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•NINO OUT FARMIM.
Some how or other we have mnr>
IMpM for the goodness of hail |>*>.<
The democracy of this count} miiti pie than the badness of good poopl.
trot out some honest, capable anil o
•AMI OLD TRICK.
PUBLISHED Till RSHAV-
Eat ervd Into the
f« r irtomiiMioB thrvuihlht
umil n: out
All sue- ' ssful men have fads
You can i alwa\> f«x l a fool
l-ate crops are suffering for rain.
There seems to be a strong likl
htHMi thai ihe Rothschild who offer* >1
$5,000 for and Artie flea will *'g.
bit."
A natural law of cause ami effect
fixes tlu responsibility of all crimp
al court costs upon the violators i
law.
The Law ami Order League snou
remember the old adage-never j:
snipe shooting when there arc bear-
in sight. *
A clique is friendship
An eastern war cl< \\ tiu appears
well known farmers for public offices
if they expect to win at the next elec-
tion.
The people have grown tired of
supporting a gang of court house
leaches who with the instinct of an
English sparrow, builds a home in
some crack or cranny or the court
house in ten days after they strike
the town and wait to l e elected to
office.
The democracy of this county must
either quit business or select men
who are not professional office hun-
ters to run tin affairs of the people.
They have at this hour a gang of
twelve men. in office or hunting office.
who have bounded themselves togeth-
er in an effort to control the offices
of the town and county and have giv
n their joint note for $2,000 to sub-
sidise a newspaper to boost them In-
to power, yet as a matter of fact out
o f the twelve at least eight of them
f the reformer is gener do not pay taxes on enough property
to liquidate their share of this boodle
o | note.
Can democracy win with such an
incubus of misfits and incompetents using them
hanging to it? They most assuredly o
cannot To win next year, the barrta The calico chaser might be proti-
cles must be scraped off. and the bot- ably utilized in keeping the suburban
o tom of the old hull sand papered and saloons in as good shape as the sa
There hasr.1 beu a town organired repainted loons up tow n.
for three days. Democracy must ' go out from El o——-
Reno into the heart of the county and The man who violates law. and net
The beat IWM lift s> the fe*son bring up a fresh MMflj Ml I gift the the man Who prosecutes violators Is
A court housi
party.
nig w ill w re<
Nine of the twelve apostles who
signed the Hlohell note, are surnam
• ti Peter, that is nine of them dei
the corn.
It is too dry
plowing
to think about
The Pharisee
as other men-
thank Cod the
Pharisee.
When things net quiet everywhere
else In Washington, a shout Is hear J
Tom Hensley \ ho run> a warm ' from the Agricultural department
tvmocratlc pa| er at El Iteno. has ami tjie people are reminded that See
made It so hot for Ihe carpetbag graft retar.v Wilson is investigating: his
ers who rnn'the cltv government thai seed contract
they tried the old scheme of beating o
1 him up Henalev says they liired Will Ihe water question ever re-
one of I hi isr would-be tousli men and reive any attention at the hands of
bruisers io do the Job, and we believe this carpet 1.1- admltiisrattion? And
H.'iisb y is correct in his diagnosis, if so w ill it be o| en and non* t or
It is time that all newspapers who do will It be in the dark corner of an
not belong to an> gang to open on executive s. ssion
this Kind of work, because In doing so o
it will save some of their lives. Ed Tlnre was some niort wildcattlng
itor White of Cordell killed one of in New York litis week, followed by
those kind of fighters and we believe the usual crash of four or Ave stock
In was justified In doing so j brokers. Wildcattlng in New York
When that kind of people who have or El Reno must Inevitably in time
b< ti law breakers all their lives, join lead to financial disasti i
a church to cover their corruption, j o
and when they get opposed by sonti It begins lo look as if President
honest newspaper, they get it into Roosevelt would have a dlfflcutl uu-
their heads that by beating up the j dertaking in his attempt to drive the
■NVAN't COMMON!*.
fain was the original "standpatter"
The .Mississippi bear and the Rus-
siatiu bear appear lo lie president
immune.
Soni
have >
flavor.
of those Manchurian stories
familiar Mole St. Nicholas
li does not require close observa-
tion io note that lTncle Joe Cannon
is rapidly becoming bridlewlse.
Wall street is now In a position
io realize what Kansas went through
luring tlie rainy season last spring.
thanks Cod he
and the other
• are not llki
is 111
tin
•ditor they are
tood.
\onorateot and made fractions
The road
all rocky.
Wall Str.-
treacherous
Your < r.ett
helped roost
It is claimed that u number of sa
loous are doing business on licens
issued to some one else than the party
migressional
team this
This Is bad reasoning for any-; winter. Each horse seems bent upon
one Newspaper men are generally j pulling in a different direction.
brave and fearless and won't stand ; o
for that kind of work Again. Okla ! The man who violates the law is
homa Is being filled up with a class solely res|>onsih!e for the expense of
of people w ho don't sympathize with | all prosecutions. Put that at the fel-
l>ruisers and would-be tough men. low who howls about expense and
If you grafters have a bad record, keep putting it at him until lie can
don't run up against a real live paper see a fact through Ihe midst of pre-
It is bound to throw the real live judice.
genuine "kibosh" into you. and sooner
By the way. why do we not again
hear those old republican organ re
marks about Wall street concerns
"going democratic?" .
It is quite apparent to unprejudiced
observers lhat the Chicago Chronicle
mistakes its selfish interests for gen-
uine democracy.
of self n iac.v
Fashionable so.
fined as canned hfe
or later you will fall. One Is never
so near a fall as when he thinks he
is safest.—Elk City Democrat.
' NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
:y has be«c
Friendship. Ilk
where it .s a - c>.\!
Wall Si reel
shaking up yesterviay
peop'e a new deal the mail responsible to the tax pay,
The* nutst be equally distributed for the expenses.
de- anions the various townships and o
possessed of enough of tnt- world's Bob Forrest had a terrific chill ti
goods lo anchor them over night In ' day. Bill Cros$ was In town fixing up offers. T
crsxin is highest the county. his political fetises for a re-nomina pt^sons entitled
requested to call
— same
experienced another The railroad news of the chief
Canadian
We' have a large number of sub-
scribers who have not received their
premiums, promised In our premium
The books are here and all
A large number of gentlemen oper-
ating in Wall street have had to
use pontoon bridges in order to reach
their offices lately.
Dan Kutch of Taloga, butted into
jail for pointing a gun at his wife.
Then tried to bult into eternity by
tying the bed clothes around his neck
and to the rafters. The jailer made
a mistake and cut him down to save
expenses
Of course ihe republican national
committee would be sadly hampered
by lack of funds if the protected iu
lerests decided to "stand pat."
Among the culprits recently indict-
ed for defrauding the government
premium are j were, in addition to Machen, "Cliff"
receive the Long and several other Ohioans. It
was with this gang that H. H. Rand,'
Our premium offer still holds good confidential clerk to the postmaster
count) is swindled out eunuch is like the arrival of trains for anybody who desires to avail them general, loved to train.
his politi
tion to congress.
Of course the labor that is "pro
tected by the tariff" need not worry
about the million or more of immi
grants pouring into the country each
year.
and
Srt'ndlmg t*e County.
> of thousands of dollars every year on 'he Rock Island, never on time selves of it
It * only a lule way back from t**aase public officers fail to do and never correct
The democratic party does not
need reorganization. It needs to work
to prevent disorganization at the hand
of those shouting for reorganization
eiTilnatioc to savagery
If a man has fa.. IS la b.:s
er h# can a!oc\l to w*i"
Truth is aa liM|i—I ■
ins error imo two f«rts
Tivery is ko
fijit.:; tis
daii*r n£ the siiaibie-s
wWv«
Xtag E.: *ar! itave bed tne
a coarert to tie scan.i pa.: i.i-a
The sa on taa.s. ;.i - aW; i .
Law at* * *-'ier - * eoMtfMt cirw"*.t
TV only
wt « rh 3 * * n- a
«twr i -Se ana
■'twite n.
"—o If the plunger and the wildcat in-
tbeir du'y relating to retail liquor o A gay young man of this town says vestor only brought ruin upon liim-
license Sarah Bamhardt was once ask to there are two kinds of widows, the self, it would matter but little; but
A iq i-t license is r.ot transferable name the eleventh commandment arass and sod We ttould advise him ' it is his dupes that suffer The wild-
it can only be used by the man to declined ou the plea lhat there to keep off the grass oat manipulator lakes his ease He
whom it is issued. The moment he "ere ten too many already. o does not fret nor worry. He lets the
s* s or transferers his business to o Whence This Whyness? other fellow do the frettinc.
aaocher. that moment, the license ex- The agricultural experts have flgur- q
pires. and his successor in order to °"t that one average stock of In- The Oklahoman. although objecting The trial of the liquor cases now
i.j business must make application d'an corn uses up "1 pounds.of water to the charge made in the letter sent going on has degenerated into a dis-
for a lev license and pay to the coun- during the parted of its growth out by the republican territorial com- pusling farce. No body is being tie-
ty cash for Ihe same o mittee that the democrats of Oklaho- celved by It, however, as the people
Ttii rw.;u rement is being evaded The people are begining to ask who ma. is fighting the statehood move- are not all fools by any means
by se ig tfcr. s- <k and fixtures and owns the waterworks. Are the ment with all its vigor. Of course There will come
-.11 a.... -- the c- * man agent Blakes hiding behind the Rock Island the Oklahoman is not the democratic
i -S- : pf.'i- and the saloon in an effort to pull the people's leg? party of Oklahoma, but it would, on
is con'.n ted im the o.d proprietors o political issues, have it understood
sax- a-.-i 'ie cotcty is beaten out I sen berg of the Enid Wave says, that it is the spokesman of the party,
r c - ---j - . transaction that the modern wisdom of our town and as it has been outspoken against
i ( t i ? b>jan: of county councils would give a town clock the double statehood the squeal certainly
Among those who are shouting the
loudest for an asset currency are the
gentlemen who alternate by shouting
most strenuonsly that the money
question is settled.
Speaking of misdirected zeal, what
would you call going right through
Indiana and Illinois in order to reach
an oriental country and do missionary
work?
day of reckoning
and don't you never forget it.
Jim Duffev says, that if the twelve
apostles will just give him rope he
tie a knot in the Blobell's tail
It is reported that the wheat fields of
the West are not yielding according to
promise. This is another way of
saying that the wheat prospects went
republican. *■
will
so big that there will be no danger
A prominent Nebraska republican
Even the Bixi-t arn a nist
while the l-jn r taaes a-" in.
every ticen- cramp colic in the good old summer comes with very poor grace. Is the of it falling through that two tlions- SBJS h'S ,iar'-v nee,ls no platform iu
A gentleman is v Tir:.ies
are not fo*xa.i . -.-n ^ n -
.Oklahoman misrepresenting the dem-1 and dollar hole it has. in its credit
o ik?rats of the territory now? If so.
The Law- and Order League com- why?—Enid Eagle.
How easy t: wouoi Im for a.1 st*n
to obey the aa« -
coBLtni^sioc-'-s to revoii
le when* it■- or-^rinal holder has sold time
one or unit the business
Thia moaey belongs to the people The i^aw and Order League com-1 why?—Kniit Eagle. | Pension Commissioner Ware lias
ai. -.a.-: ! cis;:tr commissioners menced work in the wrong place. The Oklahoman is misrepresenting been chargul with violating the civil
the ihe rank and file of democracy and so service regulations. That is natural.
If we remember rightly the Hon. Clay
[ Evans was crowded out b^cai.se
1904. Presumably he means that his
party has no use for a platform—after
the election.
Texas offers I'.. ■ ■ ? .c a- -T—-" al
remedy for the cty- ijoC iitn
are the 5nan.::ai agents of the people They should have cleaned up
ao.i they sho-'iid see that they get it. house before they attempted to wash are the leaders
Tfce ev .Bty attorney Is the legal ad- the windows.
viaoe of the N.iani amt tt Is his duty o
— -tar. tii- tax payers are not Bob Forrest thinks Bill Cross has
-i .i of vast sums of mon- no chance for the democratic nomina-
ey The law and duties of his office tion to congress. Bill thinks the
THE CRISIS PASSED.
he
| wouldn't violate these and )ifcer laws.
• rcfiirv Iubjo toe on the look out and same about Bob and we think they
A pe «.mts- is one has —n io- TO -he county's Interest against are both right.
timately aoi iaiate.i with as o*UaiM. 4^ beats and swindlers 0
0 Is he doing it? Is any body trying
We haven : hear.: aaythia* aboa: to present the county from being
the linea! d-«cea«ia2t trr sevi ral days, goaged oct of many thousands of dol-
~ 0 * ^ars each year by the fellows running
Old maa Wbeei rr i* tec aB there saloons on the azency plan.
Kentucky republicans denounce as-
sassination, but they also cheer the
name of a man who is afraid to re-
turn and face the sharge of being an
assassin's accomplice.
The Financial Review published by Jim Duffev
lo the Law ta i Ord#r
Tb* Ijiw Oni^r coti-
proddlag in tfcte wroag o*'a.t<~
It is claims! that half the saloons
1 town are of this kind
The democratic party of this county
has a very meager majority, but it
rannot win with a ring ridden organ-
zation. It must cut loose., rub out
and commence anew.
ti r. f r. « , , avy lhat lie was not Several republican vice presidential
Henry Clews & Co., says the financial handicaped that he might be able to boomleis have collapsed owing to the
crisis has been passed in Wall Street, patch up the court house gang, so as j supreme need of saving all Possible
The Review calls the late trouble as to fool some of the people with , o p. wind to keep the Wall * eel
gastrites. Acute ,hem. We will admit that if Jim can't bubbles inflated.
"fix 'em" nobody can. but they are |
beyond the power of the fixer, to save.
WANTS A MONOPOLY.
No newspaper man can make * tiers
think unless be is tnseif a thinker
Ideas that ber-ff' a mac are <^-!iii>tn
welcomed by him wti-c first present-
ed.
The Blobell says the Deocrat. the
Fair Store and our part of the Demo-
crat block is for sale at a figure that
is a bargain and adds that it hopes
some one will buy us out and help
the school butter poet from Kansas.
There are many cranks, some insist
that the public have no rights, they
are bound to respect, others think
the world must come within their nar-
row sphere and never smile.
The I'nited States i^ not making
much progress towards building the
Panama canal, but the salaries are
As a travel^ sa:--maa we 1.*^
Bill Cross but darn his statehood
views.
who pride themselves 00 their
culture haven ' any at which to
speak.
It is always the outlaw that is
sponsible for ail cr.minal coats
courts
run a couple of first class democratic so'nK on a" *he time so lhat some
papers in El Reno people are entirely satisfied.
The fellow that buys the Democrat o—
may be able to run a first, class paper The two McLean boys come nearer
bot it does not lie In Sohoolbutter's running their places of business strict
pants to do such a thing ly accordingly to the letter and spirit
We are greatly indebted to School- of the law than any other men en-
butter for his deep Interest in our gaged in the business in El Reno.
financial and social welfare; but we 0
must beg to inform him that nothing
we have in El Reno Is on the market
for sale yet everything we have can
"acute financial
inflamation of the financial stomach
is good, but how about it being acute.
If our memory serves lis right the old
thing gets out of order about every
seven or eight years and that it has
been aflicted so often and so long
it strikes us that the chronic stage
has been reached.
As stated in these columns more
than once, it is the opinion of our
best financial writers that a crisis is
approaching which will tie more dis
asterous than any that has preceded
it.
The prudent business man will
watch his bearings carefully until he
is sure the danger line has been pass-
ed.
The financial craft that hugs the
shore, is the one most likely
get to a place of safety when the
storm comes.
Small men are provincial med .- re
men are co mopoi,ian bat r-oat souls woald
are universal.
John Carney and John Ozman may
j think they are throwing dust in the
eyes of the people in fhese liquor
prosecutions, but they are not. The
people are not deceived a particle.
be bought at a price.
In tl.is connection, however, it
veil for Mr. Schoolbutter
to under-tand that If he effects a sale 0
■ O of our property that it must be a cash The republicans of the west side are
Strong men an well afford to be an'' without commission, and coaching Henry Vasey for commis-
gentle—'hi>se who know car. well! 00 promissory note secured by sioner. Vasey is the only man that
cultivat silence county officers goes It will take the ever made an examination of the
[ spondutix. the long-green to segregate j books and if elected he will do it
us from this town. again.
Miles has retired Woodson Is dead
and Jim Duffr w„rwing himself to
death on the Blobe::.
Some one has said the kindergarten
An honest examination of the books, The Watonga Daily Republican has
of this connty, will make some people |suspended publication on account of
bunt for a more healthful clime.
THE TWELVE APOSTLES.
The Blobell note bobs up again,
John Ozman is the only one of the
ten who signed it who has the cour-
age to say so. John says that he
signed it and made no secret of it.
He says that when it was presented
to him that it had been signed by
John Carney, county attorney, J. I
Phelps, probate judge. Charley Stan-
dard, register of deeds, Pat Kelly,
deputy county clerk, M. B. Cope, as-
sistant county attorney and candidate
for that office, Sam Humphreys, court
house locator and candidate for a
seat in the legislature. John says
there were twelve names on the note
j it not being a paying investment, j Tadiock and Halbert as principals
is the irr — - The weekly issue will be continued, and ten members of the court house
for erh,Z?n eT" deTite4 B,U CrOS8 Sa>"8' "PUt me d°WD f°r The pappr is °"ne<l > ' Governor Fer- ring, making twelve in all. Twelve
educating parent.. single statehood every day In the guson. uposUes of democracy so to speak
• ye*r We have got him down. | o__ I each with an aching void and grow-
Gen. "Tanh* Clay made wills to _
bum; but it seem, he Ulie<1 to burn The Minco
a few bundles of them. Chickasha is not alarmed about loos work is going on among the farmers,
0 It is an open secret, that in several ing appetite for pie and more pie.
Minstrel says that parts of the county, quiet missionary Q
,, . D . _ , - —— If any more good order movements
ing the Rock Island raUroad shops. looking toward a clean sweep of poll- are started they will probably be up-
The twelve anost es v- v , , lical matters ln 'his county. The on a different basis and yet the late
nine should .TV ^ ^ payer* want ,ho book ' examined movement resulted
"" " th're u an should expect gratitude. The reward and the only way
rc-ngth in unioif. ' tor a good deed Is in havlifg done it. I clean
The republican statehood commit-
tee are out in a signed address to the
people on the subject of statehood.
We notice that some of the papers get
the name of our "lineal descendant"
down wrong. It should, be set up
Colonel Charles P. Lincoln late of
Washington. IV C. and minister to
China.
Kentucky republicans denounce as-
sassination "whether in Servia or
Kentucky. Of course this platform
meets with the hearty approbation of
an Indiana citizen named Taylor.
The Rock Island will not run
through the cemetery at EI Reno, the
litigation having come to a satisfac
tory "or.-uisiot,. It secn.ed hard
enough for a corporation to override I
the live masses, and no one hoped 1
that it would insist upon being per- i
mitted to run over the dead.—Shaw-
nee Quill
The only obstacle ln the way of 1
statehood for Oklahoma is the per
sistent "knocking" of the single state-
hood advocates.
The Nashville American finds great
difficulty in simulating enough anger
to offer as an excuse for not giving
answers to some pertinent questions
recently asked by the Commoner.
Recent events in Danville, IU., in-
dicate lhat Speaker-to-be Cannon will
be slow to recognize southern con-
J gressmen who desire to make a few
remarke anent the "race problem "
A republican organ likens Joseph
Folk to Theodore Roosevelt. But
where is the resemblance between a
man who says little and does much,
and a man who says much and does
little?
.Hanna ascertained the wisdom
.ha. .hi i , , h°Pe"^ ^ "ns Pat" when he declined
that this element will listen to com \ to reitv
mon sense and reason in this all-im
portant question when it conies be
fore congress at the next session -
Watonga Republican.
Ohio while in danger of
account for certain
ected with a sena-
Rabelias tells of a certain learne ^^
judge who used to decide all case*. A° >
by throwing dice. He used small di*e I
for little cases and big dice for big a..^
ones. " 1 1
to get it is by
sweep.
in a partial awak-
ening to the fact that the people are
catching on.
^ \
Jtrything
\ who <;?' ma,n m ,he
^>T , good wages.
y'\ney fl(, eastern men
O *0/71 US to 'he Kansas
. .e ja, —ii'lds, and whs
What a blessing it would be I dir ^ ^ If lur
to the people if our Oklahoma sup-
reme court would adopt this method Ttjf ..script, says Kan-
in railroad cases. It would enable sas will . ,.^°Toklahoma in the
the people to win once in a while. matter of carrtftig for our penal col-
0 ° y. The squeeze has passed from
The Democrat received a communi-jthe future to the past tense We
cation this week from Geary, which ! "have already been squeezed And
hands the old sheriff and the present in this connection we might ask who
one some hot shot which would read is responsible for the squeeze' The
well in print, but as the writer failed legislature provided for a penitentiary
sign his article or make known;for our prisoners, but a republican
his identity to the editor we must | governor after contributing to the en-
decline to publish it. Anonymous terpriso vetoed the bill In the Inter-
letters cannot he printed In the Demo- est of Oklahoma City and the east
crat" side capital boomers.