The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT
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DID HE SELL OUT.
He Overpersuaded
Seduced.
.Endowment Fund
,uuu Kingfisher College
HAS BEEN PLACED WITH US _
TO LOf\N ON Ff\RMS
MONEY IN BANK AT KI NGFISH ER
READY FOR QUICK AC 1 ION
high interest on a present loan you are i
If vim are paying
'business op|K)rtunity if you fail to . all and see me about tak
inn it up. You don't know bow low my rates are while
these funds last
ing
branch OFFice
Over McGRATH'S Grocery
el reno o t.
I furnish final proof money.
WINNE & WINNE
W. 0. Bashore, Wqr.
for a Pullman rar pass The only
thin* he overlooked was dining ear
privileges. The trials and tribulations
of a legislator are truely many and di-
versified.—Guthrie Lead* i
We would respectfully suggest to
Dr. Threadgill's modest constituent to
make his application to the Hon. Bert
vigorously. I.ogan, Pallinger, Mc-
Bride and Hogg championed the bill
while Rohlnaon. Bryan and Maxwell
opposed it. Maxwell opposed that
portions only, as did Robinson, which
makes the punishment of gamblers
more severe, while they favored the
portions which provided a stiffer pun-
ishment for officers who do not en-
the present laws. On a final
Maxwell, the young bucholic slat
man and "fellow-servant" of the rail ; force the prei
Maxwell can vote Logmn won by a small majority,
i man In El!and there will be another bailie when
third reading.—
roads from Yukon. Mr
put him in touch with
Reno who can extend the time limit the hill comes up on
anil add any necessary perquisite-- Oklahoman.
necessary to make the trip pleasant Did the gamblers also see Bert
Maxwell when he was over here flirt-
an' , ing with the railroad lobby last Sat-
INVESTIGATING THE BOOKS. unlay night?
County Attorney Frame with the as
HIDES, FURS, If •
TALLOW
Write us for prices before you sell.
We want your shipments. Will
send travelingman to receive and
pay for large lots. Top market
prices always. ::::::
The Guthrie l.eader of Friday even Just about to lay a n< w it* pot. a
ing contains the following concerning slon I*'!"1 and 11 round housi and
Representative llert Maxwell's strange machine shops and t"r (.oil s sakt nut
the "Fellow Her ' to scare her off until she was given
I time to cackle. Mr. Maxwell says
I that Joe Lowe the great democratic
1 railroad fighter and trust buster, from
| Kamas. made the principal speech of
[ the evening against the bill. That
Mr. Bellamy and other democrats told
him that If he voted for the bill that
conduct concerning
vant" railroad bill:
"Maxwell a Stand-Patter."
"Representative Maxwell this morn-
ing asked unanimous consent to have
the journal show that he voted "aye"
on the fellow-servant bill which was
killed several days ago. At that time
Mr Maxwell, after first passing, voted
"no" In order to move a reconsidera-
tion later. He said today that he
bail thoroughly canvassed the situa
tlon in the house and found it impos
or death of any agent or servant,:
limiting the liability of such railroad '
corporation for any damages under
the provisions of this act, shall be
valid or binding, but all such contracts
or agreements shall be null and void.
Section 5. This act to be In full
force and effect after its passage and
approval by the governor.
Good men with force of character
it would Injure El Reno's chances til an(j (lnanP|a| ability to run a business
securing the Chickasha and Shawnee their own. say, nothing of a town
shops. Mr. Maxwell says that by
reason of this meeting and of the
representations that were made by
sible to pass the bill. He admitted: 'hose present, us to the sentiment of
V- -\ would rather lose my right arm | the people of hi Reno, thai it- \o < <
than to have the journal record me as
against that bill, therefore I ask un-
animous consent to have the journal
show me voting "aye." There was
no disseuting voice."
There has been some very strange
maneuvering on the part of Mr. Max-
well in connection with this bill, that
as he did when the measure came up
in the legislature, and we are inclined
to believe that he is telling the truth,
but we must say that when Mr. Max-
well was told that the seance at Joe
Lowe's office represented the senti-
ments of the people of El lieno, that
he must have been the most gullible
creature that ever was elected to a
If Mr. Maxwell had
Mr. Maxwell will have to explain to
his constituents before they will be- legislative body P„|irilttli
#i i i 111ri«i>il in) the liirht ut this railroad
lieve him Innocent of being seduced turnd up "M
I seance, he could have discovered that
by the railroads
When this hill was first introduced
Mr. Maxwell was In favor if the bill.
He also declared himself to the peo-
ple of this county. The agents and
tools of the railroads in this town ar-
ranged a meeting with Mr. Maxwell.
That meeting took place last Satur-
day night in Judge Lowe's law office,
Mr. Maxwell was there according to
arrangements. Two other members
of the legislature were there. A
railroad lobby was there, and the ob-
jectionable features were pointed out
in the bill and a few designing tools
of the railroads undertook to convince
Mr. Maxwell that the business men of
El Reno were opposed to the bill,
which was a lie upon its face. Mr.
Maxwell returned to Guthrie Monday
morning. He was an altered man.
He had been altered sometime be-
tween the meeting at Joe Lowe s office
on Saturday night and the convening
of the legislature Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday when the bill came up
for consideration he asked that his
name be passed when the roll was
called. He was waiting to see which way
the cat would jump. Finally when
the proceedings reached a point where
he either had to fish or cut bait, he
yoted against the bill, offering the
lame excuse that he did it so that he
could move later to reconsider the
measure! His constituents want to
know how he knew at this time that
the bill would fail. They also want
to know why he never moved to re-
consider the bill. The fact is that
Mr. Maxwell stands in a most un-
enviable light before the intelligent
people of this territory. He dallied
just a little bit too long with certain
railroad lobbists in El Reno. He
can resort to all the parliamentary
legerdemain, that his cunning can
suggest and change the journal "by
consent" as often as he pleases yet
the fact remains the same that he
was seen. That he changed his mind
and voted as the railroad lobby wanted
him to vote. That he never became
a stand patter until Friday after the
bill had been killed on Tuesday. He
is a stand-patter at the funeral, but
*ot at the assassination of the mea-
sure.
out of the twenty odd persons who
were present, that fifteen of them had
railroad passes in their pockets. Ten
of them are wholesale shippers with
special freight rates and other prlv- j Jax'aUon^for the^next 'two")
like El Reno are not at all anxious to
run for mayor. They realize what it
means to attempt to pay two dollars
worth of obligations already contract-
ed for, with a depleted treasury and
a source of revenue less than half
large enough to meet current expenses.
El Reno's expenses for water, for
electric lights, by reason of exten-
sions of the system has been doubled.
Her salary list has been doubled.
The expenses of her fire department
has been trebled. She has a public
library to maintain, and many other
things which call for large sums of
money have been added to her ex-
pense account. While her sources of
revenue has been dlmminishing and
the total valuation of her taxable
property less than heretofore. There
is no way to escape a higher rate of
years, than
distance of Henry Vasey. commenced
an investigation of all the books and
all of the county records this morning
Mr Frame as county attorney, has
I the right under the law to examine
| ihe books and accounts of all public
officers. He has the right under the
i law to employ clerical help or the
help of an expert, which he has done
in the person of Mr Vasey. The demo-
crats are howling and are threatening
to enjoin the county attorney from
making the investigation. We are
surprised that any public officer should
object to an investigation. To object
Is equivalent to admitting that there
is something rotten which they wish
to conceal. Why should an honest
public officer refuse to have his books
examined and his record reviewed?
The republican party charged official
rottenness during the campaign and
promised to examine Ihe books if they
were elected. Mr. Frame is but car-
rying out the pledges the republican
party made to the people. Now If
the democratic party and democratic
office holders undertake to prevent
this Investigation it will be because
they ado guilty and are endeavoring to
escape detection and exposure
the investigation continue.
lieges not enjoyed by the general ^ ^ ^ pavlng W(, must eilh(>r
public: and that the rt main* 11 o a higher rate of taxation, a bank-
those present were place fillers and _ treasury, or repudiate some of
were there by special invitation anil ^ obllRBUonB whif„ pagt clty coun.
not as representatives of the public. ^ heape<, upon )he people
This meeting was kept a profound ^ ,mve h<l(>n „vlng rapl<1 a
secret from the general public, and ^ ^ mug( pay (hf, enevltable pen-
was called secretly a' ,h" '"' ""'aity. We hear would be leadens of
of a railroad lobby to kill this bill by | ^ poIltlcal ,)artieB. claiming Miat
certain contracts and obligations en-
j tered into by the city are illegal and
| void, because they are in excess of
but
have
how
false representations and fraud.
They accomplished their work
in accomplishing it, they have open-
ed the eyes of the people of El Reno
and Canadian county as they
never been opened before.
In order to show the people
they have been deceived as to the
real character of the fellow-servant
bill, we publish It in full below.
It is a good bill, and a righteous
one. and no good citizen untainted by i
railroad Influence can have any ob- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ do]lar am, nf)
jectlon to it: | man of pol|tical ,)arty will ever be
clothed even with the power of a
! the limit of indebtedness, to which
a city can go. and they are advocating
j the repudiation of these obligations,
j Whilst this is a fact no doubt, yet no
city and no political party can afford
' to repudiate an honest debt by tak-
j ing advantage of a technicality of law.
El Reno's credit has been down to
Let
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
Following are the congressional dis
tricts of the proposed new state:
District 1—Grant, Kay, Garfield
Noble, Pawnee, Kingfiisher, Logan.
Payne and Lincoln Counties and the
] osage and Kansas Indian reservations.
District 2—Oklahoma. Canadian
. Blaine, Caddo, Custer. Dewey, Day.
Woods. Woodward, and Beaver coun-
ties.
District ti—Cherokee, Creek, and
Seminole nations and the Indian re-
servation lying northeast of the Cher-
okee nation.
District 4—Choctaw and that part of
the Chickasaw nation lying east of
the range line between ranges two
and three, east of the Indian meridian
District 5—Greer, Rodger Mills, Ki
owa. Washita, Comanche, Cleveland,
and Pottawamie counties and that
part of the Chickasaw nation lying
west of the range two and three east
of the Indian reservation.
Branch Hout«« At
Okla. City. 0. T.
El Reno. 0. T.
MAIN OFFICE
BIGGS & KOCH.
1473 SI. Louis «va.
KANSAS CITY. M0
Dr. Walter ft. Martin
tiraduate Veterinarian
Ovtr tllinlon's Jttvtlry Store-.
office-New I'lione 247, Bell Phone lit).
Residence-Bell Phone IM*.
F. J. BOUTIN. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
(Successor to Dr. Gilham.l
CALUMET, OKLA.
"Hutton-Keck Com Co.. at Kansas
City, reports receipts of Cattle fairly
liberal at the opening of the week,
with strong, active market for all
grades. Hogs 111 to 15c per cwt., high-
er than close of last week, with the
top at $5.05 on Tuesday Outlook en-
couraging for the near future." 6-w-tf.
HURRAH FOR FRAME.
.lim Frame promised the people last
l'all in the campaign that he would j
conduct an official investigation or
the charges of corruption and unlaw-
ful extravagance if he was elected to
office. He was elected and has at
last begun the investigation. Every
good citizen will indorse his action
ind every honest public official will
ender every assistance to make the
investigation thorough and effective.
ployes. and to Define who
low Servants:
i credit
world.
Elect
the bill.
An Act to Define the Llabll'tles j Uman who will openly advocate
Railroad Corporations m ■R^™' ■ repudiation and its consequent im-
o Damages Sustained by their Em j Qf (he dty.s credlt ln the
i eyes of the financial
i men to office who pay thet
HE IT ENACTED BY THE LEC.ISLA ^ wh() be)leve in ,he eity paying its
TIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERR1- j just obligations when mature. Elect
men who propose to meet a financial
cricis honestly. Men who favor re-
rail- | trenchment in public expenditures
road in this Territory shall be liable J commensurate with our revenues but
for damages sustained by any agent men who hate repudiation in any form
or servant thereof while engaged ill
-Ay chances of statehood gone glim-
mering." etc.. is the kind of stuff ap
pearing in a number of the country
newspapers that follow t.he lead of
the Oklahoman. Such has alwnys
been the cure to Oklahoma progress.
Our territory is cursed with a large
number of newspapers whose short-
sighted editors would rather knock
than boost a proposition. If every
newspaper, democrat and republican,
had boosted statehood in unison, in
season, worked up public sentiment
and created a demand for immediate
statehood. Oklahoma would have long
since added her star to that grand
constellation which beautifies the
American flag Jesus said: "Faith is
the victory; if ye had faith as a grain
of mustard seed you could say to yon-
der mountain be ye removed and it
would obey you." But Oklahoma s
TORY OF OKLAHOMA:
Section 1. That every railroad cor-
poration owning or operating
From Wednesday's Daily
MAXWELL'S EXCUSE.
He Say* That He Was Deceived
Joe Lowe's Seance.
by
de-
was
The editor of the Democrat was in
Guthrie yesterday and had a long talk
with Bert Maxwell about his action
on the fellow- servant bill. Mr. Max-
well says that he was mislead as to
the sentiments of the people of El
Reno regarding this bill by ex-Senator
Bellamy and a few of his co-workers
who held a secret meeting at the law
office of J. G. Lowe, and represented
to him that it was a widly advertised
meeting and that It reflected the senti-
ments of all of the people of El Reno
on the fellow-servant bill. Mr. Max
well then gave us a list of the persons
present and told us the arguments
they offered to convince him and two
other members of the legislature. Mr
Logan and Mr. Ferris, who were pres
ent. that the bill was a bad one and
that If Mr. Maxwell voted for It that
it would hurt El Reno. He says that
he was told that there was a railroad
hen on in K) Reno, and that she was
the work of operating such railroad
by reason of the negligence of any
other agent or servant thereof; pro-
vided, that it may be shown
fense that the person injured
guilty of negligence contributing as
a proximate cause to produce the in-
jury.
Section 2. That all persons engag-
ed in the service of any such railroad
corporation doing business in this
Territory, who are entrusted by such
corporation with the authority of
superintendence, control or command
of other persons in the employ or
service of such corporation, or with
the authority to direct any other ser-
vant in the performance of any duty
of such servant, or with the duty of in-
spection or other duty owing by the
master to the servant, or vice prin-
cipals of such corporation, and are
not fellow servants with such em-
ployees.
Section 3. That all persons who
are engaged in the common service
of such railroad corporation, and who
while so engaged, are working togeth-
er at the same time and place, to a
common purpose of same grade, neith-
of such persons being entrusted by
such corporation with any superinten-
dence or control over their fellow em
ployees, are fellow servants with each
other: provided, that nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to
make any agent or servant of such
corporation a fellow servant with any
other agent or servant of such cor
poration engaged in any other depart-
ment or service of such corporation
Section 4. No contract made be
tween any railroad corporation and
any of its agents or servants, based
the devil hates holy water. We
need neither the service nor the ad-
vice of the man who repudiates his
obligations or pays his private debts
with checks on banks that are strang-
ers to his deposits.
There has been during this session
considerable agitation in Congression-
al circles relative to the increase of
the salary of the President of the
1'nited States from fifty thousand dol-
lars to double that amount. The in-
crease Should be by all means be made
ft r < en when the president shall be
one hundred thousaand dollars
KANSAS LEADS THE BAND.
It is becoming more,apparent every
day that Kansas has started some-
thing. For years the country has paid
tribute to the Standard Oil octopus.
There have been protests and angry
mutterings and impotent efforts to
break loose from the yoke. But all to
no avail. The trust always won, and
the people were almost convinced that
it was bigger than the government.
In the meantime public sentiment
become more insistant. Every fresh
outrage perpetrated by the Standard
Oil heaped fuel on the flame. The
people were ripe for revolt. The only
question was "How?"
This question Kansas has started
out to answer. It is not the nature of
her people to dodge a fight for lack of
a weapon. They hunt around and find
one.
In this case it looks very much as if
Kansas had discovered a way to dem
onstrate the power of the people to
bring a greedy monopoly to book.
And if the weapon proves serviceable
a dozen other states are ready to
adopt it. Already half a dozen states
are getting ready to follow the ex-
ample of Kansas. When they all get
busy the trust will see its finish Anil
all because it thought it could bully
Kansas.
It has been the history of oppres-
sion that it has almost invariably
been overthrown because it went too
far. It is to be hoped that Kansas will
be the Waterloo of Standard Oil. In
that case the world will take Its hat
off to Kansas.
It turns out that "fellow-servant"
Bert Maxwell, was outraged In the
law office of the chairman of the
democratic party. Now that the
venue is laid, the only question in the
case is, was it the railroad lobby or
the democratic party that first laid
violent hands upon the young states-
man. If it was the railroad lobby,
then the democratic party is equally
guilty; because it was there present
in the person of its chairman and
raised no voice or helping hand when
the citadel of his virtue was assailedi
In our opinion the democratic party
is accesssory both before and after
■the fact, and if the All Seeing eye was
open, it no doubt caught them in
flagrante delicti] at the moment of
his fall.
newspapers are a perverse,
faithless
lot. They are first hot, then cold and
are then spewed from the mouth of
common sense. When the bugle
sounds the charge they invariably re-
treat. And at this time when the
chances of statehood hang in the bal-
ance there should not be a dissenting
note, but every paper in the territory
should take up the charge to advance
and sound it along the line. What we
need is more editors with backbone,
who think for themselves, and whose
opinions are not controlled by the Ok
lahoman or some other
sheet.—Enid Events.
The head lines in an Oklahoma
City paper runs as follows: "A mid-
night tragedy. Abe Couch a peace
officer deals in blood. Kills his par-
amour. with whom he had been living
for more than a year ami another
Woman (of the same stripe) and then
blew out his own brains." What a
commentary on law, order and moral-
ity. is couched in the words, "a peace
officer deals in blood, shoots his par-
amour. with whom he had been living
more than a year." When one reads
the sickening details of this tripple
tragedy and learns the character of
all concerned and the notorious man-
ner of their lives, he can not help but
ask why has such a character been
clothed with the authority of a "peace
officer" for years.
ubsidized
pan!
be less than
per annum it will still
one tenth the amount paid to the rul-
ers of first-class powers, and this not-
withstanding the fact that we are the
richest nation in the world. There
are hundreds of men in the United
States who are receiving larger per
annum salaries than the president
There has been no increase of the
president's salary since Grant was re-
elected for a second term in 1872, or
for thirty years. Since that time the
country has more than doubled its
wealth, nearly doubled its population
and greatly extended its power and
influence in the affairs of the world,
salary of one hundred thousand dol-
lars is little enough for the mainten-
ance of the respectability and digni-
ty of the highest office of the nation.
yei
HERE TOO.
We fail to understand just why a
man will permit his subscription to
run for years and then "squeal"
when a bill is presented for the full
amount. Neglect is the sole cause and
not the printer. We have names on
our books who owe us for several
ars subscription, some of them are
good as gold while others are as
had as salvage from a burning building
Men whom we have trusted as honor-
able men—men who were once citi-
zens of Noble county, pay no atten-
tion to their subscription and let it
go by without a thought. What shall
we do. Cut them off the list. That
would be cheap. It would be paying
an honorable debt at our expense.
That may be what some hope for and
what some expect. We are prone to
admit that men are so dishonest—but
if so in one instance, they will bear
watching in others.-Perry Sentinel
IN THE NECK.
When we. as captain number five,
stepped aboard the old wreck of The
Piedmont Press, that had been desert-
ed by everyone of her captains to
the number of four, we thought we had
a commission to stay aboard one year.
But—something happened. A shot
was fired across our bows in the shape
of a notice that our good ship had
been sold from under us. We were to
be marooned on the high seas of
journalism by a cadaverous pirate cal-
ed Tadlock, who floats his flag over an
old tub called the El Reno Globe.
This was certainly discouraging, hut
we saw no help for It.
So gentle reader, we give up the
ship this week. This will be the last
issue of the Piedmont Press from this
office. The plant has been sold to one
Homrick. who will remove
Chickasaw Nation.—Bruce
Bert Maxwell a fellow-servant of
the railroads voted as he was told to
vote on the fellow-servant bill.
Everybody knows that President
Roosevelt can lick the Senate if it is
necessary, but he and we prefer ar-
bitration if it can be used in this case.
it to the
Ott.
A MILD REQUEST.
Senator Threadgill received a re
quest from one of his constituents yes-
terday. who evidently has been under-
going a thorough treatment of ner-
vine He asks for a round trip pass
with a sixty day limit to San Fran-
cisco, thence to Alaska by way of
upon the contingency of the injury | skaguay. ln a postscrip he also asks
LOGAN'S VICTORY.
When the report of the committee
of the whole on Logan's anti-gambling
bill came up for acceptance yesterday,
there was another battle of consider-
able strength, and notwithstanding
the fact that many women suffrage
and W. C. T. U. ladies were present,
the opponents of the bill fought It
maxwell's fall.
The Servant bill
As all will note,
Was killed at last,
By my lone vote.
When duty called
Alack alas!
1 voted no;
To hold my pass.
To hide my shame,
Consent 1 urged,
And had the Journal's
Record purged.
But after all
The world knows well
Just where and when
And why I fell-
If the democratic officials who are
being investigated are scared, the
Blobell will squeal tonight like a
stuck pig.
It is regretable that Mr. Hoch did
not employ a bookkeeper when he en-
tered the wholesale matrimonial field
As it is he cannot guess nearer than
ten, of the number of wives he has
had.
The Russian bomb throwers consid-
ers it a waste of ammunition to blow
up the poor little Czar, but when they
blew up Grand Duke Sergius they
elevated a big chunk of imperial
power.
There is no question but what Geo.
W. Bellamy is the Buster Brown of
the democratic party of this town,
but there is some controversy as to
whether Tlge's collar looks better on
Stream or Bill Redder.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says, by reason of the heavy snows
we have had, North and South Dako-
ta and Minnesota will have a record
breaking wheat crop. Most people
however, would rather purchase
wheat with something else than cold
waves.
The people of El Reno are paying a
tribute to the railroads of $2 per ton
on coal and $2 a cord on every stick
of wood they burn.
There will be a battle royal wlies
the railroads undertake to elect dele-
gates to the constitutional conven-
tion.
If there ever was a time when El
Reno's credit at home and abroad
should be maintained it is now
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