The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1904 Page: 1 of 12
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY!
The Chandler
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. UILSlkAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. 13—No. 33.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, MAY 5, 1904.
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
TT IS truly wonderful howcompltely
Jill emotion over the tariff, finance
and imperialism has.subsided. A few
years ago the country was in a con-
dition bordering- on frenzy regarding
these three great questions. Now they
have ceased to be issues, and even
the democrats look upon them, at
least two of them, as settled and
would not dare to pursue other than
the republican policy were they in
power. It is now within a few months
of the presidential campaign, and yet
there is but little indication of what
the democratic platform will contain.
Mr. Bryan and his following will, of
course, appeal to the socialists and
populists and will insist upon stand-
ing by the Kansas City platform. At
present there is only the faintest
chance for a compromise. On the
other hand, the republicans are sin-
gularly harmonious. Nearly every-
thing they set out to do within the
last eight years has been done. . The
platforms of the last two campaigns are a list of
performances. In addition to this record of things
done there is a record of things attemped, which
shows a spirit and purpose that have inspired
great confidence in the people. The executive and
legislative branches of the government have been
true to their party and to the people. The set-
tlement of the anthracite coal strike, the estab-
lishment of the department of commerce and labor
upon an effective^ working basis, the first applica-
tion of the anti-trust law to prevent illegal combi-
nations of capital, the relentless investigation of
the postoffice department, and the unearthing and
rooting out of fraud and corruption in the public
service generally, are all largely due to the per-
• oii.il efforts of President Roosevelt, and have
formed a record which he may well be proud of
and confident in. But these high standards of en-
ergetic and honest statesmenship are no higher
than those set up by congress for itself. The
problems regarding Cuban, Hawaiian and Philip-
pic tariffs were solved intelligently and in ac-
< ordance with the best interests of all concerned.
Every suspicion which connected senators and
r,'piesentatives with grafting^ and corruption was
rigorously investigated. The utmost care has
been exercised in making appropriations, and lit-
tle which ought to have been done has been left
undone, except the granting of statehood to the
territories. I he inauguration of the irrigation
policy in the west and the start made upon the
Panama canal add to this record of things done.
All parts of the country are now enjoying the ef-
fect of a wise and vigorous republican adminis-
tration.—Kansas City Journal.
|HE RAIN is over and gone ; the voice of the
*■ turtle dove is heard in the land. It is Jhe
time of swelling buds, of opening leaves, of grais-
fuzz carpeting the earth. It is the season of
growing things—the hope of day. Fall is beau-
tiful because of its peace, but spring is beautiful
because it is full of life. Ambitions that become
real events in life, strike root in spring. The hu-
man bodyjtakes on new vigor with the season. Life
has a new birth. Truth has a new meaning with
the season of etherial mildness. It is the morn-
in of the resurrection of buried dreams. Things
come true in spring, that seemed remote and
vague and illusory in winter. Every hour of these
days is precious. It is a long lever on the future
and if it lies idl°, the year's events do not move.
It is therefore a time to work. In life there are
few things more glorious than the power to work
to get the day's task at the day's end, what-
ever the task. If the spring means anything to
the soul it means endeavor. "Work for the night
is coming."--William Allen White.
I ""HE MAN whose personal ideas may not
agree with yours but who is broad-minded
and unselfish enough to prefer the wefare of the
majority to the advancement of his personal in-
terests or the success of his own plans is a safer
man to represent your interests than is the indi-
ual who may be in harmony with your views on
most matters but who is too narrow and stubborn
to get "out of the way when he finds that he is
blocking the wheels of progress. That is the sen-
timent that Editor Hensley, of the El Reno Dem-
ocrat, voiced on the day after the passage of the
Hamilton statehood bill in the house : "The dif-
ference between Bill Cross and Bird McGuire,
and the difference between the men who supported
each was exemplified yesterday in congress. Bill
Cross publicly proclaimed that he would rather
see Oklahoma always remain a territory than to
see it come into the Union without the Indian ter,
ritory. Yesterday Bird McGuire said on the floor
of congress : 'Gentlemen, this bill does not con-
form to my idea of statehood, it is not in accord-
ance with my bill, which declares for statehood
for Oklahoma alone, yet knowing how deeply my
! people are interested in immediate statehood, I
cannot afford to permit my personal desires and
political wishes to become a stumbling block to
any kind of legislation that will break the bonds
that bind our people to a territorial form of gov-
ernment, so galling and distasteful to them. If
this bill passes there will not be a vote against it
either in Oklahoma or Indian Territery.' In this
utterance McGuire buried the partisan in the pat-
riot, and uttered a sentiment that will never be
forgc^ten by the people of Oklahoma."
ABUSE DON'T PAY.
A VETERAN newspaper man who
has often been under fire, wrote
his son who complained that the op-
position had abused him unjustly:
"What of it? Keep your record clear
and don't worry. People take their
reading with a grain of salt, particu-
larly when they read what a news-
paper man says of his rival. If rep-
utation could be ruined by gossip and
falsehood, there would not be a re-
spectable reputation in the world.
Modern people are beginning to un-
derstand that it is the disreputable
man who resorts to abuse. When
there is truth back of a charge, it re-
quires very little publicity ; it is the
lie that is bolstered up. The man
who knows so many bad things on
others, is not a good man himself.
People are "onto" him, to quote
slang. It is a low mind that runs to
charges against his neighbors; the
decent man is charitable, even when
there is guilt. The fact that your
rival is abusing you is evidence that he is getting
the worst of it. The people closely watch a strug-
gle between rivals, and they know that the man
who begins to "holler" is getting the worst of it."
It is certainly to the credit of newspapers nowa-
days that there is less of personal abuse in their
contentions between each other. This is due in
part to thi* growth of the profession along ethical
lines, and largely to the fact that intelligent news-
paper men recognize the fact that their readers
take very little interest in their personal troubles.
If an editor wishes his paper to be regarded as an
agent for the upbuilding of general interests and
as a public necessity he cannot afford to allow it
to degenerate into a personal organ even for the
advancement of his individual interests. People
take less interest in "roasts" than formerly. They
like to read a just criticism, but they prefer it to
be in a dignified tone and they are less inclined to
encourage virtuperation and abuse. It may be
easier for some writers to villify than to reason,
but it is a poor compliment to the intelligence of
one's readers to assume that they will accept an
attack upon the editor of the opposition paper as
an answer to his arguments. The day of saying
that the other fellow has lied, and letting it go at
that, has pretty nearly passed. There is less ex-
cuse even in the heat of a political campaign for
bitter personalities, and this is another tendency
to be encouraged. The vivisection of the other
fellow's arguments is much to be preferred to the
exploiting of his personal imperfections. News-
paper men will find their calling more respected
as they abandon the tactics of the pettifoging
lawyer.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1904, newspaper, May 5, 1904; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117776/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.