The American (Commanche, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 226, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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THE AMERICAN
P W TUCKER 1 Editor
1100 a fear
Pnbllf'ld Weekly
Entered aa aeoood-olase ifetter March
?S 1912 at tha poet offioeft Comanohe
Okla under the Act of Uarch 8 1879
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pur' PreiMent
Woodrow Wilson
presentltive of the town It the
bniness men are interested
enough to give ua the same' pro
portion of business that we are
ryiDg to seoure for them we will
do the balance Its hard to edit
paper successfully after ten
o'olook at night On the other
land if we were given the proper
support we could employ more
help thereby allowing ns to give
more time to promoting the best
interest of the town We hope
you catch our drift
for Vlca President
Gov Marshall
For U S Senator
IIobt L Owen
Per Congress
I Hcott Ferris
Ff r Congress et Large
"a 11 Mubret
‘ Claud Weaver
Joe B Thompson
For Representative
0 M Morris
For County Attorney
H W SlTTON
For County Judge
J W Marshall
For County Superintendent
Prof L A Morton
For County Treasurer
A' B Ferguson
For County Weigher
R G Porter
For Tax Assessor
W J Wallace
For County Clerk
Burton A Barnes
For Sheriff
T W Bray
For Register of Deeds
Mrs Dora White Holman
For County Conmlssloner DIs No 3
W H Rader
For District Clerk
M J Davis
For Justice of the Peace (Brown Tp
Arthur McCollum
“Am sorry Mr Editor I oan
not give yon any advertisement
I sm troubled with heart disease
and my physician says I must
have absolute quiet ana rest
therefore he forbids me to adver
tise
will be seleoted on the expressed
perferenoe of either the people
or the politicians Do we want
the politician or the people to
rule — Marlow Review
Sept 27 ih is press day t the
Oklahoma City State Fair 8ect
Bronson of the State Press As
socistion announces that a six
o’olook lnnobeon Automobile
drive and a big gridiron banquet
are some of the nice things that
will be prepaited by the Oklaho-
ma City people end no member
the fraternity oan afford to
miss it Those who live in pro-
hibition territroy and are unfa-
miliar with ths virtnres of Co-
manche Mineral Water should
avail themselves of this opportu-
nity to soak np their whistles and
otherwise enjoy the many goods
things Oklahoma City has in
store for them
A word to the real busy busi
neat man :-8ir the is no busi-
ness that cannot be inoreaaed
and benefited by advertising No
olaaa of advertising pays as well
as a well written ad There is
no work you could do that would
bring you as great returns as to
use thirty minutes time eaoh dsy
in the study of advertising if
yon are in business and have
something to sell One great
trouble with most advertisers in
the small towns is that they
write an ad invoicing their stook
in trade and expect by letting it
stand week after week in the
newspaper to get direct returns
from it Such is like expecting
a horse to pull without nourish
ment
He who by his oonduot makes
good loyal friends on the one
hand and bitter fnemies on the
otbeiV giteh evidfebfld there is
ecmething of the bold independ-
ent upright man in his campo-
Bition while the chicken-hearted
weak eapling is capable of
making neither friends or foes
The Mexico situation is grow
ing so acute that it looks like
Amerioan intervention would be
the ultimate outoome Two more
regiments of Soldiers was dis
patched to the Tax as border last
Saturday and unless the cruel
treatment of Americans in Mex-
ico is more on the humane order
in the future intervention is sure
to be the outoome The brutal-
ity the Mexicans have been us-
ing in promoting their savage
warfare across the Rio Grade
for the paet two years is suffici-
ent cause for some Nation to step
in and learn them how to fight
according to oivilized methods
We hope Uncle 8am does not
have to rush troop? across the
dWiaPZ 11:C yet women Mid
children should be protected
even if it takes' fighting to do it
The tnah or woman who has
time enogh to keep up with ev-
ery little whimsical piece of gos-
sip about their neighbors about
tbeir town about anything ev-
erybody and anybody — suoh a
manor suoh a woman should en-
joy the worlds sympathy They
are usually ot bad breeding and
no good and almost perfectly
harmless yet tbeir deplorable
condition of mind should elicit
the kindly feeling of all
Mr Farmer do you know that
Comanohe hardly has a oompeti
tor in the cotton market The
buyers here are giving from 25o
to 50o more per hundred pounds
lor cotton than other surround
ing towns If you doubt this ask
the farmers who hove been both
here and other plaoea with oot-
ton Others may tell about
their good market but actual re-
sults is what helps the man who
has cotton to sell- The Coman-
che market is the place for results
An exchange -gays that “one-
third of the fools in the country
M&iE they oan beat a lawyer in
expounding law One-balf think
they can beat the dootor in heal-
ing the sick Two-thirds of them
think they oan put the minister
in a hole in preaching the Gos
pel and all of them think they
oan beeat the editor in running a
newspaper"
A certain writer has said “that
no newspaper which took truth
for its standard would make
peouoiary success" The press
might return the compliment by
remarking that no minister who
told he thuth about hiB congre-
gation alive or dead would oc-
cupy the pulpit muoh longer
than the Sunday following The
press and clergy go hand in hanc
with the whitewash brush paint
ing rosy spectacles magnifying
little virtues and' kindly throw
ing little deformities jjuto obliv
ion The pulpit thi pen and
the gravestone se partners
Saint-making-
Tbe American has neyer quit
ptrnggling to make a paper re
CERTAINLY TH i HOPLB
SHOULD RULE
Don’t yo u thick the people are
entitled to have tome say in the
selections of postmasters! They
Yes let the “Peoples Rale"
The “people rule" makes good
campaign talk but when an effort
is made to let the people say in a
primary eleotion who they want
for a federal judge or a postmas-
ter suoh eminent democrats as
Senator Owen and Wo H Mur
ray are found opposing We be-
lieve in consistency in less pro
fession and more performance
lees demogoguery and more
sincerety In yiew of the hope
of elioiog federal partonage soon
it is easy to understand why
they prefer the rule of the ma
chine to the rule of the people—
Marlow Review
We take issue to disagree with
yon heartily Mr Review Man
In first plaoe you asBnme a
a virture that your past actions
show you do not possess In tbe
eeoond plaoe you have made
yonr article a monstrosity by
oonniving to allign the name of
8enator Robt L Owen with the
freak and joker ladened resolut-
ion which Mr Williams and Mr
Haskell tried to put over the
convention at Oklahoma City
No fair and untrammelled mind-
ed man coaid throagh any hook
or orook oonneot 8en Owen in
ahy way with the deliberation
of the State Convention He
absolutely refused to take any
part whatever in the conventions
proceedure other than to appear
as the convention was adjoining
and thank the democracy of tbe
state for their loyalty to him at
tbe primary
But baok to the jits of the Re-
view Man’s 8tupidity He gave
his good and unbiased opinion of
that resolution in the lobby of
the Lee-Huckins Hotel in the
morning before it' was read in
tbe convention that evening
He said then that it wae “dema
gogery gone to seed That was
probably before he had conferred
with ita sponsor s -however he has
a perfect right to ohange his
mind as the legislature has been
negligent in that matter and left
the “great oommon people’’ with
that one liberty untouched But
if the supporters of that nafarious
resolution were eo eager to de
vide the “spoils" by primary
why did they not advocate this
method befor that old patronage
fostered machine wen down and
out at the primary It looked to
a casual observer as though it
was a snare to catob suckers
and at the same time lay a found
ation for the rebuilding of tbe
machine which has held control
We said at the beginning that
be Review Man “assumed a
virture that hie past actions
showed he does not possess” or
did not possess when a mem-
jer of the legislature and he is
still a member of the legislature
For proof of this we only point
o tbe aotions of the legislature
when that body was creating
hundreds of offioes (fifty per
oent of which Gov Cruce says is
not needed to give efficient ser-
vioe) suoh as State Game and
Fish Wardens State purchasing
Board State Enforcement offic-
ers State Board of Health
Sohool Land Board Attorney
to tbe governor State Librarian
State Board of' Agriculture
State Report er Grain Inspector
Live Stook Inspector State
Agenoy Oil Inspector Factory
Inspeotory Free Employment
Bureau Supenvisor of Agricul-
tural Education Direotor State
Geological Survey Adjutant Gen-
eral Board of Pharmaoy State
KLotion Board Board of Agri-
culture Agrioulture Commission
Oklahoma Bar Commission
Board of Control Asylum
Board Board of Medical Exam-
iners Penetentiary Board 8tate
Board of Equalization State
Banking Board Board of Dental
Examiners Board of Arbitrated
end Cancellation State mining
Board Text Books Commission
and various other useless boards
and commissioners
We find the Review man then
a member of the legislature help-
ing in their creation and creating
them appointive Why? Be-
cause Haksell was the oppointor
and all appointments would be
made according to Hoyle (tbe
ring dictation) But now after
his favorite has been beaten to
a frazzle and the gooae that lays
the golden egg has strayed into
the lap of anther he has witnes-
sed (?) a complete ohange of
heart and wants a primary every
time there is a post office yacan
cy Wonder if he would be ad
vocating a post offioe primary
bad Ex-Gov Haskell gained
the nomination or would it be
"demagogery gone to seed”
'Let the people rale’ Thata a
fine old adage preaohed much
and practiced little It baa been
eohoed and re-echoed in Oklsho
ma until it has beoome 4 by
word to the oommon herd The
political praotice his been to let
a few wise heads rule instead of
the people but the the people
the great common people”
have had the meaning of that
slogan eo thoroughly impressed
into their noggine that they have
tot busy of late and are now in
a fail way to do some ruling
Publio opinion baa not been
allowed to sit in judgement upon
matters pertaining to tbe states
general welfare For instanoe
the school land which was a
heritage of every born and un
borniohild in the stite the
people “the great common peo
pie” voted over 40000 against
its sale yet the wise heads the
know all fifty per oent of whom
hardly knew the state owned any
school land of the legislature of
which the Review Man was also
a member passed a bill for its
sale with out allowing the peo-
ple to interpose an objaotion
Did “The peoples rule” then or
wae it the sleek ounning of Judge
Burford who made up upwards
of a hundred thousand to assist
him in lobbying it through the
legislature!
Agio Oklahoma has 24 state
sohools of various kinds and ool
ors Did the the “proples rule”
there money to be so recklessly
squsndeued in this way or waq
it the politicians who ruled it
thus!
This howl about what the "ma
chine” did at the Convention
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comes without a symptom of sin
Obrity from the Review Men He 1
forgets that Sen Owen carried
Muskogee County by over 600
majority at the primary and yet
C N Haskell and his hand full of
political plate? captured th e en
ire delegation frond that oounty
If the "ring’' was not sup-
porting Mr Haskell how did
he manage to head the delega-
tion from that county when Sen
Owen had a majority of the vot-
era at the primary? The entire
delegation including Mr Has-
kell voted for the freak resolu-
tion so your “peoples rule” plea
and "ring politicians" is knocked
sky west and crooked Ha! Hal
If Sen Owen was backed by the
ring why didn’t Muskogee County
send an Owen delegation to the
State convention? Ah you ring!
Anthony you write awfnl silly
dope If you presume your
readers to be all damhools then
you must admit that your twenty
four state schools has not been
as benefioial in guarding against
ignorenoe as it should
-The men who were interested
in Sen Owen and Bill Murray at
jhe State Convention and who
are tryiag to aid Gov Cruce in
bis eftorts to untie some of that
Haskell made bunch Irom hund-
reds of fat positions were mostly
men who have never been heard
in this state before They were
never consulted before only at
tbe taxpayers window They
have carried the burden with
hardly a murmur yet they
have been silently and patiently
at work oarrying on a campaign
of education to relieve this state
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The National Democratic Committee are now asking
for DOLLAR contributions to and in the fight for demo-
cratic supremecy in November W J Bryan and all lead-
ing democrats are in the field now making from one to
seven speeches per day They will continue the Struggle
until the ballot boxes close in November If you would
help them in the fight send in your dollar to The American
We will send it to national headquarters and will also
publish the name of all contributors Wilson and Marshall
will win if we help to get them before the people
of the gang of political shysters'
we inherited with statehood
The late primary and stats con-
vention speaks fairly well for
their success Yes “Stephens
county voted against the resolu-
tion” and they would rather
bear the blame than to be made
the father of the Oklahoma
Johnson Grass Law
Flying Men Fall
there’s no need to feel like that
as T D Peebles Henry Ten n
proved "Six bottles of Eleotrio
Bitters” he writes "did more to
give me new strength and good
appetite than all other stomach
remedies I used” So they help
everybody Its folly to suffer
when this great remedy will help
you from the first dose Try it
0 nly 50 cents at all druggists
Are Ever At Wnr
There are two things ever-
lastingly at war joy and piles
But Bucklen’s Arnica Salve will
banish piles in any form It
Boon subdues the itching irrita-
tion inflammation or swelling
It gives comfort invites joy
Greatest healer of burns boils
uloers outs bruise eczema
scalds pimples skin eruptions
Only 25 cts at all druggists
Farms Wanted
If you want to sell your farm
call and list it with me I want
an option on 40 or 50 of the beat
farms in this county until Jan
1st as I am going north to inter-
est buyers who are anxious for
Oklahoma land
G A Kincaid
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Tucker, P. W. The American (Commanche, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 226, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1912, newspaper, September 12, 1912; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1917798/m1/3/: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.