The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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El Reno Democrat
T. I". HENSLEY. Editor.
week, delivered In city 1 10
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Vkree months 1 00
dx mouths 2.00
One year 4 00
(Weekly Edition.)
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tlli months '0
On* y«sr 100
There Is a clash of authortty be-
tween the county and city authorities
at Enid. The governor, the Attorney
General and the militia are liable to
he called out at any moment
It depends on the way you look at
it. One man who wouldn't wear a
dirty collar for five dollars will rob
a hank suffer a |>enitentiary sentence
and never think much about it, either
There are other townsites to h r
from
A lie hurts nobody, it Is facts, that
stir up the animals.
There Is Just one Cement; hut there
are other townsites to read about.
They are doing a little of everything
else except dig, down on the isthmus.
God made most men too brave to
Uike refuge behind u woman's petty
coat
It is semiofficially announced that
there will be no extra session of con-
gress.
There are some things that won't
go with a newspaper and buldozlng is
one of them
Hnry H. Howard is building a fine
new state out of Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory.
Carry Nation says Governor Folk
of Missouri is a lobster Vlany
Missourians think so.
They are now saying that we sent
the wrong people after the Oklahoma
encampment. The knockers.
We once thought that all of ihe real
bold bad and really dangerous men
were gamblers and saloon men. But
we find that they average up pretty
well with some other kind
Time in its ceaseless roll, brings
Joy and sorrow to all alike. Just now
the "old gentleman" is causing a
heap of anxiety to several federal of.
ficials whose terms of ofllce are soon
to expire.—Guthrie Host.
Wonder if our friend Hicky notified
the boiler plate and ready print houses
to cut out all reference to townslte
grafting from ihe "up to date" (?)
stuff (hey are sending Ihe American
and the lllobell
There is nothing to hinder the Blo-
bell from taking that *2,000 block of
opera house stock necessary to put
the scheme through; unless It is that
$2,000 note the Citizens bank holds
against it.
The Daily American keeps on apol-
ogizing about its defense of the Harms
and Schafer liquor cases. Somebody
must have touched I^ewis on the tab-
ernacle nerve; or does the fellow
really love boo/.e?
Indiana and Illinois may have to
collaborate on a little navy in order to
tbwart their saucy gamblers.
We hate to see a woman out drv-
ing wi'li a poodle dog in her lap. It
may be that we are falling behind the
times; but some how we dislike to see
a mangy cur displace the old fashion'
ed red faced baby when farm hands
are so scarce and hard to get.
The county incubator broke up one
setting of eggs yesterday. The eggs
were bad and began to smell.
The front page of the American
Is printed on time if the box of plates
comes in on time from Dallas Texas
We feel sorry for our friend Rickey
or any other man who undertakes to
stand sponsor for all of the townsite
grafters in Oklahoma.
Bob Neff says lhat Comanche county
has 11,000 more women than men. We
thought that Boh had grown too old
to note such adlscrepancy as this.
The Hock Island railroad is put-
ting a lot of new men behind the gun.
in this locality. The more the bette'.
The public wants a clean sweep.
Time brings its changes. Chicago
preachers are "defending" the money
changers, instead of driving them
from the temple.
Styles change with seasons. This
time last year we were paying as
much attention to Esopus as we are
now giving to Portsmouth.
A trip in a submarine boat is being
planned for the president. Some of
the presidential aspirants are schedul-
ed for similar trips later on.
We notice that our old friend H. C.
Chapman, formerly of the Okeene
Eagle has established a new paper at
Council Hill, Indian Territory
With the people of the Indian Ter-
ritory wanting prohibition and the
brewers advocating it, the chances for
a dry state are mighty fine.
Booker Washington ought to be
ashamed to make a public appear-
ance with a young white woman who
has no more self respect than to ac.
cept his escort.—Ft. Worth Record.
This attempt to prove that Vermont
belongs to Canada, seems like a
scheme to put Mr. Shaw out of the
presidential running. He was born in
Vermont.
It would be an awful shock, if the
government's special commissioner
should report that President Castro is
right and that the asphalt trust wrong
We forgot to mention yesterday
that Charley Hunter says that Frank
Rickey is off his pedestal when he
claims to be the only townslte pro.
moter in the world.
We notice that Chickasha has been
invaded by a St. Louis opera house
promoter, who wants to sell 1,000
tickets at $10 each. God help them if
tbey take the bait.
Mayor Lassen has a chance to put
in his $25,000 residence and eleven
-lots for opera house stock. If he re-
fuses he is a knocker and ought to be
run out of town.
Colonel Moshy is now at Muskogee.
The papers say that he is investigat-
ing Judge Raymond. It seems that
the old guerrilla fighter is stirring up
the politicians n the same old way
that he used to stir up the bush-
whackers during the war
When It is considered that President
Roosevelt is now interested in the
peace of the world one can hardly
blame him for not wanting to con-
vene congress in October. Verily,
the effects of Dr. Wagner's "Simple
Life" has invaded the realm of the
original strenuosity.
WILL OPPOSE PAVING
The actual lot owners on Bickford
avenue held a meeting last Friday and
unanimously decided to oppose paving
at this time. They deemed It 'in
wise to saddle any more expense upon
the people at this time than ihey now
have to bear
Geo. W. Bellamy, the banker, offer-
ed to bet, yesterday, that the Daily
American would support him and
Mayor Lassen, as delegates to the con-
stitutional convention, and for the
United State's senate, if they wanted
to go. The' little boast of Senator
Bellamy's Is tantamount to admitting
that he owns $2,600 of the American,
and that Lassen owns the balance
El Reno has been without adequate
water pressure for over two months
For two months the city has had no
fire protection. We are told that this
condition vitiates every dollars worth
of insurance, in case of a fire by our
merchants. It is the duty of the city
council to step in and protect the peo-
ple against such criminal neglect.
Our friend Garland Lewis, the Las-
seni/.ed hired man of the wheat buy-
ers journal, talks as flippantly about
grafting as if he never had grafted
the town of Calumet out of a bonus
nor beat what few subscribers he had
out of an advanced subscription when
he suspended his paper at that place
and moved over to El Reno to run the
republican party on similar lines.
Sheriff Campbell of Enid raided a
den over the court saloon in Enid yes-
terday. It was a water haul, except
as to gambling paraphernalia as some
body tipped the sheriff's hand.—
Events.
If Sheriff Ozmuu will raid a big mit
joint on Rock Island avenue almcet
any night at the proper time and in
the proper way it willl not be a water
haul
C. 1) Heinrich, of Oklahoma City,
was in town today and we interviewed
him as to the cost of paving knowing
that he had had considerable exper-
ience as a lot owner, since he went
to Oklahoma City. Mr. Heinrich says
that he hail two residence lots, and
that it cost him $200 per lot to pave
them, and lhat the streets are narrow-
er than the streets here. He says
that to pave Bickford and Rock Is-
land avenue, that It will cost fully
$30<l per lot.
County Attorney Jim Frame says
lhat the only charge that can truth-
fully be made against him for not
doing his duty as an officer, was his
failure to prosecute the checkwriter
of the Blobell for writing checks on
a bank where he has no money to
pay them.
We are credibly informed that nine
tenths of the mail received by the de-
partments at Washington from Okla-
homa is In the nature of chaeges and
requests to remove federal officers,
homa is in the nature of charges and
ing josh
My Hair is
Straggly
Do you like it? Then why
be contented with it? Have
lobe? Oh, no! Jusi put on
Ayer's Hair Vigor and have
long, thick hair; soft, even
hair; beautiful hair, without a
single gray line in it. Have a
little pride. Keep young just
as long as you can.
"I tn flfty-ae en yrara old, and utitll re-
cently uiy linlr very wr y. Hut la h few
week* Ayei'a H tr Vt*or rratoreri the nnun.l
color to my liatr u now M.ere la not * uruy
hHtr to be een.M —.1 W. HanpoN, Boulder
Creek, Cel.
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JL SAVSAPAIJLU.
PUIS.
CBERRV PECTOKAL.
i/ers
We have a few transient tramps in
this town, who are making more noise
about paving, than the four thousand
lot owners. They openly say that it
would be a good plan to run the poor
lot owner out of town, and induce peo-
ple with capital to come in and build
fin*? houses, par^s and lawns. The
poor devils, who work and own a lot
or two are not wanted. They should
be taxed out of house and home for
the automobile brigade and the royal
four hundred.
Old man K'.ll of the waterworks
graft, snappishly informed the local
editor of this paper that he had no
time to tell him about the report to
the effect that a contract had been
let to extend the water mains into
Morrison's addition. We notice that
the old fellow takes time to collect
three prices from all users of water,
and never fails to file bills with the
city for fire protection never furnish-
ed the people. We have been inform-
ed that Mr. Ingle the insurance ad-
juster for Oklahoma will deliver a
message to the old man, through the
city council, one of these days, that
will make him glad to talk.
The school house arbitrators have
not yet agreed upon a verdict. When
they were selected by the interested
parties they were told that if they
could not agree upon the amount alone
they should call in a third man. They
can not even agree upon the third man
and when a rank outsider suggested
that they should follow the example
of the Japs and the Russians and call
in Teddy Roosevelt, he was coldly, in-
formed that Roosevelt was not in their
class
THAT OPERA HOUSE
The bogus check writer of the Blo-
bell, says; the opera house deal is
dead and that Hensley killed it. How
did Hensley kill It, if it is dead? Hen-
sley was asked to take $2,000 worth
of stock n the scheme, but declined
to do it, because we have other uses
for our money. We never agreed to
take stock to any amount. And we are
not standing in the way of any one
else doing so. We own a lot on the
proposed opera house site and it is
paid for. If they want it they can
have it for $2,000 and we will take
$500 worth of stock. If they don't
want our lot, they can buy the lot
just south of it from Henry Le Briton
for $2,150. So there is nothing in the
way of the opera house but the money.
Will Tadloek write them a check for
a small amount?
PUT UP OR SHUT UP
Lassen's hired man, whose sirname
is Lewis, had a long editorial in the
rockislandized, wheat buyers journal,
yesterday, trying to show why Hensley
and Henry I>e Breton each ought to
give up a $2,000 town lot to the opera
house company in exchange for stock,
of the concern. Mr. Lewis talks as
flippantly about the benefit, we would
personally receive by this deal, as he
does about compelling others than
himself to pave in front of their prop-
erty. Advice from transient tramps, to
people who came here and bought
their property fifteen years ago and
paid for it. may sound very nice; but
it likes the ring of sincerity and con-
vincing weight.
if Lassen and Bellamy's hired man
on the American, wants $2,000 worth
of stock in the opera house, there is
nothing in the way to prevent him
from getting it. If the opera house
company are anxious to give Hensley
$3,200 worth of stock, that will pay
a twenty-five per cent dividend, for a
town lot worth $2,000, Hensley will
agree to accept it, rather than see
the opera house fall through, provid-
ing Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lassen, or Mr. Bel-
lamy will agree to take the stock off
our hands for $1,900. If this stock is
good for Hensley, it is good for such
capitalists as Lewis, Tadloek, Lassen
and Bellamy. Now gentlemen, show
your love for the town by putting tip,
or else hide your bluster and hypo-
cracy by shutting up.
No Myrtle, it is not necessary for
the Blobell to write any more checks
or to beat any more landlords out of
their rent, to convince the people of El
Reno, which "pennyroyal boar ought
to he Pilchered." This pennyroyal
frothing at the mouth just now be-
cause it has discovered that its tail
has followed it to Ell Reno and it
fears that it will follow It on, and will
advvance in length to Oklahoma City
where they sometimes barbecuue in.
stead of Pilcher.
Claud Hensley, son of Tom Hens,
ley of the El Reno Democrat, has
invented a patent apparatus for
opening all the doors of a large thea.
tre at once, instantly, and from any
part of the building, even the big
fortune which the father is accumu-
lating in the lucrative newspaper
business is liable to be surpassed by
the returns from this useful and vaJu.
able invention.—Enid Wave.
ILLEGAL POLL TAX
El Reno and many other cities of
this territory have been in the habit
of collecting from $3,00 to $4,00 from
each citizen as a poll tax City At-
torney Paul of Oklahoma City took
this matter up with Attorney Gen-
eral Simons this week and the Attor-
ney General advised him that the
only plan for a city of the first class
to collect a poll tax is to make it
a dollar and present it with the reg-
ular tax assessment against citizens
and property owners.
Under this decision the suave
Streams will be compelled to col.
lect but one dollar from people here,
after.
THE MUSKOGEE CONVENTION
It is folly to say that the constitu-
tional convention, now in session at
Muskogee will not have a powerful in-
fluence on congress in shaping the en
abling act this winter, if it does not
defeat single statehood altogether.
It is now plain to be seen that the
Indian will leave his stamp indelibly
on the constitution that will be draft-
ed and that whatever may be the out
come of the whole affair, much that
is contended for by this convention
will be grafted into the constituton of
the new state, if the two territories
are admitted together as one state
The Indian Territory, like Oklahoma,
has been despoiled by ralilroad domina
tion and the people over there, pro-
pose to remove the shackles and place
limitations in the constitution whereby
railroad domination must cease.
Prohibition of the liquor traffic will
be another question that will be hand
led Without gloves.
The prohibition clause that will be
asked for will be along the line of the
Gallinger amendment, which provides
for prohibition for the Indian country
for twenty-one years. The prohibition
will be absolute as now under the fed-
eral statute and not as in Kansas,
where the crime is to sell rather than
to introduce.
We are candid in the belief that the
Indian Territory, in this convention,
as much as it has been ridiculed by
the tin horn statesmen of Oklahoma
will take a step forward in statecraft
and state building that will make Okla-
homa ashamed of herself.
Judge E. W. Cunningham Dead
Associate Justice Cunningham of
the Kansas Suupreme court died last
Wednesday. He had gone to Colorado
for hts health. He was in the 63rd
year of age.
THE BLOBELL SOLO
History repeats itself. Events travel
in cycles, and time brings its own
revenges. A little more than two
years ago. the old democratic court
house gang, grew tired, suspicious and
jealous of Major Simpson. They
wanted to get rid of him and his Sup-
per Bell. They craved a strong news-
paper. One that could give Hensley
hell and repeat. The Globe was in
the hands of G. B. Halbert, otherwise
known as "Big Rube," and was on its
last legs. Even the county printing
was not sufficient to keep it strong
enough to stand and suck.
Something had to be done, and
done quickly. About this time Tad
lock appeared upon the scene. He
was panoplied in gall, schoolbtitter
and bogus checks and fresh from the
sand dunes of Kansas
Twelve Democratic office hunters
signed a note with him for $2,000.
Simpson was shelved. The Globe and
Bell consolidated and the two Reubens
began their dazzling march across the
newspaper horizon. Simpson ran for
office and was beheaded. Big Rube
was caught out on a fly and Little
Rub*i prayed and spewed, and spewed
and prayed; wrote checks anil beat
his rent and finally landed as a
second grade school teacher, in a
third grade school In the fourth ward
of Oklahoma City A good riddance of
bad rubbish.
Simpson has completed the cycle.
He has looped the loop as it were
and the local democracy of Canadian
county are at his feet, with hat in
han^l, a look of disappointment upon
their brow and an abject apology upon
their lips. Simpson is monarch of all
he surveys. He stands like Napoleon,
with his hands behind him, contem-
plating the future. And like Alexan-
der the Great, a tear occasionally
creeps down over his bronzed face be-
cause there are not other pusillani-
mous democrats for him to conquer.
The whirligig of time has brought its
own revenges. He can afford to be
generous. But where oh! where is
the county printing.
The American says that it does not
endorse the methods by which a cun-
ning rascal sought to place the es-
tablishments of Harms and Schafer
in bad repute. Neither do we in_
doise such contemptible, blackmail-
ing business; and we do not try to
screen the real rascal in the case,
as Ihe American, for some reason
best known to itself, is trying to do.
Bill Foster, blackmailer as he is be-
lieved to be, and Mrs. Cunningham
and her two sons, with all that may
be said against them, are angels of
rectitude compared with the coward-
ly scoundrel who stood in the back
ground and ribbed up these suits.
The real villain in these two cases
had a two. fold purpose in view. One
purpose was to graft Schafer and
Harms, and the other was to dis.
grace Jim Frame and remove him
from office if possible. Iago played
well his part in the beginning; but
like all consumate scoundrels came
to his grief in the end The gibbet
that was erected for Mordecai now
bears the grinning, putrid and de.
spised carcas of Haman. If the Gov-
ernor had been more thoughtful, he
would not have been deceived by the
representations that were made to
him, and if the Attorney General's
office had been more practical and
less spectacular, the people of Cana-
dian county would have been spared
the expense of three or four hundred
dollars, and two farcical prosecu-
tions would have not been commenc-
ed. This is not the first time the Gov.
ernor has been deceived by the tin
horn politicians of El Reno, who have
appealed to him to interfere in local
matters, when no reason for such
interferance existed. It, has become
quite fashionable over here, when-
ever some wolf wants to suppress a
newspaper, blacken a character, or
discredit a public officer to appeal to
an impulsive governor and ask him
to send his sleuths to investigate.
We have had a surfeit of these
things and we have a right to pro-
test in a respectful manner against
a continuance of them.
THEY ALL WILTED
It is recorded in the New Testament
that the daughter of Herodias so
pleased King Herod by dancing the
hoochee coochee before him, that in a
moment of forgetfulness he said to her
"Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and
1 will give it thee." She chose the
head of John the Baptist, and it was
given her.
Garland Lewis sang before Colonel
Lincoln, chairman of the republican
county central committee, and it so
pleased the colonel, that in a moment
of forgetfulness he said, "Ask what-
soever thou wilt, and I will give it
thee."
Garland answering, said, "I will
that you give me the El Reno post-
office," and the colonel wilted.
And it came to pass that King Henry
succeeded Colonel Lincoln and the
scepter of power passed into other
hands.
Garland tried his siren voice on the
new king, but it did not touch the
spot. He then essayed the hoochee-
cooche, but the new king had passed
the flower of .his age and such diver-
sions no ionger warmed his blood.
At last the resourceful Garland be-
thought himself of the new king's
weakness, and wrote an editorial in
defense of the local wheat combine.
It so pleased the king that he swore,
not to the God of Abraham; but to
Thor, that whatsoever the gentle Gar-
land might ask, even to half of his
kingdom, would he give to him.
And the gentle Garland went forth
and said unto the Blakes, whispered
it also to Tom Reid, "What shall I
ask?" And they said. The Daily Am-
erican with the postofflce on the side
And Colonel Lincoln wilted again
King Henry was exceedingly sorry
to give up so much money. He
thought the postofflce sufficient; but
the gentle Garland was inexorable.
He had tasted a bonus before and
reminded the king of his promise,
"even to the half of my kingdom."
Immediately the king and Garland
went to Guthrie to see the chief ex
ecutioner. The American was bought
and the postofflce securely nailed, to
its masthead to make it strong and
vigorous, and Lincoln. Llr Jackson and
Charlie Wattson all wilted.
PUBLIC VULGARITY
"Immodest words admit of no de-
fense.
For want of decency is want of
sense."
A man of sense can write about an
unmentionable thing and still not of-
fend the sense of decency. But the
low bred, vulgar ignoramus, unskilled
in the use and meaning of words, can
not use even monosylables without
outraging public decency.
If the public school lwiard of Okla
homa City is not sufficiently informed
as to the coarse, brutal and idiotic
character of the attainments of the
misfit over here, whom they are about
to employ as a teacher of their youth;
then they ought to be supplied with
a few copies of the Daily Globe of
which he is editor, for their edifica-
tion and instruction.
A man that would pen such lilt b
and dissiminate it through the mails,
is not fit to associate with "penny-
royal" swine of either sex, much less
to contaminate the susceptible youth
of our public schools, as their guide
and example.
The virtue of a child, to say noth-
ing of its mental and moral welfare
would not be safe in the hands of
such a vulgar beast.
4
We understand that Don C. Smith
Assistant Attorney General called
County Attorney Frame over to the
Kerfoot Hotel last night and under,
took to ball him out in public for
publishing his report to the Gov.
ernor, of the investigation of the
Harms and Schafer liquor cases. We
fail to see why our friend Smith
should feel aggrieved by the publica-
tion of his own report. If any one
has cause to complain of this report
it is the people of El Reno. Mr.
Smith for some reason, over drew
the facts as to the conditions re I a
tive to Sunda*' saloons and gambl.
ing in El Reno The public officers
of this town and county, suppressed
gambling and closed all saloons on
Sunday long before the Assistant At-
torney General made his famous re.
port to the Governor relative to our
moral status. Gambling was closed
in this town by the Sheriff of Cana-
dian county, three months before the
Governor or his Attorney General
thought it necessary to rid Guthrie
of such vices. We did not tajke the
suggestion, to clean up, from Guthrie,
and were not advised to do so from
any outside sources. It was purely
a voluntary act on our part. There,
fore we cannot be blamed for resent,
ing any representations to the con
trary.
9
IT LOVES BEEKS
From Friday's Daily.
For months the Blobell has been
blackguarding County Attorney Frame
for keeping one Beeks in his office as
Assistant County Attorney.
Last night it turned its mud battery
on Frame for requesting his resigna-
tion It charges that Hensley, as usua',
is responsible. As a matter of fact Hen
sley cares no more for Beeks in or
out of the County Attorney's office,
than he does for any other mangy cur
that yelps, along the street. He has
never been of sufficient impportance
to us to either "knock" for him, or
against him. He in no wise concerns
us.
We do not know what reasons Mr
Frame has for asking him to stop away
from his office. Many good and suf-
ficient reasons exist. The fact that he
appeared in a liquor case, with a
Deputy County Attorney's commission
in his pocket is sufficient grounds for
his removal. The fact that every
reputable lawyer in town upbraided
Frame for appointing him in the first
place, is sufficient reason why he
should be relieved. If one taxpayer
kicked against his retention, we dare
say there was a hundred. Th public
was universally disgusted with Frame
for keeping him in hs office as long as
he has.
From Friday's Daily.
R. F. Prettyman, new agent at
the Rock Island depot dropped in a
few minutes today to get acquainted
and we find him a real pleasant gen-
tleman. He is thoroughly Rockisland-
ized, as he should be. but nevertheless
he is well equipped to make friends
for the road if he keeps his own coun
cil and pursues the right course.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Never hit a man when he's down
—unless all his friends are down.
* * *
Every time a man makes a mistake
he learns something.
* * •
With some men swearing off is n
continuous performance.
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