The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XVI.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY 20 iqo5.
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WHAT M\Y BE Tilt RtSllLT.
Views of Vartous Persons Re-
garding Statehood Con-
vention.
Oklufrorra City Can espoiiieut Guthrie Cajutul.
Whether the statehood conven-
tion, the last one that will pro
bably ever be held in Oklahoma,
accomplished any good, for the
cause of statehood, is a question
that may best be answered after
the action of congress with the
statehood matter this winter. A
man prominent in public affairs
and who lias been in the lower
house and also senate of the
United States, and who has been
identitied with the Oklahoma
statehood movement ever since
its inception, stated last Friday
that in his judgment, the big
meeting and the resolutions pass-
ed so unanimously would avail
not the smallest iota of good for
Oklahoma. He maintained that
nothing but the omnibus bill will
ever be successful; that Okla-
homa and the Indian Territory
will never be separated from the
alliance with New Mexico anil
Arizona; that they will all have to
come in together, under the same
enabling act. He did not dis-
credit tne idea that statehood de-
pended upon the admission of
the other two territories.
harmony surprised everyone.
The unanimity with which the
convention passed over the por
tion imagined to contain the break-
ers, and the unqualified harmony
and good feeling among the dele |
gates when adjournment was
taken, signified the dispassion-
ate way in which this and that
one with a personal interest or a
personal desire had conceded a
point when the whole people of
the new state to be were affected.
It was feared there would be
friction in the resolutions com-
mittee, because it was rumored
that something was going to be
inserted and something was go-
ing to be left out. It has been
said the friends of Delegate Mc-
Guire would iusiston a resolution
requesting the passage of the
Hamilton bill. It was stated that
the advocates of prohibition both
from the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma would insist on a re-
solution guaranteeing prohibition
for the new state. None of these
things were done, and when the
possible clash was eliminated
there was nothing in the way of
a harmonious convention.
prohibition did not cause
rumpus.
It is a fact, however, that the
anti-saloon league of Oklahoma
and the church federation for
prohibition statehood of Indian
Territory, headed by Rev. J. J.
Thomson of Oklahoma anl Rev.
E. M. Sweet, jr., of Indian Terri-
tory, is responsible for the pro-
hibition matter not being brought
into the convention. This was
the idea they worked on all the
time before the convention, al
though it was said it was simply
a blind preceding an attempt to
capture the convention and insert
their resolution. But they kept
faith in their promises. At no
stage of the game, however, did
they permit their interests to be
unrepresented. It is a fact that
in all the one thousand delegates
attending the convention, the
prohibition movement was re-
presented by a large majority,
and in their effort to eliminate
featurescalculated to cause trou
bio rested thcirstrength. Had the
isstie been forced upon them,
they would have carried the con
volition three to one, and this
was known to the other delegates
and leaders, better, perhaps,
than anyone else.
fight will ue kept up.
Rev. Thomson when seen to-
day and asked how ho felt over
the outcome of the meeting he
aaid: "Never better. It went
off just as I wanted to see it. A
squabble at this time on any
matter would be the worst thing
that could happen. We want
statehood, and I believe it is
every man's sacred duty to help
all he can to get it." When ask-
ed in reference to the prohibition
movement, he said: "You know
our stand before the convention
was that the matter should not
be brought up at this time. Rev.
E. M. Sweet of the Indian Terri-
tory and Rev. E. C. Dinwiddle,
superintendent of national legis-
lation for the anti-saloon Ion#"0-
and myself have gone over the
matter thoroughly with our peo-
ple, advising ti 10111 what was best
now, and they were satisfied
with the counsel and abided by
' it. You see the result. If this
j matter had been made an issue
now, there would have been a
tight that would cause results
that a long time could not right.
Wo will take this matter up be
fore congress when the statehood
bill is being considered and will
there incorporate the clause we
want. We are organizing now,
and will continue to do so, and
pretty soon we will be able to
show almost to a man in Okla-
homa and the Indian Territory,
who wants prohibition and who
does not. This matter was gone
over with President Roosevelt
some months ago when a com-
mittee composed of Capt. A. S.
McKennon, formerly of the
Dawes commission and liev. A.
Grant Evans, president of the
Henry Kendall college of Mus-
kogee. The government is bound
by an existing treaty with the
Indians to the effect that United
States shall always protect the
Indian from having to endure!
the liquor traffic in the Indian |
Territory. President Roosevelt!
declared himself emphatically
on the question as presented by
this commission and told them
that the treaty.with the Indians
would beheld sacred by the gov-
ernment. This insures prohibi-
tion for the Indian Territory,
arid the movement in Oklahoma
has strength enough to dissolve
STATEMENT
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
Al the close of business, May 29 1905
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts
Premium on U. S. I kinds
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtur
United Slates Honds.
5 per cent Redemption Fund
Cash and in Other Banks
..*50,860.00 Capital Sto
763.17 Surplus
1.100.00 Undivided I
5 .500.00 Circulation
. 25.too.o0 Deposits.
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No Title to Mineral lands.
Guthrie, Ok., July 15.—Gover-
nor Ferguson has received from
Secretary Hitchcock the depart
mental opinion that the Oklaho
ma school land board has no
authority to lease school lands
for mineral purposes. The opin-
ion goes further and says that
neither the territory nor the
future state has any title to
school lands on which mineral
j may bo found. This makes
certain the fact that individuals
j will seek by acts of congress next
winter to acquire for private
purposes school lands in the
neighborhood of Cleveland <>11
which oil has been found, al-
though Delegate McGuire has
said that he will introduce a bill
giving these lands to the ter-
ritory. A portion of the depart
mental opinion reads:
"Assuming that the school
grant to the future state of Ok-
lahoma will be upon the same
terms as school grants to other
states, no rights to lands known
to be mineral in character at tha
date when the grant takes effect
could pass to the state and tha
state would get under its grant
no mineral rights whatever, but
would be entitled to indemnity
for sections 10 and JJO known to
bo mineral in character at the
date of the attachment of rights
under the grant. In no event
therefore, under existing law
could the territory of Oklahoma
or the new state; to be created at
some future time get the benefit
of any mineral rights whatever."
Governor Eorguson chairman
of the school land board, said to-
day that regardless of the fact
ihat t.he territory had no title to
school lands 011 which mineral
was found, he would decline to
inmsfer agriculture leases to the
promoters who had secured ro-
hiif|uishuieiils from the agricul-
tural lessee for the purpose of
mineral development. Only per-
sons \vl -I would use the land for
agricultural purposes exclusively
('on 1.1 srot leases or transfer a ot
leases.
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