The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT
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Oo month
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CARNEY'S AFFIDAVIT MEN.
Tlie pimple of Kl Hoiiti ir« asking
who are lln-Hr mi ll llitil Hit' making
«RI(1u\Hh agaliiHt Henry I.*men. and
whHt motive tm \ e they fur coin I UK
Into Kl Reno and iiiIkIiik up hi our
rlty affair**' In aitMWerlng ih!* (|u* m
tlou wi« will Htnic that mo far. they
•ti* Mil UeiiiocrntH. and tin \ are either
HISTORY REPEATING
MU week* ngo the OriH*rM ent n
man In here by the name of lllalr
himI represented to our people that ha
wuh an u'i iim I Im•in* purcha>ter o
tlm A nit • i' it-it ti print lng office Th
county commissioner*. tin* rlty Mil
miiilHtrttlltui. tlit* gullible republicans.
Mini the dead t-iiKifM HlwnyM ready to
i dirt with a fresh out*. took the bait
t'1 hi Milt. Una, Mink uiul bobber
f,(l i In Iomm Hutu tt uioiitli I linn w«i
dehorned mnl tin* fraud exposed
Now the oltl wet deck has been
m||II 111 t'ti again A iicw lliyMtlTluU'
Mtrauger appear** upon the seen# a girminti
a purehaitor Spectacular transfers iu v*
IiIIIm of niiIt* ami flinttIt* mortgages
haa been panned before tin* mkinl
eye of the people while KianW lireer
bnls ibein watch carefully to see that
nothing It left up bin gleeve
Thin comtiitiiiit> ha* been fooled a
1 (Ml
We have on our tables now
'■A NUMBER OF SNAPS
Suit* tor "tj IhtSk jic bargain* |h*t no man should mi** the oppor
tumty to ii v« t'jit« j i U t'i* earlier you come arournl to see the e suit*. the
larysr assortment ww will find.
On<
wins sun si
l ol fcl#n %%oo> stoU. nice clean
u iin 4t our price
YOUNG MENS SUITS
One lot, consisting of 19 suits, run
in i*es. ages. 16 to 19, good values.
The Canadian County Mill * Kl*
valor. Im ii Mtandlng monument. U>
the genius. foresight anil enterprise
nf Henry lessen It in one of the
glories of Kl lie no. How many monu-
ments of this kind has John Freeborn
em-led In Kl Kemi? How many has
John Carney .tnd his four affidavit
men erected, and in thin connection
we may « ven broaden the question,
ami ask how many monumenth to
Kl Reno's greatness Has the democratic
committee and their hoard of Bland
erers « \er erectetl in Kl Heno"
*o * 0 $t> 00 to $7 t>0.
suit
our price
Out lot. Men'* all *reel laihmerf
suits hign graJe tailored garments.
gooJ values at $U> our price now. a
suit v-n
now. *
%4.Bb
alight of hand of Krauk lireer. but he
still believe* In the old scriptural
adage that you may bruise the foolish
In a mortat with a |H>il« ami vet the r
foollahness will uol tlepart from
theiu." therefore h - > try i*g to fi*oJ
them again
The CIreet teem to have the same
opinion of the Intelligence oi the peo
pie of Kl Keuo. that the Kock Ulaud
has They believe
actuated by a desire to get even w it It doxen times already by the masterful
loiMst ii for Mome real or Imagluat)
grievance or they are trying to play
cheap politics no as lo have some
standing in the democratic party and
thereby work themselves up to the
pie counter In the future
Take Kltlge Whlllock for lu uimt
lie iiiakeM an affidavit that he hauled
a load or wheat (o Yukon and sold it
for 15 cents per btiMhel more than
louise n offered him for it Now who Kaihoad com pa
Is this man Whltlock ami why dm's
tie rush forward with au affidavit
against l.asscn ami then Into print
with the affidavit ' Is he the same
Whltlock who sold the l.asN. n M
A Klevator company 8.000 bushels of
tiats two years ago at a giveu price
and after delivering about one third
of the amount, repudiated hi> cou
tract aud refused to deliver any more
because oats in the meantime had
|UOe up five cents on the bushel*
loissen says he ts th*' same ideutica'
mau aud that he has fought shy of
the Kl Keno graUt market ever siuce
Hvuig a small borv deiuwrattc pol
ticiati he is therefore a pel sous ami
ptdUical enemy of ijuiseii. and it
does his little dlmlmutive st u! gov^l to
b*> able to say something against
Lassen and feanug tha1 h > uetgh
ht rs aud the people of K Ke«o would
not believe hiui he subscribes aud
One lot.
of all woo
kind for s
value *'0%
skeleton
al. juftt
lined suits
the right
ner. good
$7.
THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN.
Those loud mouth fellows and the
affidavit fellows who are howling
against Uissen for mayor on account
I of the fai t that be is a wheat dealer.
ODD PANTS. have forgotten who it was thai called
One lot, pjnta consisting of about all the threshing machine men in the
38 pair*, of good quality cMhmerr. county ami orfc nl*e<! Ihfni Into a
nearly all sizes in these good values
at i:00 to 12.80.
pair.
our price now
$1.50
J SU't
One lot, men's extra fine suits, in
light colors, good values, at t\2.b0 and
$1.5 >0. our price now j suit, $10 85
BOYS KNEE PANTS. We are show-
ing the biggest line of knee pants in
El Reno, entraordinary values. 50 cts
to $1 a pair.
omblne against the farmers to put
the price of threshing up a few cents
a bushel The Ktimely Threshing Ma
chine company and their hired man
Freeborn were the biggest ducks in
the puddle. The threshing machine
dealers not only worked up this com-
bine but started a boycott on this pa-
per for exposing their hand How apt
we are to forget these things
For Coughs
and Colds
There is a remedy over sixty
years old —Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. Of course you have
heard of it,probably have used
it. Once in the family, itstays;
the one household remedy for
coughs and hard colds on the
chest. Askyourdoctoraboutit.
•' I have had pueunioniit three tlnu**. and
Aver's Cherry I'sclorsi ..** brought imuiltilj
I Ii rough fst'h tune. I hsve lint recovered
from tn* Uxt attack age.l ulitv teven No
wonder I prsiae It." — h V HioniSS, Steveni
Point Wis.
VS Olau munufaeturera of
/4 f StRStPUMLU.
/a.iters
Ayor's Pills increase the activity oi
the livor, and thus aid reaovory.
that they can be gullet) by a whisper
ami purchased with a suit If
There may be a few people deceived
M• QUI*! present exhibition of
legervlemain. but uot many The uia
)ority of the people of Kl Keuo are
like the girl who refused to allow her
sweetheart to kiss her until after
they were married and after tuarri
age w heu pressed for a reasou. said
that she had been fooled by antl-nup^
tial kisses a hundred times already
If you want a bargain—such as we read about but seldom get—you should
come 'or some of these things we advertise here, it is our aim to give you
a pleasant surprise when you come.
1 10 South
Rock Island
The democrats of this city are long
on promises, but the past history of
the town shows them short on per-
formances What promise made to
the people have they ever kept? What
duty have they ever performed? Look
back over the city's history and tell
us if you can What does the ticket
they presented to the people repre-
sent? One fourth of it represents the
salary grabbers they denounce in their
platform Half of it does not own the
houses they live in. Three-fourths of
it tloes not pay ten dollars taxes all
good citizen and put together. The ticket is a libel on
the platform and the platform is th
Major Simpson is sanguine of demo-
cratic defeat. He says that if Car-
ney's four affidavits has not done the
work the Blobell's attack on the
business men of the town will.
, The two mills and elevators of this
town furnish employment to the
heads of forty or fifty families, how
many families are benefitted by Mr.
Freeborn and his Rumely monopoly.
El Reno
Oklahoma
a!' '■ i >'• i ; m i it •. in" 1 — —————
to allow no uian to monkey with her by arousing a feeling of distrust and pie hunters The
affections again iiutsl she had hiui hatred for our business men Kl the business man who has been foully
where be would be compelled to stand Keuo has just as honest, just as gmxl slandered by these party curs are up laughing stock of the town
hitched Mr Greer's new mysterious and just as liberal business meu as In arms and will make themselves o
stranger must stand hitched for a
month or so at least before he begins
the monkey act
John Carney the affidavit writer,
informs us that he is just about out
of soap. We never knew before that
a democrat used soap.
any town iu Oklahoma John Carney felt at the polls This city must not Sidney Clute the would be Buster
should remember that the business be turned over to the impecunious j Brown of Kl Reno politics on the dem-
meti of Kl Reno have done much for political grafters who are advertising ocratic side of the cesspool is quite
FREEBORN AS A DEMOCRAT
I'etuoorats of Kl Reno l as a dem-
swears to it. aud has the great red ocrat want to call your attention to a
senl of the probate court affixed, to matter which you are not possibly fa
add the appearance of solemuity and miliar w .h
him in the past and that they will
remembery the Injury that he is now
inflicting upon them, in order to play
cheap politics Mr Carney may be j
very desirous of helping his friend Mr !
our best merchauts and business men
to the world as a set of piratical cut
throats and villains
The democratic party is making
Vt the inauguration of Freeborn out politically, but he should campaign to elect Freeborn, that is j grab than republicans
candor \|r Lincolu's administration, two
Henry Lasseu is the chairman of years ago the city council stood three
the republican central committee and democrats and five republicans and
it is a big thiug for a little iusiguirt it will be remembered on the account
cant pol it teal pisant like Whitlock to of the rank part sauship instituted by
jump on to the chairman of the re Mr Lincoln it made i' very distaste- but he should not forget for a moment
publican party in priut It is an ful to the democratic minority at that Kl Reno has done more for him
epoch iu his life Au act. to which his which ime Stream and Roberts put and John Freeborn both, than they
grand chi'.dreu will be taught to point j their heads together r.u bust the re ever have or ever can do for Kl Reno,
with pride, when the a^i load of publican partisan policy as fhey styl- o
wheat io the harvest of life shall have ed It. at all hazards and at. any cost
been garnered This act will give him The llrs' accession to the democratic
standiug as a worker iu the demo m:noriry was Alderman Sackett. and
handy with his pen as a juggler of
figures, but with all his skill the fact
stands out in bold relief that when
the salary grab act was passed more
democrats were benefitted by the
If in the di-
ter of deeds It may assist him in sioous the democrats had a working
retrieving his lost prestige in Pruirte majority and is some of them ex
towuship. where he rau JO votes be- pressed it had h s honor on the hip.
hmd his ticket last fall for township Then what happened' Listen Mr
trustee It was a big thtug politically Freeborn jumped his party and went
not destroy the business of people j doing this town more harm and in- | vision of the swag the republicans got
who put bread in his family's mouth Muring the business men more than he larger share, the democrats have
when they needed it. We have always all of the trusts and combines in the no one to blame but themselves.
had an admiration for John Carney, country If the town was quarantin- o
n his struggle to get up In the world, ed the injury to business would be We have a statute against renting.
but little more In yesterday s Bio- leasing or furnishing any building for
bell an attack on uearly every busi- immoral purposes. This statute is
ness interest and business man in El big enough and broad enough to go
Reno was made An attack that is over to St Louis and arrest old An-
calculated to paralyze trade, to drive heuser-Busch for running an uptown
business from the town and advertise house of ill shape, and if our peace
our business men to the world as a officers don't do it they ought to be
set of monopolistic thieves and scoun- removed from office.
drels The dirty slander was address- o
ed to the Commercial Club and it CASH NO CHECKS,
commenccs with the lumber dealers The editor of this paper issues no
The democratic party before it
ever suceeds in this town, must cut
loose from the present gang of black-
cratic party and it will eventually help afler a shor' time Aiderman Bennett mailing slander mongers No party
him in his ambitiou to secure the came ovtr and pooled issues with the can suceed that is owned and control-
aomiuatton two years hence for regis democrats and by these two acces- ed by a ring of pirates By a set
->f men who neither pay taxes norland ends with Dad Parkhurst's peanut checks to employes We pay our help
their debts Who like buzzards in | roaster It jumps on to the mills: the in cash every Saturday night at six
search of carrion have drifted in j coal dealers; the dry goods stores; j o'clock We adopted this plan years
from the four quarters of the world I the boot and shoe stores; the grocery ago and have never varied from the
for office. This class of would be stores: the bakers and the restauran's
for Ridge Ir is like a feist snapping over to and voted with the republicans leaders has prostituted the party until and charges them all with combining
and barking at the heels of a mastiff and to our best knowledge stayed with bas become a by word iu the mouth 'o rob the people and especially the
IVop^e wi, notice the pestiferious them on all important issues ever
feist, which otherwise would pass un- since Democrats how does It sound.
^ if it is a fact'* and to prove it such
As with Wbitlock so it is with the we refer any one to the record v.s
other affidavit makers, but we havu t an honest democrat we say give us
the space to notice them all at this a man that stands for something at
least a fair republican in preference
* to a democratic nonentity Lassen s
TWO pictures. wheat charges are put up against him
The city tax rate in 1903 was Does the public know than rhe Lassen
and a stench in the nostrils of all poor farmer What motives can
decent people These vultures are prompt any set of men to attack every
ready to attack any man's reputation business interest of the town,
however exalted he may stand for aanaer it was yesterday by
The democratic committee admit
that the price of wheat can neither
be regulated in New York nor El Reno
by four affidavits, but that some peo-
ple can be fooled by them.
One swallow does not make a sum-
mer nor a drunkard, but it helps some-
times to put the affidavit maker in
proper frame of mind to talk easy.
Trust no man with the destinies of
El Reno who will make a wholesale
assault on our best business men for
the sake of petty politics.
The Mountain View Republican says
a new county commissioner there
"kicked" on a bill for "ribbons for
the typewriter." "She's a nice girl,
but the county is under no obligations
to buy her c othes. I don't think." he
said
Twenty thousand rosea will bloom
on the grounds cf the Lewis and Clark
exposition this summer. Portland,
where the exposition will be held, is
known as the ' Rose City," and roses
blossom there the year around
In St Petersburg royalty is even
afraid of its pages The old saying
that "uneasy rests the head of him
rule. We adopted the plan so as j who wears a crown." is coming true
to accommodate our help with the i*1 almost every nation on this earth,
cash so as not to make it necessary o
The democrats of South McAlester
are howling for a white man's govern-
ment of that town The danger of
o 'he black peril is becoming very ap-
Reno has as honest. a> pains parent now to the erstwhile single
for them to hawk checks about on the
streets trying to get them cashed in
the rder to have Sunday money.
this
partisan gain They will traduce and libelous sheet is beyond the ken of EI
slander a whole town in the hope of human understanding Nothing escap- 'aking and as accommodating busi statehood tiowlers
winning a few voces for oue of their ed. Every man in business is a cut n^ss men as any town in rhe world
kind
from
L'ntil democracy cuts loose ".hroat and the Commercial Club is of its size By fair dealing and cor-
mch vermiu. it may expect tt called upon to help the democratic teous demeanor they have won the
be kept out of control of all public party and its gang of office hunters
It must call a better class to run him out of town
■ • •
its check wrt rs. dead beats and NOT IN THE AFFIDAVIT,
scandal mongers to the rear Several neighbors of one of the af-
respect and confidence of the people
and it will take more than the rant-
ings of a few broken down democratic
politicians and the malicious lies of
a half starved irresponsible news-
ridavit makers, gives a very plausible paper to rake that trade and confl-
President Roosevelt is out with a
statement that he will refuse to change
postmasters without cause. Civil ser
vice still finds a friend in the presi-
dent
No dead beats or knockers should
be on the city council The citizens
of the town should see that only re-
spectable men. of the highest type,
should have charge of the city affairs
mills I uder Mayor Lincoln's admtu company have an elevator at Yukon affairs
bit rat ion it was doubled so that the and do business 'here in a competi-
city tax rate at present is 21 mills tive market and if this is true does
It look reasonable to anv fair minded
Tb* Jtau-meat is true, bur mtelligvat man that the accusation
what erwlit can tbe present demo- alon* this line couM be true' No
cratic icanif ot salary grabbers ami verily
tax eaters take They bad notbinx The whole truth of he business to
to do with reducing taxes. Taxes our minds is this, that Henry Lassen
were reduced in spite of them is simply envied on account of his suc-
lu when Hensley was elected cess as a business man and manager
mayor the city tax rate was i3 mills by an envious, jealous and depraved was
The treasury was upwards of IS.00-1 faction, who do* in the manger !:ke ers
Iu the hole Hensley was elected as they can t eat hay try and see to it
the opposition of '.be present that no one else does Give us a man on down the tn«j even to the boarding but that at Yukon the scheme worked j own nest, says the proverb but it :s The women and children are getting
Kang of democratic grafters. They who stands for something and whi houses and the restaurants'* Who 'Ut all right. We notice in the af- i dirtier set of men who will attack Jut of harm s reach, both at Harbin
wwe flgbting him then as they arv can show a success for himself, and tried to array the country people ridavi' r.har no mention is made of -■very business man and woman living and Vladivostok.
flghtiug him now When he was we believe the business interest and against the town ' To drive business' this fact. We are inclined to be- ;n their own town
■worn into office there were seven prosperity of the city is safe A away from our merchants, and cause lleve. however that John Carney in1
republicans and one lone democrat, man who possibly employes more men 'he country peopie to think that ; haste of preparing the affldavits for- article on salary grabbers, four demo-1 —a
t. M Buckles t.u he council With and expends more money than any everybody n El Reno was scheming: got to mention this feature of the crats to one republican had a finger Last Saturday evening a printer.
' ^ assistance of .his repub- other man in EI Reno, and a man who 'o rob and cheat them'1 The demo- matter and that rather than put him :3 the pie. Even the immaculate Sid- and a stranger in town called at this
■an council Hensley reduced taxes pays more taxes than any one else cratic central committee and their to the trouble of writing another af ney kept up a constant grabbing until office with on of Tadlock'j checks
We already hear Fhe whipped curs explanation of the difference of price ience of the people from then
behind 'he Freeborn ticket howling ! paid for one load of wheat which went o
about bringing personalities into the from this town to Yukon These Let the battle cry be. down with
campaign Who started a personal neighbors say that the wagon box 'he slanderers of El Reno Print it ■ o
campaign ' Who was it that com was filled about three-fourths full of >n your banners and hang it on your Ardmore has at last secured the
mensed the affidavit business'" Who very chaffy, inferior wheat and that horses, so that every voter in town Tishomingo land office. likewise the
that attacked the lumber dea! on top of this, number one wheat was; may see it. land grafters The removal of ono
he grocers the dry goods dumped until the box was full That c included the removal of the other
houses the boot and shoe stores, and at El Reno the trick was discovered. It is a dirty bird that will befoul its o
but that at Y'ukon the scheme worked "wn nest, says the proverb but it is The women and <
out all right. We notice in the af- a dirtier set of men who will attack out of harm's reai
This indicates that
something more will be doing in
Manchuria soon
mills to 10^ m Is and did it s truely a safe man to trust in mak .'ampa:gn rounders. The same old
w t cut any help from any democratic ng our tax levies and working hardest dirty *ang who have befouled poii-
source except hat which came from ta the interest of economy and future rics un'. no good citizen will have
Buckes 1 he present demo* prosperity Democrats consult your anything to do with
cratic gang now slandering our busi-: interest Weigh this matter from a I
aess men and trying to injure the business standpoint and make no mis
town were waging the same war on ake a week from next Tuesdav
Hensley that they are now They I A DEMOCRAT
1 citizens will have nothing to do with eral assa i t was because of the fact 'ory
tidavit. the affian' reluctantly consent- j he jacked his own salary up from $.!3 for six dollars He said it bad been
ed to leave tt out. per month to 173. «iven to him after banking hours for
o c :abor and that in
a*amst him -o the election and tried John Carney is a very astute poli-1 them This is one way they have of car 'hat the democrats had a man nin-
th '"iT^ k'S 1Jm'n'slratlon from tioian and if Henry Lassen was a can . rying elections. It is a favorite plan ning in the Second ward for the coun-
e rst to the last Ihe sewer sys- didate for some state or county office to elect the yellow dog n politics, cil who owns a big brick hotel and that
em pu- in by Hensley and a in which the country people were be The plan will not work in El Reno this it was necessary to fight the restau-
repu lean council over the opposition ing asked to vote for h m, the attack 'Mar Everv business man in town has rants and the boarding houses because
of these same democrats that are now in last night's Blobell might meet
howling at Lassen. Hensley and a with some justification. But as it is.
order to pay his
A democrat was trying to explain Bill Taylor was sentenced at Tish- joard he had tried to cash it in nearly
o the wholesale attack on the business "mingo last week to four years in the ery business house and saloon in
There is one type of the poi.tician men of El Reno yesterday He said penitentiary and fined $1,000 for solic- 'own and that he had been told we
who always tries to make local poll- the reason the restaurants and board- iting orders and collecting money for would cash it for him Having hail a
tics so foul ami dirty that respectable inx houses were included in this gen-, whisky shipped into the Indian Terri- little experience in collecting a similar
Taylor is the traveling sales- check a few days before we had to de-
man for a liquor company Maybe cline the favor At a saloon we learn-
Bill don t think 'hat prohibition does ed that he afterwards offered to sell
not prohibit. r for a dollar but could find no buy-
republican council built the city bail do good can come to El Reno by Mr
Purchased the ground on which it Carney's attempt to array the country
stands and inaugurated every public against -He business interests of the
improvement which the city now en . town I may be justifiable politics
joys. I hey left the city in a pros- but it is uoing the business men of
perous condition and with over twelve El Reno no good It has a tendency
Ukuusand dollars in the treasury I to drive away what little trade we have
r Tad filled his place in the Sun-
Being a simon pure reformer Huds lay school yesterday just the same
been attacked by the yellow dogs o( they took business away from his J peth overlooked the negro dance hall and while reciting the Lord's prayer
the democratic party. They have hotek The democratic gan# of this | and the negro prostitutes of the flats, for the edification of our youth. la:d
been falsely accused of robbing their town would assault a wash woman to
customers. Of conspiring to drive make votes for one of their outfit.
out competition Of short potting o-
he public. Of injuring the town and Why don't the democrats name the
a hundred other things. All for the salary grabbers who are up for re-
sake of dirty politics and to elect a election ' Are they afraid that it
gang of irresponsible, non tax paying will depoulate their ticket?
when he went after the wh
By this oversight the Se
has been scandalized and
committed
women,
nd ward
i murder
England is building two of
largest warships in the world
special emphasis upon the words
"Lord forgive our debfs as we forg'.ve
our debtors."
Henry Lassen pays more taxes than
the whole democratic ticket combin-
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