The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 32, Ed. 1, Friday, May 22, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
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Vol 9
JllusUogee Ohla. Friday Jlay 22 1908.
JVo 32
Colored People Should Vote
For Wagoner-And Why
Harmful Results of Votes Cast For
Porter or Coweta
'Die Nogroes who vote for
Coweta Porter is not in the
.tace seriously only to defeat
Wagoner vote an approval for
old Hausmer the county com-
missioner who is so full of pre-
judice that he cannot even stand
a Negro as an inter state pas-
senger but becomes a law
breaker by joining others to
eject a passenger from the car.
But his perjudice is not so great
as his cowardice love for pro-
tection' of his own anatomy for
when the passenger showed
light and threatened to send old
Hausmer to h 1 and the mayor
of Checotah along with him as
company they both got busy
sidestepping and and retreating
in good ordei running like
h 1. Can any self-respecting
Negro then vote for Coweta and
old Hausmer ? We think not.
Not even the renegade Durant
could stem the tide and like a
whipped cur he stuck his tail
between his legs and hied him-
self back to Tulsa.
Wagoner is a republican
county made so by the gallant
leadeishipof Hon James Har
ris in the last campaign. The
party is in splendid fighting
trim in that county but to re-
move the county seat from
Wagoner will give the burbon
democracy such a lead that
within a short period republican
success in the county will be
gone forever.
There will be no chance for
another Hudson because old
Hausmer and his confederates
will spike tho guns then repub-
The county seat fight in Mcin-
tosh county goes merrily on and
the gallant fight being made by
the supporters of Eufaula is attract-
ing attention throughout the state.
The entire citizenship of the coun-
ty are working night and day for
their favorite place. In Mcintosh
county the situation Is so close that
lican success is forever lost.
"The few colored men who are
supporting the enemy are very
shortsighted if they cannot see
the ditch that is being dug for
them by the Coweta-Porter
combination.
It is plain they intend to drive
the Negroes from the black belt
if they can carry out their devil
ish schemes hatched out by old
Hausmer and his piratical pol-
itical crew. The Negro dupes
God pity them are simply tools
in the bunds of designing and
unscrupulous democratic dem
agogues.
It is pleasant to remember
that we h ive such staunch lead
ers as P. A. Lewis Attorney S.
T. Wiggins L. A. Bell Prof.
McShann M. Stevens W. Haw
kins Calvin Collins Dr. Steth
Sam Barrett and others who
have put the dupes to flight and
made the masters of the dupes
grit their teeth and cuss.
The race and the republican
party are under lasting obliga-
tions to these men for their
fidelity and strong plea for
justice and right. The Coweta
papers see the hand writing on
the wall and have begun a tirade
of abuse against the Negroes
and still the dupes give a grin
that hell would be ashamed of
and continue to lick the hand
that smites them.
The location of the county
site at Wagoner will be such a
jolt to the political conspirators
of the old Hausmer ring that
even Gabriel's trumpet will fail
to arrouse them from theii de-
served sleep.
the colored vote will decide the con-
test and there is and should bo
strenuous work among our people
to show them the right way. As
has been said In this paper by a
correspondent from Rentisville Eu-
faula is the best place in the coun-
ty for a county seat and should
win in this contest. As we see it
the colored voters of the county
should to a in an vote for Eufaula
as ngnlnst Checotnh or any other
place as it is to their best inter
ests as well as best for all the
people. It is not a political ques-
tion and no one injures their par-
ty standing in voting for Eufaula.
The colored voters have the op-
portunity to make the good people
of the county forever feel greatful
to them by saving the county seat
for the best location and best town
Advantages To Colored People In
Getting Eufaula For
County Seat. ...
Mistreatment and Murder of Negroes at
Checotah Not Forgotten.
We can't sec how any colored
man can afford to cast his vote
for Checotah on next Saturday
when he takes it into consider
tion that a vote for Checotah is
a vote cast for the upbuilding
and perpetuation of the demo-
cratic machine which naturally
means the disfranchisement of
the Negro in the county. We
are informed that the democrats
have already demanded that
republicans refuse to contest in
that county or Eufaula will get
their opposition.
The colored men should re-
member that J. B. Lucas the
arch fiend of democracy is
bending eyery effort to win for
Checotah and thereby lay the
foundation for that hellish and
damnable structure of Negro
disfranchisement and the de-
struction of the republican par-
ty. Every Negro vote for Che
cotah is a vote to d-n the
republican party and the elimi
nation of the Negro from the
political arena. A Negro who
votes for Checotah votes for and
endorses the treatment given
colored women at the depot
in that town prior to the inaug
uration of Prof Jim Crow. In
fact it was in that town that
jim crow in the Western dis
trict was bred and born and he
was cradled upon the bobom
and nutured by that past master
in necrophobia Lucas who
now begs assistance from the
very people he and his crew
in the county by voting and work-
ing for Eufaula. Such a large ma-
jority should be given Eufaula that
it will be impossible under any and
all circumstances to steal the elec-
tion if that should be attempted and
judging by past county seat fights in
other states the thing is likely to
be repeated in this state. The fato
of the county seat is In your hands.
Do the proper thing by condemning
the action of Checotah's mayor.
Vote for Eufaula.
were so anxious to destroy li
has been said by us that ninety
per cent of the Negro vote of
Mcintosh county would go for
Eufaula but the truth is that
one hundred per cent of the
Negroes who love their hoilVes
and respect their mothers
wives and daughters will stand
like a stonewall against any
and all inducements that can
be offered by the unsafe insane
and tieacherous outfit that is
manipulating the campaign for
Jim Crowville.
Vote for Eufaula and you vote
against the hellish methods used
by tho Mayor of Checotah in
the recent jim crow car episode.
Vote for Eufaula and you place
the seal of condemnation upon
the murderers of Rev. Adams
and go on record for the purity
of the ballot.
Vote for Eufaula and yon
demonstrate that like tho ghost
of Banquo the Negro rises up
from the dead and points his
accusing hand at Checotah his
tormentor and pushes away the
prize she so dearly desires when
it is almost within her grasp.
The defeat of Checotah will
be a great victory in our party
in the onward march to success.
The majority should be so great
that the opposition can never
again rise up. Do your duty
honestly and well and the re-
sult will read a square deal for
the Negro in the future and
victory for the republican party.
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