The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1904 Page: 1 of 10
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUN/Y.
The Chandler News.
VOL. 13—No. 32.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY." H. B. GILS1RAP. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. APRIL 28, 1904.
$1.00 A YEAR.
TAKE AN INTEREST.
I PROBABLY by, next week the
*■ the election commissioners ap-
pointed by the republican central
committee will be ready to announce
the rules and regulations under
which the primary election for the
nomination of republican candidates
for office will be held. t The date set
by the committee—May 24th—is
now less than a month away, and
the arrangements for the primaries
would have been perfected before
this time but for the illness of one
of the commissioners. It is prob-
able that the arrangements will be
similar to those of two years ago,
following as nearly as possible the
provisions of the Oklahoma election
law. It is the wish of the central
committee and the election com-
missioners to make the elpetion as
fair an expression of the wishes of
republican voters as possible. A
ticket composed of men who are
representative citizens, good repub-
licans, and competent, worthy men
is what we want. To achieve this
result republicans must take an
interest in* the primary election.
The election of county officers is a
business matter, and the man who
waits till the choice has been nar-
rowed down to perhaps two men for each office to
be Tilled has no right to complain if neither of
the candidates meets his approval. It is th«
duty of each citizen to see that the right kind of
men are put on that ticket. Fitness and avail-
ability are both to be considered, but a man's
qualifications should be considered as of more
importance than his probable strength as a can-
didate, for, should a man be elected who was in-
capable of piWperly discharging his official duties,
he would prove a burden to his party. It is right,
however, that the voter, should not only consider
a candidate's character and ability, but should
take into account whether or not he is deserving
from a party standpoint and also whether he
would prove a source of strength to the ticket.
The republicans have an abundance of good ma-
terial from which to select this year, and there
is no reason why they should not present
to the voters of the county an exceptionally strong
ticket. Not only are republicans interested in
the nominations to be made on the 24th of May,
but many of the populists and democrats have
expressed a *'ish to see good men nominated, as
they expect to vote for the men this year. Con-
ditions are very favorable to republican success
this year in this county. The party has never
been more harrflbnlous locally.
$et the yiabit.
ONE of the Chandler News maps of Lincoln
county hangs in a window in the postoffice
building in Chandler, and at almost any hour of
the day the passer-by will see from one to half a
dozen persons consulting it to learn the location
of some man's farm or lease, the course of some
stream, the direction some line of railroad takes
through the county, the location of some school
houce or postoffice, or some other thing pertain-
ing to Lincoln county. We are pleased to see
this additional evidence of the usefulness of our
map. You may think before you see it that you
are not interested in it, but when you stop for a
moment to examine it you find that it can tell you
a lot of things that you want to know. The habit
of consulting this map is a good one to acquire,
and to get the proper amount of satisfaction you
ought to have a map of your own where you can
consult it at any time. You might hesitate if the
map was going to cost you one-half what such
maps usually sell for, but when you can get one
absolutely FREE you should take home your map
with you and "get the habit" of studying it.
NOT SURPRISED.
JN ITS issue of last Sauturday the
WE ARE very much gratified by the rapid
growth of our subscription list. New sub-
' scribers are coming in daily, and we have added
about fifty new names to our list already this week.
This is proof that our paper and big map premium
are appreciated. We hope to make The News
very much better as a county paper as soon as we
get our new press and folding machine installed.
We will then be able to give more reading matter
and to get 'the paper out more quickly and get it
to subscribers more promptly. The News al-
ready has the reputation of being the best printed
paper in Oklahoma, and we expect to maintain
our reputation in this regard and at the same time
make other improvements. The good words that
the friends of the paper are saying for it will not
be forgotten and every effort will be put forth to
justify the confidence of those friends in The
News.
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FROM present appearances is seem that by the
end of this year nearly everf part of Lincoln
i county v.-ill be reached by rural free delivery
1 routes, so that there will hardly be a farmer that
is not within a mile of a rural route. Th, bene-
fits that will come from the extension of this ser-
vice can hardly be foreseen. It will certainly do
a great deal for the country and for the people.
Publicist stated that "the editor of
(,The News says that he knew all the
{time .that.,the populists and democrats
of Lincoln county were going to fuse
this year." As a matter of fact The
News did not say this. What we
Jdid say was that the result was not
surprising and that it was just what
The News had predicted. But the
^difference is not so very important; ,
- in this instance the Publicist has
come about as near getting right as
\it usually does. Despite its efforts
' to make it appear that it really had
grave doubts as to the outcome of
the negotiations between the commit-
tees, we do not believe that the Pub-
licist itself was surprised that an
agreement to fuse was reached. Why
should it be? The committees of
both parties in this county have been
organized for fusion purposes for the
past eight years. There have been
some men on both committees who
wanted to preserve party identity,
but the advocates of expediency and
the representatives of the candidates
have generally been in the majority.
An evidence of this is found in the
fact that in 1902 they resurrected the
free silver name, though both parties
agreed that the issue was dead, just to find some
common ground on which they could fuse. This
year the democrats started out with the propo-
sition that the two parties should become one
party in fact instead of merely joining forces to
give some office-seekers a lift. The demand was
^ logical, for if the democrats and populists have
i enough in common to warrant them in uniting on
! one ticket and one platform there is no good rea-
son why they should have separate names and
two organizations. And if this position was good
two months ago, why not now? Conditions have
not changed, but the office-seekers have done
1 their work. The populists, on the other hand,
I insisted two months ago that there was a possi-
| bility that the democratic party nationally would
desert the platform on which it had stood under
the leadership of Bryan and which had given the
excuse for the temporary union of the two parties
for office-getting purposes, and that the populists
could not consistently agree to tie themselves to
the democrats till the result of the St. Lou s con-
vention should be determined. 1 hat contention
seemed cons stent, too. But now, when it it; al-
most certain that the anti-Bryan element will con-
trol the democratic national convention, the pop-
ulist committee surrenders its objections. Why?
Is it not the same old influence of the candidates?
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1904, newspaper, April 28, 1904; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117774/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.