The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1903 Page: 1 of 10
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
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The Chandler News.
first paper published in lincoln county. h. b. gilsirap. edi kir and publ1
VOL. 13-No. 45.
CHANDLER. OKLAHOMA. JULY 30, 1903.
$1.00 A YEAR.
PRACTICAL ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
A S WILL BE learned by reading
* *• the proceedings of the county
commissioners published in this issue
of The News, the county board has
apportioned the money to be derived
from the county road and bridge tax
among the three commissioners' dis-
tricts according to the valuation of
the districts, except that, on account
of the south district containing
nearly all the indemnity land, it is
to receive $1,000 from each of the
other districts. The first district,
comprising nine and one-half town-
ships, has a total valuation of SI
225,138, and under this appqrtion-
ment will have as its share (not
making any deduction for delinquent
taxes) $11,251 for roads and
bridges; the second district, com-
prising seven townships and the city
of Chandler, has a valuation of $1,-
337,956, and will receive about $12,-
379; the third district contains
eleven townships with total valua-
tion of $1,048,403, and its share,
with the $2,000 from the other dis-
tricts, will be $12,484. In addition
to this tax, the portion of the
s;!loon license money that is [
turned into the road fund is to
be credited to the district in which
the saloons are located. We believe that
this arrangement will meet with general approval,
for it insures a proper distribution of the funds
throughout the county. The concession made
by the first and second districts in favor of the
third is but fair in view of the fact that this is
the largest of the three districts and would have
the greatest valuation were it not for the fact
that it contains the equivalent of three townships
of school land which is not taxable. In addition
to this county road and bridge fund, we under-
stand that most of the townships have made town-
ship levies for this purpose, though these have
not all been reported to the county clerk. It
seems that there will be more money available
for road work this year than ever before in the
history of the county. To get the best results
from the expenditure of these funds it is very im-
portant that the townships and the county board
should co-operate in this road work and that it
should be done along intelligent and systematic
lines and in the most thorough manner possible.
It will be impossible to work every road in the
county that needs work or to build every bridge
that should be built this year, but if some of the
most important roads are selected and the work
is concentrated upon them an immense amount of
good can be accomplished, and the foundation
can be laid for a good system of roads. The
plan of buildit.g these roads under contract and
according to plans and specifications of a compe-
tent engineer will be found satisfactory, and we
relieve our people will give it their approval.
£ cGUIRE AND THE PLATFORM."
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S^ROM SOME of our brethren of
the republican press we hear
repeated statements that they are
I "for McGuire and the platform,"
and we are counseled from the same
source not to tie the hands of our
delegate or do anything that might
embarass him in his work for state-
hood. The allusion to the platform
is, of course, to the statehood plank,
but why any republican should find
it necessary to affirm and reaffirm
his loyalty to the declaration of the
last territorial convention is hard to
understand, unless the reason be
found in the fact that a suspicion
lurks in the minds of many people
as to whether the peisons making the
affirmation are really standing by
the statehood policy which the con-
vention endorsed. The convention
endorsed the Flynn statehood bill;
the Flynn statehood bill provided for
immediate statehood for Oklahoma
with the irrevocable provision in the
constitution that Indian Territory or
any portion of it might afterwards
be added at the pleasure of con-
gress. Considering the unmistakable
position of congress in favor of one
| state, this provision was a straight-
I out declaration in favor of ultimate
TUST NOW there is hardly a town in the two single statehood, and our friends on the west side
^ territories with a more encouraging outlook who have been trying to establish separate state-
. • i- t £ 1 lUAm
for the future than Chandler. The growth of the
town has been steady and certain, but without
'"jucd dtuff."
When you get angry it is Righteous Indigna-
tion; when the other fellow gets angry it is an
exhibition of Beastly Temper.
There are two kinds of people in the world—those
who are always getting ready to do something,
and those who go ahead and do it.
He who does not understand your silence will
probably not comprehend your words. What
explanation can explain away the necessity of an
explanation?
You better learn to accept all the small misfits
and trivial annoyances of life as a matter of
course. To allow them to receive attention
beyond their deserts is to wear the -web of your
life to the warp. Be on the lookout for the great
joys and never let mosquitoes worry you into a
passion.
A boy is a man in the cocoon—you do not know
what it is going to become—his life may be big
with possibilities. He may make or unmake
kings, change boundary lines between states,
write books that will mold characters, or invent
machines that will revolutionize the commerce
of the world.
—The Philistine.
any boom or bluster or hot air. Business has
been good even through what are ordinarily the
dullest seasons of the year—a sure proof that we
hood as the republican policy have found them-
selves wandering from the position taken in the
platform, and hence their assurance that they are
for "McGuire and the platform." The advice
about tying the hands of McGuire or embarassing
have a desirable trade territory around us and him in his work is of course directed to the repub-
that our neighbors find it to their advantage to licans who favor single statehood. It is entirely
trade with Chandler business men. Notwith- unnecessary, for the single statehood republicans
standing the fact that the past year has been one are, we believe, content to stand upon the plat-
of railroad-building and town-building all over j form, and they certainly feel no need of explain-
the county, it has probably been the most satis- ing their position. As individuals they may have
factory as a whole in the entire history of Chan- their own ideas and their own preferences as to
dler so far as progress is concerned. Our city how single statehood should be approached,
has now entered in earnest upon the work of pub- but the main point with them is single statehood,
lie improvement. The electric lighting plant— j Those who are most likely to embarass Delegate
one of the best in the two territories will be in McGuire are the ones who are insisting that the
operation within two months. Our waterworks party shall accept their particular construction
of the platform and that adherence to their ideas
of its meaning shall be made a test of party
feaky. The platform needs no interpretation,
and any effort to force one upon Mr. McGuire
system is to be improved at once by the additional
expenditure of $35,000, making it complete, up-
to-date, and adequate for the demands of a
growing town. The improvement of our streets
is to receive long needed, attention, and the will be the very thing that will tend to tie his
$15,000 that is to be expended for that purpose hands. We understand that a statehood inani-
will accomplish an immense amount of good, festo is soon to be issued by the sub-committee
The agitation for the improvement of roads lead- appointed by the republican territorial commit
ing into Chandler is beginning to bear fruit, and
some really practical and permanent work has
been accomplished in this line, and much more
is being planned for the near future. Private
improvements are keeping pace with public pro-
gress.
tee. If its statements are confined to an-exposi-
tion of Oklahoma's resources and development
and her capacity for self-government it will serve
a good purpose, but if it undertakes to present a
local vie-" of the statehood question as the party
position it will delay statehood legislation.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1903, newspaper, July 30, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117696/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.