The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902 Page: 1 of 10
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ELEVENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. MAY 22, 1902.
NUMBER 36
Lincoln County also leads in diversity of crops and abundance of rainfall.
Statehood Prospects.
"THERE was a very better dis-
appointment experienced by
Oklahoma democrats when the
statehood bill passed the house.
First, they had said that Flynn
did not*want the bill to pass ; then
they confidently asserted that the
bill couldn't be passed anyhow.
As usual they were proven to be
false phrophets. But perhaps the
bitterest thing was that the demo-
. cratic platform denouncing Flynn
and declaring against the state-
hood measure of which he is the
•author had been adopted but a few
days when the democratic mem-
bers of the house of representa-
•tives, with the exception of eight
or nine, joined in endorsing the
measure condemned by the Okla-
homa platform by casting their
votes for its passage? Our demo-
ci atic friends cannot now denounce
Flynn s statehood policy without
condemning their political breth-
ren, nor can they endorse the
course of the democratic congress-
men without endorsing Lynn's
measure. It is not likely that
they will make th£ campaign very
largely upon the question of state-
. hood. Since I he democratic mem-
bers have gone on record upon
^this question, we do not see any
more denials in the democratic
papers of the democratic opposi-
tion to single statehood. All they
can say now is that the bill .was
merely passed through the house
for political effect and that it will
be strangled to death in the sen-
ate. Yet this assertion is a more
severe arraignment of the demo-
cratic congiessmen than of Flynn, for. if the pass-
age ot thtr bill is for political effect the democrats
who voted for it must have been* fools or else
must have consented to and aided in the political
scheme. As to the fate of the bill in the senate,
it may be that the democrats of Oklahoma will
be doo/ned to still further disappointment. They
ardently hope that thp bill will not pass the sen-
ate at all, but especially that it will not pass at
this session of congress. Late reports indicate
that the committee of the senate which has charge
of the bill are not inclined to obstruct its passage
and that they will probably make a favorable re-
port upon it within a few days. If this is done
the measure may pass before the adjournment of
this session of congress, and, in that event, it
will become a law, for the president is known to
be in favor of the admission of the territories.
In that event it will be well for the democrats to
hold another convention and revise their plat-
form. Since Flynn's bill offers the only chance
of getting single statehood, they might endorse it.
HON. THOMPSON B. FERGUSON,
GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA.
-Courtesy of the Edmond Enterprise
Keep Things Moving.
' I "HERE is a good deal of sense in the advice
to "strike while the iron is hot.". If the
mc hanic should make a fire and heat the piece
of metal he was working on every time he would
hit it a.blow he would • accomplish very little.
And yet some towns work on that principle. If
they have some important object to achieve they
may rise equal to the opportunity and arouse
sufficient enthusiasm and interest to carry the
project through, but, after they have accom-
plished the one purpose, in many cases, they stop
to rest from their labors, instead of going ahead
and doing other needed work while the iron is
hot. • Invariably the experience is that it is just
as hard to arouse interest' the second time as it
was for the first effort, and sometimes harder.
Inertia is as hard to overcome in towns as in
inanimate bodies, and that is why it is important
to keep something going on, to keep at work as
long as there is work to be done that the town's
interests demands.
"Issues Made Up."
TN reporting the ratification
meeting held at Oklahoma City
last Saturday, the Guthrie Leader
announces that the issues are
| made up and that the campaign
j has begun. Unfortunatel , how
j ever, the Leader pauses before
stating what the issues are. and
so the reader is left to guess
what, in the opinion of the Guthrie
| Leader, are to be the issues in the
j congressional campaign this year.
The Oklahoman quotes the state-
ment of the Leader and endorses
} it, but does not explain what the
i issues are, either. Candidate
Cross made a s, eech at the Okla-
homa City ratification, but in the
report of this speech printed in
the Oklahoman there is no sug-
gestion as to what Mr. . Cross
I thinks the issues will be. Why
| all this silence among leading
democrats? Are these statesmen
planning a sutprise? Or, are
they merely waiting, as usual, for
1 the republicans to state the issues
so that they can, as usual, take
the other side? Perhaps they
mean by saying that the issues
are made up khat they have re-
solved to be "agin" everything
the republicans favor. It will be
hard for them to find issues in
any other way. The democratic
party, nationally, is Very much
divided as to what it thinks, and
the democratic party, territorinlly
j is hardly more united, while'the
| party territorially and nationally
I are very far apart on some ques-
tions.* They are not particular
what the tissues are, as the past
In 1896 they argued that the free
homes.bill and the $15,000,000 it would save to
the settlors of Oklahoma were of vastly less im-
portance to this territory than were the triumph
of Bryan's free' silver ideas, and they elected
Callahan on that platform and didn't get the free
homes or the free silver either. In 1898 th^y
nominated a Cleveland democrat and cut out the
free silver and hooted at the possibility of free
homes. Flynn was elected and passed the free
homes bill. In 1900 they made a campaign on
anti-militarism and Bryan's prophecy that the
election of McMinley would make this an empire
and abolish the Fourth of July. History has
shown that they were wrong in all these instances,.
and no matter what issue they pick up they can't
miss it any worse and will get licked just the same.
Even the scarecrow of mixed schools, which they
worked so hard two years ago, is in bad repair.
The only issue to which they steadfastly adhere
is that of being "anti" whatsoever republicans
may favor.
has shown.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902, newspaper, May 22, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117575/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.