The Tecumseh Leader. (Tecumseh, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1895 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 1.
TECUMSEH, 0. T., FRIDAY, MARCH, 22 1895.
NO. 52.
on with your prosperity, old
Com?
i-ocks.
Give the worker an equal
the idler.
-how v.illi
More bonds,
this world.
means more h—1 in
On with the fight, and keep in the
middle of the road.
Mote bonds means less money,
drones means more honey.
Less
"Equal and exact justice to all,"
will do the millionaire no injury.
The laboring man who joins the mi-
litia knowing that he will be called
upon to shoot down his fellow labor-
ers, is either a nave or a fool.
Don't have anything to do with the
old parties. They will agree with you
on every proposition set forth in the
Omaha Platform, when they are out
of power.
Christ interfered with the business
of the money changers and was cruci-
fied. Should he appear on earth to-
day, the same element would again
crucify Ilim.
The bond slugger, who has been
making the presidents chair groan
with a surplus if fatly substance has
gone duck shootirg. Let'im shoot—
been a gcod thing if he had went two
years ago, and remained away.
The cocking main, a relic of barbar-
ism is being revived, and one is to be
pulled off- at Oklahoma City in the
near future. It must he a depraved
creature that can find amusement in
watching a couple of birds lacerate
each other with steel spur3.
There is enough silver lying idle in
the treasury vaults to pay every bond
that the United Stales owes and
everyone is legally payable in silver
coin. The failure of men at the head
of affairs to use it is an act of treason
against V e people.—Chicago Express.
If it is socialism for tlie government
to take charge of a telegraph mes-
sage and deliver it at its destination,
why is it not socialism for the gove.n-
ment to perform the same service with
a letter or a newspaper? Dues .he
difference lie in the rale of speed '!-
Burlington, (Kan ) Courier.
Those who advocate the single gold
standard claim that it would not be
right for the government io make flft>
cents worth of silver pay a dollarV
worlh of debts. Fur the same reason
It was not right for the government to
make a dollars worth of .silver only
pay fifty cents worth of debts, which
was done when silver was demonetiz-
ed.—Woodward Xewsr
That which the government agrees
to receive as money is always good
money. Even the postage stamp
whicli if only receiveable for one kind
of taxation, remains at par. If the
f.jrty million dollars of government ex-
penses each mouth, was pMd in money
receivable for all dues to the govern-
ment, it would lie as good money as
there is in the wojfld.—Chicago
Express.
Great Brittain has built a new bat-
tle. ship mounted with four monster
gun's of fifty tons each, and seveial
smaller rapid firing guns. The poor
people of that Christian (?) nation are
suffering for necessities of that char-
acter. The nabobs of that usury-lov-
ing country will see to it that the
dear people are provided with battle-
ships of the latest style—capable of
quickly shooting into eternity, hun-
dreds of poor souls who dare raise a
voice against oppression.
The populist party like all things,
is subject to evolution. Whatever
may be t.aid of their theories other-
wise the four populist members of the
council were not of the traditional
stripe as to being wild or wooly They
were earnest, conscientious men,
working for' measures and means as
they saw them. Senator doom, their
leader, was respectfully termed the
father of the council by the republcans;
and at no time did he loose that flut-
tering appellation. His former legis
lative experience helped him out and
made him a man of influence from
the begitdug. Though old, he was a
vigorous debater and on occasions
laun.'hed out into a f nil fledged speech,
quoting copiously from hUtory an,I the
ItKI'l liLICAN CONSISTENCY.
The Guthrie Capitol was designated
the official paper of the territory, a
very worthy selection. The Leader ot
that c ty howls that it is a $200,000
steal-as the Leader has formerly had
the territorial printing it ought to
know. Strange it hasn't spoken be-
fore. -Tecumseh Republican.
There are 23 counties in the territo
rv and the citizens of these counties
will have this $200,000 to pay. Di-
vide the burden equally among the
counties and each county will pay
$8,695.64. Of course, some counties
will pay more than others, but Potta-
watomie couty will not be among the
counties that pay the least The part
of the burden she will have to bear
will probably not be less than $10,
000, yet the Republican says it is
all right—doesn't so much as whisper
robbery. A little $600 a year printing
contract sets it wild-gives it the
jim jams and its rickety, squeaky
voice reverberates through every hill
and hollow warnning the people thai
the treasury is being looted, but a
$10,000 iiual is beneath the things
notice. An elegant apostle of econo-
my—the kind that tightens the spigot
and throws the bung hole wide open.
Say, my populist brother, when some
frowsly old republican redeemer ap-
proaches you and begins warbling bis
county printing steal song in your ear,
just ask him, how about the territori-
al printing steal and see him take a
tumble to himself.
A. T. Fostet, familiarly known as
Wart-On-Sticks, who scribblers the rot
for an obscure sheet published in the
northern suburbs of this city, has dis-
covered a terrible mares nest in the
shape of a "printing company com-
posed of populist officials and a steam
press, purchased at an expense of
hundreds of dollars." Tlie first cost
of this steam press, about which the
old Wart makes such a roar was $625.
\ tremendous outlay, wasn't it, "my
farmer friends." The old Wart as-
sorts that "tlie business of the town
and county does not demand such an
outlay iu a printing plant." If he
ever told th« truth, which is doubtful,
his own statements show him to lea
measly poor business man, for he has
more than once said that his printing
outfit cost iiim $1,500. If there is no
lemand for a $025 outfit, certainly
there is a much less demand for a
$1,500 outfit and he was a condemned
fool for expending so much money on
anouttit. lie purchased a second-hand
outfit; wedid the same; he paid $1,500;
we paid $625, and ours is worth three
of his which goes to show that he is
even a poorer business man than edi-
tor. He asks, "can it be possible
that this gigantic corporation expect
to rob the oouuty to the extent of
making this steam press a profitable
invesime.it?" Never fear old Warty,
this gigantic corporation" will not
charge the county $125 for a job of
work that can be done for less than
$20 as you did. It will not throw in
slugs to strech a quarter sheet legal
blank out sufficient to demand pay
for a half sheet, as you did. The old
Wart asserts that the Leader's sub-
scription list does not exceed 300.
The Leader runs four more quires
paper than the County Democrat.
Granted that his statement about the
circulation of the Leader is correct,
a little figuring will convince you that
the circulation of the Democrat is only
200. Figure its exchange and foreign
list at 100, which is low, and you will
see that its circulation in the county
is only 100. Think of a paper with
such a measly sirculation asking for
the county printing, when the law con-
templates that the official paper shall
he of general circulation in the coun-
ty. The old Wart asserts that "the
actual running expense of this corpor-
ation press is at least" $1,800 a year.
Where he gets his information he does
not state, however we presume he
based his calculation on what it costs
to run his obscure sheet, and did not
take into consideration the fact that
the Leader does not support an t di-
tor who scribbles a few lines of rot
and puts in the bulk of his time on
the streets lying about and misrepsen-
tiiig business men who doas not pan-
der, to, his ideas, nor a business rnan-
aSJer who fills his hide with rot gut
and addresses a citizen in such elegant
language as "move down the street
you 8—of a— b." By dispensing with
such expensive lnx'.'.iies the Leaded
CARSON BROS.
South Side Public Square,
TECUM -Ell, OK LA,
rttlEND
General Merchandise
Books and Stationery
Bargains in Queensware
'Itargains in Hoots and Shoes
Good Goods
Fair Trices
Give Ihem a call.
Head-quarters for School Supplies.
D. D. KLAPP,
Prescript ions Carefully Compounded,
south of Souht East Corner Square.
Broadway, three doors
Tecumseh, Okla.
Republican and democratic papers
alike now concede the financial ques-
tion the paiamount issue before the
people. Those who are in any man-
Correspond: no*
Avoca, O. T., Mar. 19 1895.
Editor Leader:—As it is raining 1
will give you a few "dolts" from our
uer given to observation will note that j ,.apj,j|y growing little town, theme-
the populists have maintained tiiis trcpelis of southern Pottawatomie,
since the party cauie into existence, I q„,. towll |KlS adorned itselt in the
and it is the most important of their
many predictions which are being ver-
ified every day. In '96 finance will be
the one great issue that must be met
by all parties. The populists are rea-
dy to meet it.—Alva Review.
The financial puzzle is now open for
solution by the republican congress,
but who hopes for any change ? Who
can be so sanguine as to expect relief
from the party that is originator of the
ills? Tlie last cougress has been much
censured and abused, and no doubt de
serves censure for following Cleveland
so far as they did towards a republican
gold basis policy, but the i.ew con-
gress when it meets will do that which
the jibes and bitter calumny of manu-
factured gold-bug opinion could not
induce the out-going congress to do.—
Times, Paola, Kan.
Senator Doom of Pottawatomie Co..
on his way home, spent last Monday
afternoon iu Norman, lie expressed
himself as delighted with our city and
promised to visit it again. '1 lie next
time we will try and have it arranged
so that lie can give an address, for we
ire sure the |eo| le would be glad to
hear the patriarch of the 3d legislative
cou.icil. Senator Doom returns to his
constituents beloved by his colle igues
in the council and recognizen by all a-*
the peer, in broad statesmanship, of
that body.—Norman Voice.
"What is the Mississippi river com-
mission?" asks a subscriber. The
Mississippi river commission is com-
posed of a few barnacles who go by
Pullman palace cars to the Falls of St-
Anthony once a year, then take passage
on the finest steamer of the line for
New Orleans, where they stop and ten-
der themselves a banquet at the gov-
erment expense. Then they embark on
one of the ocean greyhounds and steam
white robe of peace since the McAlis-
ter and Hoover trouble took place. J.
II. Hoover is recovering very fast.
I'lie only trouble now is the low priced
goods of our enterprising merchants,
Smith Bros.
Mr. Weems of Daugherty, I. T. and
Mr. Kiser of Lexington, O. T. visited
our town yesterday with the view of
locating, and like all other visitors
they were favorably impressed.
Squire Duncan held court yester-
day—civil case tried by jury, who
brought in a dem-o-rep verdict—here it
is: "We the jury deside for defen-
dent to pay $1.50 to plaintiff, and
plaintiff pay the cjst of suit." its a
dandy verdict, yet it is based on just-
ice. I see Tecumseh is not the only
place in our county dishonored with a
liar. Adel lias one almost as aood at
the bus ness as Wart-On-Sticks.
Wis. J. D. Combs is very low with
pneumonia. Mrs. J. H. Hoover is also
very sick.
Pete Perkins, Avoca's saloon keeper,
was all smiles yesterday. You see, its
a boy. Jeff McCoggins received a nice
piesent; it was a line girl. Mother and
daughter doing well.
Farmers are well up with their
work. All have nut out gardens, and
some are pi a ting corn. The freeze
cut our oats, but tliev are coming to
the front again
Our I ecumseli carpenters are gay as
larks. They are buiUling a residence
lor Dr. Quitin, our future druggist.
Our young and well qualified doctor
II. 11. Wilson, is doing a good and suc-
cessful business.
Professor Blankenship is getting
along nicely with his school, and is
giving satisfaction to all patrons.
Dry goods and groceries have struck
rock bottom prices in our young city.
We invite all to visit our town, as the
motto of our merchants is to live and
let live
, . .. ,i H this escapes the waste basket I
around to New York where they tender j w | write again.
themselves another banquet at the gov- i „
erment's expense, and from there they | Wart-On-Sticks
Farmer Boy.
go home in triumph. All this onorous
duty they perform for the modest sum
of $5,000 a year each. Of course Bynum
could afford to trade half a dozen votes
for a place on this commission.—Non
eonfornist.
literatures. Ills counsel was always
pacific and iu the interest of harmony. \ runs al a grea*. deal less expense than
A —State Capitol. j papers that indulge in them.
Ex-Governor St. John, writing an
article to a Topeka paper, says: "I en-
close a report just clipped from today's
World of the murder by the dude mili-
tia of poor Carney, a hard working
mechanic, while repairing a roof. I
say murder, because there was abso-
lutely no excuse whatever for shoot-
ing him. The case ought to arouse
the whole nation, but it wont. Mo-
nopoly has the country so firmly by the
throat that labor has no show what-
ever, while the average plutocratic
militiaman thinks it fun to shoot down
one of the 'common herd.' If you
could have been here and watched the
Brooklyn strike from the beginning as
I have you would be with me in denounc-
ing the unjust tyranny practiced by
may not be aware
that the Leader scribe has resided in
four different counties in Kansas. For
several years before going to Coman-
che county, Kansas we resided near
Win field, Cowley county. We were
also connected with a newspaper at
Burlington, Coffev county several
months, aud prior to coming to Te-
cumseh we published a paper at Spring
Hill, Johnson county. The foregoing
information is published for the bene-
fit of old Wart who is hunting up our
history. If he will write the demo-
cratic postmasters at Burlington and
Spring Hill he will probably secure in-
formation that will cause h.s little
fizzard to swell up like a totd in a
hail storm.
Wart-On-Sticks boasts that he is in
possesion of a letter from Kansas that
gives the Leader scribe a black eye.
There are a few roosters in Comanche
county, Kansas, who owe us a black
eye for knocking them off the Christ-
mas tree and would be only too glad of
an opportunity to swat us. For in-
line heartless trolley corporations on , atallCe, an ex-democratic treasurer
k G.inlcu seeds iu
i Proa.
bu k a O'llourkcj Garden seeds iu bulk at O'Kourka
1 Bios.
their employes. You don't geLhalf
the truth out west. Everything here
is under the inn heel of capital and
the 'common people' have no more
show for justice than a cat basin
hades without claws. I am in the
midst of daily cruellies and wrongs
that make my blood f lirl.v boil."
Mrs. R. D. Tarpley. practical carpet
weaver. having purchased a celebra-
ted Flv shuttle loom, we are prep- red
todoall kinds of chrpet wetving. Wo
will guarantee tit's'.-cU.-B work at cus-
tomary nriois.
who was found to be defaulter to the
tune of $1,996 holds us responsible for
his exposure, and doubtless rernem-
ters the debt and is anxious to pay.
Old Wart has our permission to pub-
lish the letter and any other informa-
tion he can get from such cattle.
The impression prevails throughout
the county that a territorial herd law
has been added to our statute. It is
an error. A territorial herd law bill
g t through bolh houses of the legisla-
ture, but was vetoecj by tjje govefpor.
PROBATE COURT PROCEEDINGS
Z. W. Johnson vs. Robert Canalles
forcible entry and detainer, trial by
court, judgment for defendent.
Grant Fleming rs. Cbas. White,
debt, trial by court, judgment for de-
fendent, appealed to district court.
J. W. Dewis vs. G. W. Rush, dis-
missed at cost of plaintiff
Territory vs Penned & Rlgdon,
criminal libel, held in bond of $300 to
district court.
Territory vs II. E. Kelley, abduction,
bond fixed at $1,500, committed to
jail.
Territory vs Homer Jones, petit lar-
ceny, guilty.
Territory vs J S McAlister, felonous
assault, examination waved, held In
bond of $1,000.
Territory vs W C Conner, felonous
assault, bond of $500 to appear March
28. for examining trial.
Territory vs A H Grail, assault and
battery, trial by jury, verdict guilty,
fine $20 and cost, appeal to district
court
Territory vs W N Smith, grand lar-
ceny, bond ot 500 given for his appear-
ance March 26.
Territory vs J S McCalister, carry-
ing pistol, plea of not guilty, appeal to
district court.
Married.
Geo Arkebauer, and Mis Ainne
Shruni.
John Islimau and Elleu Wixom.
James A. Rogers and Mary
Skipper.
wTll*sell
One mill and gin outtit, and location;
consists of 30 H. P. engine and boiler;
grist mid saw mill. cotton gin, steam
press and house 24x60 feet. Call on
H.J. WATT*, Burnett, O. T.
BRIM ER A REESE
Dealers in Feed and Flour—Good
Wagon yard aud Camp House. (.'all
and see us on Park Stfeet. qwt of
On tlie very same day that Lincoln's
birthday waa being celebrated through-
out the land Abraham Lincoln's son
appeared in conrtto defend George M.
Pullman from the charge of contempt
The son of the emancipator has just
distinguished himself by organizing a
gas trust, which is at present rubbing
the people of Chicago very deftly
Twentieth Century.
The gre.«t Wendell Phillips thus
summed up the situation in 1871
Twenty-five years later how the words
fit the times we live in: 1 The great
question of the future is money against
legislation. My friends, you and I
shall be in our graves long before that
battle is ended; and unless our chil-
dren have more patience and courage
than saved this country from slavery,
republican institutions will go down
before moneyed corporations. Rich
men die, but banks are Immortal, and
railroad corporations never have any
disease. In the long run with legisla-
tures they are sure to win."
The fight is on and it must continue
till the people obtain control of this
government or become slaves. The
contest is between money and man,
between the money power and the peo-
ple. Foreign wealth is arrayed on one
side and intelligent patriots on the
other. Then here is a great mass of
humanity still ignorant, assisting for-
eign wealih to crush patriotism and
themselves. If that mass can be ed-
ucated before it is too late, this may
again be a free country, but the out-
look is doleful. Many people prefer to
listen to the song of the siren till they
are bound hand and foot.—Sledge
Hammer, Pa.
The proposed trimming of the Oma-
ha platform has been endorsed by
every jiopulist in the house and by two
of the five senators, as well as by the
late populist candidate for president
and the present chairman of the na-
tional committee. After this address
duly signed by them, had been pub-
lished, opinions from the rank and file
were giytn and nine out of ten took a
position in opposition to that taken by
those usually termed leaders. This
proves that populists are not led-al
least not by the nose, as the masses of
the old parties have been for at least a
quarter of a century, l'opulists will
follow their leaders when they believe
they are on the right road, but they
will not be led bv them on what they
(the masses of the party) believe to be
the wrong road. So our leaders will
have to change roads, or prove to those
they would have follow that they are
on the right road, or give up their
leadership. While this is a fact no
quarrel, bad or suspicions feeling ex-
ists. It Is simply a situation that in-
dependence and intelligence of the
rrnkand file of any organization is
liable to bring about.—Missouri
World.
c
iuxf.sk i.auni *y
ftiiu COLO Bint.
Hut* WAH, Proprietor,
JOHN J. HERRING,
A TTORNEY * COUNSELLOR AT
LA\V, Tecumseh, okla.
E. B. MUNDY.
T AWYER, Will practice la all the
courts iu ti. e Territory.
Tecumseh,
OkUktwa.
\ L. MCFAZZ,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
(County Atteraey.)
O.T
TECUMSEH,
If. SLA Yt
ATORNEY-AT-LAW.
Tecumseh, - . Oklahoma.
1ST Will Practice in all the Ceuru
W. M. MKLTON. 0. C.
MELTON & SHASE,
ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
Tecumseh, . . O. T.
Office up-stairs in Smith Bros. Bldg.
PRICDERIO KING,
ATTORNEY AT-LAW,
Tecumseh, Oklahoma.
HrWill practice in all the courts.
J C BRISTOW
Blacksmithing^
Repairing.
Carriage Work a Specialty.
East of Bauk, at N. E. Cer. Square.
Tecumseh, Oklaom*
W. E. DAVIS
STU lid LOU
The Tecumseh and Noble flack Line makes tripe
dally, except Sunday*. Hack leaves Tin
•eli at 4 00 o'clock a. m., and raakea eJeee
connection with the north beund passe
at Noble. By taking this ronte ynu will ee?e
a half day's ride In a hack Al emere let
express receives prompt snd oareful all a-
tlen. Fare 9*2.00 ene way; F>0 reuud trt#,
from Noble te Burnett, 11.50; Burnett le
Tecumseh, 75 eents
REPLACE
Till Oli Earuu.
I cen tell you a s«i
of new hand made
harness so'chesp you
can't afford to patek
up your oldj set. I
have a big stock te
select from, aud
I've got 'em you bet,
hand made goods and
of the best leather and
trees on the market.
I have a big stock and
can please you in
prices and styles.
See me before you
buy anything in the
harness line.
G. M. C ISSN A,
South Side Square, Tecumseh, O. T.
ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.
(Flr-t puMtahrd In Oader Feb. 15. 18.*5.)
TKkRITO Y UK OKLAHOMA. #
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In ibe fx bate Cum of *alu county, F«bsua
14th lHWv lC.-t.-it* of K !en M. P.iync. deoeaetd.
N TI K, Is b?rebr given thai Thome* J.
Payne uhm fllad bis petition la ttila Court, praf -
Ing (hat letters of admuls; ration b« 1 needle
him. and loat a hearlug will b* had
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