The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1904
NUMBER a
THE PARTING CAME
H. E. STRAUGHEN
Nominated for Congress by
the Populists.
days to determine their course, but* Last Tuesday afternoon the Popu.
whether they come to the only polit- list* delegates elected to attend the
ical party of reform outside of pro-1 Pe°Ples l'arty Congressional conven-
tjje j tion met in Oklahoma City and was
called to order by Territorial Chair-
E Saunders. Nine
Woods, Lincoln, Grant,
Pawnee, Payne,
What
Position Will
Bryan Take in
Mr.
hibition and socialism or not,
people, the bovs in the trenches,
educated by Bryan will come. Toiaian Spencer
vote for Roosevelt means only the counties,
•size of his popularity, but every vote j Kingfisher, Kay
for Watson is a menace to oppression ; Cleveland and Greer, had delegates
graft and Standard oil method.. jin attendance. A temporary organ-
Only these votes are counted against I 'zat'on was effected by choosing
monopoly. Harry Jones of Payne county and H.
* # j E. Straughen of Lincoln as terapor-
chairman and secretary. The
No mattei what position Mr. Bryan j ary
may take, no matter if he chooses to
usual committees were appointed and
support, his god of gold in preference convention after appointing a con-
ference consisting* of nine members
Territorial Platform of the Peoples Party
ADOPTED AT THE OKLAHOMA CITY
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION
to that god of war which he so
strongly portrayed, the millions of
true men who followed him to defeat
in 18S6 and in 1900 know their duty
now.
The democracy of the nation is now
to confer with a like committe of the
democratic conventiou should such
convention desire a conference, for
the purpose of ascertaining if it
might not be possible to form some
THE COMING CONFLICT?
Will
He Not Raise His
Voice Against
"The Crucifixion of mankind
on a Cross of Gold ? "
The national anniversary week will
be long remembered. The People's
party built their best platform and
selected their best leader to head the
ticket. The democratic party re-
turned to its war time position, and
into this party will now go the graft-
ers, great and small. It is the re-
fuge of the trusts, the home crushers
and the altar of Wall street. Here
Standard oil will mingle with grum-
blers, growlers and anti-progression-
ists of all descriptions to condemn, to
denounce and deplore.
The teeth for the things which the
radicals, Bryanites or Hearstites
in the hand* of the forces of Wall satisfactory arrangements or basis
street. The Democratic voters are uPon which both conventions might
not. unite on same candidate for delegate
The money power has nominated ! t0 congress. The democrats did ap-
its choice and his name stands at the 1 point a such committee and the pop-
head of the democratic ticket. ! ulists committee through its chair-
But the democratic voters will not j man with the approval of the Peoples
follow blindly the path that has been ! Party convention submitted a propos-
laid out for them by the trust forces j ition to the effect. That if any one of
of New York city. 1 three men whose names would be
Mr. Bryan has himself pointed out j placed before the democratic con-
most forcibly and clearly the situa-1 vention, should receive the nomina-
tion that is now confronting the tion that the Peoples Party would
party. The men who defeated the | accept same and make said candidate
the great "Commoner" in two nation-j the nominee of the Peoples Party
al campaigns are in the saddle. ! conventions. The names mentioned
They have used fraud and bribery j were Hon. Jesse L. Dunn, Hon. C. L.
and cunning to defeat the will of the ! pinkham and Hon. J. L. Matthews
Democratic voters. They have se I Qf Payne county. These men were
cured control through deception and j know Populists who have been affilia-
have placed in the hands of the mon- | ting with Bryan democrats other-
opolies of the land the scepter of wise the populists would nominate a
democratic leadership. ; candidate. The democrats instead
These two parties within the Demo- j 0f nominating one of the names
cratic party were farther apart than I mentioned, nominated Hon. Frank
either were from the republican ( Matthews of Greer county, a bourdon
Party- I democrat whom no populists would
think of supporting, and as a conse-
quence the populist convention nomi-
First. Be it resolved that we, the
People's Party of Oklahoma, in con-
vention assembled at Oklahoma City
this 26th day of July 1904, do re-affirtn
our adherence to the basis truths of
the Omaha -platform of 1892 and the
subsequent platforms of the Peoples
Party up to and including the plat-
form of 1904.
Second. We further re-affirm our
adherence to our time honored motto
"Equal rights to all, special privileges
to none." We declare our faith in
this principle aud look forward to its
final trimuph when the laws of state
and nation shall be enacted in the
interest of all the people rather than
in the interest of a favored few.
The Statehood Declarutlon.
Third. We condemn the republi-
can party for its duplicity on the
statehood question. They have fre-
quently pledged to admit the two
territories and haye failed to pass
every statehood bill that has been
presenttd to congress for its con-
sideration. They have
statehood if a republican nomin <
was elected to congress and threat-
ened to maintain a territorial form
of government if he was defeated.
We favor immediate single
statehood fo- Oklahoma and Indian
Territory with a proper provision j
providing for a school fund for Indian
Territory commensurate with that of
Oklahoma.
Trust Plank.
tion by which to settle the differen-
ces between employers and employes
that will be just to both parties and
will prevent employers from unjustly
increasing prices to the public so
that they may satisfy their avarice
as was done after the great anthrac-
ite coal strike.
Colorado Situation.
Sixth. We regard the means em-
ployed to control the great Colorado
strike as unjustifiable and a disgrace
to the civilization of the twentieth
century It shows the tendency of
malitaryism under republican rule
with all of its tyranny.
Army and Navy.
We are opposed to large armies and
navies. They are a great expense,
are a burden to the people and en-
danger free government. We believe
that to deal justly with nations and
individuals is the surest way to se-
cure their respect, and that the safe-
ty and perpetuity of our nation must
promised ! ever depend upon the intelligence
virtue and patriotism of its citizens.
Direct Legislation.
Seventh. We favor the initiative
and referendum, the election of
United States senators by direct vote,
| we favor government ownership of
We favor such road
the manual labor
| public utilities.
laws as will utilize
of convicts on the public highway
School Land Doclaratlon.
How can any Democrat who voted
for Wm. J. Bryan in 1890 and 1900,
go to the polls next November and
vote for Parker? How can the voters
who fought valiantly for the cham-
pion of the people explain their
course if they do not repudiate the
forces which in those campaigns de-
feated them?
Bryan is too honest, too sincere to
do anything that will involve a viola-
party. He may choose to speak
openly. He may decide to keep
siient. But whatever course he pur-
sues, the principles for which he has
fought must and will dominate the
action of the great democratic mas-
ses of the nation.
stood for were pulled with the Hill j tion or sacrifice of principle on his
forceps and the claws trimmed with
the Wall street ax To leave a few
of the less important features de-
clawed and the financial plank de-
capitated was claimed as a Bryan
victory by some whose desires for
victory in that quarter were'greater
than their capacity for the measure-
ment of the issue of battles.
This was proven when Parker sent
his telegram declaring his position
on finance to be the Wall street
standard. The telegram may have
been an error or a fraud, but the
reply of the convention is genuine.
That reply did what Hill was un-
able to do with the platform makers.
It pledged the party to the gold
standard, by accepting the candidate
upon his own plank.
Bryan and hiscabinet did their full
duty by Democracy. They did their
nated Hon. H E Straughen of Lin-
coln county and invite every Populist
and Bryan democrat in Oklahoma
for his support. Mr. Straughn is
the present county clerk of Lincoln
county and is serving his second
term having been triumphantly elec".
twice on a Bryan demo-popuUsf
ticket
He is a thorough Populist who
while he beleived in Bryan democracy
and did what he could to elect Mr.
Bryan, draws the line on Parker
democracy and is now a 1 >yal sup-
porter of Watson and Tibbies.
Mr. Straughen is a strong candi-
Fourth. We oppose trusts, or those i
combinations of capital which seek
to destroy competition in trade arbi-
trarily fix prices so as to enable the
trust magnates to accumulate vast
fortunes at the expense of the toiling
masses of mankind. We demand that
the law be enforced against them, as
against other violators.
Government by Injunction.
Fifth. We condemn government
by injunction and deplore the condi-
tions that lead to strikes, and we de-
mand some definite plan of arbitra-
Eighth We condemn the present
school land board for its harsh, unjust
and oppressive administration of the
school land office: we favor leaving
the disposition of the school land and
public lands to the vote of the people
of the future state under such rules
and regulations as the legislature
thereof may provide, and we pledge
our party to protect the lessees to
the amount of the value of their im-
provements a tid we also pledge our
party to the protection of the school
funds of the future state.
Some of them may vote for Roose- j date a clean, honorable and a ;gres-
velt. Some may vote for Debs on the ■ sive young man, and besides the sup-
Socialist ticket Some may not vote | port of the Populists in this Territory
at all. But the most effective way will receive much support from demo-
for them to make theU influence ! crats who cannot endorse the candi-
felt, will be to cast their voles for j dacy of Parker and Davis on a plat-
Watson, the candidates of the Peo-1 form which has repudiated every-
ple's party.—Joliet Illinois News.
Mount-Yandel-
On Wednesday July 13 1904 in Ruth-
erford Tenn., occurred the wedding
of John S. Mount and Miss Mabel
Yandel. The groom was until quite
recently emplojed as a salesman in
the gents furnishing store of Frank
utmost to make a good[ platform and I Ephraim and wa8 quite well and fa-1 man) bul who t0ðer with his plat-
name a proper candidate. At no | vorably known in this city The hap-
thing of consequence for which the
democratic party has stood in the
last eight years. A candidate who
would accept a nomination on a plat-
form which in one breath endorses
the St. Louis national democratic
platform and its candidates and in
the next breath declares that W. J.
Bryan is the greatest living states
bles and the repudiation of Bryanism
by the St. Louis convention built a
bon-fire in the hearthstone of every
Peoples party home in the nation.
In 1894 the democrats led by Cleve-
land in the nation and Wisby in the
territory polled 12,000 votes against
Hon. Ra'ph Beanmont's 17,00 and this
year the democrats with a similar' succeeded at about seven o'clock
national leader and a Bourbon leader Wednesday nominating Hon. Frank
in this territory will have to do some | Matthew, of Greer count whowill
tall hustling to beat the Peoples
Democrats Nominate Frank Matthews of
Greer County for Delegate to Con-
gress- ♦
Last Tuesday the delegates to the
democratic congressional convention
met in a Beer Garden in Oklahoma
City and after much irrigation all
i day and night of travail and labor
beat the
party candidate in the race this fall.
In 1894 Cleveland county gave the
Peoples party candidate for dele-
gate to Congress a plurality of over
100 in a fierce three cornered battle
and is inbetter shape now to give
such a candidate 500 plurality than
100 in 1894.
If this be true in Cleveland county
the counties in the territory where
Populists and democrats have united
for the past eight years because they
point did they shirk a responsibility. I
Populists in the galleries and rotun-
das were equally as loyal, though
desiring the same thing as Wall
street asked for—the complete ob-
literation of Bryanism from the
party—they were lo,\ al to his position,
and cheered and encouraged Bryan in
his efforts to retain control of the
party on every occasion. Bryan still
remains the greatest American.
Losing control at a time when the
party was of his own making it is not
possible to again acquire the ascend-
ancy. The overwhelming defeat of
Parker would have little in it to
change the course of the Hills and
Sheehan's employed for the mere
purpose of stamping out Bryanism.
It is not party victory they desire,
but Bryan annihilation and they are
alert.
The great leaders of the movement
j form was thrown through the tran-
py couple will make their home in I goln a(. Louis, should be by reason
Union Tenn., where Mr. Mount has a of guch duplicity and hypocracy
good position with Morgan & Hardy gnowed under at the polls in this Ter-
Bros., a dry goDds establishment of : rjtory next November, by the votes
place. Plie \ oice joins Mr. 0f an indignant people thus showing
that
Mount's many friends in wishing he j
believed that the difference between
Bryan democracy and Populism was
so little as not to justify them in di-
viding their forces: but rather that j
forces should be united against the j
common enemy, should bring in rous- j
ing pluralities for Hon. H. E Strang-1
hen next November and this together
with the dissatisfaction existing
be known, no doubt, in this campaign
as the Beer Garden candidate for
delegate to Congress. In one re
spect the convention reminded us of
the St. Louis convention towit, the
the whole audience outside of the
delegates demanded the nomination
of Hon. Wm. Cross as the audience
in St. Louis cheered and encouraged
W. J. Bryan in his battle to prevent
a surrender of the democratic party
to Wall street inline ce-. In both
conventions the del<',rates turned ;i
deaf ear on the audience. Bryan
was crucified at St. Louis on a Wall
street cross, and the man who led
the democrats to victory, a* many
believe, in this territory two years
and who still retains the first place
in the hearts of the loyal democrats
in Oklahoma, was left hanging on the
walls of a Beer .Garden in
Oklahoma City because for soothe ht;
hadsp nt his substance in the battle
of 1902 and had nothing to offer: but
service In this campaign an untar-
nished banner lie had carried in 1901!.
When the democratic party turned
down Bill Cross at Oklahoma it
„ , „ , . . . , - ,. , .. ^ I turned down whatever chance it may
polls in November, ihe Judge seems j Party organization united and by a , democrat or Populist in this territory j havg faad t() e,ect a deletjate to Con-
" " U,"J "" 'u~ 1 A unanimous vote severed all connec- who believes in the principles for
and his bride a long and prosperous
life.
Will Not Resign Judgship.
Judge Parker is consulting with
his collegues on '.he bench in New
York and will probably not resign
from his position on the bench, at
least, not until be has heard from the
their resentment of such cheap clap [ wilhin the ranks of the republican
trap as attempted to be practiced up- , {orce9t win jnsure the election of Mr.
on them to secure tbeir support for | Strau(rhelI. The democratic candidate
the Parker Wall street ticket. jln thig territory is not justified in
The Peoples Party men, not only in j hoping to secure the votes of any but
Cleveland county but throughout j the few Cleveland democrats and the
Oklahoma will be delighted to learn I democrats who vote the democratic
that at Oklahoma City every county | ticket for no other reason than it is
in Oklahoma with an active Peoples ! styled the democratic ticket. The |
to think that a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush.
tion with Parkerized democracy and
Hon. Paul Nesbitt, of Watonga, | nominated Hon. H. E. Straughen as
who served as temporary chairman of
the Democratic Congressional con-
vention visited with his parents and
brother E. T. Nesbitt in this city
will hold a conference in about thirty last Wednesday.
their delegate to congress. This
news will cause the building of a
bonfire in the hearthstone of every
Peoples Party home in Oklahoma as
the nomination of Watson and Tib
. . igressthis year.
which Populism stands or in the pnn- j s
ciples Bryan advocates will sear his j "Dad" Gray of Oklahoma City was
conscience not one whit less by voting 1 in Norman looking after business in-
for Hon. Frank Matthews than by: terests last Thursday. He is now
voting for Hon. B. S McGuire. They j running a grocery store and serving
both stand as the exponents of Wall i Ice cream and cold drinks in Capital
Street rule in this country. Hill Oklahoma City.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1904, newspaper, July 29, 1904; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117801/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed May 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.