The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 1908.
JUST ARRIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
Carpets, Rugs, Art Squares and Linoleums.
We can show you any quality of Rug or Art Square in 9x12 size.
See our Show Window for choice Rugs.
FURNITURE ARRIVING BY THE CARLOAD.
Phone 67. THE BIG CHAIR FURNITURE HOUSE. Norman Okla
FURNITURE
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OPPOSED II IS IE.
Also lo Jews, fins,
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the political packs are marked by the
corporations and dirty and dog eared
from the corrupt uses to which they
have been put."
POLITICAL BOSSES
HOWLING AGAINST
Non-Partisan plan does not
Like to be thrown out
of a job.
The non-partisan plan to select
candidates for constitutional conven-
tion suggested by this paper, has
been warmly received by the people
and, as we anticipteda, hotly fought j
and resented by the political bosses. I
With the people favoring, we care
not a continental for the opposition \
of the political bosses. Their power j
over the people has been waning for i
some time and in fact has almost
reached tho point where the people ,
will resist almost anything favored
by the political bosses. The people
have carried the political boss on1
their their back a long time; but they
are unloading him by the wayside
now, and he will soon be begging for
alms or working for a living, and not
the public gatherings of the people
held within the past year where peo-
ple have met in picnics or other secu-
lar meetings where public questions
were discussed, and invariably and
without exception,until quite recent-
ly, the speakers at such meetings
dwelt long and strong, and the peo-
ple approved, the great care that
should be exercised in the selection
of mEn, and not partisan boot-blacks,
to represent them in the constitu-
tional convention. For a public
speaker to have dared to have sug-
gested the drawing of partisan lines
in the selection of constitutional del-
egates would have subjected him to
the liability of a shower of ancient
hen fruit. The bens are molting
now and hen fruit is a little scarce,
but it would not surprise us to see a
political boss, who had been out to
some of the country school houses
making a "whoratig" to the voters
to line up for some little partisan
nominee for constitutional conven-
tion, come in with his clothes consid-
erably bespattered with ancient hen
fruit. If the selection of men and
not partisans was the proper thing
six months ago, it is still proper, now
that the time of selection has arriv-
ed.
HOPE OF THE COUNTRY discovered their mistake It is plain
1 enough now that all who run may
read, that a political Trust cannot
be broken by joining it. To be effect-
ive you must get out of it.
W. 0. W. PICNIC
to be
dictating to the people what they'
must do in a political way. He has
New York, Aug*. 21.—William Ran- served his day as a middle man, to
dolph Hearst tonight gave out the ( deliver the people over to the I rusts
following statement: ' an(* Corporations to be skinned, re-
, . . , « , ' ceiving as his compensation a part of
"I have no interest whatever in the, , *
t .. , t c ™ TJ ,, the fleece. Ihe people in the 34th
factional disputes of Tammany Hall. ,
constitutional district are going to
Ihese declarations for or against me
... 4, . . select -a non-partisan to represent
are nothing more than attempts to . 1 ...
. fl . . . them in the constitutional conven-
influence votes in primary contests. , , . , .... . .
I tion This is authentic. Ihe howl
''Over three months ago I gave an political bosses, that people in
interview to the Brooklyn Eagle de- • other districts are not going to do
fining my position, which I have not g(^ jg nQt poing to deter the people
altered. j tjjjg district. The political boss
•'I repeat now thai I am absolutely i may have more influence over the
and unalterably opposed to the Mur- people in other districts than in this
The Picnic Promises
a Hummer.
Next Friday will be Farmer's Union
day at the W. O. W. Picnic to be
held in the city park. Mr. Worrell
and Mr. Lynch and other prominent
men in the Farmers Union will de-
liver speeches. A special train will
run from Guthrie and also one from
Ardmore to bring crowds to W. O. W.
picnic next Friday. The picnic pro-
mises to be a hummer and you will
miss a great treat if you fail to at-
tend.
phys and the McCarrens, and also to
the Sullivans and the McClellans and
the kind of politics that they all rep- :
resent.
"I am opposed to boss rule In poli-
tics.
"1 am opposed to corporation con-
trol of parties through machines, and
the fact that a boss or a machine de-
clares for uie does not alter my atti-
tude in any particular
district. In many of the other dis-
tricts, however, we notice in the
press, that political bosses are rais-
ing avery similar howl to one raised
in this district. They seem to be ef-
fected very similarly and the chances
now seem to be quite favorable that
inside of thirty days the people will
have non-partisan candidates in the
field in many of the constitutional
districts. Any move on the part of
"I am also opposed to the Ryans the people to throw off the yoke of
and Belmonts and their Jeromes in
politics, to the corrupt use of wealth
to debauch the ballot and to the pur-
chase of puppets in office.
"I am opposed to these paid puppets
the political bosses is calculated to
bring forth a hoA-l from the political
bosses; but such howls have become
as sweet music to the ears of the
people. For almost a year the pjo
in office who serve their corporation pie in the two territories have, been
masters slavishly and shamelessly looking forward to the framing of a
through their whole term of office and constitution for the new state of Ok
only develop a semi-sense of decency lahoma. For the most part they
and a pretended regard for the peo- have said that partisans should not
pie when an election is pending. be selected; but men capable, and
"The country needs a purifying in- with minds broad enough to rise
dependent movement, because the
old parties are infested with the ver-
min of bosses, corruptionists and ras-
above partisanship, and men who
would hold the interests of the whole
people paramount, to the interests
Cttls in office who mouth empty words of any party or interests of corpor
about civic righteousness, while the ations and Trusts operating in the
dollars of their corporation masters new state, should be selected to as
are jingling in their pockets. sist in framing the new state consti
"Mr.Roosevelt says the people need tution. This question has been dis-
a 'square deal.' I would add that to cussed not only throughout the many
have a square deal they must have a hundreds of Farmers Local Unions in
new deal, for nearly ail the cards in the two territories, but at nearly all
INDEPENDENTS OR-
GANIZE AT MUSKOGEE
To Hold Non-Partisan Con-
vention.
Wednesday of last week a mass
meeting was held in Muskogee, I T.,
1000 voters participating, at which it
was decided that the business inter
ests of Muskogee demanded the elec-
tion of two non-partisan delegates to
the constitutional convention. There
was no opposition to the plan when
it came to a vote: A republican and
a democrat were endorsed by the
mass convention and will be run as
independent candidates if the old
parties do not nominate. In this dis
trict men who favor a non partisan
election of a constitutional delegate
are styled as men without brains by
some of the would-be political bosses.
The ratiK and tile voters in this coun-
ty favor the non-partisan plan and
when they get through with the par
tisan bosses the latter will have a
much bigger opinion, not only of the
amount of brains, but voting strength
of the men favoring the election of a
non partisan delegate to constitu-
tional convention.
Pledged to tariff reform, a demo-
crat congress passed and Cleveland
permitted to become a law, as in-
famous a tariff measure as ever rob-
bed the masses to fatten the special-
ly priveleged. This is the record.
Lies with the "Independent
Voter."
Hon. Claude Weaver, in his speech
delivered at the Court House last
Saturday night, made a very true
statement when he said "the hope of
the couutry lies with the'Independent
Voter."' It was the independent
voter that elected Gov. Folk, Senator
La Foliette, Jerome, and gave to
President Roosevelt his tremendous
majority in the last presidential
race. It is the independent voter
that is going to uproot graft and put
clean men at the head of affairs in
this government. The voter who
marches to the polls and casts a par-
tisan ballot every time opportunity I
presents itself, is not an ideal Amer-
ican citizen. An ideal American cit-
izen is one who exercises his fran-
chise as his intelligence directs and
is free from partisan bias, at least,
to the extent of not being a partisan
slave. Partisan slavery is as bane
ful to our form of government as ig-
norance. The cornerstone 01 a re-
public lies in the intelligence of its
citizens and partisanship, when it be-
comes so strong as to stiffle intelli-
gence and the free exercise of the
elective franchise, is as hurtful as
would be anything that would under-
mine the intelligence of the citizens.
In our form of government parties are
a necessity but the perpetuation of
some particular party indefinitely is
folly and tends toward creating par-
tisan idolatry. The two old political
parties have long outlived the prin-
ciples for which they were organized
and today neither are representative
of the things the people want. They
succeed in keeping the people divid-
ed into partisan camps by fostering
the growth of the partisan spirit, and
this enables a small minority of the
people to run the government in the
interests of the minority and against
the great majority. As a result we
have a government of the Trusts and
Corporations, by the Trusts and Cor-
porations and for the Trusts and Cor-
porations, and will continue to have
such a government as long as the j
people suffer the Trust and Corpora-;
tion owned and controlled two old j
parties to exist. A new political I
party formed out of the best citizen-1
ship in the two old parties is the only
feasible plan to wrest this govern-
ment from the control and grasp of
the Trusts and Corporations. The
independent voter is paving the way
for the formation of a new party
that will restore this
to the hands of the
people, where Washington, Jefferson.
Jackson and Lincoln maintained that
it should ever be entrusted. The his-
tory written by the two old political
parties during the last sixteen years
reveals plainly that both are domin-
ated and controlled by Wall Street
BURGLARS IN NORMAN
Entered the Home of Miss
Catharine Harris.
Last Wednesday night burglars
entered the home Dr. Catharine
Harris and breaking into Miss Lynti
Dickey's trunk and secured some-
tiling like $1"> 00 that was in a hand
satchel in tray of her trunk.
ACROSS THE POND
Enjoying the Trip Im-
mensely.
Cards were received from G. A.
Hucklin Jr. this week, saying he and
Mrs. Hucklin were enjoying the trip
across the pond immensely. They
were just in sight of land when the
cards were written. Mr. Bucklin ex-
pects to make the trip up the Rhine,
and after interviewing the American
Consul at Antwerp, will proceed at
once toGlauchau to enter upon his
duties.
SEEKS DIVORCE
"True Love Never Runs
Smooth,"
George W. Morris filed his petition
in the district court this week asking
for a divorce from his wife Myrtle
Morris chargi ng her with abandment.
D. W. Ludderth asks the court for
a divorce from his wife Verma Lud-
derth on the grounds of abandinent.
Jessie E. McBee asl<s for a divorce
from her husband Wilson F. McBee,
charging him with gross neglect to
her and two children, one 12, and the
other 8 years old.
Rocetha V. Yoho asks for a divorce
from her husband, B. F. Yoho, charg-
ing him with cruelty and gro^s neg-
lect. They were married in 1876 in
the state of Illinois.
COTTON ASSOCIATION
Organized a Sub-division
Here Wednesday night.
L B. Irvin, member of the execu-
tive committee of the Southern Cot-
ton Association, at a called meeting
of the business tnen of Norman, ex-
government in- p]a[ne(j to them the aims ands ob-
plain common jecta of the Cotton Association and
organized a sub.division ot the Asso-
ciation in Norman. D. L Larsh was
elected president, Hi Downing vice-
president, John S. Allan secretary,
and J. G. Lindsay treasurer. Nine-
teen of the business men of Norman
joined the Association ai.d a commit-
influences to such an extent that they ^ee uf three was appointed to solicit
cannot free themselves from such membership John S. Allan, II, W.
domination. As W.R.Hearst says, stubbeman and E. M. V'at'es were
"The two old political parties have j appointed on this committee. Meet-
formed a Trust. Many men in this |n^ adjourned to meet in Comtner-
country said the same thing sixteen ' C|ut, roomij next Monday night. Toe
years ago, and met at Omaha in 1892 j chjef ajm 0f the Cotton Association
and organized the Peoples Party to j handle the surplus of the cotton
combat the Trust formed by the two cr()p an(j preVent it from being
old parties. In 1896 a number of peo- thrown upon the market to depress
pie thought they could break the po- prices and to control the marketing
litical Trust by joining it; but tw0|0f cotton through a system of ware-
years ago at St. Louis many of them houses.
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