Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 19
LEXINGTON. CLEVELAND COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, JULY 22, IQIO.
NUMBER 44
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Build up Your
ACCOUNT
With the Bank
That Uses Conservitism at all Times
let Keeps Itself ill Position to Accomo-
date Its Depositors
Security State Bank
Lexington, Oklahoma
CHAS. GREEMORE, E. M. ABERNATHY,
President. \ ice-President.
R. M. EVANS, Cashier.
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Whitney--Gatlyn *
At high noon, Saturday July 9th,
1910, Mr. Fred Whitney and Miss
Bessie Gatlyn were united in mar-
riage at the home of the brides par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Gatlyn,
near Frisco, Oklahoma, in the pres-
ence of a large number of relatives ' would
and friends, Rev. 1!. A. Blaloc.k ol Jones
Joint Debate
Judge R. McMillan, of Norman,
and Robt. Jones, of Pauls Valley,
locked horns in a joint debate in
Keller's Hall last Friday afternoon.
Yes, they did "lock horns", and fur
a while it was a guess as to which
come out on top. "Bob"
as accusing McMillan of a
Purcell, officiating. i lot of "stuff", and McMillan had
The bride was beautifully gowned the documents right on bis person
in imported marquisette over white to prove that a large part of it was
satin. i guess work or had been gotton from
The groom i- a prominent real. someone who did not know as much
estate dealer of Oklahoma City, about how the office of the district j
The bride is a sister of Mrs. II.-W. judge had been run for the past
White of this city, and is a cultured, three year- as he probably thought
ssftil business woman of Okla- that he did,
Thi- debate was intensely inter-
esting, as it is known that Judge
McMillan is an orator, and that
"Bob" is quite an amusing charac-
ter when before an audience. At
the windup we guess that it has
been thoroughly understood that
Judge McMillan came out on top,
as he usually does; in fact he got
Jones' "goat".
Died
On Tuesday evening, Mary Anna
Gilmore died of typhoid fever, at
the home of her parents, W. II.
Gilmore and wife, two miles south
of Lexington. They moved here
from North Carolina during the
winter.
Mary Anna was converted several
years ago and united with a Bap-
j tist church in her native state. She
1 lived a christian life and died trust-
ing in Jesus.
The funeral services were held in
the Baptist church at 10 a. m.
Wednesday, and were conducted by
Rev. C. T. McKee.
SUCI
homa City. Shi has a large num-
ber of friends here who wish for
them the largest measure of success
and happiness.
The Honorable
LEE CRUCE
Next Governor of
OKLAHOMA
will speak at
LEXINGTON
SATURDAY
July 23rd
5 O'clock.
Everybody Should
Make It a
Point to be
Present.
Farm Loans
I represent Bartlett Bros., Land
& Loan Co., of St. Joseph. Missouri;
Branch office at Guthrie. Lowest
rates and best terms. Interest and
commission concurrent.—S. S. Den-
ison.
Read the new ads in the Leader
this week, for they are interesting.
Ninety per cent of the country
newspapers who are taking an active
part between the candidates for
Governor on the Democratic ticket
are supporting Lee Cruce. There
are two reasons for this. They be-
lieve that Lee Cruce is the best and
the strongest man for Governor and
they resent the charges of Bill.
Murray that the press is subsidized.
Murray scarcely ever misses an op-
portunity to unjustly censure the
Democratic newspapers and the
ivspapers do not want a man in
the Governor'..- chair who is un-
friendly to th ni. The Democratic
party < > 11! i«r state of Oklahoma owes
much of its success and advance-
ment to the Democratic press of the
state and i- entitled to the consid-
eration of tin democratic candi-
dates. Mr. Cruce is friendly: .Mur-
ray is unfriendly, hence ninty per
cent of the papers who arc taking
an active part are supporting Mr.
Cruce without money a oil without
price.
If the election machinery of the
; democratic party is corrupt as Mur-
ray insinuates, the democratic party
deserves defeat at the hands of the
Republican party. On the other
hand, if the democratic machinery
is not corrupt; if our State. County
and precinct election officers are
good men. willing to give a square
deal tn every candidate, then Bill
Murray should be relegated as un-
safe and unbalanced and as a man
who has got t'> the point where he
"sees tnings."
It seems strange that a candidate
would want to invalidate the pri-
mary election. As speaker of the
Legislature. Hon. W. II. Murray
signed an election law which pro-
vided the exclusion of all parties
from the room when counting the
ballots except the regular appoint-
ed and qualified counters. A se-
vere penalty was, provided for the
violation of this law. Now Bill
Murray asks that lie lie allowed to
place men in the room to see that
the ballots are correctly counted,
when he knows that this action
invalidates the election. If Bill
knows of any election officer who
is corrupt he should have asked his
removal and not for something that
would invalidate the election.
Only a little over a week before
the primary election. The past
four months have been strenuous
ones to the candidates seeking the
nomination of Governor. The past
fuur months have been spent by
Hon. Lee Cruce in upholding the
hands of the Democratic adminis-
tration; in telling of the good things
that the democratic party has ac-
complished in. Oklanoma; in point-
ing out the economy that has been
practiced, in calling attention to
the reforms that have been inaug-
urated; in mentioning the advance-
ments which have been accomplish-
ed. His campaign has been a cam-
paign of education. It has been an
optomistic campaign. He predicts
•.•'orion ' things fur the future and
jl lints tn ti e past as an evidence.
Mr. Cruce is conservative. - Mr.
| Cruce is an optomist. Contrast
The First Strong Step Forward
In the financial progress of most men consists in opening a check-
ing account in a bank where the policy is one of helpfulness to the in-
dividual—a bank of such ample resources that the mere fact of his hav-
ing an account there is equal to a credit and recommendation.
This bank makes the interest of its customers it- own and does
everything that it can consistently do to further their financial progress.
Have you yet taken this first strong step toward a more prosperous
future?
with this campaign the one that
has been waged by the Hon. Bill
Murray. Very few good things
done by the Democratic party lias
been pointed out by him and In-
dus course he has attracted to his
standard the entire Republican
press of the state and his praises
are sung by the republican politic-
ians. By inference he leaves the
impression that the democratii ad-
ministration has been a failure.
The only things that he praises
are those done by himself in the
Constitutional Convention and the
first Legislature, lie charges the
Democratic election machinery with
corruption. He furnishes arguments
for the republican politician-. He
lends encouragmfnt to the enemies
of democracy. Hi- specche- have
a pestimistic wail. Bill i- a pesi-
mist. Bill is a radical. The issues
are clearly drawn. Which shall be
Governor, the conservative opto-
mist or the pessimistic radical.
Hon. C. G. Jones Speaks
Hon. C, ti. Jones, of Oklahoma
City, republican candidate for < Gov-
ernor. spoke to a well filled house
at the opera house Tuesday even-
ing.
Mr. Jones rs widely known as an
educated and well read gentleman,
and proved himself such. His
talk was clean, and along the line
of what is, and what should be in
Oklahoma, and was discussed from
a n honest standpoint, without
throwing "bouquets at any of hi-
opponents. He went on, as was
expected, and told what he would
try to do if elected to the highest
office in the state. That's what
he's making these speeches for.
He's giving the people his opinions,
and asking their votes on his re-
cord.
And that's one thing we do hon-
or Mr. Jones for; he is not out "run-
ning the other fellow down" he's
out for himself. What's the use
always telling hew bad the other
fellow is, everybody knows him.
Jim Little, of Amarillo, Texas,
; who has been visiting with relatives
here fur the past three weeks, re-
turned home Wednesday.
Key is Sweeping the State
(>eo. D. Key is -weeping the
state for the office of Attorney
General, subject to th# will of dem-
ocrats August 2. Oklahoma has a
chance to get a man of courage,
ability and judicial balance in that
office by voting' for Mr. Key on
August 2nd.
The state lias been put to enor- j
mous expense, and not only lost
heavy court costs, but her people
will pay heavy, tribute, possibly for
years, running into the millions, to
• I; H . 1 ■ 1 eil pa - - e i
and freight charge-, because the
present Attorney lieneral had not
tin- energy, courage and ability to
gather t h e evidence available
against the corporation-, -bowing
their earnings and actual valuations.
It is not -ii much .!ud_e Hook -
bias in favor of tie railroads a-
Wcst's failure to make his case ii
court. If the Standard Oil was
wrong $75,000 worth, it was wrong
in tuto. and should have been held
fully responsible, fined and dissolv-
ed, as has been done in Missouri,
Tennessee and Texas, during West's
term of office in Oklahoma.
Graham i- no better. He is one
of the old hangers on. who believes
that a public office is a private
I snap. He with others met behind
closed doors in Guthrie and appor-
tioned out the offices among them-
selves. thus introducing the rotary
system of office, contrary to the let-
ter and spirit of the constitution.
Key is a manly democrat of abil-
ity and integrity, who will forget
himself in the interest of all the
people and the good of the public
service. A vote for him is a vqte
for good government, good citizen-
ship. good politics and pure de-
i mocracy.
Pleasant Vacation
O. S. Puckett and family, of Lex-
ington, Mrs. W. C. Puckett and
Miss Effie. of Enid, and Jim Little,
of Amarillo,' Texas, returned to
| Lexington Tuesday evening, after
i spending ten days at Sulphur.
I They took their tent and camping
outfit and enjoyed their outing very
I much.
Retailers Organize
I he Pun i ll-Lexington Retailers
Assoi iation held a meeting at Pur-
ceil Wednesday afternoon, and com-
pleted the organization of their as-
sociation.
The officers of the association are
li. II. Rackley. President; W. I!.
Strother. Vice-President; Geo. ('.
Burke, Secretary and Credit Man-
ager, and W. W. Janes, Treasurer.
The directors are: W. (1. Blanch-
ard, W. II. Riinbolt, M. Bonneau,
of Purcell, and E. M. Abernathy
and T. W. Keller, of Lexington.
The business housi - of Lexing-
ton represented are: Loatright (V
Co., Evans & Keller. S. V. Perkins
Company. Wynne A: Massey, Sher-
man it Everett. J. <■. Marsee. Gen >
it 11 adder, E. J. Keller. E. M
Abernathy and L. lib
The business housi - ol Purcell
represented an-: licringer Hardware
Co.. I'aul Schwartz, B. II. Rackley
Co,, Bonneau Bros., R. C. Baird,
Sacre Grocery Co., W, G. Blanch-
ard Co.. O. E. Hall, McElderry A
l'ett. J\ J. Frank. A. Signiot, W.
li. Strother, W. H. Rainbolt, A. C'.
Piatt, Janes it Keiint <ly. -I
Schwartz, and Clement Bros.
This is a good venture for our
business men, and we feel that.they
have taken hold of it with the ii -
tention of protecting themselves,
and thereby being able to bettt
meet competition. When it gets-u
that the merchant does not have
to add an extra profit to his goods
so as to make up for bad debts, he
will be aide to sell better good-
cheaper.
Infant Dies
Eunice, infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Nesbitt, died July
loth. 1910. age 7 months, ten days.
The cause of the child's death
was dropsy of the heart. The re-
mains were laid to rest in the Wil-
low View cemeterj Saturday after-
noon. Rev. H. H. Everett con-
ducted the services.
You people who are going to
Colorado or elsewhere to spend the
summer should let us print your
calling cards.—LEADER.
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Fox, J. O. Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1910, newspaper, July 22, 1910; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110425/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.