The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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THEOLD RELIABLE
otters rtm Rhort
• t hut Whlsi erlng Charley
\ in, ■ r of M : i weeping bo
I.afo Smith, chairman of the Caddo
inly board of rommi • ilom n-
merous ere lltors. are making things
voly fur our warm ami etteemed
riend, Mr Hitchcock, b< crefary of the
iterl'ir. l.afo Ik a er o 1- 11
Three of a Kind.
win bo notice! that
M. C. A., if they thought it would
make them votes. .
When we started to build the insular
defenses which the army board says
are necfasary, Secretary Shaw wont
have any more surplus to distribute.
people of El
pull their le--;
« 'barley will f
f th
him
trone
risk
ith wheat, corn, oa' ■
> answers: They
new towns that were
railroads the peop
• so much.
o
built on
e bank*
lart
hi'....I «iff up to BlaUe's office. They
, th" i ilnts. sand pap-
1 t "int ndoos and put new pack-
Itlln b " and filed it
, ltloll matters in detail
the mv lerious subti-
w . 1 to elucidate the
ub'ic officer
an impossl-
Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
After the election, ttte living issue
of the Ohio campaign will !><• politic-
:ally dead, ills epitaph will read, "He
stood pat."
Citirons of El Re
ed their all in this town certainly will
appreciate the effort s of the town kill
ers to run an oppo
Kl Reno money.
If it is not t<
would humbly a
administration, it'
had been discovt
:pense ac
sit ion town with
THE EL RENO DEMOCRAT
T. F. HENSLEY. Ed. 4 Pub.
Entered at the El Reno Postollicc as Sec-
ond Class Mat 1 Matter.
The Maryland elections nre liable
_ Mo give a serious shock to President
Roosevelt's reputation as a harmonizer
of republican factions.
It will con the tax payers of Cana
dian county $300 to loach Phelps thai
there Is a U gal way to keep a blase*
and prejudiced skunk out of a cast
where ho is not wanted.
There was just as much authority
to raid the Elks Home, as the El
Reno opera house.
Last Sunday night's raid on the
opera bouse is the severest blow the
new opera bouse has received.
The court house gans now admit
that they jumped into the arms of
the reformers a little hit too soon.
If we hail a democratic admini ira 1
tlon the republicans would not lie a'
a loss to explain the present slump j
in the stock market.
:i good scheme to call the editor Mr.
Maverick. Mavericks never have
brands upon them, neither has the
Press.
much i It is iii' difficult to ; rform than
ti:,, i '-ent ( Mie hi u dlv.\ to loop the loop or tell
, wa nl ni'-i . where ti o :rt house gang stand on
i to m i' • the • ■-■ the gambling question.
A public officer cannot i e libeled
by hurling epithets at him be they
ever so scurrilous.
There Is but nni' way to libel him
attorney, city clerN. police judge, I an,j that Is to acuse him of the com-
ity marshal and street comml--loner, ' mission of some crime, which he has
mmltted. You may accuse him
of belli;,' a hoi - i thief and if you can
show that he walked off with a hal-
ter which lil a hoi -1 at one 'end of
what we enn learn ten mills will m i
no very far toward buying brick, lay-
" | (nK street crossings, paying the mayor
It is a mistaken Idea that a drunk
l lawyer makes a strong whisky ad-
vocate, before a court or jury.
loe I " and Cow Shed would make
a line pair to draw to, if they were not
jealous of each others legal
ments.
not to mention a big police force and | not c
The Piedmont Press has no pa or nl(m wju) jiavt! to earn somethlir to
I ma, if it has it Is asham> 1 to own jl(,H their families in bread. W>
up. In the next issue it would ' , ask all this with great humility and
hol e that Alderman Jackson will im-
part the much desired Information.
We have been aske.l fifty tlm.
Judging from the restills of the by
elections In England Mr. Chamberlain
has left the cabinet just In time to
save himself a fall.
Tho Santa Fe is having Its share
of hard luck lately. Wrecks ' are ol
too frequent occurance to make li
pleasant for weak nerved folks.
The president is commander-in-chief
or the army nnd navy, and of tho
campaign forces.
i Will some person who is well post-
led about tho matter inform us what
j road will bo operating tho St. Louis,
121 Reno & Western a year from now.
Manila's speeches would lead one
lo believe that he was after the poker
players vote.
A man who will pull spikes from
ties when bo knows a passenger train
Is coming, deserves the hardest kind
of a death.
It will soon be timo for either
Schwab or Morgan to turn states evi-
dence.
Lots out in the suburbs of Piedmont,
priced at $1,000, must have oil, gas
or some other valuable property con-
cealed Where nobody can see it.
As in a large hotel, the messengers
in the White House must now wear
uniforms.
Dowie abuses the reporters in pay-
ment for the free advertising given
him by the press
Representative Lucius N. Littauer.
of tho famous glove contract, has been
acquitted by the statute of limitations.
We hate to be so inquisitive, but
we would like to know who will se-
cure the appointment of custodian of
the new court house.
Tho people of El Reno will tell the
court house gang to go to Piedmont
for their votes at the next election.
There is method in Whispering
Charley's sickness. A bonus will cure
him souni'. as a eo'.iir fer a vhlle.
The republicans will put a stop to
kangarooism at the old court house
when the next election rolls around.
No honest man would nit in a case
ns judge when ho knows that he is
disqualified.
Thunder, lightning and rain late in
October is not so very bad for a coun-
try like Oklahoma. The elimato here
takes us back to our old Italian home.
The court house has been convert-
ed into a hatchery where a political
scheme is hatched out, once a dny on
an average.
Even the Annex on Woodson street
Is getting tired of being the cat's paw
for the Blobell and the gang that are
running tho court house.
The old saying of "put a beggar on
horseback and ho will ride to the
devil," is exemplified every day in the
edifice on Rock Island avenue called
a court house.
Representative Lattauer lias kept
his "skirts technically clear," thanks
to the statute of limitations.
Mr. Bristow required a million wonls
to describe the scandals in the post-
office department.
If the president did not interfere so
much in the state campaigns, he would
have'much more, time lo play tennis
The steel bonds are said to be water
tight, but they are liable to sink in
the flood.
A reform wave that can be stopped
by J250 a head is not mtieli of a wave
after all.
The official city paper did not give
a very exhaustive report of the coun-
cil meeting last night.
"Joe Loe" the anti prohibition lion,
by precept, an example from Kansas,
swears by the lioly Josh, that Judge
lkey Phelps, shall try (lie llensley
case if it. takes all winter.
Whenever life long democrats b<
gin to talk about cutting lose from tin
Phelps, Carney, Cope, Low Jo, end
of the democratic party there is hop*
yel left that there is a God In Israel
Who ever heard of a reform move-
ment started with a gang of lax eaters
and treasury looters. You had as
well try to reform a rat out of a corn
crib.
A part of the people of El Reno
know how Phelps became probate
judge. Airs. Grigsby knows to h?"
cost .V"W it happened, but the tuv
payers of Canadian county will see to! same reply was given. But the hurt
it that It never happens again. arrived on schedule time just Hie
o I same.
When tho present court house gan; 0
move into tho new court house, ai j The Guthrie Annex says tHe county
order will lie issued from J. lkey commissioners will be enjoined from 1,11 '
Phelps' court, requiring farmers to j making the last payment on the new ' "l" li"'|! - ",ln
1 • court house on the grounds ' * ''
it, the language is justified and no
libel is committed.
The truth of tho crime charged or
Imputed, Is always a good defense.
There are but two ways In which it
There is one ofiicQ the people
forgetting all about, and that Is
1 todian of the court house. When the Voul<1 it be possible to libel Cowshed
day how Phelps secured the offic of . new building is opened for business | ,,r |,|3 court house pals.
probate judge at tho begining. To a oustodlnn will have to be appointed, , First, search their official and pri-
all such inquiries we refer them will, i,y the commissioners, whose duties vatl, ]jVC3 for aome crime which they
out permission to tho widow of the J shall be to watch over and protect
late W. II Grigsby, who was an honesi every office in the building. Ho is
man. responsible for the building itself and
o everything in it, after tho departure
When Geary was first organized, our of the officers at the close of the days
merchants said It cannot hurt us. j work. There is no man who can per-
Wheii Calumet and Mustang, lirldge- form all of the work to be done in
were organized the a building of that size alone, ho has
have help and those men are called !
port and Hydro
have not committed, charge them
with its commission in some newspa-
per of general circulation and tho
libel will be complete.
An easier and quicker way, how-
ever, would be to charge the afore-
said Cowshed and his court house pals'
with the crime of being honest, im-
partial. unbiased, faithful, law abid-
leave their shoes at the door, befor<
entering the holy of holies
Some corporations have souls after
all. Two hundred women and girls
in the Schwarzschild & Sulzbeiber
packing house in Armourdale have
received an increase of 25 cents a
day without asking for it.
When a man looks for trouble he
is pretty sure to run across it. Take
for instance the case of Mr. Duly at
Weatherford. Thank God he is not
Irish, if lie was his name would be
Dooly.
We notice that the Hock Island has
gobbled up the "Enid, Denver and
Anadarko railroad of which Hon. C.
O. Blake is one of the directors. We
hear that C. O. received S* 50,000 as
his share.
fraud.
We have been unable to ascertain
just how much truth if any is contain-
ed in this statement.
janitors, over whom the custodian has j jng ail(| ]aw enforcing public servants,
full control. The custodian of court i an(| y011 wjjj j^ve committed libel
houses at all county seats has to give , ppj-se, you will be utterly unable to
; good and sufficient bond lor the furnish proof of the charp > and will
. of hi., woi .v. The , jje convicted and fined under the law
have been keeping , not icgs than one dollar.
very quiet about the custodian busi- j charge this gang with the crime
ness, but they have been working just ; ])0ing honest, impartial and law
the same. Let the taxpayers watch j ai^idjng public servants, won! ! be as
and they will be surprised, beyond jj0r(| Coke said of rape: "A crime
It was claimed by the kangaroo re-
formers that the theatrical people
would not stand trial as they could not
afford to miss their next appointment
and therefore would plead guilty or
forfeit their bonds and go on. Is this
grafting, leg pulling or rank, rotten
kangarooism.
all reasonable bounds, when they
learn who the custodian is to be.
Piedmont is another nail our mer-
chants are trying to drive in El Reno's
coffin. M. A. Low never saiu a truer
thing in his life than when he said:
"Go on build more railroads you will
then have more new towns to compete
| with El Reno for the trade which
rightfully belongs to her."
Have you noticed the dearth of edi- Governor Tom Ferguson is not so
torials in the Blobell for the last very slow when there is anything in
The editor in chief has ' sight.
few days.
been too busy "knocking hell out of
Hensley" In J. Ikey's court to spend
any time writing editorials.
Tom is longing for a seat in
The merchants of El Reno and Yu-
kon, should feel proud of the Blobell
and its annex, the Piedmont Press.
The latter is so modest that it does
not even mention the name of its edi-
tor.
It was too wet today to lix up
street crossings in the resident por-
tion of the city and maybe it will be
so dry tomorrow they will not need
It.
Commissioner Leeper is worried
about the trees that are being planted
in the new court house grounds. H.
H. should not let a little thing like
trees bother him.
J. lkey Phelps says he does not have
to go to Oklahoma City to beg to try
a case. Wait until his term of office
expires and he will be glad to get a
job sawing wood.
If Cowshed will Just stick to old
Low J, he will wear buffalo chips if
he don't wear diamonds.
General Funston advocates more pay
| for the private soldier and less orna-
ments on the officers uniforms. Most
people will agree that there is sound
sense in both these reforms.
Reformers Phelps, Cope and Carney,
don't the mere suggestion of the
thought gag you.
The cat is out of the wallet. It
was an attempt to job the gamblers
and not reform them.
in a recent speech the president in-
forms us that we need "tho honesty
j which keeps its skirts technically
clear." This is an example of stren-
uous rhetoric.
A man must certainly be in his
dotage who harbors feelings of jeal-
ousy because of the legal attainments
of Cow Shed.
Senator Hanna is trying to induce
the voters to look at the importance
of the Ohio senatorship from his point
of view.
The Cradle.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Wilson,
Friday night October 30, twin boys.
All doing well. This makes ten chil-
dren for Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.
We are informed by the secretary
of the democratic centrat committee
that one J. I. Phelps has never paid
bis campaign assessment of the last
election, down to this good day.
the senate of the U. S. A., and it will
not be his fault if he does not get it.
Have you noticed h<Av Tom is taking
in all the reunions and other "doins"
in various parts of the territory.
Our home boys and girls had to lake
easily charged, but exceedingly diffi-
cult to disprove."
Will his honor, tho mayor put an
occupation tax on the merchants to
keep up his present largo police
force ?
The Canadians say that England
"regards the friendship of the Unit-
ed States as a pearl beyond price,
provided Canada has to pay for It."
The editor of the Blobell Is credit-
ed with saying that the Democrat has
been slobbering over Commissioner
Schwarberg and that the aroresaid
slobbering made the editor sick. We
don't like to be too impulsive, but we
are willing to devote a sum of money
to any charitable institution if Taddy
will elevate his hand and swear that
he wrote the slobbering story that ap-
peared in the Blobell Tuesday even-
ing. We recognize several old words
in the article that were used years ago
by old styled editors in the land of
freaks, Kansas. No the 'court house
gang do not want a man of William
Schwarberg's character to make his
headquarters in the court house. He
knows too much, and the gentlemen
who are serving their last term as
county officers do not want a man j The business men of El Reno who
around who is competent to detect | have made the town what it is are
Senator McComas has recovered his
lost grip. It was his hand satchel,
not his hold on the Maryland legisla-
ture.
Secretary Shaw has denied the re-
port that he was a candidate for the
senate. This was another relief to
the banks.
any derelection of duty on their part.
William Schwarberg is too old to
work on his farm and he can live in
El Reno as cheaply, if not cheaper
than he can in Okarche. He is un-
a back seat when teachers were ap- der a pretty stiff bond and he cannot
pointed in the public schools and ex- | i>e blamed if he comes to >}1 Reno to j
perienced (?) ones shipped in from live and look after the interests of I executive should not encroach on the
Kansas. Can it be possible that a his bondsmen and the tax payers of ; legislative prerogrative.
custodian for our new court hous i ; Canadian county. o
cursing the court house gang more
than the law and order league ever
cursed the gamblers.
Secretary Loeb has issued a state-
ment that the president will not make
any speeches while congress is in
session. it is quite right that the
court hou -;
with experience (?) will also be ship-
ped in from God knows where?
CRIMINAL LIBEL.
who wants to complete his legal . lu- la new town. And how can Hie El Reno
How do the merchants of El Reno j it is surprising how many well in-
' like the actions of the paper they arc formed people there are who do not
It Is said that the young man Cope | patronizing in advertising business in Iknow the nature of the offens* called
"criminal libel."
It is astonishing liow few lawyers
there are in the country who are per-
fectly familiar with this statute made
offense against the peace and dignity
of Oklahoma. Joe Lowe the great
prohibition apostle by precept, an ex-
cation at the expense of the tax pay-
ers of Canadian county, is a past
master in kangarooism, a pupil of
Phelps and Carney so to speak.
The time is near at hand when the
old court house will be abandoned,
and the new one occupied by the ser-
vants of the people who have yet
fifteen months to serve. Has
todian been appointed yet?
merchants tell their customers that
they are not lending aid to an enemy
when they are placing their advertls-
ments in a paper that is boosting a riv-
al town.
('. M. Buckles has nearly two years ample from bleeding Kansas,, and the
to serve while the other fellows have "only lawyer, according to his own
only fifteen months. There are some j words who had sense enough in El
ens- j of his associates today In tne court Reno to write an information correct-
house that did not vote for him, and | \y charging libel" had to be shown
o j who would not grieve very much if ' hat it was simply a misdemeanor
Old Low Jo, has postponed the time his time would expire Monday morn- .Fith a minimum fine of only one dol-
of sending the editor of this paper to|ing. He goes on in the even tenure lar, instead of a felony.
When one Clark alias Cowshed,
thought he had been libeled or seduc-
ed, and wasn't certain which, by the
Daily Democrat, he went to the lion
hearted disciple of Blackstone, the
royal bengal tiger from the north,
the great paternoster of demo-
cracy of the Cope, Phelps, Carney
jail for three weeks. The poor old of his way without giving or asking
toothless anemic wants to watch out for any advice
lest the devil or the asylum catches
him long before Uie county jail does
118.
Carry Nation and Dr. Parkhurst feel
that Dowie is getting more than his
share of notoriety.
The piay tomorrow night of "Two
Married Women" ought to be inter-
eating. We hope there is a moral to
it that will be of great benefit to our
unmarried men.
Lord Alverstone, the British com-
missioner on tho Alaskan boundary
case is quite as popular In this coun-
try as Sir Thomas Lipton.
Kid Cope wants the taxpayers o:
this county to elect him to Hie office
of county attorney so that he can fit
himself to practice law at the coun-
ty's expense.
At the next meeting of the board of
county commissioners it will be in-
cumbent upon them to appoint a cus-
It is mighty easy for a lot of would todian who can furnish a good bond.
be smart alecks, to try to take from J Janitors can be had by the wagon
a man his good name, but it is a hard jload, but the people of Canadian coun-
proposition for them to make good j ty want a man who Is competent, trust-
their talk when brought face to face worthy and a tax payer to be responsi-
witli facts The scheme to down the ble for the $:!5,000 building the tax j to the seventh generation, the moment
preacher did not work payers paid J.IO.OOO for. "An "old j of conviction, which would not take
meddler" of William Schwarberg's long in any well regulated kangaroo
court.
Now that, the revenue heretofore
donated by the sports has been knock-
ed Into smithereens by the sheriff and
county attorney, what will the city
administration do for incidental ex-
pense money.
The reformers of this town remind
us of a pack of Siberian wolves. At
the taste of the first drop of blood,
they become frenzied and rend every-
thing within their reach that mani-
fests a sign of life
Nobody was deceived by yesterday's
grand-stand plays in the probate court
room except the players. They
thought they were pulling the wool
over the taxpayers eyes, but they were
not.
People not entirely familiar with
the conditions that exist in the admin-
istration of justice in this town, were
amazed at the pompous by plays that
were made in the trial ef certain cases
yesterday.
People who are compelled to have
business with the petty courts of this
type and he was told by him that libel country, should be thankful, that this
in this territory was a felony and that j territory, bad as it is governed, has
attainder would attach, even down an appellate judiciary, to which they
can look for justice when it is denied
them below.
Between the court house gang and
it will be remembered that this old the city hall gang, in their efforts ti
Our old friend E. F. Mitchell, cum- stamp would just about suit us.
tniiniy known as Mitch, sees that mil-1 o
lion tlint he lias li^en after so long It lias come to. pass that hustlers man at sea, filed his first master piece I play Folk, the taxpayers are having
just a little way ahead of him. There for news which is of Interest to the in the way of a pleading, under the a nice little bill of costs piling up 011
are millions In his Wichita mountain I people cannot get a truthful answer repealed statuto of 1893, and had the them and the business men of El Reno
go'ul mine and Mitch only wants one from the deputies hired by Hie set defendant brought Into court for a are being made to suffer as they never
of them. ' vants of the people. After a wt.ib preliminary examination.
o even the records will be placed under \ The old antldeluvian has been, was
' illd before
The people of Canadian county now
see the necessity, more clearly than
ever before, of electing an honest, cap-
able lawyer to the office, both of pro-
bate judge and county attorney.
Tom Hensley, editor of the El ];• no lock and key so the newspaper man
Democrat has been arrested charged will have to take hearsay evidence
with libel. The charge was brought
by tho cify attorney. The city attor-
ney, no doubt, got a job on his hands
which will keep him busy for some
time—Lon Whorton.
when ho writes up a piece of news.
It is bad enough now In the old barn,
called a court house, what wiii> it
be when the gentlemen get into the
new building (?)
thunder struck when a bystander told
him that the law under which he had
filed his suit was as dead as a pickled
mackerel and had been for nearly ten
years.
The old man at soa, withdrew his
complaint, "innuendoes" and all and
The ultra puritanical reformers over
reached themselves last Sunday night
by arresting a theatrical party in the
midst of a play and holding up an
opera house full of people as if they
were common felons, amidst a carni-
val of crime.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1903, newspaper, November 5, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111420/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.