The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1904 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 30 1904
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
AN ANTI-PARKEtt LEAGUE.
81 II 6® I
Georgia a Doubtful State.
After listeniug to Hon. Thomas E.
Watson deliver one of the greatest
speeches heard at Atlanta, Georgia,
to one of the largest political gather-
ings ever held iu the South and wit-
nessing the effect the speech had on
the great crowd Hoke Smith a mem-
Democrats Who Oppose the Candidate
Organized in Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 24—The anti-Parker
Democratic National league, with the
object of enlisting every Democrat
opposed to the Democratic Presiden
tial nomin ee has just been organized
in Chicago. It was announced that
the league will have branches in
every county In the Northern states,
and in a good many of those in the
. r, ,, t , .South. The officers of the league are:
ber of Cleveland's cabinet confidently T3„ w ,, ,, , .
. ,, , President, A. W. Maxwell, ex-chair-
told several friends during the recep-1 t
„ & . , man of the Iowa Democratic state
tion given to Mr. Watson that unless | committee; vico presidenti Thomag
something was done speedily, Georgia ; N Ijaci{injrSi ex-member of the Illi-
would be considered a doubtful state. ...
i . . . , „ . . nois state committee; secretary
ihe Associated Press is saying little n r> r t, u • , '
Lh™,. — - J ,. | George P Locke, exchairman of the
Kansas state executive committee:
NUMBE1
IS 161.
In 1896 T. P. Gore, then a resident
of Mississippi, stumped the state of
Texas in opposition to the Demo-
cratic party and among other things
made the following statement:
Tne trouble with the Democratic
party is, it is a party of satesmen
without statesmanship, of patriots
without patriotism, of heroes without
heroism, and that party policy when
entrusted with power always begets
farmers without farms, laborers with-
out labor and freemen without free-
dom. ., .
"Who ever heard of a democratic
platform lasting over two years?
The fifty-second congress had a
Democratic majority of 149, and if it
redeemed a single pledge, observed a
single promise, kept a single com-
mand, or discharged a single obliga-
tion made to the people of the United
States, I will quit the stump, retire
from the canvass, return to Mississ-
ippi and never raise my voice against
the Democratic party.
I have presented this proposition
to the most distinguished democratic
statesmen in Texas and Mississippi
and it never has been controverted.
The democrats are as silent as a sha-
dow. The Republicans stand for
principle though that principle |
mav be wrong, and they will always
fight you in the open, but the Demo-
cratic party is Judas-like, it will
kiss and betray. At the rate the
Democratic party reformed the tariff
by the Wilson bill it will take them
sixteen hundred years to. complete it,
and the benefit would belike a lifein-
surance policy., you would have to
wait until you were dead to get the
benefit ot it. The fifty-second con-
gress did only two good things, one I
will not mention and the other was to
adjourn. On the free list of the Wil-
son bill I find dried bugs—gold bu$:s I
presume, I find walking canes, so the
farmer may have a gold heaiM one
free of duty to walk out to milk his
cows. I find diamonds on the free list
to setoff your hickory shirts. 1 find
sticking plaster, balm of Gilead,
stray cattle, skeletons, indigo and
fiddle strings. I find a tariff of 125
per cent on tincture of iron, because
if the people purified their blood they
would not vote the Democratic ticket.
I find a duty of 25 per cent on Iiibles,
and if iliere is anything a Democrat
should learn it is that commandment
in the Bible—"'Thou shalt not steal."
Judge Gore will probably speak in
this county for Parker and Mathews
dcring this campaign and we would
have our readers bear in mind what
the Judge said about the democratic
party in 1896.
about Watson's meetings and it is
well for the old political parties that
it is not, for should the people learn
that Mr. Watson is having the larg-
est crowds that ever assembled to
I hear a political speaker, even rival-
ing the crowds that poured out to
hear Bryan in the early part of his
1896 campaign, a landslide to Watson
might be started and the race would
be between Roosevelt and Watson.
If it should become apparent to the
South that Parker stood no chance of
election and that the South by turn-
ing to Watson might start a stam-
pede to Watson and secure his elec-
tion don't you think the South would
do it? There are signs that such a
thing is brewing in the political skies
Populist s everywhere are awakening
and throwing lethargy to the winds.
In Conneticut and New Jersey the
anti Wall street democrats have fol-
lowed the anti Parker democrats in
New York and have called state con-
ventions to put Watson and Tibbies
electors in the field and wage a vigor-
ous campaign The great labor or-
ganizations throughout the country
have been attracted to Watson by
his Labor Day speech delivered in
Kansas City and the rural mail boxes
throughout the country are testi-
monials to the farmers that Watson
was their friend while in congress,
treasurer, Michael D. Callahan of the
Chicago & Western Indiana railroad.
The object of the league as outlined
by Mr. Locke, are as follows:
To get in touch with every Demo-
crat who is opposed to the election of
Parker. «
To work against the undemocratic
element that controlled the St. Louis
convention.
To reorganize the Democratic party
so that it will be in a position to
elect a Democratic candidate when
one of the Democratic principles is
nominated four years hence. It
was said that the names of 10,000 dis-
afiected Democrats already had been
secured.
McGuire
and
Hold a Joint-
Mathews
Debate,
Thursday of last week the old party
press of the territory gave out a re-
port of the meeting of delegate Mc-
Guire and would be delegate Mathews
in joint debate at Weatherford Okla-
homa and both state that the crowd
out to hear them was about 3000.
This is about as far as their report of
the meeting agrees. The democratic
press allege that .Mathews skinned
McGuire and virtually put him out of
the running in Western Oklahoma
and the Republican press allege that
That we have the
biggest a n d best
stock of
LUMBER
in Cleveland coun-
ty and that it will
pay you to figure
with, us before
buying
Barker Lumber
A. Hutchin, of Lexington, was in
Norman last Friday attending to
legal business and looking after po-
litical fences. Andy feels pretty
confident that the people of this
county are going to want him to
Announcement
Of the arrival of my Fall Stock of
DRESS GOODS,
TRIMMINGS,
MILLINERY,
NOTIONS,
CLOTHING,ETC.
I handle no auction or second hand
goods, but everything here is up-to-
date the most advance styles and
proper weavesat competition killing
prices.
the sensible thing to do would be to
vote for Hon. II. E. Stranghen, the
Peoples Party candidate.
Socialist Nominate a Candidate for Ooun-
cil in 5th District,
Last Saturday afternoun a mass
meeting convention of the Socialists
of the 5th Council district met in the
probate court room and nominated
David Henderson of Etowah as the
socialist candidate for the council in
the 5th district. The convention was
not a large one. The nominee is a
well-to-do farmer and an old settler
who enjoys a wide acquaintance hav-
ing taken an active interest in re-
form policies in this county for the
past ten years though never a candi-
date for any office always steadfastly
refusing to permit his name to be
used in connection with any ollice.
He was nominated last Saturday dur-
ing his absence: but said after finding
out what convention had done that
he would accept and make the race.
Mr. Henderson, not because he is a
socialist: but because he is known to
be a good man, wili poll a strong vote
in Cleveland county and should he be
elected the farmers can rest assured
that they will have a man in the
next council who will look after their
interests eariy and late.
Registration Books Now Open.
The city registration book* fo\
voters are now open and will u*
closed on October 29tb. All perse As
living in Norman and desiring to
vote in the coming election should go
to the city clerk's office and register.
The registration books will be found
in the office of Tate & Clement.
be
It
Parker Accepts.
My Grocery Department stocked
with the best. i handle hunter's
Cream Flour.
R. C. BERRY.
and the safety couplers on the 1 ail-
road trains are also speaking to the
railroad men to support their friend
Thomas E Watson who forced the
railroad companies to put the safety ,
couplers on their trains.
McGuire just flayed Mathews alive
and won not less than 500 votes in the
debate. Statehood seems to have
been the theme of the debate, Ma-
thews showing up the record of the
republicans on this question and Mc-
Fine $75.00Tnd 0o8ts. . (/uire,ho"ln* up ,the 'ecord ,of l,'e
„ . , , ! democrats. If we do not mistake the
Last Friday the trial of Albert Hon- . n, - , .
, ; , , , f intelligence of the Weatherford
ham, charged with a disturbance of ^ , . ,
' , . ... audience after having- the record of
the peace, in the Eranklin neighbor-!.
1 ' r . , . * „ both the old parties showed up on this
hood, came up for trial in the Pro- . . .
1 1 , . , . . f , , question, it went home in great num-
bat?. court resulting- in the defendant ^ .i__. ,
beiiic found guilty and
ienaani , „ , . , . ^ . ...
fine of )ers brn5,y convinced that it would be
serve as county attorney? his terra of |85^ and "costs imposed which de- j inexcusable error to support either
office to begin about January 1st 1905. fendant paid. j of the old party candidates and that
Thts week Judge Parker gave out
to the press of the country his for-
mal letter of acceptance of the
Democratic Presidential nomination.
The democrats who have hoped
that the Judge, in his letter of ac-
ceptance, wouli say something that
would cause the tide to change in
favor of the democratic party, will ^
weep bitter tears of dissappointment
as they read the letier for it will
but hasten the flow of the tide from j
the democratic party. The judge's
speech of acceptance was u dissap- j
pointment and his letter of accept-
ance is bat a rehash of his speech I
and reveals the fact that the demo-
cratic party is in this campaign
without a valid excuse; other than to
make sure that the policy of the
party now in power will be continued
four years longer either under lloose-
velt or Parker.
Hon. Thos. E Watson should be
elected. He is the only candidate in
the field who stands for a genuine
change in the present policy of gov-
ernment as followed by President
Roosevelt.
Thursday night of last week an ef-
fort was made to organize a
Parker, Mathews club at Lexington.
The services of the band was secured
and a big crowd attempted to
rushed up into the hall. Asa rest
of the extraordiny effort put forth we
learn that an audience of lt> was se-
cured fome of whom actually partici-
pated in the formation of the club
In the hall it was frosty enough for
over coats.
Last Saturday Prof. Paxton of the
University was seen carrying hi-cl :n
around in a sling and one of the Uni-
versity boys said that condition of
the professors chin was due to his de
cision to take physical exercise with
an ax rather than Gym work. He
said they had a rule at University
that the Professors had to take Gym
work or show that tbey were taki g
physical exercise of some kind. Prof.
Paxton in order to make a proi • r
showing took an ax and went to t :e
wood pile and the condition of i is
chin was due to a stick of wood tiy g
up and landing vigorou.-ly on his chin.
He thought now that the professor
was seriously thinking of entering
the Gym class for beginners.
Mathews Failed to Meet Appointments
in This County.
Last Mond'ty a few democratic can-
didates mid Judge Wilkins took the
afternoon train for Lexington to f_ir-
nish numbers and applause i"or Hon
Frank Mathews, who was billed to
speak at 2:.'10 o'clock in Lexington.
On account of .-ickness Mr. Mathews
failsd to meet the appointment and
Judge Keaton of Oklahoma City was
used as a substitute. Of course the
judge discussed statehood and the ne-
gro and increased Straughen's vote
in the south part of the county. The
attendance we learn was very small
and the enthusiasm such as to freeze
even such an orator as Keaton.
Miss Vida Marquart was a visitor to
Oklahoma City the first of the week.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1904, newspaper, September 30, 1904; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117817/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.