the triumph, for the little
maiden in white was an American
whose subsequent triumphs in many
lands have made her renowned.
name is Lenoro Jackson.
md
Probate Judges in New Counties Again
Under Fire.
Last week the Oklahoma City Ok-
lahoman published an article where-
in it was stated that the Probate
Judges in the new counties were
still dealing extensively in townsite
deeds and intimated that Attorney
General and the Governor were
mixed up in the matter. The ef-
fect of the article was to threaten
the Okiahoman publishers with an
action for criminal libel also to
arouse the governor and he has
taken steps to have the probate
judges in the new counties bounced.
The governor has no power to re-
move them; but he has advised the
county attorneys in the several
counties to take steps to secure the
removal of the probate judges and
has informed them that the Attorney
General of the territory will be sent
to assist them. Governor Ferguson
seems to have imbibed some of the
spirit of the Rough Rider President
and is going after officials whom he
believes to be corrupt and are violat-
ing their oath of office.
Sunday School Convention.
Now that Friday and Saturday
April 25 and 26 have been designat-
ed as the time of holding the annual
convention of the Cleveland county
Sunday school association, I desire
to call special attention to the Sun-
day schools throughout the county.
Each school will be entitled to
three delegates to this convention.
I would suggest that the schools
make an extra effort to send good
representatives of Sunday school
workers to to this convention. All
of the township presidents are earn-
estly requested to be present and re-
port condition of school in their re-
spective township. Will the pastors
of the several churches through the
county please announce this conven-
tion from their pulpits each Sunday
until after this convention, has
been held. This is the Lords work
and let us engage in it with joy and
gladness in our hearts, and victory
through Christ will be the result.
I. M. Little,
County President.
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for parties sending us in new sub-
scribers we make the following propo-
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always buy a little better tea than
you can afford. The saying has an
taken
between or-
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& Sanborn's pick ige tea, there is
almost as tuucii difference as be-
tween a drink and a food. The
harder you work, the more you need
rest and the refreshment of a strictly
high grade tea. It is not a question
of wh.it you can afford when health
and strength is considered. It is a
s .fe rule to practice a little wise ex-
travagance here. G. M. Wiuans & Co
sole agents.
Committed Suicide-
A. I). Smith, a cattleman of Paoli,
I. T , and well known to many peo-
ple in this county committed suicide
at Oklahoma City last week by shoot-
ing himself through the head. He
killed himself, so he stated, rather
Her | than kill a business partner whom he
accused of bringing about his financi-
al ruin.
If your watch or clock needs re-
pairs, go to Winans.
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