The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT
T. F HENSLEY. Kditor.
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS.
The Town Builder*. U •trim to their contribution. and
The Democrat Is here to Jo a legltl-1 give them a specuUtlre Interest In |
It stands by legltl-! '"ur or ftv« competing towns.
It Is In favor of „
How many of the railroad commit-
| tee have paid any iiart of their con
. 1 . , .. tribution8. A report from the commit
terprlse. It is for the pe<i|ilu of El1
DM«ratl«n Day.
mate business.
mate enterprises.
supporting business men and citi- j
zens of El Reno in every worthy
1 JtH
| I"
Nt IMIH NVtMtM MMM
Entered Into the p"btolBcts at El Hi no. Okl Canadian county first last !ee might 8,'ow thlS fart'
iptmmiulwion ttirouistithe m* lli,uMconil Keno and (.anailian county nrst
and all the time. It is in favor of
tor
OitwN mall mutter
Guthrie claims eight railroads.
t building the St. I-ituis, El Keno &
j Western railway if It is to become
line with the Rock ls-
Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas
and Texas as well as Oklahoma have
| suffered greatly by cyclones, torna-
Frank iMeyer
Farm Loans
Low Rates
Easy Terms
elsewhere—No <lt
And it is only nine miles away.
Watch the
grow.
EI Reno Democrat
The El Reno club was the home of
the Snitch.
Mark Hanna lias quit the tight on
Roosevelt.
The Okarche X Ray
searching.
a competitive
land and not a feeder for that road |<ioeH al"' waterspouts of late
and Guthrie at the expense of El
Reno.
The plot thickens however, as the
days pass. The course of the road
has been changed since El Reno put
up forty thousand dollars and now
goes to Guthrie. ,
The EI Reno branch of Frank
Greer's State Capitol grows loud
and furious because the Democrat de
powerful' mands a fair deal for all subscribers 1
See Meyer A
Booton before oontraftiii"
Of course there is no speculation In
securing the right of way through the
town. Of course not. Ranlsh the
thought and perish the thinker.
No the railroad column of the El
Reno Democrat Is not edited by Sam
Humphreys, nor the speculative mem-
bers of the rairoad committee either
Texas democrats do not want Cleve-
land as a leader.
The Democrat is out of politics but
it is In evidence.
No grounds are too sacred for a
railroad company.
The El Reno club died unhonored,
unsung, and In debt.
Even the dead are not free from
railroad molestation.
There is no bonus behind the man,
behind the Democrat.
Did the El Reno Democrat ever
ask for or receive a bonus?
The Democrat believes in teaching
plug uglies to stand alone.
o
Did you ever see the El Reno Dem-
ocrat in the delinquent tax list.
Did the El Reno Democrat ever
beat any body out of a Just debt?
The single statehood fallacy Is in
hard lines.—South McAlister Capital.
The slot machines of Oklahoma
City have been taken to Shawnee.
Cherries are out of sight. Three
dollars a bushel and pick them your-
self.
Guthrie is still raising subscriptions
to the El Reno and Southwestern rail-
road fund.
Victor Murdock of (he 7th Kansas
district was elected by thirteen thous-
and majority.
Just think of a waterspout uncork-
ing itself in Oklahoma or the Pan-
handle of Texas.
The average Oklahoma editor is a
fraternal cuss, providing you will spell
cuss with a small c.
Railroads and newspapers that have
to be bonused are not worth having
after you get them.
The man behind the Democrat is
all right, it Is the man In front of
it that is squirming.
President Roosevelt is not only a
bronco buster, but a trust buster.
Dont't you hear them bust.
Every time the Democrat makes a
fellow with a graft scream ten sub-
scribers comes to its assistance.
The meeting between Mayor Lin-
coln and Governor Ferguson yester-
day was said to be very cordial..
Roosevelt Is now sure of 496 votes
in the next nominating convention.
More than enough to nominate him.
It is claimed by those who ought to
know that Judge Irwin's appoint-
ment, has nevpr reached the senate
jet.
The press muzzier bill in force in
Pennsylvania has two admirers, Gov-
ernor Pennypacker and President
Baer.
Every body reads a bright well
printed newspaper, while no one takes
time to look at a sloppy half printed
sheet.
But one-eighth of an iceberg is
above water. How like icebergs
Payne, Machen, Beavers & Co, must
feel these days.
The Saturday Advertiser and the
Okarche X Ray should coalesce.
This would enable the X Ray to see
the Advertiser.
Governor Ferguson can come to see
his old friends and neighbors in El
Reno and be warmly received. Car-
pet baggars have no use for a man
who has eaten, In days gone by, sow
bosom and lambs quarter greens.
national banks before It Is gubmlttc
to congress.
It is sage to predict that whatever
to the railroad fund and an open field the A|drich financial bill proves to be
for all EI Reno business men. lt wln reoeive the approval of the
The Democrat has demanded pub-
licity of the committee's doings and
the reason for the doing of certain
things which has leaked out from
time to time. The Democrat wants
to know why the road Is going to
Guthrie after assuring our people it
would not go there, but that lt was be touched.
to be built to a connection with the , ———o
M. K. & T., at a point southeast of It would be so convenient for Sena
Edmond. tor Hanna to have a man in the Whltt
The Democrat now demands of the
Seventy million people hold sacred
I the heroes of the Civil war. In every
hamlet In this republic, the blue and
the gray offer tribute of love in na-
tures sweetest flowers to fallen com-
I rades and bright little girls scatter
them upon the last resting place of
tnen whose life work was the settle-
ment of questions of vast importance
not only to this people but the entire
human race. These men faced each
! other In deadly conflict upon hundreds
of bloody battle fields and fought the
destiny not only of this republic but
of representative government upon
the earth because all men now recog-
nize the fact that a dissolution of the
American republic in the sixties
would have been the death blow to
the hope of representative govern-
j ment and human liberty. These men I
were brothers, they loved their homes t j.je an,i j)e both make a good qual-
and their country, their differences jIy 0f%ot't soap.
were honest convictions of justice and
A. S Booton
Offcc Woodson St.
i:i Keno. O T :
KNOCKS.
"Knock and the world knocks with
you; boost and you boost alone."
There Is no excellence
great labor, unless you are
sprinkler.
The producers of agricultural mach-
inery claim that they are being ruin-
ed by thirty-three trusts. And yet
the sacreil tariff schedules must not
I right and they fought it to a finish
never yielding an Inch except through
the decree of unbending fate.
When the articles of peace were
signed by our matchless commanders
| Grant and I .ee at Appomattox tin-
discharge of the boy In blue and th-
parole of honor to the boy in gray
were sacred evidences of true soldi
jery and pledges of future loyalty and , Sometime3 faIse cr,
we were a common brotherhood
(From Saturday s Daily.)
~" Has^ Gone Glimmering.
After two weeks advertising In all
the city papers aud two months per-
sonal solicitation of the membership
to attend a meeting of the El Reno
club, six members and three outsiders
were induced to be present and there
without were in the hands gf those present
a street | about fifty proxies.
The club was called to order by
the president, Dr. Smith, and Attor-
The milk of human Undoes*, like I ney Libby was first called upon toi
spilled milk, is hard to gather when n>ako a few obituary remarks during
on the floor.
in-
wls lead to bad \
morals.
committee to know why lands have
been purchased to build a new town
within nine miles of El Reno when
the company pledged the people that
no towns would be started in El
Reno's legitimate territory or close
enough to El Reno to do It harm.
Yes, the Democrat has discovered
that these secret schemers are "town
builders" with a vengance. Their
latest venture Is the purchase of the
northeast quarter of section 26 from
Z. T. Garland for town site purposes.
The Garland farm is nine miles north-
east of El Reno. El Reno was as-
sured that no towns would be built
closer to El Reno than at the point
where the new railroad leaves or
crosses the east line of this county.
Why are these pledges being broken?
We are creditably Informed that the
speculative members of this railroad
committee, the thousand dollar con-
tributors, with a forty thousand dol-
lar graft, or come back in profits from
these town sites, have been and are
still trying to buy land, closer to
this' city in order to plat it, for a
town site, but have failed so far be-
cause the farmers will not sell.
Great "town builders" indeed, and
Greer's appendicitis, the speculators
fugleman, at one hundred dollars a
fugle, their special champion Is a
daisy among town builders. We are
told that the speculative part of this
committee are all property owners
and would not do any thing that will
hurt El Reno, then why are they try-
ing to build three or four towns In
Canadian county? They are certain-
ly not trying to build these towns to
aid El Reno or to benefit the people
who robbed themselves in order to
raise a forty thousand dollar bonus.
They are honest men and business
men we are told, now If this be true
they must know, that a competing
town in El Reno's territory, on a bob
tailed railroad, and only nine miles
away, must prove disastrous to El
Reno's trade. They must know that
the people don't endorse it. And they
must be actuated by greedy and sel-
fish motives rather than patrotic and
worthy ones. In short these wonder-
ful "town builders" seem to be doing
everything possible to feather their
own nests, as every move and every
scheme of theirs so far if permitted
to stand will be a positive injury to
El Reno.
Were it not for the serious wrongs
done <he people of El Reno by these
speculators, the coarsness of their
operations and the secret whisperings
between them in carrying it out,
would be truly amusing. Really they
ought to hire a hall and exhibit them-
selves to the public as the greatest
"town builders" of the southwest.
House next session who had to look
to the Ohio boss for the endorsement
of that state.
A lot of city property was given
away last night. It is barely possi-
ble however the city will get some
returns for it In the way of taxation
in the future.
Governor Ferguson may have re-
ceived the kind of treatment he de-
served at the hands of a carpet bag
mayor; but the fact remains the same
that he is still governor.
which he declared himself In favo
of immediately winding up the affairs
of the club and to get the business
before those present he moved the
But more often the fallow [adoption of the following resolution. ,
"That the directors bo ordered to \
sell the furniture and fixtures, proper-
o | ty of the club, and pay the Indebted-
Speed madness reached its most In- ness. If the proceeds of these sales
sane heigth in the Paris-Madrid auto j be not sufficient to pay all debts that
mobile race of last Sunday. The ap- [ the members be made parties to a
palling record of the killed and j suit in the district court to enforce
in full. That application
deed. Old Glory is our common llag, jias morals adopts a creed to
the American republic our united flt nm, excuse them
country and universal liberty an in- j
heritance we unitedly hand down to
coming generations.
What people, except Americans
could do such deeds? The American
citizen soldiery has no paralell in
war or peace and all liberty loving | wounded in that event constitutes an I payment
people every where pay tribute of
love to their memory today. May
God in his infinite wisdom bless the
loving comrades of the blue and the
gray and their noble sons while gen-
| erations pass, and to the good sisters
j of both relief corps all honor and
praise.
Victor Murdock, republican candi
date for congress in Jerry Simpson's
old district in Kansas was elected by
the biggest majority ever given a
candidate in that district.
A. C. Barono has just completed a
system' of shorthand telegraphy which
he claims will make telegraphy so
simple and so cheap that it will
largely replace the mails.
I When Hensley stated in the Demo-
crat, over a year ago, that the El
Reno club was no good and never
benefitted the city a dollar's worth,,
a number of grafters called him kick-
| er, knocker and also said the club
| would be in existence when he was
far away from El Reno.
There was a suggestion of human
intelligence in the way Mount Shasta,
the chief asset of the copper trust,
hid behind a cloud when the "trust
busting" president came its way.
indictment of folly too convincing to j be made in said court to dissolve the
be ignored by a normal-minded world. [ charter and organization." Major
The automobile is a useful vehicle, j E. J. Simpson was asked to discuss
and it has come to stay, but its "dev- ! the question, and remarked that he
il-wagon" features must be eliminated ] had made personal solicitation to the
without further hesitation. The les- i membership and was supprlsed at the
son of Sunday's wholesale tragedy i appathy, especially among those most
does not need to be repeated. Regu- i interested in the city's progress,
late and moderate the automobile, i namely, the merchant. He favored
the tuption as the only proper solu-
tion of the question. W. H. Crlley
spoke in regard to the necessities of
a commercial club but under existing
circumstances favored the motion
which was passed unanimously and
the board of directors will make
short work of their remaining duties.
It' the town had a city attorney that
knew what to do, and then cared to
do it, something might be done yet
to keep the Rock Island grave rob-
bers off of our cemetery grounds.
We have a railroad committee that
would not take advantage of their
official possition to buy a piece of
property any where along the right
of way through the town. This is
a public enterprise in which every
citizen contributed and of course our I vise some means of preventing this
committee is too patriotic to take ; ialux of criminals. Ex.
advantage of their fellows. They are
With a reasonable certainty that
immigration to the United States will
reach a total of nearly 1,000,000 for
the fiscal year now so near its close,
the problem of our rapidly increasing
alien population becomes more seri-
ous than ever. The class of Immi-
grants coming to this country at the
present time is not entirely desira-
ble. It is contributing notably to
the increase of anarchists and mem-
bers of the Mafia, the murdcmis or-
ganization now being driven out of
Italy. It will be well if we can de-
town builders not town killers.
It is reported that our blustering
I little city attorney, who was going to
knock the cow catcher off of the Rock
No Boers were present at the con
vening last week of the first Trans-
val parliament under British rule.
This parliament consists of represen-
tatives chosen wholly by the British
Owing to the great expense attach-
ed to the running of the American
the home office, Guthrie State Capi-
tal, has dispensed with the services
of its special correspondent in this
city.
The Rock Island is driving stakes
in the cemetery, possibly staking out
the political resting place of its legal
department in Oklahoma. When last
seen they were headed for the Pot-
ters field.
Island if they attempted to go t authorities—a popular election would
i through our cemetery, has relaxed in- bave resulted in a Boer majority, and
to a calm, and is puring like a kitten 0j> course that would not do at all.
as Earnest Blake strokes his back. The total abstention of the former
0 citizens does not promise very well
Whenever you run across a fellow j for j[10 future; cooperation with Eng-
_.i „«c i i land is entirely lacking, the Boers
having taken advantage of an excel-
lent opportunity to see how like the
political arrangement by which they
excluded the English and by which
the former are now deprived of all
voice in the government.—Public
Opinion.
Mayor Lincoln is teaching demo-
crats how to hang together. If some
of them had been hung seperately,
however, Lincoln would be holding
down his carpet sack instead of the
mayor's chair.
A British colonel has discovered the
appalling fact that Canada's only ar-
senal is so close to the American fron-
tier that, in the event of war, this
country would capture it with a sin-
gle raid.
Oklahoma who affects to believe
that Indian Territory is not ready
for statehood, he may be set down
at once as a two state schemer with
a political ambition to exploit.—Ok-
lahoman.
Whenever you run across a single
statehood yelper in Oklahoma you
may set him down as a state capital
boomer or a tinhorn politician whose
political ambitions have been ex-
ploited.
The government is on the highway
to another anti-trust victory, in the
case of the anthracite coal trust. Will
If they would provide Whispering! the present administration have the
Charlie, with a cow bell and a tin nerve to follow the road to the end,
horn he can no doubt drum them up | regardless of the condemnation of the
a crowd, that would be a marvel to I capitalistic Interests?
see. and one that would ask them o
some questions that will make them j Postmaster General Payne's scan-
wriggle and twist more than they ! dal will not down and he is trying to
did, the night they asked a handful! put the blame on First Assistant Post-
of the contributors to give them all [master General Wynne. That Is
the profits coming from the town sites where the blame belongs—If refusing
"Town builders" indeed, how much to permit the continuance of a carni-
of EI Reno have they built? How j Val of thievery is blameworthy.
much of any thing beneficial to human j o
ity have they ever contributed to this ! it may be true that Senator Hanna
Will the directors of the St. Louis,
EI Reno and Western railroad kindly
tell the people of El Reno irrespective
of race, religion or previous condi-
tions of servitude, what company is
going to operate the road after it is
built. Fatima Smith, late of Cashion
but now of Guthrie, says the road is
from there on to Guthrie. Fatty is
j interested in a certain townsite and
would not make such a statement un-
less he knew what he was talking
about.
Judge Irwin in an interview with
the Guthrie Leader says, that he will
be a candidate for district judge be-
fore the people, in the event of state-
[hood. .And that he is also, an appli-
cant for re-appointment by the presi-
dent to his present place in the event
that we continue a territory.
town? Of course some of them were
instrumental in getting Greer's graft
Into this town to boost Guthrie when
the proper time comes. They have
pushed many schemes In the Interest
of this sickly member of the Guthrie
State Capitol family, to help him get
something out of the people of El
Reno for nothing, but this has been
the extent of the "town builders"
strenuous efforts. They are strictly
"it," when It comes to thriving ofT
the labor and thrift of their fellow
townsman. They are great philan-
thropists, noble benefactors and con-
tributors. pro bono publico, providing
tbe public will permit tbem to tie
does not want the presidency. It
may also be true that Mr. Hanna does
not want any man to be president
who is not bound hand and foot to
the Ohio boss. History is apt to re-
peat its self and the future can only
be judged by the past.
Tbe El Reno club with its gilded
halls, billiard tables, punch bowls,
Persian carpets, pianos, swallow tail-
ed coats, low cut vests and kid gloves
is no more. It has gone Into the
hands of its creditors and all of the
paraphernalia will have to be sold
satisfy honest debts.
Hensley ridicules the physic of the
American editor. Mere bull-like pro-
portions do not make a man, or a lack
of them the coward.—The Apendicitis
The' physic" of the American edi-
tor is a better term than we used.
One is the cause and the other the
effect; yet it makes no difference
which you use, you are dirtied just
the same.
The local newspaper may not agree
with you in politics. Yet he must
have a pretty good sized audience to
talk to or he would not pay his print-
ers. A word from him which you
can get for five or ten cents a line,
may be worth more than a page from
a better man. He may reach the
crowd that you don't train with.
Your personal friends will likely come
anyway—The Ad Writer.
Commissioner Richards of the Gen-
eral Land Office has announced the
allotment of the federal irrigation
fund. This fund, which now amounts
to $7,730,000 is increasing rapidly and
will, it is estimated, approximate $15,-
000,000 by the first of July. In dis-
tribution of the fund the largest
amount will be expended in North
Dakota which state receives $1,227,-
000. Oklahoma comes next with
$1,008,000 and Nevada gets but $23,-
400, the smallest allotment.
It is oi interest to learn, on the
authority of a close frind of Senator
Martin of Virginia, that Senator Gor-
man will not be a candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination.
It is stated by this authority that a
conference was held recently, which
was attended by a number of promi-
nent democratic politicians and the
whole situation was discussed in de-
tail. Senator Gorman himself raised
the question of his attitude towards
the Wilson tariff bill and it was de-
cided that the Maryland Senator's op-
position to the bill as it came from
(From Saturday's Daily.)
Old Glory in Evidence.
The stars and stripes float from
every flag staff, from nearly every
business house and hundreds of resi-
dences in El Reno today. «
At the store of Jas. E. Kelso we
found the window decorations char-
acteristic of war time. Surrounded
by bunting, and beneath a lovely
wreath of flowers hangs the portraits
of Lincoln and McKinley. Beneath A
this is a large picture of the promi-
nent generals of the Civil war draped
with the national colors, three old
muskets a stand of sword bayonets,
drum sticks, officers and cavelrymen's
sabers and pyramids of cannon balls
occupy the floor of the window.
Next door north is the grocery store
of E. T. Prince and in his window is
a veritable camp fire, the black smok-
ed three poles, the chain attachment
and kettle of army beans over burn-
ing embers foraged from somebody's
fence and close beside is a full fledged
and indespensible "army emergency \
ration," reminding the boys that old
times are not torgotten and that the
present generation are thoroughly
alive to the fact that such scenes
bring to mind the amusing as well as
solemn side of army life.
Owing to the rain, the morning ser-
vices were dispensed with by the gen-
eral public and this afternoon the
program published in yesterday's
Democrat was fully carried out. An
immense audience being at the opera
house. Splendid music and a grand
oration by Mr. Sickles Register of
the United States Land office.
(From Saturday's Daily.)
The Hand of God.
Mrs. W. V. Ruzicka, a Bohemian
lady who lives north of Yukon bought
an Estey organ about a month ago
of Hickman, Ye Music Man, and yes-
terday paid him another visit. "The
hand of God was on that organ,"
eagerly declared the old lady. When
the cyclone come we all yent to the
cave and swish went the house up
and up in the air, all to pieces it
went, and bless you good man me
bran new organ I could see In the
the house would be certain to insure W!'eck going to ruin, and what do
his defeat, even if he secured the
democratic nomination. Senator Gor-
man, it is said agreed with the reason-
ing of his friends and told them that
they could say freely and positively
that he would not permit himself to
be considered as a democratic possi-
bility.
Walter Waycock has purchased an
interest in the Townsend Grocery
company and became an active part-
ner in the management of the busi-
ness.
Twenty-six brick and stone build-
ings are in course of construction in
Okemah, I. T.
you think, after the storm we crawl-
ed out of the cave and there, three
hundred feet away sat my new Estey
organ safe and sound and not a
break on it, sure and the hand of
God was there." Hickman agreed
with his enthusiastic patron and de-
clared the same infinite care was
over and around all musical instru-
ments in Ye Music store and he would
give her the best estey organ in the
shop for the storm tested one at the
Ruzicka home, but the old lady de-
clined the offer.
Two farm houses near Miller post
office were blown down during Mon-
day's storm
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