Cleveland County Leader. (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1900 Page: 4 of 10
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Vote the Democratic ticket
straight on the 6th and be on tin
winning side. The whole Dem-
ocratic ticket will be elected in
Cleveland county.
IAHN & EINSIEDEL..
First I)onr East of Post Office,
Purcell, 1ml. Territory.
Neff is in tavor of statehood,
but he wants to extend the boun-
daries around the boundaries of
the Indian Territory as well as
the boundaries of Oklahoma.
Noble County Sentinel.
Oklahoma will soon become a
state and it stands the people of
this county in hand to do their
share toward sending men to
the legislature and to congress
who are in favor of separate
schools for white and colored
children. Neff is not in favor of
mixed schools.
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Flynn's statehood bill calls for
free schools for ai.l children—not
separate schools for colored and
white. Why did he make the
language ambiguous? Would it
not have been as easy to make it
plain had he tavored separate
schools? The negro vote is too
large at Flynn's home for him to
come out op;nly for separate
schools. Vote for Neff and a
separation of the races in school
when we get statehood.
The middle-of-the-roaders are
taken in by the Republicans of
this county in tine shape. They
endorsed Bottsford and Meeker,
Republican candidates, and ex-
pected the Republicans to en-
dorse Mr. Duffy, Populist candi-
date for council. At a meeting
of the Republican central com-
mittee a week ago the members
unanimously voted against plac-
ing Mr. Duffy on the Republican
ticket. Of course they want the
Populists to support Bottsford
and Meeker, but they have no
obligations to fulfill on their part.
A conversation took place in a
store not far from the Leader of-
fice between a Republican and a
Democrat on the merits of the
presidential candidates of the
two parties, and of course the
Democrat was getting the bctier
of the argument, which some-
what riled the Republican, and
as a clincher he exclaimed,
"Well, I think McKinley is a
mighty good man and means to
do what is right, but will admit
that his wife Hanna is an awful
woman."
Judge V. M. P. Pool lias got clear
over into the Democratic camp. First
he was a Republican, and a strong one;
tlien lie became a Populist, bitterly
denouncing Republicans and Dem-
ocrats; then a socialist of the rankest
description—and now lie's a Democrat!
—Transcript.
Mr. Pool has done only what a
great many other wise men in
the United States have done this
year, and which goes to prove
that lie is capable of progressing
And has the manhood to stand up
for principles that he believes
.are right. May he continue to
tjrow in political wisdom and I
until lie forgets he
"cVor was a Republican.
look at the free homes question,
on which Flynn is asking re-
election:
Republican papers say that Mr. Neff
is a splendid sleight-or-hand perfomer,
andean place a handkerchief in his
coat pocket and pull it out ot the bot-
tom of his trousers leg, or out of the
back of liis coat co 1 ir, or pick it out of
his hat; that he canjplace a pocketknife
in his vest pocket and pick it cut of his
hair, etc, etc. If a man does any work
he should try to do it well. Dennis
Flynn also attempts sleight-of-hand
tricks,but his work is crude. He fought
the free homes bill to keep a democrat
from getting the credit of passing it;
then Dennis got himself elected to con-
gress, where he "played boss" with
free homes for two years. Then he se-
cured a re-election, and at the las', mo-
ment allowed the bill to pass, and now
lie is trying to prove that Flynn and
the republican party were always great
friends of free homes, and that Flynn
is "it." If he could hide his record on
the Callahan bill he might fool the
people again.
Wintry Blasts are Here!
But you can protect yourself from the
uncomfortable effects of the cold weath-
er by supplying your wants from the
large and complete stock of new, fresh
Dry Goods and Clothing
Boots, Shoes and Furnishings,
which have just been received and opened
for your inspection at the large double store
T. G. Woods & Co.
Purcell, I. T.
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A. D. HAWK,
President.
L. C. WANTLAND,
Vice-President.
W. M. TOM!.IN,
Cashier.'
The Ghickasaw National Ba1
Of Purcell, Ind. Ter.
The following comment from
the Kansas City Times on our
two candidates for congress will
he interesting to people in this
countv. It shows how outsiders
PKTTIGREW'S LETTER.
The following letter from Sen
ator Pettigrew to R. B. Forrest,
at El Reno, in relation to the
history of the free homes bill
which Flynn claims the honor of
giving to the people of Oklaho-
ma, is published this week that
the readers of the Leader may
know who is responsible for the
passage of the bill and decide
whether Mr. Flynn is claiming
' honor that was earned by others.
! The letter gives Mr. Flynn credit
! for what he did:
Washingtos, i). C., June27, 1900.
I R. n. Forrest, E<q.: El Keno, Ok.
Dkar Sik:—Your letter of June
15th duly received audi will semi
you very soou, perhaps to-day, a
"printed copy of the history of the
free homes bill, which I think
gives everything of importance
in connection with the matter ex-
cept a speech delivered by
Orovesnor, a representative from
Ohio, where he says the plank in
the platform at St. Louis was
placed there to catch votes and
was intended for use only in that
campaign. The fact is that the I
Republican party was opposed i
to the passage of this legislation j
on the ground that the money J
for the land should go into the j
treasury, and after the election j
of 1S%, when they found that
Oklahoma, Nebraska and South
Dakota had gone for Bryan the;
partv iti Washington determined :
to punish those who wished the
tree homes law to pass by relum-
ing the legislation. When 1
brought the matter up in the sen-;
ate early in the session of lH'Ht
and 1S'">7, Piatt of Connecticut!
led the fight on the other side
and was the most bitter in his j
opposition. The debate was a
long one and ended in his total
defeat, for we quoted the plat-
form of the three political par-
ties on the subject with great ef-
fect. I led the debate in favor
of the bill and every parliament-
ary point that could be made to
defeat it was made by Piatt.
When the bill went to the house
of representatives instead of mo-
tion being made that the house
disagree to the senate amend-
ment and ask for a conference,
which is the usual and customary
method in all such cases, the
speaker, Mr. Reed, and Mr.Lacy,
the chairman of the committee
on public lands, deliberately vio-
lated the unbroken precedents of
the house and refused to enter-
tain such a motion and referred
the bill to the committee on pub-
lic lands, and thus put it where a
small minority could defeat the
bill if they desired to do so, and
wheu we desired to enforce con-
sideration the Republicans, who
were in the majority, refused to
put the bill even where it could
be considered. I therefore placed
an amendment on the Indian ap-
propriation bill, in the senate,
granting free homes, in fact, en-
acting this very provision, and I
passed it through the senate and
it went over to the house ot rep-
resentatives and was there de-
terminedly resisted and defeated
by the Republicans, every Repub-
lican but twelve voting against
it and every Democrat and Popu-
list but six voting for it.
There is no chance for the Re-
publican party to escape the
charge that they were opposed to
this bill and were willing to vio-
late their platform to defeat it,
and there is no question but what
they have been crowded to the
wall in this connection and com-
pelled against their wills to pass
the bill for fear of the political
effect in this year's campaign of
the violation of their platform in
this respect. However, it is my
opinion that they intended to
pass the bill only through the
house and kill it in the senate,
and it was only by the most ju-
dicious and careful management
that we succeeded in avoiding
this purpose. When the bill
passed Mr. Piatt was absent.
The bill was called up at my re-
quest and I asked Mr. Nelson to
call it up, as I hoped in Piatt's
absence other Republicans would
not object if Nelson, a Repub-
lican, called up the measure, and ;
I had arranged with all the Dem-
ocrats so that I knew there would
be no objection from that side. '
Under tne circumstances it is!
very fortunate we secured the |
legislation, but it is my opinion!
that the Republicans are not en-
titled to any consideration in thisj
connection. As for Dennis 1" lynn, j
I believe he worked for the bill, j
Callahan, who succeeded him, i
was a most industrious and per-j
sistent worker for this measure j
and did everything he could doi
but the Republican party had de-
Itermiacil to punish the home-j
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Latham, George D. & Coombs, Charles W. Cleveland County Leader. (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1900, newspaper, October 25, 1900; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109008/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.