The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 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. GILS!RAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. 13—No. 3.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, OCTOBER 8, 1903.
$1.00 A YEAR.
STUDY THE ELECTION LAW.
TN THE trial of the Burris-Dennis
*■ election contest case last week
some phases of our election law
were considered and construed by
•Judge Burford which have not in the
past been fully understood, and now
that their meaning has been made
clear by a judicial decision it is im-
portant that in the future these points
at least shall receive a more strict
attention. So far as the vote for
county commissioner is concerned,
the voters of two entire townships
have not had their votes considered
because the poll clerks in those
townships failed to place their initials
upon the backs of the ballots as the
law requires. This seemed a very
little thing, and perhaps the mem-
bers of the election board thought it
of minor importance, but the court
looks at it in a different light. Ten
voters did not have their votes
counted because they used their lead
pencils to indicate their choice in-
stead of using the stamp which the
statute says shall be used. They
were lead into this error doubtless
by relying upon the theory that the
law need not be strictly followed so
long as the intent of the voter can
be determined. This however is not
the case, and the fact that printed instructions
were posted about the polling place telling in
detail how the voter should proceed to secure
and mark his ballot should have been sufficient
warningtothevoters that they could only have their
votes counted by proceeding as the law directs.
Many people make mistakes in voting by failing
to ask for information, and others depend upon
unreliable sources for their information instead
of reading the law which is posted for their ben-
efit. Usually the members of the election boards
are supposed to understand the law, but they do
not always understand it, as is proven by the
cases of South Creek and North Wichita town-
ships. Special care should be exercised in future
elections to profit by these mistakes and to get
well-informed men for election boards.
LOOK AT YOUR LABEL.
J^EADERS *of The Chandler News
have probably noticed during the past
month that our mailing list has been re-
set and that the label on each person's
paper on which his name appears also
bears the date to which his subscription
is paid. In going over s& large a list it is
possible that some mistakes may have
occurred. Wherever the name or the
date is incorrect The News will be glad
to rectify the error. Subscribers will be
able to tell by looking at their labels just
how their subscription accounts stand,
and they will not therefore need to wait
for statements to pe presented in order to
know the correct amount to remit.
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'HE case of J. J. Houston, late secretary of
the school land board, is still the subject of
a great deal of discussion in territorial papers.
It's an affair we don't know much about, but it
seems to us that if Houston is known to have
WE ARE GLAD that the city council
Mr. Carver have reached an agreement and
that the installation of the electric light system
is to be completed without further d^lay. The
new ordinance seems to be a much beeter one
from the standpoint of the city than was the old
one, and yet it does not impose any unreasonable
restrictions upon Mr. Carver. In many respects
the franchise is like the first one. It runs for
twenty years, and the city has the right to pur-
chase at any time at a price to be determined by
appraisement; at the completion of the plant the
city is to enter into a ten years' contract for
twenty arc lights of 2,000 candle power at the
rate of $75 per year each ; the schedule of rates
for incandescent and commercial arc lights is the
same as in the first ordinance, except that the
rates named are now designated as the maximum
rates. Among the amendments may be mentioned
one providing that in case street lights are ex-
tinguished or not lighted for more than one night
the city shall pay pro rata for the time they
actually run; requiring that the poles shall be
replaced by a better and heavier quality at the
•-'I been guilty of any serious irregularity he ought j end of three years; that lights shall be fur-
to be prosecuted, and if there is not sufficient nished free for the waterworks pumping plant;
proof to warrant an attempt at punishment there
is not enough to justify so much talk. Is the
fight on Houston really aimed at some one
else? What good can come of continuing this
talk if nothing is done?
CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD.
T"*\URING THE campaign that pre-
ceded the bond election in
Chandler last summer, the citizens
of this city were repeatedly assured
by the organ of the element that op-
posed the bond issue that the bonds
could be sold at a lower rate of in-
terest or for a higher premium than
that which the city had contracted
for, and instances were cited where
other towns were alleged to have
done much better in the sale of their
bonds, the inference being that the
city council was either wilfftlly orig-
norantly permitting Chandler to get
the worst of the deal. To back up
this position they produced an offer
by a Guthrie firm to take the issue of
bonds atthe same rate of interest but
at a higher premium. The News
took the position at that time that
this offer was not made in good faith.
Now that the company which con-
tracted for the purchase of the bonds
has backed down, there is an excel-
lent chance for those who made the
lalk last summer to make good. If
the company which made the offer
for the bonds after knowing that they
were contracted to another firm will
will come to th# front with the same
offer now that the council is in a
position to consider it, T^IE News will be pleased
to acknowledge that] it has misinterpreted their
motives. If the people who are so confident that
the bonds could easily be sold at a better advant-
age to the city will kindly produce their pur-
chasers in accordance with their talk we will
humbly admit that we were wrong. But th^y are
so slow, so slow, about doing this. They should
make Jiaste to give some tangible evidence of
their good faith or the public will have reason to
believe that their assertions last summer were all
hot air—merely a bluff to aid them in their oppo-
sition to the bond issue. We do not need the
waterworks any less now than we did then, and
the need of more means for the improvement
of our streets is emphasized every day. Every
public-spirited citizen should want the bonds sold.
THE EFFORTS of democratic politicians to
make capital out of the frauds and irregu-
larities in the postoffice department are not aided
very much by the numerous indictments that are
being returned against the guilty parties nor by
the vigorous manner in which things are being set
right wherever they are found to be wrong. As
that a suitable building of stone or of brick be a matter of fact the offeuders are nearly all in
erected over the lighting plant machinery ; and ; the classified service and most of them have
that Carver should give a $1,000 bond to have held office since the last democratic administra-
his work completed by Nov. 1. Great credid is tion. It seems that the republicans themselves
due Messrs. Hale and Finch for their good work, are "turning the rascals out" very rapidly.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1903, newspaper, October 8, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117716/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.