The Tulsa Democrat (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 1910 Page: 4 of 14
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PAGE FOUR
The Tulsa Democrat
Published Each Thursday.
OLDEST PAPER IN TULSA COUNTY.
WM. STRYKER, Editor and Owner.
Tha Democrat holda membarahlp In the Associated
Praia and haa tha largeet circulation of any Tula*
newspaper. Weekly eetabltahed January 1, lilt.
Dally eatabllahed Heptamber 27. 1104. Tha Democrat
la entered at the postoffic# at Tulaa at aecond-claea
mall matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF TULSA CITY AND
COUNTY.
FxtUorlal
Reporteri
Per Year
PHONES:
and Buxines* ........
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
.11.00
The Democrat guarantooa a paid aireulatlen more
than 20 par cant greater In Tulaa than any athor papor
Ing already? Aak the gambler and the bootlegger. He
known If he would only tell. But If ha told It might, yea j
It might, Injure hla ''buatneea."
But the people of Tulaa hare had enough of thla port
of thing and It la going to atop. Stick a pin right there,
(Continued from page one.)
THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
I
The Democrat la authorised to announce the following
gentlemen aa < andldatep for the oRloea named below, sub-
]ecl to tha Democratic primary In Auguat I
For Secretary of State,
LEO MEYER.
For Cengreee—Third DietrioL
S. L. JOHNSON, of Okmulgee
For County Judge,
N J til'BSKR
For County Attorney, Tulaa County,
THOMAS D. LYONS.
For Troaauror of Tulaa County,
JOHN T KRAMER.
ore upending In the rock ribbed Re-
! publican atate of kanaaa, your inter
j atate Juat acroai the line. The appro-
priations made by the Republican !<-*-
. t mature In Kansas for the year 1*09.
The Republicans do not seem to bs In any great hurry j )a>, y(ar wara jj,««,»«<>. You see the
to announce aa candidates for county offices. Wa don't point. Kaniua, an organised atate with
i all Its Institutions eatabllahed and gu-
btame them. Even a Republican sometimes haa sense; ,,ia spends more money In one year
enough to see the steam roller when It la coming and to gat lhan did the state of Oklahoma without
, Its organised Institutions and yet Mc-
out of the way. | Neal says we are extravagant. And I
Tulaa la a Democratic county because It ought to be; **n* 6,11 >our attention to anoth-
] er thing Your entire atate and county
a Democratic county. The administration of the affairs of i*j levy thla year la three and on#
the county by Democratic official* for tha past three years; ,“*lf “J11*; whu® *" *h® *uu *"d''
' ' i ana, thickly populated and an old elate
haa be*n »uch aa to appeal to the Judgment and the sup* j the rate la six mill*. tk*a that look aa
port of every cltlaan. Thar. ha. baen no graft, th.r. have! «®ven,ment ha. to •«
Oklahoma Laws Protect.
Mr n »aid that Oklahoma
was the marvel of potltu it history
efficiency and ea- with Ita constitution which gave to
. . every man the equal protection of the
go h r«>at 4 j |awa. « conatitutlon which safeguard*
r I « »| the rights of the poor aa well aa
the right* of the rich. He laid that he
been no scandals, there hai b**en no maladministration
anywhere.
Everywhere, In every department
purity have been demonetrated. Thi finest
•ysterr. in the atate, If not in the southwest. it In way
being realised, and bridges hate been constructed with an Hu> no( ,vadlna any lMll, whtch mHrh,
Idea of the future. Taking hold of the affaire of the county j b» presented and ho asked any person
j in the audience to suggest thing# to
at a period of rhao*, when there was no political organ! -, him. •
nation at all. the present county officials rapidly Impressed charged that the Republican
press by Its elandering of the present
thtlr genius for organisation and for a capable admlnls- administration is keeping money out of
the situation by and> °k la home. They will not tell the
truth either from the platform or In
large It le truly wonderful that mistake* were not made, their papers," he declared. ’They hav*
•ent out over the north and east the
tratlon on tha people. Considering
were not made,!
that serious blunders were not committed.
But nothing untoward has happened The record of
Tulsa county Is one for every cltlaen of the county. Irre-
spective of politics to be proud of That's why Tulsu
county will continue Democratic.
A DISAGREEABLE TASK.
The standpat newspaper!, edited by federal ofllcehold-
vileet slundera of this atate They have
ao misrepresented conditions down
here that some of the people up east
actually believe that w> wear horns
and that we are uncivilised gener-
ally. That la why more money does not
come here. That Is why Oklahoma can-
not get the funds to develop her vast
resources when California and other
distant states can get the money.
8tata Hat Been Slandered.
It la not due to any fault of your
For County Clerk of Tulsa County,
C. F. ROGERS, Of gklatook.
R E. CURRAN
For Ciork of tho District Court,
W. W. STUCKEY.
For Judge of tho Superior Court of Tulta County (Soon to
Bo Established Upon tho Completion of tho Contuo
of tho County.)
J. R LEAOUE.
For County Surveyor of Tulta County,
A H. COLLINS, of Turley
R. K. HUGHES.
For Sheriff of Tulta County,
J Y. BRAND
For Stole Superintendent of Publio Instruction,
R H WILSON, of Chlckasha.
For County Superintendent of Schools,
WM SATTGA8T.
For Register of Deeds of Tulaa County— Re-election,
H. C. WALKLKY.
V. A. FOX. of Broken Arrow.
For County Commieaioner—Second District,
T H CHAMBERS.
THE PRICE TUL8A PAYS.
Within the past three months two employes of a rail-
road company and one employe of a mercantile establish-
ment, all trusted men, have been arrested In Tulta charged
with embeultment. And the curse haa been laid on Inno-
cent little children In arm*, on wives and mothere and
fathere, Ihe curse uf crime, the brand of the criminal.
Did these men eteal this money that they might enrich
the church and spread the truths of the gospel around the
world? Did these men steal thla money because of Iho
alreas and storm of hardship and to keep their families or
themselves from starvation and death? I)ld they aleal
the money to gratify their desire for fine raiment or Jew-
elry? Not at all.
Thla money went Into the Joints and the gambling
houses of Tulsa. It went for whiskey and for cards. It
went Into the pocket* of men, not men but creatures, who
live by violation of law. who encourage crime, who know-
ingly lead men Into embexzlement and defalcation and then
have ihe nerve, the ultimate gall to eland around on street
corner* and talk about "our business." Buslr.es* Indeed!
The ruin of three homes, the blasting of three live*, tho
breaking of a score of hearts, that* are the terrible toll
which the gamblers and the bootleggers have taken of
Tulaa In the last three months. la the game worth tho
candle? And how many more than these three whose fall
was publicly proclaimed, how many more are going the
same way In this town today? How many more are slated
for tho bottomleaa pit of despair? How many are despair-
The esteemed Muakogee Tim* Democrat truthfully
aaye. "Thla being a free country, nobody’s right* are In-
fringed by those expressing the opinion thla the White
houae explanation anil denial department* are being over
worked "
The Missouri newspapers, particularly Ihoee of the
Democratic faith, are having fun over the fact that one of
her cltlxens, the Hon. Richard C, Kerens, ambassador to
the court of Vienna, has leased the moat elaborato and
expensive palace in tliut city for Ms residence during hla
term at the Austrian court. They refine to forget the time
he wu* a mule pilot at Fort Smith, or the fact 'hat he waa
the largest private contributor from Missouri to the Tnft
campaign fund. One of those papers remembering his lack
of educational equipment, breeding and culture, says, In
speaking of Ids course, "He seen Ids duty mil done It
noble."
mlllatlon That Ballinger Is past saving cuts no figure
earned, and they pour whole broadsides of abuse and vltup-
er* In fact or In expectancy, era having a hard time trying ( date government, thle lack of conft-
to make a rea.onable d.f.nae of .he pre.id.nl in hi. effort. £"«°of‘a
to save Ballinger from further exposure and greater hu-; ignis,-d plan of misrepresentation and
abuse which has been going on since
statehood and which is being pushed
with them in ao far as their ostensible effort* are con- j hard and fust on this very day. They
tell you that the Democratic party hue
ruined Oklahoma. It la not ao. It has
.ration Into the ranks of those who know and assert that j been the lies told by the Republicans
. . . . , , which have Injured this atate and
he should go and that Taft should cease trying to defend wh|ch are hurt|nf u tod ..
him. Democrats ths Progressive Ones.
But In their real to appear loyal to their bread and but- *'*r* Uruce said that the liemocratlc
party was the party of achievement,
ter they overstep the bounds of discretion and disregard of progrMH !t gllV(. prw.
the law of evidence. They In Cfleet say that Ratllnger Is as P1* UUs state the two cent fare
white at the driven enow and that Taft knew what he was
doing when he clear-llated him a* a desirable and aa a
murk for Jealous envy.
All this Inky bombardment might be excused were the
proof not so evident and the presumption not so great.
Every act of the discredited secretary tends to show he
was more desirous of serving forbidden Interests than In
making a reputation for Integrity. His ear Is seemingly
attuned like that of a federal Judge and the desires of
corporations are obsequiously heeded while the cries of
ti e private individual go unheard and unnoticed. And for
any newspaper, willing or unwilling, to undertake to de-
fend or plauslblly explain such conduct Is Irksome to
those who know better but are willing, and Impossible to
those who have Integrity of characttr snd normal self-
respset. g
A MODEL JUROR FOUND.
The ideal Juror has been found at last. North Dakota
ha* furnished the man who sail sites every requirement that
the technical lawyers have made of those who must sit In
Judgment upon the acts and motives of those charged with
offense against the laws
The North Dakota Juror had never heard of Roosevelt.
He knew nothing about tbe long and short haul, and hud
no opinions upon the subject* of elastic currency or tariff
reform He never read Ihe "noospapers." The heart of
the nation n Ight throb with Insurgency; Halley's cornel
might be detailed and retailed; the baseball pennant might
be won nr lost by a single play; hut the patient cltlxen of
North Dakota—the Ideal Juror—pursued his nightly slum-
bers In the same untroubled wny.
The lawyers have In one Instance succeeded In ban-
ishing Intelligence from the Jury bnx| How much more
tlielr vigilance will be Increased because of It can only be
which was knocked out by a Republi-
can federal Judge. It gave the people of
this atate cheaper freight rates which
have been enjoined by a Republican
federal Judge And 1 want to show you
Juat what happened when that freight
rate wa* enjoined. A man In my town
had a contract to do some work and
he figured the freight on the muterlal
on the rab* then In effect. When the
rate was enjoined and the railroad re-
stored the rate In effect before the
contract was made my friend had to re
duce the wage* of hie laborers from
12.00 per day to $1 35 a duy. That la
the way the Republicans take care of
the poor people of the country.
Tha Coal Lands.
The question of the purchase of coal
lands by the state was taken up. 'I
am opposed to the purchase of the coal
lands diy the state," he aald, "becauae
I believe It would be throwing their
money away. One of the candidates for
the Democratic nomination la In favor
of R and somehow or other the friend*
of this thing got a provision into the
constitution permitting the state to
buy these lands. There are many reas-
on* why the state should not be bur-
dened with these mines. In the first
place It would bring convict labor Into
competition with free labor and I am
always opposed to that. I do not be-
lieve that Ihe man In the mines the
free white miner should ever be
brought Into competition with convict
labor. Mv contention le that the only
plait where the convict can be worked
Is on the publie roads, and I atn In
Convict Labor.
favor of their employment In that ea-
paclty. And If 1 atn elected governor
I will pledge you that these mines
■hall not be purchased and I will ve-
to unv hill providing for tlielr pur-
chase.
The Torrens land system, whereby
the state guarantees the title* of the
land wu* taken up. ‘I am opposed to
the Torrens land system," the speaker
declared,' “and I will oppose It all the
lime It may be alright In Indiana or
Illinois, but II will not do for Okla-
homa with our unsettled condition.
Where title* have been going on In an
see that that the results have been
highly benellclal, that a better class of
boys Is being reared than waa found
around the doggeries, that there la more
money In the purse of tha drinker”*
family than there used to be. It la all
a matter of public sentiment. They say
the prohibition law la a failure anu
therefore ought to be repealed. There
la a law against murder which la vio-
lated nearly every day. Ought the law
against rnunbr to be repealed and do
you hear aanyhody seriously advocating
tie repeal* There le a law against lar.
ceny and stealing goes on every day and
do you bear anybody advocating the re-
peal of the state law agalnat prohibit-
ing larceny!
A Matter of Enforcement.
It la merely the fact that tha senti-
ment agalnat prohibition Is organised,
that many good men do not bellev* In It
and that lit alt If the people of this
communtly or any community In the
state make up thetr minds to enforce the
prohibition law lust aa other laws are
enforced you will come as near having
absolute prohibition as It la imsslbl* for
human beings to anjoy. But If forty per
cent or tlfty per cent of the people do
not wnnt the law* enforced the officers
are nowi-rlres or powerless at least to
tha extent and Influence of that senti-
ment against the law. Prohibition is no
more a failure tha tbe law agalnat mur-
der or the law against larceny la a fail-
ure All that la necessary la to enforce |
the law by and through public aenti
ment."
Section 9, Article 9.
Ac lo the repeal of Section 9 of Art let
9 of the atate conetitution which la >
tng so vigornuely- urged by the railroads ,
Mr. Cfuoe aald: "I am opposed to that |
I am opposed to anything which will
curtail the power* of the corporation
commission. 1 believe that tha corpor-
ation commission represents the people
and that It has been of great service to
the people and I shall vote against and
oppose with all my voice anything
which tenda to abridge their Jurisdic-
tion or authority. I think there has
been u good deal of buncombe about the
repeal of thla section anyway, that It
has been used to make political capital
principally. I do not believe there
would have been any additional rail-
road building If that section had not
been In the conatitutlon and I do not
believe that ita repeal will seriously af-
fect the situation one way or the other.
It la Juat another Instance where the
enemies of the party have aelxed a
straw and are making a great big fuss
over without the slightest chance of
winning and with the only hope that
they may discredit the democratic
slate administration and Ihe demo,
(■ratio party generally "
Old Indebtedness Paid.
Mr. Uruce called attention to the fact
that under democratic government in
thl elate more than 11,000,000 of In
debtednesa Incurred by the republicans
during territorial daye had been paid
off and all of the departments of the
state kept running and efficiently
managed. He charged that the repub-
licans In the last legislature obstructed
every move which made for reduction
In taxation, that they voted for higher
taxea and extravagant appropriations.
He said they may have been doing this
In order to try and put the democratic
administration in a hole but the rec-
ord Is there and explain a* they may
the record ahowa that the republican*
voted against any measure which would
have relieved the people of some of the
burdenso of tuxutlon. He also called
attntlon to the fart that the governor
vetoed bill* which would have taken
more than ono million dollars out of
the atate treasury. And moat of these
bills had the support of the Republican
minority In ths legislature.
Mr. Cruce dosed his address with
powerful sentimental appeal. He said
he would rather be governor of Okla-
homa than be president, that he would
rather be governor of thla atate than
to hold any office of place or power
under the sun. that ho would not, If
elected, build up a machine, that he
would protect the name and the cerdlt
of the atate. He was frequently ap.
plaudcd during the address and at Its
dose was warmly congratulated.
A second great continental emi-
gration has begun. The people of
the East, the Middle West the
North, are on the move—to Okla-
homa.
That* newcomers are able-bodied, virile and industrious man. Thay
are not tha failursa of othar atataa, but thay ar* coming to Oklahoma
bacauaa thay hav* found othar statoo failursa.
This means a bigger chance for all those who are already
settled in and around Tulsa. But do not let these new-
comers get ahead of you. They will try. You must be
alert if you would hold your own. Certainly Everybody’s
Magazine makes this clear. And sane business men co-
incide with this view.
EVERYBODY’S for June gives a stirring picture of the
great Southwest. “SOUTH WEST WARD HO!” by Her-
bert Kaufman tells facts that count with the man who
knows.
17 othar artidaa of absorbing interest.
Now on salo at all nsws-standa—IS cants a copy.
The Ridgway Company, new york
conjectured. But with this striking precedent at hand only
a remote possibility remains that the learned men of the I un*,r°hen chain for generation* It may
I he till right for u state to guarantee
law will ever more accept for Jury service a man whose I them but In u country like our* where
judicial powers have been spoiled by the modern evil* of nrt* numerous find frequent
it would bankrupt the state to try »
readln*. *rltln and rithmetic.- Syndicated. guarantee the validity of title*
Oil and sGt.
“If elected governor of thin state I
ahull do all that I can to foster and en.
courage the development of your oil
and gns. It In perhaps the greatest In-
dustry In the state next to agriculture
und ha* resulted In the bringing of
prosperity to nil of the northern coun-
Another banana rebellion has broken out In Central
America. They last longer but are about a* harmless as a
French duel.
Uuanah Parker, fumous chief of Ihe Vomnnclies, will
open a school at Oklahoma City where he will teach the
elite of that city the old Indian dances. We don't know of
a place where such a line of Instruction would he more i
appropriate or where he would be likely to And more apt11** and the building of such splendid
| I'ltlr* ns Tulsa. We might to d., everv-
puptls Muakogee Phnrnl*. I w, r„ to
———————— _______ velopment In continued. I am not n
Standard OH man by any manner of
Kate Bender having died again, the Hyde trial over j means but we can help and we ought to
and Ballinger about tired, they now have dug up Leon Ling I*"’ "impendent Individual pro-
7 ■ 1 * ducers of oil and gaa and I promise you
the Chinaman who murdered Elsie Slgel In New York a that their welfafe should always he In
year or two ago. Thl, time It was found that he had been °f1the T" '"l,h ,'h:
administration of the government or
living In Wellington, Kansas, under an assumed name but this state."
had left before his identity was established. Prohibition Not s Failure.
on the prohibition question Mr Cruet,
suld "While prohibition is not a party
"An Intelligent compositor who deliberately sets up'QU0,t,<m 1 nevertheless feel thnt my po«
...... sltlon should be known. Statewide pro.
IndUldual. for Invalids lias a future behind him." «y. mbuion carried In thl. state by a ma-
m exasperated foreman Kick his future —American Bui- J°r|ty of seventeen thousand and I was
in one of that majority and I see no reason
I to change my mind. If the election was
i ______________ i *° *>0 over a*aln * would vote for
. '' 7 ’ T ~ . . statewide prohibition. People *av that
Pupil, bore a teacher to the grave,' I, the heading of ,here no u80 ln tryln„ thnt ,,r0.
a news story In a Kansas City paper It is not the flrat hibltlon law I* a failure. II may look
teacher who ha. been bored lo the grave -Muskogee W*y 'n,th® *“’'’H’ Vd but
jr»>e. jauiBogee | ygy go qui |p qYxs country and you will
Phoealg see the results of that law and you will
WILL WORK FOR THE
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
(Juthrlc, May 25.—fUsolutlon* em-
phatically endorsing Governor Haskell,
the state officer* and the state courts
were adopted by the democratic con.
gressional committee of the First dis-
trict, in session here Tuesday. Also
resolutions denouncing the proposed
constftutionnl amendment to Article 9,
to encourage railroad building, and
thanking Chairman Jack Love of the
corporation commission for tho active
light he I* putting up against the pro-
posed amedment, which the resolution
referred to a “crafty device to turn
the stute over to the railroad*."
Only about live counties in the dis-
trict were properly represented, though
■omo one from nearly every county
was present. The chairman was A. I.
Thompson, assistant engineer of tin*
corporation commission; secretary,
Billy Hamlin of Newkirk. Henry 8.
Johnston of Perry, whom Bird Mc-
Guire defeated for congress at the lust
election, offered tho rcHolutlon hostile
to the railroad Imildin amendment. It
will be recollected thnt Mr. Johnston’s
campaign manager was A. I. Thomp-
son.
The ostensible reason for calling the
committee together, ns assigned by
Chairman Thompson, was to develop
some enthusiasm In the circulation of
petition* to Initiate tho "grandfather’*
clause,’’ It appearing that this con-
gressional district, with 4,800 negro
voter*, had been very backward In as-
sisting the proposed dlsfrachlsement
of the negroes. All the committeemen
agreed to begin tomorrow morning an
energetic compalgn to send ln their
quota of signatures.
There was nothing said at the meet-
ing relative to congressional candi-
dates, though both Jim Kirkwood of
Guthrie and T. J. Leahy of Pawhtiska.
democratic candidates for congress
were present. The Kay county hunch
cams down booming C. L. Plnkham of
Newkirk a* their candidate.
Economy Anniversary Sale
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
May 26, 27, 28. A Money Saving Opportunity
This month closes our second year of business in
Tulsa. It has been our banner year, and we want to
make this our banner month. We thank you for the
steadily increasing trade that has been given ns during
the past two years. We certainly appreciate it, and for
three days are going to offer you an exceptional oppor-
tunity to lay in a supply of good things to eat at a big
saving in price.
Our Prices Speak for Themselves. We Guarantee the
Quality.
FRESH COUNTRY EGGS PER DOZEN...........20c
FRESH CREAMERY BUTTER PER LB...........30c
30 lb. Sack High Patent
Flour ................ $1.35
Colorado or Minnesota
Potatoes, par bushel.....75c
1 Gallon Can Apricots......35c
1 Gallon Can Apples ........25c
Half Gallon Can Corn 8yrup 20c
Halt Gallon Can Crystal
Whit* 8yrup ............25c
1 Largo Can Table Pears
Only ...........■.........10c
3 Large Can* Kraut ........25c
2 Small Cans Tomato**.....15c
2 Small Cans Cov* Oysters ,15c
7 Bara Ruby Laundry Soap 25c
3 Can* Kidney Beans.......25c
3 Cana String Beans...... ..25c
3 Cana E. J. Pass.......... 25c
2 Cana California Poaches 25e
3 Pkgt. Table Salt..........10c
3 Pkgs. Parlor Matches ...10c
3 Pkgt. Voight Cream Flakta 25c
1 Can Rad Cherries.........10c
1 Can Sliced Pineapple......15c
5 ft. Pail Jelly............25c
2 Cana Pumpkin............15c
l Cans Hominy .............15e
A trinl order will convince you that we are head-
quarters for low prices. t
Economy Cash Grocery
W. T. BENNETT, Prop.
22 East Second Street. Phone 227
These plats can be purchased at the
Democrat office at the following prices
Range.
I
Reurk*;
5c per dozen or 25c per hundred
Furnished on either card board or paper
Tbe Ladlea Mlwdonnry Society of the
First Baptist Church will meet with
Mrs. VV. F. Ewing, Friday afternoon
at 3 p. m —210
Glean Up Your JPanama!
Wa make a specialty of oloaning
Straws, Felts and Darby Hat* while
you wait,
Tulsa Hat Cleaning Co.
312 Main St- Next Robinson Hotel.
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