The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1902 Page: 1 of 12
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The Chandler News
ELEVENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, AUGUST 28, 1902.
NUMBER 50
Opening of the Campaign, at Oklahoma City, August 30th. One Fare for the Round Trip.
Plant Trees.
IF THE man who makes two blades of grass
grow where one grew before, is a bene-
factor, what about the man, woman or
child who makes a tree to grow where none
grew before? Or who plants trees where the
ruthlessly destroyed " forest primeval"
stood? A Kansas town boasts of five trees
to every inhabitant. Other towns point with
pride to their railroads, factories, politicians,
growth and other qualifications of note. But
this one town has trees. As features of the
landscape, necessities of comfort and culture
and beauty nothing can be more desirable.
A town with roads, good water and numerous
trees is far on the way towards being a de-
sirable place to live. Arbor day has done
much to encourage the planting and care of
trees. Forestry is receiving encouragement
from the government. Timber claims have
done much toward winning the arid West for
homesteads. Lincoln county, though better
supplied with trees than most Oklahoma re-
gions, is fast being robbed of these gifts of
nature. Unless the trees are replaced from
time to time, the native forests will become
of the past and only fruit trees, with their
commercial values, will be in evidence. Trees
will always be needed for shade, beauty, con-j
venience, protection, fuel. When the Lincoln;
county man can tear himself away from railroad {
building, new town booming, politics, founding j
banks and advertising the territory, or in the in-
tervals between these vocations, he should plant
trees.
TT IS hard to tell the truth without displeasing
1 somebody. A democratic subscriber just now
came in and ordered the paper stopped because
it was hitting the democrats too hard. Can it be
possible we have told too much truth ! We are
sorry to lose a subscriber, but feel we still have
him for a reader for he will borrow his neighbor's
paper to read and save for himself the revenue
he is unwilling to allow a republican editor to
collect for telling the truth. If he can only keep
on reading a borrowed News he will doubtless
get some more truth before the campaign is over. .
And though we have stopped his,paper we have
not stopped the News and will not until McGnire
is elected, and then some. Our democratic
Walls of Corn.
friend is too sensitive.
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SMILING and beautiful, heaven's dome
Bends softly over our prairie home
But the wide, wide lands that stretched away,
Before my eyes in the days of May,
The rolling prairie's bilowy swell,
Breezy upland and the timbered dell,
Stately mansion and hut forlorn,
All are hidden by walls of corn.
All wide the world is narrowed down,
To walls of corn now sere and brown.
What do they hold—these walls of corn,
Whose banners toss on the breeze of morn.
He who questions may soon be told,
A great state's wealth the walls enfold.
Clothes and food for the toiling poor,
Wealth to heap at the rich man's door;
Meat for the healthy, and balm for him
Who moans and tosses in chamber dim;
Shoes for the barefooted, pearls to twine
In the scented tresses of ladies fine;
Things of use for the lowly cot,
Where (bless the corn) want cometh not;
All these things, and so many more
It would fill a book to name them o'er,
Are hid and held in these walls of corn,
Whose banners toss on the breeze of morn.
Where do they stand, these walls of corn,
"Tbose banners toss on the breeze of morn?
THE stenographers who are taking down Col. :
Bill Cross's speeches find that they have
acquired some literary curiosities. Besides the
peculiarly fusionistic subject matter, the syntax
is badly out of gear. Before the speeches are j
put in print they are thoroughly revised and take 1
on the Oklahoma dialect. After all it is the ma-.
terial of the speech, not its mannerisms, that
count, and the man's character., not his appear- ;
ance, should make the lasting impression. All
the weaknesses of his plea and lack of equilibrium
of personality are shown in his printed speeches. |
C• en the Atlas, conned by rule,
In the older days of the district school.
Point to the rich and bounteous land,
That yields such fruits to the toilers' hand.
"Treeless desert," they called it then,
Haunted by beasts and forsook by men.
Little they knew what wealth untold,
Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled.
Who would have dared with brush or pen,
As this land is now, to paint it then?
And how the wise ones had laughed in scorn,
Had prophets foretold these walls of corn,
Whose banners toss in the breeze of morn?
—Ellen P. Allerton.
Ready=Made Editorial.
WE NEED material for some good hand-
made editorials wherewith to adorn
this front page. We need some new sub-
jects or a vocabulary for dressing up the old
ones. Old wines in new bottles, in other
words. Of course there are resources for
the ready-made article, as for instance the
Guthrie Daily Leader, the Oklahoman, the
Wichita Beacon, or, if one is particular as
to political complexion one can clip from the
the Eagle or the State Capital. But there is
a long felt want for the home-grown product.
The imported or scissored editorial has sort
of a stale flavor, like the strawberries one
gets in March. The perpetual interest of
Oklahoma political subjects, such as single
or double statehood, Delegate Flynn, the
permanent capital, fusion, and its Kansas
City importation are always available and
we are pursuaded, acceptable. But they are
so deep and solemn. The reader and the
editor need a change, if only a guessing con-
test as to who names the new towns and
why, or what effect Bill Cross s compliments
to "the ladies" will have on the size of his
defeat. Where all the lost pins go to has '
long been a puzzle but it is easy compared to the
guess of what excuse the fusionists will give
after election day. The heavy editorial has its
place alongside the heavy and long-winded cam-
paign speech but if overindulgence is permitted a
sort of moral and mental dyspepsia will land
the victems in a political graveyard whose pop-
ulation is the remains of spell-binders.
VOTERS are not to dispense entirely with the
dissipation of the delegate conventions after
all, for the legislative nominations will be made
in the old-fashioned way and the brethren will
get together and make nominating speeches.
Here is a vital lack in the primary system—the
speeches which have been fermenting for months
J in the minds of leading citizens have no way of
escape and fatal consequences are likely to
result, and another weak spot has to do with the
resolution evil. If we never have delegate con-
ventions how are we to frame and pass resolu-
tions? The thing appears impossible. And
where would history and William Jennings Bryan
be if it had not been for the resolutions in the
Omaha and Kansas City platforms? The alter-
native leaves all sorts of horrible possibilities to
the imagination. For the safety of the American
let us not entirely abandon the delegate conven-
tion unless we can invent an ample escape for
overdue eloquence and enthusiasm.
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THE laws proposed or in force, regulating
child-labor, will not have any effect on the
army of little Oklahoma cotton pickers, unless
to increase their number. These young workers
are surely doing their part toward making the
commonwealth rich and great. Child-labor is a
great feature in Oklahoma agriculture.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1902, newspaper, August 28, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117603/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.