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nobody deceived.
Vobody is deceived. or will be de-
ceived by the cry ot knocker, bood-
Icr, town-killer," and so on. now en-
paged in by that splendid specimen
ot physical mental manhood do
ins time on the Daily American as
Frank Greer's hired man-
It is known of all men that the
railroad committee inspire* every
word that U written: that the poor
pusillanimous, anaemic hireling was
promised 'hat if he would subscribe
p certain sum to this ra.troad fun :
h  woald be permit'ed to work it
•at in puffs at so much a paff
We woold not waste space and to*
In noticing the chirping f - '• E'er,
tal insects, were It not for the fart
that onr position, in reference to
giving the railroad c*>mm:**t?e of
twenty a monopoly of all of the
profits arising from the townsites :n
Canadian county, had not been mis-
represents! Hensiey did not say
In a public speech at any Ume or
place, that he would not become one
of the guarantors because he beiier
ed that the committee w- -jld come
out at "the little end of the bom.''
Hensiey knew better. Only a week
before he made the speech refered
to. he attended a private meeting at
the Kerfoot hotel and heard the rail-
road promoters tell the leading men
on this committee that they could
make forty or fifty thousand dollars
out of two towns that would be built
in Canadian county. He also heard
these same railroad promoters a--ure
the committee that the right of way
through the body of the cuinty w.nl.l
not cost to exceed twenty-five or
thirty thousand dollars. With this
knowledge in his possession, and the
further knowledge that forty thous-
and dollars in money had been sub-
scribed by the people. Hensiey would
have been both a fool and a knave
to have attempted to deceive the pub-
lic, his neighbors and his associates
who had contributed to this fund, by
giving utterance to any such sta'e-
ments.
Hensiey refused to be one of the
committee because it was revealed to
him from the begining. that a ring
of contributors, pretending to be
very loyal to El Reno, and making
the grand stand play of sabccnbicg
a thousand dollars each, were plan
ning to gobble the profits from th*
townsites along the line. And the
game of freeze-out which was played
at the district court meeting plainly
demonstrated the truth of his infor-
mation and the conclusions he drew
therefrom.
Hensiey said in his speech referred
to by the American, that be did not
desire to become a member of the
committee for business reasons; he
also stated that he believed that if
any money was made out of the
townsites, that it should be pro-ra'-d
among the subscribers to the railroad
fund as a rebate, giving the small
subscriber an equal chance with the
big one. for his per cent of the re-
bate. Hensley's conception of what
was honest and fair in this matter
was to treat ail alike; to give the
five dollar subscriber an equal chance
with the thousand dollar subscriber
If this makes a town-killer of
Hensiey, write him down a town-
killer in box-car letters. Hensiey
would rather be a party to killing a
dozen towns than to be enrolled
among a gang of townsite schemers
who are willing to take an advantage
of their fellow townsmen in order to
feather their own nests. Hensiey
had no intention of discussing this
matter at this time, and would not
were it not for the brazen effrontery
of those who expect to profit most
by the enterprise. Hensiey stands
today as ready as he ever was to pay
his subscription, and to increase It
if necessary in order to get a com
peting road, but we haven't got one i
cent for any rail road scheme, or any
other kind of a scheme that will not
bear the scrutiny of the public in
every detail.
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The Meeting at Oklahoma
City Was An All Day
Affair.
ATTENDANCE SMALL.
ot belong to
>-s only union
man says that neither
nor Bryan is a president-
| Kingfisher Chautauqua 1
Assembly f
The country roads are like the al-
leys in El Reno, they would mire a
<nipe in places.
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The Constitutional Contention Agi-
tators for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory Out of Joint—Tom
De !e in Evidence.
Has Whispering Charley paid his
s ibscription to the rail road fund?
If not why not?
A political microbe has been dis-
covered.—Enid Wave.
Give it vermifuge.
Bull Tick Bill was at the press
meet, but no mention was made of
bis boiler avenue sister.
res
in the
ion late
The way to stand up for your town
is to put in 11,000 and pull out
$2." ". That is one way.
Kinolislicr, Okid., June 20tH to 28th.
The following noted talent has been secured:
Rev. Sam P. Jones. Sunday. June 21. at 3 p. m.
Capt. Richmond Hobson. Monday. June 22. at 3 p. m.
Sunday School Day. Thursday. June 25. Special train
Quaker Male Quartette, during the entire time.
Eugene V. Debs. Sunday. June 28.
The El Reno Sunday Schools invited to join on Sunday
School Day. Railroad fare—Adults 50c. Children ti to 12
years, 25c. Come and enjoy the fea*t. Fine park.
F. L. BOYNTON. Pres. A. V. KNEPPER. Gen. Man.
Kingfisher. Oklahoma.
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The people of this town are being
taught the advantage of city owner-
ship of all public utilities.
Some people may be fooled by ail
of this whoop and hurrah by the new
railroad company, but all are not.
ti-:.:
Every body reads a neat well print-
ed newspaper, while no body picks
up a dish-clout of a looking sheet.
Max Muller can e r
languages.
The El Reno Democrat gets better
rates from foreign advertisers than
any other paper in the territory.
The Daily Denxvrat Is ev< oc.y
growing m sixe but in popalar .itw
The big fish always try to swil.o'
the little ones.
It will take more than sky blue uni-
forma on an extra lot of police to i
save the G. O. P, at the next elec
The people ot EI Reno made the
mistake of the;r Ii r5 when they turn-
ed their rail road interests over to
a lot of town site schemers and spec-
ulators
Star ciirs.er proceedings may go<
down with the pecpte la the coosc;
chamber but it won t work nock long-
er in rail road circles, ti* peopie hav-
a right to know what * >-'-g d- z~
with their nsoBey
a doubtful proposition if
ustit jtional convention will
said an exponent of the
efeo*l idea today "While
c u-h in favor of single
is anyooe. yet I cannot see
a constitutional convention
-.i s t.me The people of
are divided upon the state-
k.v4 <;-■«' x' - and so are the people
:S>e tsi'iz territory. Until they
tve * 1 do not see what good
j-rvi a wareatioa will do with these
(ocji:.%a.s existing. Then, again
tS>er* a bo money to pay men to
<ieTvxe tketr time and talent in fram-
ing a constitution for a single state
and single statehood adherents can
not expect this money to ' spring ip"
from the ground."
The announcement that a delegate
convention is called for June 24 a'
Shawnee, to determine whether a con-
ven'ion to adopt a constitution for
the proposed state, composed of Ok-
lahoma and Indian territory shall be
he" i has result*! in muchjliscussion
and is still a subject of much conjec
tare The meeting of the single state-
hood executive committee yesterday
was nearly an all-lay affair. The-
attendance was not large. The war-
ring' factions were led by Tom
Doyle of Perry, and Roy Hoffman of 0
Chandler Roosevelt in his speech at Ashland,
  Oregon, said the poor should not
envy the rich. This is fine in theory;
J Y Ca : ban has turned socialist but poor in practice.
The subscribers to the rail road
. fund have a right to ask where tne
money is going to before they con-
sent to having both legs pulled.
The people have got their eyes on
the fellows that are managing the
new railroad scheme for -tialf of the
swag to be had in the townsites.
Echoes from the insult offered to
Gov. Tom Ferguson are coming back
from every part of the territory.
The people of El Reno are just be-
ginning to realize, the advantage of
city ownership of the water plant.
The people of this town are being
skinned alive by a lot of fellows,
who are posing as the town's friend.
The Weatherford Democrat is out
for William R. Hurst for president.
Bill is all right, but he is a newspaper
man.
Enid is agitating the question of
a new court house.
The property owning p.: H. S Chambers has purchased the
like to know why there is so much Hobart Weekly Chief.
secrecy aboct tie snoveniects of this j  o 
rail road committee. Why are thre* Cotton is higher than it has been
or foar men nailing the whole thing before in thirteen years.
and the 'jalance of the cotaaitte^  o  
kept in ignorance! The Democrat believes in organ-
ized, Intelligent well paid labor.
Miss Elizabeth Martin of the edu-
cational forces of our public schools
will enjoy the vacation with home
folk* at Bedford. Iowa.
Let the fellows who are getting
the swag from the townsites on the
new railroad put up the money for
the right of way, until the people
know who is going to operate and
control the road.
Whispering Charley of the Guthrie
Annex wants to know what went with
the money that was collected by the
police judge during the last adminis-
tration. The police judge swore
each month that he turned it in to
the treasury, and the treasurer swore
each month that he kept it until it
was checked out for public improve-
ments. Xone of it went to pay sal-
ary grabs.
1 It is seldom profitable to an indi-
vidual to attempt to expose boodlers
and grafters. Occasionally a public
official may do so with safety, but it
is not often that a private citizen
can do so without injury to himself.
He who does so is invariably set upon
by the accused grafters and their
friends and smirched and villified in
every possible manner that can in-
jure his character and reputation
1 and weaken the force of his accusa-
tions. And usually the grafters and
their defenders are too numerous and
aggressive for the individual to stand
against them successfully. And the
man who undertakes to expose rot-
tenness in public life must do so with
full knowledge that he is taking
great chances of sacrificing himself
upon the altar of public interests.
Occasionally there is a man strong
enough to grapple with what he be-
lieves to be honest, no matter in
how high a quarter it may be. But
such a man must have the ability,
the aggressiveness, the courage and
strength of character of Folk of St.
Louis, or he will be broken down.—
Enid Eagle.
A report to congress from the In-
terior department will have great
weight. Secretary Hitchcock is pre-
paring just such a report.
Whispering Charley says his sub-
scription to the rail road find has
been paid. How was tt paid? Was
it by pafflng the committee accord-
ing to contract? The pnbiic wonld
like to know, they have had no report
from the committee.
Secretary Hitchcock did not talk |
on statehood, to suit Oklahoma City, j
The Yukon Sun in speaking of the
storm of a couple a days ago calls
it a cyclonette, and then proceeds to
give the details of its havoc.
I President Roosevelt has left Cali-
fornia, and is now on the home
: stretch.
We have talked personally with
sereral members of the railroad com-
mittee and they inform us that the
body of the committee absolutely
know nothing as to what a few would
be leaders of the committee are do-
ing. They say that there is entirely
too much whispering and secrecy go-
ing on to suit them. They dislike
it and make no effort to conceal their
dislike.
The people of El Reno should stop
cursing the mayor. They had three
to pick from.
The Weekly Democrat is conceded
to be the best advertising medium
in Oklahoma.
The Democrats mission is to give
the news, and it makes no difference
to us who it hits nor flow bad it
hurts.
R. A. White of the Anadarko Tri-
bune should have consulted our Lin-
coln before he launched the gover-
nor's vice presidential boom.
The Democrat has a pay role great-
er than all the newspapers in El
Reno, and its help spends their
money with El Reno merchants.
A southern statesman claims, with
some degree of truth, that the south
won't let the negro vote but permits
him to work for his living, while the
north permits him to vote but wont
let him work .
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman is
getting desperate over the statehood
question. It even charges that the
many statements of Secretary Hitch-
cock, while in the territory, favora-
ble to statehood for Oklahoma were
never made—that the interviews re-
ported were false, and his speech in
Enid a fake. Its purpose is to keep
the single statehooders deceived and
in line for a rump constitutional con-
vention, to be held in Oklahoma City.
It may do so but what a convention
it would be!—Enid Eagle.
Some remarkable figures regard-
ing pension applications have been
prepared by Pension Commissioner
Ware. These show that over 22 per
cent of the men enlisted for service
in the Spanish war have filed appli-
cations for pensions and this, not-
with standing the fact that less than
10 per cent saw actual service. Thir-
teen thousand pensions have been al-
lowed thus far, 18,185, applications
have been rejected, and 34.210 claims
are still pending. Xew applications
are, moreover, coming in daily by the
hundred and it is estimated that be-
fore the close of the fiscal year fifty
per cent of the men so enlisted will
have filed applications. Some of the
experts in the Pension office assert
that unless the breaks are speedily
and effectually applied the cost of
pensions growing out of the Spanish
war will exceed that for the war of
"60-64."
After the sermon at the opera house
Sunday, the people present who are
in favor of the enforcement of law
were called together on the stage
and the matter was discussed at
length. It was decided to hold a
meeting next Sunday afternoon at
the M. E. Church South, for the pur-
pose of organizing a Law and Order
League. The object and aim of which
is to prevent violations of the gamb-
ling act, the Sunday closing act. and
to prosecute all persons who persist
in disregarding the Sabbath. Pub-
lic sentiment is thoroughly aroused
against these practices and unless
public officers whose sworn duty it
is to move in this matter, act, a line
of prosecutions will be begun that
will make some people wish that they
had not been elected to public office.
The law and order people have
awakened to the fact, that a law pass-
ed by the last legislature makes every
gambler in town a vagrant, subject
to fine and imprisonment and they
are going to avail themselves of this
and every other law at their com-
mand, to rid the community of gamb-
ling.
WE WANT TO POST YOU.
about the service given by "The
Katy Flyer," both north and south,
as well as two other daily trains.
Free chair cars, through sleepers and
fast time, make comfortable riding.
GEORGE MORTON, G. P. T. A.
M. K. & T. Ry. St. Louis, Mo.
The G. O. P. in El Reno is in a sad
plight. It has a carpet bag mayor,
a Guthrie newspaper, and an unman-
agable ass on hand at one time.
The Lee Hotel sample rooms in
Oklahoma City were flooded and the
samples of traveling men ruined.
By the time the republican party
settles the accounts of a carpet bag
administration with the people of El !
Reno there will not be any more rep-
ublican majority in this town than a
rabbit.
The republican party have been up
against the salary grab proposition
before.
As public officers there 13 a vast
difference between the historic Lin-
coln and Jackson and the EI Reno
Lincoln and Jackson.
KEITH'S NEW ADDITION
TO EL RNO, CONSISTING OF
 SIX HUNDRED LOTSEEEE _
Will be put on sale MARCH 4th, 1903. Here is the best op=
portunity ever offered to secure valuable El Reno property at a low
price. This addition is within two blocks of the New Court House
and three blocks from the present businescenter. Call on or address
CHAS. KEITH,
BICKFORD AVE..
ROOM 5 JALONICK BUILDING,
EL RENO, O. T.
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