The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 28 1904
Worth Youi
In chapter 3 of Bryan's book entitled tlie "First Battle
shows that it is the duty of every honest democrat to bolt
candidate who favors the Gold Standard and in same book
page 127 Mr. Bryan says:
"There is not power enough in Heaven above, or earth be-
neath or in hell below to make me vote for a gold standard man."
NUMBER 16
Oil
o O O O
I legard the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably estab-
lished, and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention
of today shall pe ratified by the people. As the platform is sil-
ent on the subject, my views should be made known to the con-
vention, and if it is proved to be unsatisfactory to the majority,
I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that
' Dictionary Story."
In last week's P-T appeared an
article signed by J. D. Lydick, pur-
porting to be a denial of a "Dic'ion-
ary Story" lie asserts that he has
been assailed with in this campaign,
i , . imay have been many "Diction-
Oemocrats who are trying a.y Stories" told on bin. in the cam.
but his failure in article to
de-
Parker boom finds its
" lie and yet, wciile it is plain as day that
any | source in Wall street, there are man1
j - - — —■ •< iv iii v 11 j |us ;iry 5s
to argue themselves into believing that Judge Parker would be a ! paign „„ iailu.c ,n a.
good man to harmonize on. He had the same enviroment that i8t«1'e which story he intended
certainty that n^a't0 aPl'b' to constrains u
— u . i lieve that he did not intend h s denial
Mr. Cleveland had, and it can be set down as a certainty that "yaltoapply to constraint us ti. be
Wall street always finds out a man's views before it sunnoH * Ilieve that he di<i not intend h s denial
— 1 .... . ti i |t0 aPPb't" the Dictionary Story this
For
another man may be nominated before adjournment.''-Parker's i Roosevelt and the
Telegram to St. Louis Convention fourteen yeais I have been doing the same thing. In
(every book which has been written by me their lives as earnest
a spirit of Jeffersonian Dpinnrmrw :i C I * 'l TI KU f/Min/1 4-1... 1*1
j 11 up[jui is
linn, however much those views may be concealed from the pub-
lic generally."
o o o o
POINTED PARAGRAPHS FROM WATSON'S SPEECHES.
In every speech wliicn I have made in this campaign I have
declared my undying hostility to the Hamiltonian principles rep-
lesentedby 1 heodore Roosevelt and the Republican party. ~
same
o o o o
In my response to your committee, at the formal notification
proceedings, I referred to some matters not mentioned in this
letter. I desire that they be considered as incorporated herein
and regret that lack of space prevents specific reference to them
all. I wish here, however, again to refer to my views there ex-
pressed as to the gold standard, to declare again my unqualified
belief in said standard, and to express my appreciation of the
nrfinn r\ f 4-V*a il. .. • i .
r . ii\c as earnest
a spirit of Jeffersonian Democracy as can be found in the libra-
ries of the world! My position today is absolutely consistent
with what it was in 1896, or in the year 1900. I challenge air-
man to prove the statement untrue. For the holding of these
opinions, I have been made to suffer; but I was ready co suffer
for them, and am ready to do so again.
o o o o
From my head to my heels—in my heart and my conscience,
Ul uuuiu, aim mapress my appreciation of the nuui my ueau to ray neeis-in my
action of the convention in reply to my communication upon that!in sympathy and mental conviction, I e
subject. Parker's Letter of Acceptance. icrat! Never have I been anuthino-
o o o o
Never have I been anything else.
a Jeffersonian
From 1890 up
Demo-
to the
I
j present hour, my life has been an open book to the public.
pointed paragraphs from mr. bryan's speeches i c',al'en£e a11 legions of envy, hatred and malice, to find a
•xessBs&m:aB&3i3&£SeEBs
... , . O O o o 'Democracy.
. A "fn is weak enough to put his candidacy in their j " o o o o
possibility successful.
o o o o
' With such a candidate the battle begins with a foot race
and will end with a rout."
o o o o
"The nomination of Judge Parker was secured by crooked
and indefensible methods. It was a plain and deliberate at-
tempt to deceive the party."
o o o o
"If lie (Parker) had sent to the Albany convention the tele-
gram he sent to the St. Louis convention, he would have had no
possible chance for the nomination."
o o o o
"He and his managers adroitly and purposely concealed his
position until the delegates had been corralled and the nomina-
tion assured."
o o o o
"When the Democrats are unfortunate enough to have a
Wall street man for president they have to either denounce him
or apologize for him, and no matter which they do they have to
bear the odium of his administration. No wonder Mr. Cleveland
speaks highly of Judge Parker. He is on the inside, and knows
that Parker is satisfactory to Morgan and Belmont and the
other financial magnates who ran the Cleveland administration,
compromising than myself.
o o o o
The Gold Standard is unconstitutional and violates statute
law.
o o o o
We have heard much of "constitutionalism" in this cam-
paign. The sincerity of the cry is shown by the fact that the
gold standard which violates the statute law and the constitu-
tion, is not only supported by Theodore Roosevelt, the imperial-
ist, but by Alton B. Parker, the chosen apostle of constitution-
alism.
o o o o
The gold standard is not "irrevocably fixed," because it is
unscientific and wrong. Nothing is more certain than that the
people of this country will continue their struggle until they
have a national currency which the money power cannot con-
trol, and which answers the purpose of perfecting exchanges
without becoming an armory from which the buccaneers of
modern finance draw the irresistible weapons with which they
attack values and raid the markets.
o o o o
Roosevelt favors th • Gold Standard and in his letter of ac-
ceptance says, "We intend in the future to carry on the govern-
ment just as we have in the past.
District Court News. ' another. He wanted to enter a plea
Last Tuesday afternoon Judge Ir- j °f guilty but when th-j court informed
win con veil'd district court in Nor- j llim that under such a plea he would
man and the final report of the Grand j liave to sentence him to a term in
Jury was handed in The Gr >nd Jury
returned 14 indictments imo court
and G. McDonald, Marvin Scott, E
E. Taylor C. E. Cotirsey and Wm.
Peabody against whom the Grand
Jury failed to find indictments were
ordered discharged by the court and
their bondsmen released The Grand
Jury reported a decrease of crime in
the county during the past three
years, (which certainly speaks well
tor Mr Barker and his force of depu-
ties) urged the necessity of commiss-
ioners hastening the erection of a
court house, complimented the c >unty
officers in the discharge of their re-
spective duties and tossed a wry nice
bouquet to Judge Irwin for good treat-
ment shown Grand Jury for which the
court did not remand a single one of
them to jail: but fined them all
heavily by a sentence "that he hoped
the county might ever be favored by
such efficient Grand Jurors as had
served during this term of court." Of
the indictments returned most of the
persons indicted were in the court
room being there either in charge of
the Sheriff or their bondsmen The
first one called npon to hear indict-
ment read and to enter plea to same
was Daniel Flannagan charged with
petit larceny from the persou of
ley Baker charged with horse steal-
ing entered a plea of guilty and was
sentenced to 1 yr in the penitentiary.
The next called was J. II. Bernier on
the jury at 5 o'clock. In the trial of
this case County Attorney Wolf as-
sisted by Mr. Gresham fought a great
battle and when the jury returned
verdict after being in jury room
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the penitentiary Flannagan seemed, two indictments for grand larceny vermci atter being in jury room
to be taken by surprise and told the j and he took 24 hours in which to enter1 about one hour a verdict of guilty
court that he was drunk and did not j a plea. Geo. Higgins and Patrick'
realize taking the money from Mau- O'Connor were next called but were
pin but that the money was found on 1 not present, being out on bond. The
him etc. The court gave him 24 hours next was Wm. White an Indian and
to think the matter over before en- B n Williams promised to have him
tenng a plea to indictment. in court next morning. The case
Toe next called was Robert ICaylor against Burnett whs dismissed.' The
charged with grand larceny of a gold damage suit of Kendall vs Webb was
watch; he took 24 hours in which to withdrawn because of lack of proper
enter plea 1 he next called was service on the defendant and toe
Samuel Harmon charged with tniiy- caseofthe territory vs Sltn Johnson
hem an.l he took 24 hours to plead j charged with horse stealing called,
Allan Wheelis and Harvey Humes jury empanelled and the trial of t
charged with horse stealing were
caiied and they entered a plea of
guilty The county attorney thought
about 2 and 3 years time in the peni-
tentiary would be about right: but
Judge Irwin was moved by the youth
jury empanelled and the trial of the
case started.
wednesday morning.
The trial of the Territory vs Sim
Johnson was still pending; but be
before taking it up the prisoners who
were given time to enter pleas were
was returned and the sheriff took the
defendant to the county jail. Judge
Wolf has received many congratula-
tions for the able manner in which he
handled the case and his closing
speech to the jury was one of the best
the Judge ever made before a jury in
his county.
piper has been urging him to reply
to ever since he was nominated. Mr.
Lj dick knows too well that to enter
a denial to the Dictionary Stor this
paper has been inquiring about
would bring forth the publica ion of
some letters in our possession he does
not care to see in print telling li a-
bout the story and how it originated.
Mr Lydick does not intend to deny
the story any more than he would
deny the story told by a resident of
Norman that at one time hi jj. I).
Lydick) was president of a rep.loiican
club in Winfield, Kansas. Tc.o pro >E
is to.) handy and Mr. Lydick k lows it.
We publish the above to let the
Pkopi.es Voice readers know that tns
paper has done Mr. Lydic< no injus-
tice in this campaign, a thing they
might think, had we not noticed
signed artic e of Mr. Lydick which
appeared in last week's D-T.
Mr. Populist, What Think You.
Have the Populists of Oklahoma
any pride in their opinions? Do their
yet hold essential the principles ad-
vocated in good faith when the / were
a power in the Territory .ml the na-
tion.-' If so, will they be driven like
sheep to the fold of a party that has
repudiated them in its national plat-
form and insulted them by tho selec-
'j?11 of a candid :te for congress in
ihis territory who despised them in
the days when lie did no. need their
votes.J J hese are questions pro-
pounded by a prominent populist of
Greer county a few days ago in con-
versation with a democrat who was
soliciting his vote for Matthews with-
out effect. And they are questions
ttiat honest populists every <\ here
would do well to ponder over Frank
Matthews is a populist hater, if one
I may judge by !iis public acts and
record befo e he dreamed of being
j placed in a position to bid for the'r
I support.
When the separate coach bill was
being argued in the !egi lation Mat-
thews tauntingly offered an amend-
ment to include the word "populists"
in the bill, thus putting populists
on a level with a negro It will lie
said at this late day that he was
only joking, but his effort never the-
less proves hi* opinion of the popu-
lists at that time.
Again while M'. Matthews whs
county attorney of Greer county the
com id isRi oners paid a democrat sber-
iff $(>0.20, iiis expenses in capturing
an escaped prisoner and at another
time they paid the tame democrat
sheriff $189.45 for capturing another
escaped prisoner, all of which was
not objected to by Mr. Matthew-, \f-
terwards they paid a populists sher-
iff's expenses in capturing an escaped
prisoner, and Mr. Matthews brought
suit against the populist sheriff and
compelled him to pay it back. Was
this discrimination against the popu-
lists that Matthews now claims to
1 ;ve so well?
In speaking of the IVoples
National chairman Ferris say.'
hat we lack in wealth and gomp
anil circumstance we more than
make up in energy iind ginger We
have driven both' the Republicans
and the Democrats to the wail and
they are on the def nsive. They both
represent the tru-ts. We do not.
The Populist narty and its belli veis
are the only mortal enemies the gi-
gantic combines of capital have
today Th-it colo-^-al Goliath known
as Wall street fears but one David
and his name is Populism.
1 'art y
gan entered a plea of guilty and was
fulness of the defendant-and after j called upon to plead. Otto Besser
investigating as to their previous entered a plea of not guilty, Flanna
conduct and finding nothing against -
them he delivered to them a good
sound lecture ane fixed their sentence
at 1 yr. in the penitentiary. The
next called was ;B. L. Webb charged
with attempt to kill and he took 24
hours in which to enter plea. The
next called was an Indian Jas. Clark
charged with an attempt to ki t and
he to took 24 hours to plead. Stan-
Tulare County Products-
Last week in exhibit car of pro-
ducts grown in Tulare county Cali-
fornia stood on the Santa Fe switch
in Norman and many of the citizens
of this county went through the car
seeing what cojild be grown in Tulare
county. The exhibit was a fine one
and caused much favorable com-
ment. The variety of products grown
in that county was also quite a sur-
prise. Not only fine fruit was shown:
1 but the finest of cereal grains such
sentenced to one year in the peni- wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat
tentiary, as also did Harmon receiv-1 and eye" corn was gbow" the car
ing a liko sentence, Bernier, Clark, j The body of Sterling Chit wood was
ICaylor and White entered pleas of brought to Norman last Friday from
not guilty. The Wells vs Wells di Gowan I. T. where he was killed in | mc ku.sh.uisni «j ™
vorce case heard and a decree grant- J the mines. He was a member of the j "th by voting either of the old party
ed to Mrs. Wells and also the custody Plowmen Order and the body was i If you favor the govern-
of the four children The Sim John- looked after by his brothers of Nor- j people'say 'so by'voting "the" I'eop'lea
If you vote the peoples part\ ticket
j your belief in Jeffersonian deiii cracy
[can never be called into question
tor the Peoples 1'arty creed is.It ffer-
-on ian democracy to the core It you
vote tlie democratic ticket your belief
in JefTersonim democracy can be ques-
tioned hecau-e the democratic eree f
in this campaign is "almost identi-
cal" to the creed of the republican
party, so says Vice-Presidential
Candidate Henr G. Davis.
If the two oil parties aim at the
same mark: if their platforms are
alike: if their candidates say the
same thing: if our Wall street op-
ponents favor both, why should any-
body care whether the Populists hurt
one or the other? Why should a
Populist have a preference.
If you favor Wall street running,
the government say so mi November
son case was then taken up going to man Lodge.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1904, newspaper, October 28, 1904; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117824/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.