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SECTION ONE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPECIAL EDITION
The Muskogee Cimeter.
Vol 7
jiluskogee I T. Thursday JVovembor 16 1905.
No 6
1XGKAM ON STATEHOOD.
Though It 1b not ours to say nor
ours to do ours to vote for nor
against ours to admit nor ours to
repect ours to refuse nor ours to ac-
cept Indian Territory into the union
as a separate state or joint state
with Oklahoma it is now on ours to
petition and congress will give what
it sees fit. Whether or not we are
ready for statehood does not esem
to be under consideration as it is
nutural for men to think they are
leady prepared able and competent
to govern themselves. In my pudg-
ment I do not think Indian Terri-
tory is ready for statehood but if
statehood is inevitable I pray for
single statehood. One evidence of
Indian Territory's ability to govern
itself was the constitution formed
by the separate statehooders which
offers no protection against the abus-
ive public accomodation that results
from the separate car laws although
this abominable crime is practiced
in many southern states. The su-
pieme judges say it is unconstitu-
tional for the national government
to Interfere. Every shock the just
public accomodation of the negro has
had every javnlln that has been
hurled at his protection every in-
truder that walked upon his rights
every tyrant that dug V dungeon
for his privileges every villain that
hedged his pathway and every viper
that has raised his malignant head
to send forth poison Into tho beauti-
ful streams of joy peace and tran-
quility that so sweetly nestle around
t'lie rights of public accomodation
has hi.d constitutional protection
and if the people of Indian Territory
cannot see these wrongs these evils
these henlous crimes existing before
their eyes in their sister states they
are unworthy ol statehood. If there
is any right under the sun that needs
constitutional protection it is the
right of equal public accomodation.
Some may say that hese people do
pot predominate but if hey are strong
enough to call conventions adopt
lesolutions and have the audacity
"to frame a conbtitution and the im-
pudence to ask people to adopt it.
then they will forever terrorize and
finally ruin our future state. But
if statehood must come though our
piayers our begging and our peti-
tions may be ol no avail but if wo
will beg pray and petition let's
beg wisely and 'logically let us con-
sider how our rights will best be
protected and secured when state
hood Is given. If you will pardon
'me for plagurlbt and allow me to
say I know of no way of Judging the
future only by the past. Viewing
from a political stand point what po-
litical party has done the most sac-
rificed the most offered the most
suffered the most trying to secure
protect and make safe the rights and
privileges of every man who is for-
tunate enough to be born or live in
America. "'Tho republican party has
spent millions of dollars lost thou-
sands of Hves?--wastd oceans of
sweat rivers of tears and tons of
blood trying to raise the flag of
America's Independence out of the
mire of serfdom and slavery. Every
civil or political right that has been
given the negro in America was giv-
en by the republican party for the
sake of our rights and privileges and
in the name of freedom and in op-
position to slavery. Let us think
how best we crtn save our future
state for the republican party. Some
one may wish to ask if the republi
cans always protected the negro. I
will answer by asking has any other
party ever offered or given the negro
any protection. Some one may say
the republicans protect- the negro
for the sake of his (the negro) vote
but 1 have never been in the hearts
nor souls. Neither am I a mind
reader or fortune teller. I know
not what motives move them but I
know liberty is sweet from any
source. Some one may say that
there are some white republicans
who opose negro suffrage and some
democrats who favor It. Yes but
think a minute. Suppose the illus-
trious Joe Cannon were to attempt
to eliminate the negro from poli
tics or preach the infamous doctrine
of abolishing the 15th amendment
he would immediately and abrupt-
ly fall from the leading ranks of re
publicanism into the slums of in
significancy and despair. But in
some democratic leaders we have a
miserable and outrageous contrast
the robbing the oppressing th"
abusing the slandering of the negro
is the making of the prominent dem-
ocrat. The size of the territories
the variety or fertility nt the soil
the representation we wjill have In
the nationnl congress the territorial
debts the internal improvements
nor the relation the territories iear
to one another none of these things
have only thought how best to out-
general outplan outwit conquer
and disappoint that fellow who has
dug a dungeon for ray liberties pre-
pared chains for my body handcuffs
for my hands shackles for my feet
fetters for my soul and a cage for
my generous spirit when conquered
and overpowered. As I know of no
way of sheltering myself from poli
tical abuses only under the banner
of republicanism inasmuch as Okla-
homa is republican I pray for single
statehood. The republicans of Okla-
homa are thoroughly organized pre-
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Twine, W. H. The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 16, 1905, newspaper, November 16, 1905; Muskogee, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70015/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.