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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 12.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1904
NUMBER 40
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III) Bill
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From the Lansing Peniten-
tiary—Work of Gov.
Ferguson.
I cash, express money order, post office
'order, check or draft payable to E.
I B. Jewett, warden.
Mr. Kliener believes that the fartn-
i ers in all portions of the territory
I should unite in making these orders
j and secure the shipments in carloads
I as they will make a considerable say-
ing .in the freight charges by using
this method. Orders should be made
as early as possible because the de-
mands upon the plant from Kansas
farmers is liable to much larger this
( year than ever before and the capaci-
j ty of the prison plant will not be
able to supply an enormous demand
! from both Kansas and Oklahoma.
For a nnmber of weeks one of the
problems that has been confronting
the farmers of Oklahoma has been
the price which the twine trust would
compel them to pay for the binders'
twine they would be compelled to use
this year in their harvest. All in-
quiries of the trust agents as to price
were met with the statement that
the price had not been fixed yet but
that orders would be taken
and it would be furnished as
cheaply here as any where else
by the trust. This meant that
if the price was fixed at 14 cents that
is what they would have to pay. This
was the price last year and trust
twine will probably be as high if not
higher than it was then.
When it is known that Oklahoma
territory this year will consume about
1,000,000 pounds of this twine it is
readily seen that it is a matter of
more than ordinary concern to the
farmers of the territory To obviate
the necessity of buying trust made
twine Kansas some years ago estab-
lished a twine making plant at its
penitentiary at Lansing and Oklaho-
ma farmers can buy this twine at the
Lansing penitentiary at a price that
has been agreed upon and which is
several cents lower than the price
that will be made by the trust and
they will have this opportunity pri-
marily through* the work of R Klien-
er of thisconuty who is a member of
the Territorial board of Agriculture.
Mr Kliener, after studying the pro-
position for some time went to Gov.
Ferguson and stated to him that as
Oklahoma was paying a good price
for the detaining of her convicts at
Lansing it was no more than right
that Oklahoma's farmers should
have a right to purchase the prison
made twine on the same basis as the
Kansas farmer. To this Governor
Ferguson assented and he immediate-
ly commissioned Mr. Kliener to in-
vestigate the matter and wrote a
very strong letter to the warden of the
penitentiary setting forth a number
of reasons why twi/ie should be sold
at cost to tie farmers of Oklahoma
as well as Kansas.
Armed with this letter Mr. Kliener
went to Lansing and there took up
the matter with the warden and was
successful in liiaking a contract so
the farmers of Oklahoma are given
an option on 1,000,000 pounds of the
twine at the following prices on board
cars at Lansing:
Five thousand pounds or less at
nine cents per pound.
Five thousand pounds or more at
eight and one-half cents per pound,
The following is the form of the
order that must be made by the
farmers to secure the twine:
Oklahoma, W04
E B. Jewett, Lansing Kansas.
Please ship on or about 1SI04
to II. U. station via name
of railway pounds of state
twine
I enclose $—in payment for the
sauie.
Name
Postoffice address *
All orders must be accompanied by
McGuire Renominated for Delegate to
Congress 0. M. Cade Elected Terri-
torial Committeeman.
Thursday of last week the Republi-
can territorial convention met in the
city of Guthrie for the purpose of
ratifying the work of the Wednesday
night caucus of a few republican
leaders who had met and agreed up-
on every step to be taken by the con-
vention to be held on the following
day and as a consequence the conven-
tion was a very tame and prefunctory
affair and even dull and uninterest-
ing to republicans themselves. At
11 o'clock a. m. the convention was
called to order by Territorial Chair-
man C. M. Cade and Rev. McDermot
was called upon to invoke the Divine
blessing and his prayer was certainly
a strong one even though it did par-
take, to some extent, of the nature
of a republican stump speech. This
was followed by a terse and able ad-
dress of welcome by Mayor C. M.
Barnes of Guthrie, responded to by a
Mr. Geisler of Woods county in a
i very able manner who was followed
by Judge Garber, of Enid, who capti-
! vated the audience by his eloquence
for 20 minutes after which for 40
minutes he crucified and disgusted
it being finally forced to ceise by
the din of the uproar raised by the
audience.
The temporary chairman, previous-
ly agreed upon by caucus, J. R. Scott
of Perry, was nominated and escort-
ed to the platform and attempted to
make a spread eagle speech but was
quickly squelched. A delegate, in
attempting to tell a story, by way of
introducing his nominee for tempor-
ary secretary, got along in his story
to point where man' fell in ;i slop
barrel, and such a hoivl arose from
the audience that the fate of the
man in the slop barrel was never
learned.
McCully and Stewart were sent for-
ward to act as temporary secretaries.
The usual committees were appoint-
ed and convention adjourned until 2
o'clock. After dinner committees
reported and Cameron of Woods
county and Charles Goodwin of Cus-
ter county became the permanent
officers of the convention. Mr. Cam-
eron attempted to make a speech
but he was quickly squelched. With-
out so much as a speech Bird S Mc-
Guire was nominated by acclamation
for Delegate to Congress and also C.
M. Cade as National Committeeman.
Mr. McGuire made a very short ad-
dress after which the committee on
resolutions reported, what we pre-
sume was intended as a territorial
I platform, but really more like an ex-
tended eulogy of the republican party
and was as devoid of tangible sub-
stance as a fast year's birds nest of
eggs.
The only real live question of in-
terest "the future disposition of the
school lauds" was too live a wire for
them even to mention in the plat-
form, and we predict that it is also
too live a wire for the democrats to
take hold of. It is possible, however,
they may notice it; but not to the ex-
tent of declaring either in favbr of
the setention or sale of the lands
j Political parties unwilling to permit
I the people, by a referendum vote to
pass upon all questions they may de-
i sire should be viewed with suspicion
when they express a willingness that'
some question which they fear to
take a definite stand on, should be
submitted to a referendum vote, for
as a rule they always have some-
thing intervene, Whereby their good
intentions are frustrated and the
people denied a voice. The only safe
thing for the people until a referen-
dum law is enacted is to compel poli-
tical parties to take a stand for or
against This thing of perching up
on the fence should not be tolerated
by the voters. The only thing now
remaining for the convention to do
was to ratify by vote the decision of
the caucus as to who should go as
delegates and alternates to the
Chicago convention and the vote was
ordered to be taken. A few individ-
uals attempted to ring in some
speeches in attempt to brake the
caucus slate but the noise raised was
so great that they could not be
heard and they had to subside and
listen to the roll call. The following
is a list of the delegates and alter-
nates elected: John Cotteral, Logan
county; W. D. Fossett, Kingfisher
county; Robert Lowry, Payne county;
W. E. Teterick, Kay county; Sey-
mour Foose, Blaine county; and A. H.
Jackson, of Canadian county, with
the following alternates: J. B. Dud-
ley, Cleveland county; O. K. Bene-
dict, Kiowa, George Carr, Day: J. L.
Hoover, Roger Mills; Dr. Elliott,
Comanche, E. N. Yates, of the Osage
nation,
It is generally believed that Chas.
H. Filsou of Guthrie will be chosen to
to succeed C. M. Cade as territorial
chairman.
CONVENTION NOTaS.
It was undoubtedly an anti-Flynn
convention.
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*
The Flynnites were conspicuous by
their absence at the convention, not
even appearing as mourners.
* *
*
C G. Jones was the only Flynmte
who attempted to make a vigorous
fight for and he got it where the ax
hit the rooster.
' * *
J. B. Dudley, of this county suc-
ceeded in getting in on the caucus
slate and was chosen as an alternate.
*
*
Never heard the school land resolu-
tion passed by the republican conven-
tion mentioned on the floor of the
territorial conyention. It was, no
doubt, put into cold storage by com-
mittee on resolutions.
McCal!
Has it for
Less,
very best sheriff this county ever has
had is its present sheriff. For the
record Mr. Barker has made no small
amount of credit is due to the deputy
force which he selected. He used
much care in the selection of his
deputies and they were appointed by
reason of their fitness rather than
for any political null they might have
and by reason thereof he has one of
the best working deputy forces any
sheriff in this county ever had.
Off to Lansing.
Last Monday afternoon Sheriff
Barker and Deputies Carmon and
Ellsworth left for Lansing to
turn over to the Warden of the peni-
tentiary six prisoners convicted at
the last term of court and sentence
to serve a term in the penitentiary.
The prisoners were Jack Rail, four
years; Dee Rail, two years; and
Shanda, one year, all for horse steal-
ing. J. E. Bruning three years and
Tilley two years for forgery and
Palmer for Grand Larceny one year.
They all entered pleas of guilty.
Palmer is a man about 50 years of
of age, Jack Rail had served a p-i"
ious term in the penitentiary, u.:
other four were young men. They
all seemed to be glad to get off to
Lansing, save Palmer who seemed
somewhat down cast. Bruning was
sick and hardly able to make the
trip: but the doctor thought he could
make the trip safely and he did not
want to be left behind. Their going
left the jail onlv one occupant.
O Dell, and hi< t.,ther has give bond
for him and the jailor was left with
an empty coop on his hand.
Last Tuesday morning about 2
in the morning the residence of
Mrs. Mitchell near the court
house square in east Norman caught
fire and was nearly consumed before
the fire boys reached the place. It is
not known how the fire originated.
Nearly all of the contents were lost.
Loss fully covered by insurance.
There was $775.00 insurance on the
house and $300 on the contents.
Has the Right Ring.
I'he following is a letter sent to the
editor of the Missouri World by A.
V Hnlse formerly coun'y chairman
of the Peoples Party in this county
and at present a member of the Peo-
ples Frrty county central committee
from 10-le.
Editor World:—I am so glad the
factions in the People's party have
been settled and that we are once
more on fighting ground. 1 fully be-
lieve if we will all stick together and
stop this mixing up with the two
old frauds we will gain the .victory
yet. 1 would be glad if I could only
go to Springfield 111., July 4. I hardly
know who I would favor most for
president but Tom Watson would be
a good man. However, we have
plenty of good material, liut who-
ever it may be that is nominated, let
him be a true Populist then let us
give him our full support and prove
to the old machine bosses that have
been saying that the Pops are dead
that dead things sometimes crawl.
Now let us be up and doing. Every
man to his post and look well to the
interest of common people.
A. V. IIULSE.
The above is a fair sample of the
tone of hundreds of letters that are
being received by the Missouri World
every week from all parts of the
country and indicates that the Peo-
ples party bee hive, which for the
past eight years has been in a dor-
mant state with only a few bees seen
buzzing around, is beginning to get
ready to swarui and the dormant bees
instead of having been eaten up by
the fusion moths, are coming out and
climbing up the sides of the gum and
buzzing their wings to gather strength
iu the warm sunshine of the direct
rays sent out by the sun of Populism
that was placed in the political heav-
ens at Omaha in 1892 for the purpose
of melting the icy fetters of bondage
and poverty that the great masses of
the American people were being
wrapped about with, by a specially
favored few.
Will Barker be a Candidate for Re-election?
During the past week we have
heard the above question asked by
many citizens from all parts of the
county. Mr. Barker has not said
that he will be a candidate for re-
election. Two years ago Mr. Barker
promised the people of this county
that if they elected him sheriff that
for two years he would try to make
them a good sheriff and to do this and
be a candidate all the time for re-
election, necessarily would have in-
terfered with his discharge of his
duties for term for which he was
elected and for this reason Mr.
Barker has not been a standing
candidate for re-election since secur-
ing his first election and even lip to
the present time he has not said that
he would be a candidate for a re-
election. That he would be pleased
to serve the county two years longer
as Sheriff we have no doubt and we
believe the manner in which he has
j dischaiged the trust- placed in his
hands by theyoters of this county at
i the November election in 1902 has
| been so faithfully discharged that in
i next November the voters will, by a
I big plurality vote, again place the
trust in his hands for two years
longer. Mr. Barker is not out seek-
; ing renornination, nor is he likely to
EPHRAIIVTS
One Price Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods House.
be but when the time comes for plac-
ing candidates in the field, like Iloch
of Kansas, he will be drafted to
make the race for re-election. No
man has ever filled the office of
Sheriff in Cleveland Coun'ty that has
given as much general satisfaction
as Mr. Barker. Mr. Newblock and.
Mr. Downing were clean and capable
sheriffs of this county and no breath
ofrscandal or corruption of any kind
has ever smirched their reputations
as faithful honest and upright county
officials; but with all due respect to
Mr. Newblock and Mr. Downing we
believe the people of this county will
agree with us when we say "that the
Clothing! Clothing! Clothing
Our Spring trade has already been beyond expect-
ations. We are selling new Spring suits every day.
To say that we have the largest, nobbiest and best
line of Clothing shown in Oklahoma is putting it
very mildly. We carry so many different patterns,
which makes a very large variety, that it is very
easy for any one to be suited. Fit 'em? We don't let
any one out, because of sizes. This one thing we
pride ourselves of is giving a man fit or not sell him.
Our Furnishing Goods De-
partment is very Complete.
Wc have done everything in our power to please
the people in this line. Com; in and see those $2.00
cluette shirts, also the Monarch at $1.25 cuff attach-
ed coat shape.
SHOES—We have a nice line to show you in
every style, at prices right. Come in and see for
yourself.
PANAMA HATS---Who has them? Ephraim
carrys a nice line.
Yours for business,
FRANK EPHRAIM,
The One Price Clothier and Gents Furnisher.
FOOT NOTE Ask to see our late style $3.00 Longley
ti at s.
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