The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1902 Page: 1 of 10
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The Chandler News
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
LINCOLN COUNTY, fl. B. GILS! RAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
TWELFTH YEAR.
Statehood TalK.
STATEHOOD is still the popular I
theme in the newspapers of the ;
territory. Outside the newspapers
it receives far less attention. Busi-
ness men, professional men, farmers, ;
and day laborers may have their
preferences in regard to the pending
propositions, but they aren't making
a hundredth part the noise about it
that the politicians are. The sup-
porters of the omnibus bill are going
steadily ahead with their fight>nd
have by far the best of the game so
far as chances for winning are con-
cerned. The anything-to-beat-the-
omnibus-bill crowd are threatening
to hold another convention for the
benefit of those who didn't get to
make speeches at the Claremore
gathering. The idea of a republican
statehood convention seems to have
been abandoned, while some of the
democratic papers are working their |
big type pretty hard in futile efforts ;
to get the people to write and tell
Mr. Beveridge that we want to gov-1
ern the Indian territory without the j
consent of the governed. Over in j
the Indian territory a similar fight is j
going on. Some of the politicians,
who are anxious for immediate office-
hood, are perfectly willing to give
up the half million dollars that
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 25, 1902.
NUMBER 15.
ftewluticns kr tceri{fodi(.
Not expectorate in public places,^
Nor puff tobacco smoke in others' faces,
Nor wear a chip eternally on my shoulder,
And work some when I work, nor ever soldier.
Get off the earth if quite averse to labor,
Mind my own business and benefit my neighbor.
Learn how and where and when to take my leave.
Nor wear, if sentimental, my heart upon my sleeve.
Inclined to roast—reduce it to a line;
Prepare to meet my notes and eat my meals on time.
From principle and policy be polite
And ready be to back my bluff with fight.
Succeed at some one thing, though it be small,
Responsive ever to the needy s call.
Cultivate friendship for my fellow-man,
Be frugal, honest, helpful while I can.
the federal H^HIS is a material age and we need material
ur , _ < i ^ irrmrovements. The year 1903 should be
government contributes every year to the support imp marked
oHhe courts and the other expenses in the Indian marked in Lincoln
territory and to assume the Oklahoma laws and progress in bet^eri^ t e ^S in* however> some of -.he bridges had been
the benefits of Oklahoma revenues and the emolu- j ditions. 5*°°^ anc^repah"ed fences, free rural shipped into the county. It was not to be ex-
ments of offices under a state government. j repainted ^ses ^ pected that men so skilled in the schools of diplo-
Other Indian territory men are still striving , mail sen , ^ m,mi QnH' strafetrv as are bridge men would suf-
Bridges Purchased.
ON Saturday last the county com-
missioners finally let the con-
tract for nine new steel bridges at
the price of $9,000. Mr. Straughen
the county clerk, who has been the
obstacle to the consummation of this
deal, informs us that he was prom-
ised that in case that he would agree
not to appeal from the action of the
commissioners the bridge men would
agree to make a contract for about
$7,000, which would not have been
an unreasonable sum. Mr. Straugh-
en agreed to enter no objections to
such an arrangement, and when the
contract was finally let the price had
been sprung to $9,000. Just what
the $2,000 margin represents we are
not informed. The county clerk also
informs us that prior to the final let-
ting of this contract the commission-
ers agreed to let a contract, but
| afterwards changed their minds and
■ ordered the record of their action to
: be stricken from the journal. No
one will be surprised to learn that
! some of the bridges purchased arc
' the same ones that were shipped into
| the county under the contract of last
■ August. The appeal taken from the
i action of the county commissioners
' resulted in a hurried cancelling of
of the contract. The matter was in this manner
prevented from going into court, and the settle-
ment of the issue was delayed till after court had
adjourned and election was over. In the mean-
macy and strategy as are bridge men would suf-
fer any loss from the cancelling of the contract
and the advertising for new bids, and at no time
did they display any uneasiness, unless it was
,he lessees over there are a whole lot more The ! ^^ ^ cle* insisted .ha, the hid of .he
anxious about getting land titles than they are a . mngs. ^ ^ be a bad (hing (0 look Xexas firm should be considered. Evidently the
about statehood or territoryhood. Here at home ; enterpr little more closely, bridge people have about as good a thing, it not
it is again heing urged, as during the campaign, ; after present posse^ ^ a beUer 0„e_ ,ha„ that which the August contract
that the issue is drawn between single statehood For instance, rctocnp ^ ^ g ^ ^ ^ ; ga>e them Instead of J12,000 tor elevenbndges,
and double statehood. This is not true, but it suits would be t fnr more miles of railroads, i they get $9,000 for nine bridges. After there-
the purposes of some of the There's 11^^o( mli good roads radiate jection of the bids last week the representative of
no proposition before congress which does not con |Th p P ^ citizen the Texas firm appeared and offered, we are told,
template eventually making one state of the two , rom Chandler lS * N yWs resolution. The to make a good contract, giving every reasonable
territories. The issue is whether Oklahoma, hav- to incorporate ^ encourage 1 guarantee to protect the interests of the county.
ing shown her ability to govern herself, having the accomplishment o p P commissioners say that he refused to
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private domain would prevent the evil that has
government, having nearly all ner lands taxable,
shall be compelled to wait for the Indian terri-
tory to get ready for statehood, or whether
Oklahoma shall be given the right to govern her-
self with the provision that the several portions
self with the provision that the several portions private domain woum prevem u the prices contracted for last August were ex-
H the Indian territory shall enjoy the same fallen on many eastern homes-he decayed he p is 5carcel ieS5 s0, and
thev are ready for it. tumble-down condition of fences and buildngs oessive,the n
privilege just as soon as they are ready for it,, tumble-down conaiuou . ^^""Jhere if the bridge men have gone into a c
It is a question whether Oklahoma shall assume j which drives many young men ' If you determined to keep the prices up,
the expensive luxury of contributing to the ex- all is strong and new ,h«> first of the ' other wavs in which the road and bridge
pens^of governing the Indian territory in order | have the habit of resolu m« I
that thedream of single statehood may atoncebe year, dear reader, d more, good than Investing inexpensive bn
combine and
there are
funds
if not
that the dream
realized
assist in municipal improvement.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1902, newspaper, December 25, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117636/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.