Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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J. M. TL'GQLE.
The Leading
Grocer and Baker
Sells The Best Flour
LEXINGTON LEADER.
VOLUME 19
FOR FAVORABLE
FARM
^Consolidation of You Alls Doins, Established 1899: Cleveland County Leader, Established 1891.)
"Entered June 9. 190 , at Lexington. Oklu. as seeond-elass matter, under Act of Congress of Maroh a. 1S7U."
LEXINGTON, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1904.
COMPANY.
The LEADER
> PRINTING >
Always Pleases.
LOANS AND CORRECT ABSTRACTS OF TITLE SEE THE ANDREW KINGKADE
NUMBER 2
NORMAN. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
The Home Circle
By Mrs. Mary Mitchell.
Horn* ought to be the one place
on earth iu which to be pure aud
hone«t. If we are not true to our
selves ami our families around our
own firesides, it will not be expected
that we will be elsewhere; and we
will not be; for the veil of pretfense
that we are wearing will be too
CANADIAN
OVER FLOW ES
Carrying Bridges and
Ruining Thousands
of Farms
SEVEN WENT DOWN ON BRIDGE
The South Canadian that di-
I that account, and the prediction that "ides the two T erritories, Oklaho-
to hide the falsehood that we are i.v-1 ^ HamiUcn bi„ will uot pa88 a, ma and Indian Territory, lias given
Another McGuire Gun Spiked.
A new story seut out from Wash-
ington and published iu the Territo-
rial papers, in which it is stated that
conditions iu the Indian Territory
are such that it will be impossible j
for the Dawes Commission to be Jin„i
ished by March 190(5, as was agreed |
upon; that it may be ten years before !
| affairs in that Territory aie wound J
up, and that Statehood may not j
thin come 'nr au e1ua' length of time on
ing outside the home.
Home should be hallowed by the
sweetest influence that ever touched
the lives of tnen, and as we are ex
amples after which our children will
pattern, live so that our lives will be
an example that will be worthy of
imitation, and that
the short session of Congress next l inhabited places along its low,
. .. Hat banks much uneasiness for the
winter, is a hard blow to Mr. Me
Guire's campaign promise that he
will, if elected, pass the Hamilton
jbill through the Senate at the short
session.
It is clear that Mr. McGuire was
, I not consulted upon this news item
i beautify and mold their i\<* or I before it was sent out, as his cam
fulness in all that is pure and good, j ^ by iu
Beautiful live have « eve ope appearance at this timt; in fact about
the darkest places, as the l^™ jall of Mr. McGuire's campaign argu
will elevale, ,
lillies in the staguant waters;
while one
beautiful life may develop
i merit has beeu crippled since he
now
and then in homes
where the
started out on the stump for re elec-
tion.
safegard of protection from all that ^ ^ ^ ^
is corrupting is not thrown around, . ^ the only reason the HamM-
number of others will be drawn < own ^ ^ ^ [jag8 the genilte was
to the lowest depts of d< grai ati ju. ^ |)ecj,uge 0f (he opposition of Senator
Fathers and husbands, what are ^ ^ Hlibustering tact|cB( am)
you doing to make homt bug. au i bill would tiudoubtedly pass at
cheerful? Have you that true
past few days.
The cry of "the liver is rising,"
lust Monday morning, did not, in
the least, cause one anxious look
from its long inhabited people, and
the few strangers that shot askance
glances around into the peaceful
faces, soon became satisfied that
no impending dangers threatened
theni; but higher and higher rush-
ed the maddened waters until it
looked as though it would break
into the open streets and carry its
inmates down to a watery grave.
Whistles blew warnings, telling
in each note its own story of the
excited town, who had awakened
Sam 1'
here, but nothing serious happened
to his family.
Several other farms were cover-
ed with the waters, carrying hales
after bales of cotton that was ready
to pick and thousands of bushels
of corn to sonle low place in the
bottom of the river to he covered
with the sands that only the South
Canadian possesses.
Wednesday brought about the jman °f
reuniting of the towns, by rafts and
boats with not one of either town
lost.
Though, mails for the past few
days had to be sent to the town
above here, Noble, and then sent
through the country here. Com-
munication from the South is en-
tirely cut off on account of the
railroad track that was washed up.
Every bridge on the Canadian
south of here received the same
destruction, and even greater dam-
ages than this one; doing far more
perilous work to farms, cattle and
houses in its broad path.
It was exciting! far more than
any one of this community ever
| witnessed, but it will only be a
short while before the towns will
be just as conveniently connected.
SAM I'. Rf-NDER campaign Lit nailed.
AddreSSed the Math= ^f,orls 10 Injure Parker, in Ulster
n. . County Completely Destroyed
ews Club
THURSDAY, EVE., SEPT. 29.
WAGE REDUCTION.
pa
rental affection for your children, aud
love for your wife, that as you enter j
your home your presence briligs with
it a ray of sunshine that sends a thrill
to find it liking only a few feet of j
being flooded by the vast body of pacfs 0f Industrial Situation do Not
water that had, since they retired, Sustain Republicans.
risen so fast that they were all un-1
conscious of the fact that it was so , Notwithstanding the many claims
near them. I set up by Republicans to the effect
Although it took only a few mo- j that the incomes of wage-earners
, ineiits to have the streets iu a bus-1 throughout the land have been in
called to this statement °f ilr. j . ljve with excited women and j creased about twelve per cent under
I the short session next winter if Sen-
iator Bailev did uot filibuster to de
feat it. Senator Bailey's attention
heart or ilo thev ' ^c®u're's' ant-' immediately wrote j c-hildren atid grave face men getting j Republican rule, no figures have been
,.f joy into every ear^jJ^i ^ ^ , a |etter denouncing it as a misrepre j j^ejr l0yo<J om.8 to tt point of safety, submitted by any of them to substan-
dread vour coming
sharp words that will be spoken or; ^ jt ^ abgolutely frtl8l
sentation and in a gentlemanly way above the Water's pa 111.
j tiate this claim.
the many complaints that will tor Bailey iu |,;9 statement, says I people of Lexington and Purcell- j sons for this failure to submit figures
ma',er ' Plainly that he is opposed to filibus ! when trying to save the bridge that. ^ ^ tfae ^ guf
work makes thin*is sacrei.. i tering tactics and that he will not'1® 1 from one town to the other,
Parents do wrong ... letting their j ^ ^ Qf the Haa)ilton ; with a crew of men exerting every
children hang around in idl> tie s- i}j|] by any such unusual methods.
The cnild whose houie nimioiits ar j newg jtem comes direct from
rot hallowed by work, will not love
home aud if they do
home of their childhood, they w ill firgt appeare(j ju the Republican I with a bound by the heavy pressure Lvery branch of the National Govern-
) ve no others Home wi mea pre98 it explains to a thinking: that was against it, it was only a,
nothing to such a person. mind the reason for the failure of; short time before the "doomed seY- J There waH „ reduction iu the years
Our life aboard is onl) a renetuou satioual Republican Convention en" was lost in darkness down the t
jiuc i^auuuai ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Qj- QVer ^ ^ cen^ wage
Sena- j It was a critical moment to the, appear to he very good lea-
The campaign liar is abroad. He
| began his work iu Judge Parker's
j home district by circulating a lie
Render, of Norman, chair through LIster County. It purpor-
Democratic Campaign j ',e H statement made by Judge
Committee of Cleveland county, de- I Parker as to the wage and unskilled
livered an address at the Mathews | laborer was entitled for a day's work.
Club last Thursday evening. Quite
a crowd was out to hear him. Mr.
Render dwelled for about To minutes
on national affairs which he illustra
teil in a good manner. He then took
up the affairs of Oklahoma, which
he discussed for one hour. He
pointed out and proved how the Re-
publican Delegate to Congress had
been working iu the interest of the
Republican party and not for Okla
homa. He also stated just what
Frank Mathews would do if elected
to Congress, which is to secure state
hood, and he will.
PLAIN BUSINESS.
i „ 7,1 H,milton I with a crew of men exerting every fidenl une that tllB on|y figureH 0,1
[oppose the passage of the Hamilton ^ ^ ^ ^ waferH( | tamable show that there have been
J when there was the sound of break-; reductions in wages averaging fioni
iutc I ing timbers and a sudden jerk that j ten to fifteen per cent, and this dnr
flowed b) ^ ^ ^ ^ j ^ ashington and is evidently inspired | en^jj.eiy separated two panels out j ing the years 1903 and 1904, when
and if th ) ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ by the Republican party, since ^ j of the center oi the river. Starting | the Republicans were m control of
How The Trusts Strike Every Home
In The Country.
The tariff <jue«tioti is a business
proposition that concerns every mau,
woman and child, for it taxes the
average home ¥110 a year, or more
than one tenth of the average fam
ily's total income. There is au aver
age of one and one eighth tenths
earners in the average home. These
contribute thirty days' labor each, or
fifty-four days' labor a year to the
tariff-tax collectors. If this ¥110
went as honest taxes to our govern-
ment to meet necessary expenditures,
n ) fault would be found though the
tax would U* considered extremely
But the falsehood was soon dissipat
ed. The lie was ruined by elaborate
details. The embroidery to make it
circumstantial proved too much. It
brought out a sworn denial by those
whose names have been dragged in.
fhe affidavit reads as follows:
Emery Freer, Samuel K Mott and
Louis Booth being severely duly-
sworn say, and each for himself says,
that he has read the article published
iu "The Globe and Commercial Ad-
vertiser," of New York, of date of
September 9th, 1904, wherein it is
st.ited that on Saturday morning in
the year HI02, at the store of Emery
Freer, iu Esopus, while several resi-
dents of that place were discussing
the rate of wages that should be paid
for unskilled labor, Judge 1'arker
said: "1 think that a dollar a day
is enough for any man provided that
his work is steady. Any mau can
live on that and that is all unskilled
labor is worth. I am sorry that I
have to pay more than that, and
wouldn t if we had better supply of
labor thereabouts."
We note particularly that the ar-
ticle so published states "on the day
in question a crowd of men was there.
There were Emery Freer, Sam. E.
Mott, who runs the butcher shop and
livery stable; Lew Booth, the barber;
Carl Wismer, who is a baggage hand,
ler in the West Shore station in
. f what it is at home. The woman
who is course and rude at home, can-
not be refined away from home The
unladylike habits have grown on her
until they are woven Into the web of
her life. If sbe has been in the hab-
stream ; a half mile to either side." "f tf?
Jnvc Mr. W. '•!. Hocker, treasurer of tlle workers 1 h adelphia to the
I, . , , , the Bridge Company, of Purcell, jBumber of ,00<000' ti,ck makers
1 their iures crossed Is onl) Ha.ur l| c i( ^ i,„„ „.,j suffered a reduction of twenty per
their
to declare for statehood. This new
evidence that the Republicans have
wires
*vheu one knows the facts. The
was one of the number, and
sad news that reached his son, a'cent; furnace operatois bad
Republican powers-that be iu W ish- j VQUn , mau 0f ] - or j s years old, wages reduced on an average of about
■ i. *11 i I ► u
jington say there will be uostatehood I wel.e gerious for him to stand fifteen per cent; steel workers bail
it of Using language that should ,, islat(o|1 thig wiuter. tbat the Ham. jn jjj Bg
g'O'l
. . i - n I... their incomes cut about teu per cent
not fall (roui the ipso a true, gt , iltou bill will uot pass ou conditions j After securing a boat, he and as was also the case with ironwork-
try as hard as she can, she
as wa
woman, try as nam *■ hud vau, ' ia the 1 utliau Territory; that state bis friend, Mr. Scoby, of Purcell erH) while glass workers suffered
y will reveal her real home-life by the hool1 iti |ikely to ))e delayed ten years j Mill and Elevator Co., plunged cut'0f twenty per centi
high. But only a very small part ir , , ,
j j ivingstou; aud several farmers from
of this fill) can be classed as legiti- the viciuity wh() W(jre ju th(j vm
mate taxes. By far the greater part ( for their Satllrday.H tra(li ..
use of words that are unbecoming,
and at a tiuic when she wants most
to hide them. It is hard to cheat
the world about our real characters,
aud bear in mind that however bard
goes to million and billion dollar
tariff trusts aud monopolies, which
thrive now as never before iu this
country, These greedy trusts levy a
tribute of $94 a year upon the aver
age home, while the government col
lects au average of about $15 a year
in tariff taxes; the collecton last year
amounted to £3.49 per capita, or
$16.52 per family of 4.7 persons.
Do the heads of these 17,000,000
families, the voters, knowingly ami . , .,
" J store of hmery I-
willingly donate $94 a year to the1.,. i .. . ,
hundreds of trusts? Do they love I
these trusts more than tley love
! their wives and children!1 If not,
why should they vote to give-this $94
In Oklahoma, to fool the people, Mr. j to the waters with only the oarsto [q m ^ ^ aml 8j|k
Mrfinirn ««vs he will uass the bill keep the small canoe on its surface
McClure says he w.iu pas. tne wl.irb at len -tli nroved to strong ' dls ten per cent reduction in wages | to trusts that do not need it rather
at the short session next winter; that ' ^ 1 , was exacted and the nlate mill work *i ♦ i u mi r ti •
for them and wrenched with such VVd8 exacieu, ana tne piaie mm >vora than to keep the I for their own
the only reason the powers, that be j ,oice tjiat in a UttU■ while the oars ers of McKeesport, Pa„ were asses
at Washington, failed to declare or W(;r(. broken and lost. It was tll'en sed thirty per cent. Corrugated
wf ,r\ " a|)|iear omt . j statehood was because of Ari/.ona ^|ie Jjeroes felt their critical posi- iron workers were forced to give up
t,our real wives wBI shine tbrougt. and New Mexioo bring against the | tjon ,nlt keeping oool> it WilH 11() twi.nty pe| MQt of th„ir earnings;
Hamilton bill. It is too bad that ^ trouble in devising some plan to bridge builders had their wages re-
the Republicans cannot get together vencli a point of safety. Tearing ten ]>er cent; railroad opera
tives on many of the large s)btems
wages of about
below. Knowing welfit «'^u cents a day, and the rule of
We aud each of us, the said Emery
Freer, being a democrat, and the said
Samuel E Mott and Louis Booth,
Republicans, depose and say as to
the statements in said article:
I'irst: I hat we are identical per-
sons named in the article aud iu
whose presence Judge I'arker was
alleged to have made said statement.
Second: That no such conversa-
tion ever took place, either at the
er, or any other
j place, and that Judge Parker never
made the statements attributed to
him at Freer's store or any other
place, to the knowledge of either of
to the outaidi
to make his race upon? Has he not
| already made enough promises to be
but
ttie thickest'"ttask
world.
ROUGH R10JE.K GOVERNMENT.
On (lie occasion of the opening of
the campaign by Tammany Hall in
New York recently Mr. Warley Plat
zek strike of the prospects of the j
ticket, saying:
"General Jackson propounded the
question: 'Shall the people rule?'
But the new doctrine seems to tie
'Shall the government be adminis-
tered s ilelv by the Rough Rider,
Theodore Roosevelt?' Gladstoue
said that the American Constitution I
is the greatest document ever writ I ^ tfae ^ ()f 9jafe,e
ten, but Mr. Roosevelt is of the op„. | ^ ^ [t
if in th:it it is a worthless document, , . • i i
ion wdi it | ;s too },atJ that this news shou.d have
] beeu sprung ou the people just at
aud stay together on their campaign j the seats from the boat tliey used
arguments. j these as guides and drifted down sustaine<i a (,llt in
What is there left for Mr. McGuire | until they reached the bank, five or
six uiiles
families, who dc need it? An extra
$94 a year would mean much to the
average family in the way of bettei
food, clothing and education. A vote
for the Democratic party means a
vote to dispense with tbi« additional
tax.
j broken? Has he done auythiu
j make promises since he was first
nominated two years ago?
True, he opposed single statehood
and prevented any kind of statehood wny they rode on through the dai'k-
utitil it was too late for passage at \ nesg until there was a stop; as
the last session and then flopped af providence provided, they drifted
' ter it was too late to be of benefit, only a mile down the river, and
time, as he thought, to enable stopping near enough to the bank
Judge Parker Will Win.
was useless to follow Further they reduction appears to have applied to In a speech made before Tam-
disembarked. * almost every branch of trade, affect- many Hall in New York recently
The seven on tin) "fated" bridge ing a great many thousand em Representative Sulzer said in part:
did all in their power to prolong ployees. 'Judge Parker
their death that threatened theni The International Mercantile
every moment, and in this excited At;eucy, headed bv ex-Director of tin
I win. In my
opinion we will easily carry the
State of New Ynrk Everywhere I
Census Merriam, reports that the i,0 | (jll(| public sentiment in favor of
wages of more than 200,000 indus- ' the hriliiaut New York jurist. He is
| but
to be used or abused as ho chooses.
"No one can deny that the I resi
dent is intellectually well equipped,
honest aud brave, but there is moral
courage and physical courage, and in
moral courage he is lacking? Lin-
coln would never agree with the
President's policy of 'speak softly
ami carry a big stick.'
"All the ni'.ney pauics which have
occured since the birth of the natinn
were the result of Republican iufla
tiou legislation on the money ijue^
tiou and the tariff.
this time, as it, together with his
misrepresentation of Senator Bailey
and the failure of his party to de
clare for statehood iu their National
platform leaves Mr. McGuire sus-
pended in mid air.
W. J, Caluan and wife, of Purcell,
who have been visiting in Kan-i
Citvr were water-bound ou this side
the river several days thi* week.
to reach it without much risk.
SKINS QAVI'' Ml'CIl IIAH-INKS8.
They were all safe on shore, but
separated; father on one >ide and
son on the other, gave little satis-
faction to the longing desire to know
if each were safe.
Lexington raised the first flag or
si"ii, flint told of the arrival of the
two brave boys, and was 1111-
swered in the same way 011 the
other side bating of the safe arriv-
al of the fated seven.
si'Rtiol'n nun.
The waters surrounded Mr. (i is
Hie, who lives four miles below
trial employees were reduced not leas
than teu per cent 111 1903 and that
300,000 others suffered a like re
duct ion in the early portion of 1901
In addition to all of this, hundreds
of mills employing hundreds of
t bin: - 011 Is of men closed down entire
Iy iii 1903, and iu Allegheny County,
P,i.. done there are now over 10,000
idle*inen on account of closed mills.
Mrs. Kobt. Wooldridge, of Nor-
man, is on an extended \ i--h to
; her mother, Mr>. J. II. Fergu-
son.
popular with all class,
aud I have no haibt ht
next president
united and 1
of people
will be tilt
The Democrats 1 ri
nthusiastic this year
Third: That the statement i*
false in substance and in fact.
Fourth: That to our knowledge,
Judge Parker, since h" has resided
in Ksopus, has paid the usual and
going rate of wages to all the men
employed by him ou his place.
Iu addition the said Fmery Freer
for himself says, that he has fre-
<|.ientl_\. during the absence of Judge
! 1'arker, paid the Judge'', employees;
has time and time again cashed
check-, given to said employees for
wages; and to !uu knowledge say-
that Judge Park. 1 his ilway« paid
the going rate • f wages to all men
employed as day farm laborers ou
his farm, to-wit: fr-"n one <l"llar and
a half to one dollar and seventy live-
cents a day, and that the statement
to the contrary publish* I ■ af1 re-
said is untrue and ab-< lutely with ut
fouinlati in.
Note change in a
this week.
few of our ads
I'hey are alive to the task before |
th. 111 to wrest control of the country
from the Republicans, and are work
ing with villi, coiilideuce ami deter
initiation for a sweeping Democratic
victory.
"The Lmpire State is safe for De
mocracy. and we will carry all the
other doubtful States Thepeopb c large ol , nt goes
know Judge Parker i* an honest, an j excellent service to th« many callers
upright, an able and fearless man, ;i ^ Although the people of Lexington
great, jurist- aud 1 Democrat thrhugh . are ,|e|jKl)tell uiUl Miss strickle.
■•■■I through The more tfie people 1 .
there is another voice just as | > pu
stroie'ei lar, that of Miss Melissa King wti
know of Judge Parker the mori
like him. He is growing
Miss Lei ia S'rickle an
phone operator, having li'. *
iogton, a long while,
Cnickasha about 3 years a
I turned to her old home
c large of the exchange
neu V <-
•d in Lex
moved to
go, has re
, and has
with the v ters every day
; often greet us with "number, please
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