The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PEOPLES' VOICE
VOLUME 17
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1908.
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Bryan, the Scornful.
"I will pay no attention to Thomas
E. Watson," quoth W. J. Bryan.
Well, that's one way to back off
from a challenge. It's one way to
escape a public exposure and drub
bing. It's one way to hide the ugly
spots in a tortuous record
The fact is, that Bryan knows him
self to be a superficial opportunist,
and he's afraid to meet in public dis
cussion any man who rise" above
mediocrity. A political Talmagewbo
has the spongelike quality of absorb-
ing the ideas of o hers, his pleasing
personality, carefully cultivated
smile, and unusual oratorical gifts
kept Iu ceaseless operation for sixteen
years—have given Mr. Bryan a po-
sition which is far above his intrinsic
merit.
In Congress he did nothing but pose
and talk. Not a line on the statute
book did he alter or add. In Nebraska,
his record of achievement is utterly
barren. Just talk, more talk, and
then talk again. Excepting when
the prohibition question comes up
Then, he prudently keeps out of his
state, and leaves less selfishly calcu-
lating reformers to fight it out
"I will pay no attention to Thomas
E. Watson."
Why not, William of Illinois? You
were mighty glad to have the help of
that Georgian, in 1896, when he went
to your home state, lined up the Pops
for you, and helped you carry Ne-
braska—something you've not been
able to do since.
Why not "pay attention," William
J?
Is it because you dare not face the
old vets of the South on that remark
which you made to Alfred Henry
Lewis?
Is it because you dare not meet,
publicly, the question of what you
said to those negro delegations that
pleased tb ra so highly'?
Is it because you're afraid to come
before the people and explain your
surrender of principle, your falling
awav from your platform in 1896,
your treaty with Charles Murphy,
Roger Sullivan, and the National
bank element of the Democratic
partyi
Is it because you are ashamed of
the ungrateful manner in which you
treated the South, when you passed
over all of her leaders—men of weight;
character, and ability and foisted up
on the ticket the understudy of Tom
Taggart, the gambling hell man':
You will "pay no attention to Thos.
E. Watson," eh:
After all, that's just about the
safest course for you, William J.
And, besides, it will not keep the
said Thos. E. from paying attention
to you.—Weekly JelTersonian.
THE HEARST PRESS
SCORES BRYAN
And Refuses to Support
Democratic Party
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
OLD GUARD IN OKLAHOMA
And All Others De-
siring to Enlist
Under
The Banner of The
Peoples1 Party.
Something must be done and that
quickly to secure for the voters in
Oklahoma the privilege of casting
their votes this fall for the election
of Hon. Thos. E. Watson and Hon-
Samuel W. Willimas as President and
Vice-President of the United States.
Our election law makes no provision
what ever for getting presidential
electors on the ballot in Oklahoma
for the year 1908. The State
Election Board, however, will pro-
bably devise some way to gat the
electors of the two old "parties on the
ballot but may not look so kindly to-
wards Presidential Electors of other
political parties. Under such con-
ditions it might be well for Peoples
Party men to get busy and show a
desire to get their electors on the
ballot for we feel quite certain that
the State Election Board will be some
what indifferent about the matter.
The two oil parties will hold state
conventions to nominate Presidential
Electors, and it may be necessary
for Peoples Party to hold a state con-
vention also but expense of a State
Convention i9 great and as none of
the Peoples Party men are feeding at
the pie counter they might prefer to
sigu a nominating petition and save
expenses of attending a state con-
vention. In view of this fact we have
taken the liberty to fix up a nominat-
ing petition, naming seven true and
tried members of the Old Guard as
Presidential Electors and will mall
out 10,000 of them to the 5,000 names
of the Old Guard we have in our
office and we trust that every one in-
terested in the cause who receives a
petition or a copy of the paper with
petition will clip out same and at
once secure at least as many as five
signers, go before a Notary and sign
and forward same to this office not
later than August 25th.
Get as many signers as possible and
as quickly as possible. In addition
arrange to hold a meeting in your
county by the 15th of August not lat-
er than the 22ml and elect ten dele-
gates to attend a state convention
in case such a convention is called
to convene. We are trying to arrange
to have Hon. Jay W. Forrest and
Hon. Thos. E. Watson visit Oklahoma
during the last week in August and
have a State Hally and if we succeed
may call a state convention at same
time. There is war to the knife and
the knife to the hilt raging among
the Democratic leaders in this state
and Bryan does not look like a win-
ner. In the Camp of the Republicans
the condition Is even worse than in
the democratic Camp and Taft is not
a popular candidate with the masses
of the republican voters and only
looks good to the fellows chasing af-
ter the Post Offices.
The Republicans have figured out
that 40,000 men did not vote at the
parties have become quite indiffer-
ent and careless about voting old
party tickets. With a Peoples Party
ticket in the field the indifferent ones
will not he reported as not voting.
We trust that everyone who reads
this article will see the "point" and
get busy and have petition signed up.
Two year hence the Peoples Party in
Oklahoma will need a lot of men to
fill the state and county offices in
Oklaboma. <
JOHN S. ALLAN,
National Committeman.
Forgot to Bury the Corpse.
Last Monday evening a Republican
in Norman came to us and said; "Sun-
day evening while walking along a
souie what unfrequnted street in
Norman where the weeds in vacant
lots were luxuriant in growth I got a
whiff that apprised me of the fact
that there was something dead and
in Monday morning papers I read
that Hearst said that the Democratic
Party was dead and I am now satis-
fied that some body whose duty it
was, has forgotten to bury the
Corpse." We informed republican
that what Mr. Hearst meant was that
the Democratic party of Jefferson
and Jackson was dead and that he
that w,uuu men uiu uui >uic might also have truthfully aid the
last election in Oklahoma and figured Republican party of Lincoln was dead.
. . * T'k, ~ ! t !/>•« 1 nnrtlPS WP have tO-
also that same must have been repub-
Means. Tliey seem to have forgotten
that in old Oklahoma twelve years
ago over 20,000 votes were cast for
the Peoples Party ticket and there
were perhaps about as many Popu-
lists at that time in Indian Territory
part of State. Since 1896 and fusion
Peoples Party voters have been very
negligent about voting and a good
many of the voters in the two old
The two political parties we have to-
day masquerading around the coun-
try wearing the mantle of Jefferson
and Lincoln are Siamese twins and
the death of one means the death of
both and until he knew that Republi-
can party was dead he might rest as-
sured that its twin w as still a live.
Republican thinks now that, perhaps,
it was a dead chicken that was tossed
into the weeds.
M"R: SWELL 2)-RESSEH.—
A DOCTOR A FEW DA ys AGO MET A A OLD GEJW-
TLEMAJV OJW THE STUEET.
•■WHy MAJO"R. i AM VEHy GLAD TO SEE yOU.
HOW A-RE yOU FEELIJVG?"
••PHETTy WELL FOU A OLT) MAJV." A J^SWE'RED
THE MAJOTt.
"OLD MAJV?" ASKED THE DOCTOR.
-WHy yES. I AM WEAHLy SIXTy."
• you cE-RTAijvLy dojvt look it."
•O. THAT'S "BECAUSE i GET THE kijvd OF
CLOTHES THA T MAKE yOU LOOK yOUJVGEH."
-WHEUE DO yOU GO?" ASKED THE DOCTOH.
•O. THETi.ES JUST OflE PLACE TO GO," "REPLIED
THE OLD GEMTLEMAJV WITH A./V ASSUHIMG SMILE.
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-rHE; MENS OUTFITTER
The Hearst Independence League
will refuse to follow Bryan this time
and the editorial in the Hearst pa-
pers of Saturday was keen edged , for
it was like this:
"For the third time William J.
Bryan has been nominated by the
Democratic party—or rather by that
fragment of former efficiency which
is called the Democratic party. We
have lost confidence in the Democratic
party, as millions of other Democrats
have done. We cannot see in this
nomination any hope.
"We are bound to add, with regret,
that we have lost confidence also in
William J. Bryan, who by well-man-
ipulated boss ship has compelled this
nomination.
"It is a fact the people of the
country have absolutely nothing to
say in regard to the nomination or
the platform of either of the two
leading parties. The platform of the
Republican party is a compromise ba-
tween Roosevelt and the trusts, from
which campaign funds must be ob-
tained. The platform adopted by
the Democratic party is nothing but
a compromise between the absolute
will of Bryan and that willingness on
Bryan's part to dicker with his own
principles recently made known to
the public.
"No reliance can be placed on the
Democratic platform or on Bryan's
declarations. The Democratic plat-
form declares for onesetof principles
at one election and for an entirely
different set at the next election,
while Bryan is appearently without
permanent principle or sincere con-
viction, or even honest attitude.
'A note is a promise to pay. It is
valuable according to who makes it
and who indorses it. A platform is a
promise to perform, and a platform
made by the Democratic party and in
dorsed by Mr. Bryan is not worth the
paper it is written on.
"The Democratic party has become
a weathercock of what its inferior
leaders imagine to be the expression
of public opinion.
"It retlects supinely the corporation
instinct and servility of a Parker,
and it is ready at the next moment
to rellect the half-baked, ill-matured
opinions of some imaginary radical.
"The people would accept today, as
they have accepted in the past, the
Republicanism of Lincoln or the
Democracy of Jefferson.
"But the Republicanism of Taft,
with its shifting, its compromises, its
opportunism, is not the Republican-
ism of Lincoln.
"And the Democracy of Bryan and
Taggart and the others, with its
changing principles, its shifting plat-
form, and its chameleon candidates,
is not the Democracy of Jefferson,
who wrote the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, who lived by his principles
and stood by them.
"In them there is no hope for the
people, who demand a representative
party breathing the spirit which ani-
mated Jefferson's Democracy and
Lincoln's Republicanism."
PEOPLES VAHIV CAM)lDXO$:
RADICALS
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NAME
H. E. Straughen
P. B. Sharp
Jesse L. Swango
E. M. Smoot
W. O. Byars
L. P. Barker
A. B. Weakley
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white,
I the undersigned qualified elector of the County ot
State of Oklahoma here by nominate the following named persons as Presi-
dential Electors representing the principles of the Peoples' Party:
COUNTY 1'. O. ADDRESS
Lincoln, Chandler, Okla.
Major, Orienta, Ok. R.F.D. 2.
...Craig, Chetopa, Kan. " 6.
...Ellis, Shattuck, Okla.
Greer Mangum, Ok. R.F.D. 2.
Cleveland, Noble, Okla.
Stephens, Comanche, Okla.
A Fine Rain Last Monday.
A fine soaking rain once every
week in July is something unusual In
Cleveland County and the corn crop
is also going to be unusually large as
a result. The cotton plant has also
grown line during July and If it fruits
well in August cotton crop will be
much better than anticipated. It
looked very much like a total failure
in June. The corn planted in the
bottom lands during last week in June
Is knee high and growing rapidly and
promises to make a crop.
Goes East.
Dr. David R. Boyd was called to
New York City last Saturday by
telegram. A fine position has been
tendered him by the Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions. They want
him to take the supervision of the
Mission schools in Alaska.
to be voted for at the general election to be held on the 3rd day of Novem-
ber 1< 0S- and I further declare that I desire to support the candidates here-
in named and that I have not signed and will not sign any Petition for any
other persons as candidates for said office of Presidential Electors at the
ensuing general election.
IJATK OF SIGN INI
RACE OR
COLOR
I'.O. ADDRESS
Stat of Oklahoma,
County of
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Old Settlers Picnic.
For consesslons at the Old Settlers
Picnic August 6th and 7th see II. W.
Stubbeman.
do solemnly swear that I am a q-uali-
. (Townsh.il>, ward, towii,
lied elector in precinct v
or city) County; that to the best of my knowledge and
belief, each of the signers to the foregoing nominating petition are quali-
, , . . Countv State of Oklahoma. That each of
them signed such petition in my presence: that to the best ^iy knowledge
and belief they had full knowledge of the contents thereof whe"theys^^d
the same, that their respective residences are correctly stated therein,
that each person signed the same of date stated opposite such person s
name! that each signer is of the race or color therein stated; that I intend
to support the candidates herein named.
Signed
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of
Note In case you can secure more than five signers, and we trust that
you may'be able to do so, cut the above petition though at bottom line o
names and past in a slip of paper for additional names.
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