Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1904 Page: 3 of 16
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Pauls Valley Sentinel
Pauls Valley, Ind. Ter.
H. M. CARR O. S. WILSON
SENTINEL PRINTING COMPANY
O. S. WILSON, Editor and Manager.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1904
^ "Single Statehood at the Earliest
£ Possible Moment Upon Terms of Abso-
^ lute Equality."—Kinging Declaration
0 Passed by Territorial Republican Con-
T vention at Claremore.
There were two contesting delegations
from Ada to the democratic convention at
Durant. One delegation had been instruct-
ed for Dick and the other went uninstruct-
ed. The uninstructed delegation was
seated casting one-half its vote for Williams
and one-half for Hailey. The Ada News,
since the convention, has been prompted to
remark in the following language: "We
state to the democracy of the 16th district,
and do so guardedly, that you have been
insulted and outraged, and we desire to ask
you in the name of democracy, which stands
for free and equal rights to all men, and
whose imbedded principle is "that the ma-
jority shall rule," if right here on the
threshold of democracy in the Indian Ter-
ritory, are you going to submit to bossism
and machine rule? We believe with all
our hearts that we should deal honorably
with each other in our political actions as
well as in our business and social rela-
tions."
The question of roads is going to be a
very serious proposition to the farmers and
people of Pauls Valley and attention should
be at once attracted in this matter. It is
only a few more short weeks until corn,
cotton and other crops will be moving, and
it will be a fact at that time, as well as the
present, that many places on ;he public
highways near Pauis "V uiey are almost im-
passible. New i.' tLe time to look after
these mud-holes, and it will be found that
every dollar expended cn roads now will
pay tjn-iold laier this season.
The action that has been taken by the
C eek Nation Republican Central Committee
looking to the complete organization of the
party is a step in the right direction and
should at once be patterned after by the
same committee of the Chickasaw Nation.
The party machinery should be in good
working order so that when statehood comes
the full vote can be polled at the first elec-
tion. It is indeed, high time for the Chick-
asaw Nation Republicans to get busy.
The Oklahoman, a strong democratic pa-
per, says: "The Oklahoman has no dispo-
sition to appear in the role of dictator to
any body of democrats, much less its friends
in Indian Territory; but it doesn't mind
saying that it thinks they missed a splendid
opportunity to register their wishes on the
most important question which ever came
before them. Their action smacks very
strongly of the David Bennet Hill soit of
politics."
Surprising to note how many democratic
newspapers have climbed into the band
wagon since the Territorial convention.
Most of them were either for single or
seperate statehood before, but now they
can't explain just where they're at.
The Trust Party's National convention
adjourned at Chicago yesterday.—Exchange.
Wonder why Parker, Hill, Belmont and
the other boys wasn't there?
It is believed that the 1904 cotton crop will
be close to 12,000,000 bales, or the heaviest
crop ever grown. The best previous crop
was 11,176,000 bales. At ten cents a
pound—and cotton has been much higher
than that figure in the past few months—
the estimated ciop would be worth $600,-
000,000, which means prosperity for the
South and a good deal of reflected prosper-
ity for'the rest of the country.
Williams got the best place his party had
to give at Durant, Hailey got an oil well at
Haileyville, and Mayor Dick of Ardmore,
got it in the neck in the Territory gener-
ally. Thus all the candidates got some-
thing . —Phoenix.
And had you noticed that the Chickasaw
Nation democracy usually gets it where
Dick did? About time the organization
was taking a tumble.
The Republican National Convention
which convened at Chicago this week was
the greatest aggregation of imbeciles ever as-
sembled on the American .continent.—Dun-
can Banner.
Be careful, sonny, or such attacks com-
ing from you might canse Uncle Joe Can-
non, Elihu Root, or some of the other boys
untold agony and uneasiness.
The republicans are going through the
form of a national convention at Chicago
today.—Ada News.
And they'll be going through the form of
electing the ticket some few days later this
season.
Men oftentimes play with their fellows as
if they were dice, and shake them.—Deni-
son Herald.
Yes, that's about the way they'll do your
man Parker down at St. Louis.
The Republican administration at Wash-
ington needs an injection of Republican
principles.—Denison Herald.
Don't worry. You may preach such gos-
pel for four years to come.
The little town of Brock had a picnic
yesterday and organized for the discussion
of statehood, and conditions in Indian Terri-
tory. Thompson and Mansfield should have
been there.
It is said by some correspondents that
the convention at Chicago was slow and
apathathetic. Possibly all the eruptive ex-
citement has been saved for next week at
St. Louis.
Wonder who sends in editorial stuff from
Pauls Valley that is being printed on the
"official organ."
VERY CONSISTENT, INDEED (7)
The Oklahoman, that pure, undefiled,
democratic organ, in a special dispatch
from Chicago had, among other things, the
following.
"For twenty-five minutes a great throng
told its approbation of the convention's
choice tor president. The name of Roose-
velt came from every throat. The New
York delegation paraded the hall shouting at
the top of their voices. Other delegations
joined the procession, and the well ordered
body of half an hour before was a shifting
mass, ever semblance gone."
Then on the ed'torial page the following
appears:
"Enthusiasm was so rampant in the
Chicago convention that icicles covered the
delegates' whiskers, preventing anything
more than perfunctory hand-clapping as the
cut-and-dried program was carried out."
THER'RE ALL KICKING.
Q. D. Gibbs, editor of the Mill Creek
Times, who was a member of the commit-
tee on resolutions at the Durant convention-
says editorially:
"Well its all over and so is the shout,
ing. The Democrats have gone on record
as favoring present conditions. All filibus-
tering that the Democrats in congress may
do in the way of "putting off" statehood,
has already received the tacit endorsement
of indian Territory Democrats in conven-
tion assembled. Four years from now the
time may be opportune for them to go on
record in an affirmative way and possibly
make some demands, but for the present
"let her rock." If the rest of the Demo-
cracy can stand ii we can. In the language
of the poet—"Ain'tthis the damndest pie,"
but we like it."
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Wilson, O. S. Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1904, newspaper, June 23, 1904; Pauls Valley, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110150/m1/3/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.