The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1897 Page: 4 of 8
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J. L. Isknbkho, Manager.
Entered at the I'ostofflce at Enid, O. T. as
S cond Class Matter.
That big store box containing
15,000 endorsements for Dennis Flynn
for governor, into the recesses of
which the McKinley machine, oper-
ated by Arkansas and Kansas pulls,
never peeped, should be placed in the
national museum and branded:
1'inal proof of that old saying, 'the
people be d d."'
I he McKinley prosperity that is
not yet visible with the naked eye
and lies on the brain of the American
people like a sad buckwheat cake in
a pantry, has driven thousands back
into the Democratic fold. Read the
reports of the recent election held in
Chicago, Michigan, Ohio and other
states. Bryan's election in MX) will
be unanimous outside of Rhode Island
and Pennsylvania.
The Guthrie Capital's Tiresome Re-
iteration Thoroughly Punctured
And Shelved with its
Other Lies.
guthrie, O. T. Apr I 10.-In an in-
terview for publication today, with a
Beacon representative, Speaker J. C.
Tousley, of the Oklahoma legislature,
took occasion to emphatically deny
and contradict ex-Representative
Greer's repeated assertion that the
last legislature expended in appro-
priations, $100,000 more than did the
o le in session two years ago. The
speaker has investigated the records
of both sessions, and after careful
computation presents to the people
the following table of ligures in refu-
tation of Greer's reckless statement^:
Total expended on appropria-
tions by Legislature in 1895 $183,115
Total expended on appropria-
tions by Legislature of 1897 152,703
Balance favor of last session. .$20,317
These figures are exact, and can b ■
relied upon. It shows a direct saving
of over $20,000 by the last legisiatur .
in comparison with the former. In-
directly a great deal of additional
money was saved by legislation, for
instance, in regard to the Territorial
Herd law, which increased the school
fund $30,000 by compelling c ittl;
men to lease all available scho >1
lands, before taking advantag- of
the free grass law.
The reduction of salaries to th • ex-
tent of over $00,000, gives back to the
people of Oklahoma an equivalent
for theiadded expense of witness fees
and mileage. Time will show that
the recent legislature, despite the
inexperience of some of its members,
has passed many wise laws, from the
effects of which Oklahoma will de-
rive much future good, and has saved
her from many inquitious measures,
slyly introduced by corporate greed
and selfish interests.
PURE CRUELTY
Mrs. Laura E. Mims.of Rmithville.Ga
says: "A small pimple c f a strawberry
color appeared on my cheek; it soon
began to grow rapidly, notwithstand-
ing all efforts lo check it. My
eye became tenibly
inflamed, and was so
swollen that for quite
a while I could not
see. The doctors
said I had Cancer of
the most malignant
type, and after ex-
hausting their efforts
without doing me
— any good, they gave
up the case as hopeles-v When in-
formed that my father had died from
the same disease, they said I must die,
as hereditary Cancer was incurable.
"At this crisis, I was advised to try
S.S.S., and in a short while the Cancer
began to discharge and continued to do
so for three months, then it began to
heal. i continued the medicine a while
longer until the Cancer disappeared en-
tirely. This was several years ago and
there has been no return of the disease.
An Enid Correspondent to the Guth-
rie Leader casis Shadows and
Shafts of Irony at
Enid's Pie
H unters.
N amuse 1 demo-
crat or a side-
republi-
:d his
English vocabu-
lary in a cold,
sarcastic, funny
strain on the out-
.A\\ ti:/ i "• a
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Sill
w.wv. uoc i/«u nuiuuru oi me disease.
A Real Blood Remedy.
Cancer is a blood disease, and only a
blood remedy will cure it. S. S S
(guaranteed purely vegetable) is a real
blood remedy, and never fails to per-
manently cure Cancer, Scrofula, Eczema,
Rheumatism or any other disease of the
blood. Send for our books
oh Cancer and Blood Diseases
mailed free to
any address.
Swift Specific
Co. Atlanta, Ga.
sss
The Territorial Pharmacist Asso-
ciation met at Oklahoma City last
week. There wasn't a west side
druggist in attendence; the attend-
ants were all from that mighty em-
pire that flourishes along the line of
the British Santa Fe road. Thasal-
right. The west side has a cinch
on the Territorial Stock Growers As-
sociation, wherein the east side hogs
find very poor rooting. Pass the
acorns please.
Governor Seay says Henry Asp is
talking through his hat. The gov-
ernor may be eminently correct, but
Asp has courage enough to support
his convictions publicly. The govern-
or roosts on the fence until he hears
the bell of success toll for some fel-
low, then he climbs down on the suc-
cessful fellow's side. The governor
found that kind of political leader-
ship no good in Missouri and it will
smother him in Oklahoma.
The Hon. J, Y. Callahan and the
Wave must part on the statehood
question until free homes have been
secured and enough land proved up to
assist in paying the increased tax-
ation statehood will bring upon the
people. We can do without state-
hood and a couple of fellows warming
seats in the United States senate bet-
ter than we can stand Increased
taxation. We look at this matter
through financial lenses: we don't use
the political spy glass in this state-
hood question. The more politicians
the people of Oklahoma makes room
for the more debt they will have to
carry.
PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Press Association members are
not rushing their contributions in *.o
the newspaper sufferers of Chandler
very last. They would rather blow
in their money riding on excur-
sion tickets to old Mexico and pay
six dollars so see a bull fight. If the
Press Association would show a dis-
position to get down to business of
some kind for the mutual benefit of
its membership or the art preserva-
tive it would be a useful and beneficial
organization with a large member-
ship and would have the respect and
confidence of the business world.
The association should form a
mutual insurance or protective feat-
ure, or addition, properly scaled as to
the value of the various newspaper
plants or on about the same plan as
the mutual life insurance of the vari-
ous secret organizations. A few hun-
dred dollars comes handy to a poor
newspaper man after he is burnt or
blown out. This insurance matter
could easily be satisfactorily arrang-
ed if a concert of action among the
craft could be secured, ft would be
a good thing, but the average news-
paper man in this territory is not a
newspaper man; he is simply in the
business to pull a post office or some
other species of public pie. His
newspaper is nothing more than one
of the cogs in the wheels of his head;
he has very little love or respect
real!} for the calling in which he
finds himself. There are, of course,
some exceptions to this rule in the
territory, but they are few.
CONTEST - IMPORTANT-
To the public:—
I Will be in Washington D. C. from
February the 26th to about April 15,
1897, and am prepared to give mv per'
jsonal attention to any and all "cases
before the Commissioner of the Gen-
eral Land OHice, Secretary of the
Interior. Pension and Patent Offices.
Call and sje me before the 20th or
afterwards address me at Washing-
ton, D. C., care of Hon. Robert An-
drews, 450 Louisana Ave, N. W.
•I. B. Ferguson.
Attorney at Law, Enid Okla.
NEWSPAPER BUNGLES.
A Beaver county paper in its write-
up of a funeral says. "The corpse lay
quietly in its coffin." Do the corpses
in Beaver county usually kick the dido
from their caskets and scrap wit
the mourners':
A Perry paper announces that "the
infant died from an overdose of gaso
line. A hint as to the proper dose of
that liquid for infantile cherub.,
.vould seem very essential in a locality
where infancy is reared on gas.
A Norman paper announces tha
"The patient soon.died under the skil
ful treatment of the physxlan." If
killing the patient is a display
medical skill in Norman why not call
in • butcher and quicken the job?
Mc Master.
THE PASSING OF LEWELLING.
A hive of populist busy bees
swarmed up at Topeka the other day
and lit on Senator Levelling, nee
Governor Lewrlling, alias Railroad
Commissioner Leweliing, and stung
him unmercifully, raising abcesses on
his political anatomy and slime on
his mucus membrane. He is accused
of attempting to bribe members of
the Kansas legislature. Ltwelling
says his reformatory!?) colleagues
working for the redemption of Kan-
sas are simply jealous of his success
and are trying to retire him to his
Wichita buttermilk vats. The popu-
list party are great people to set up
tin gods and then stand off and shoot
them full of holes.
Jerry Simpson is the only leader
who has been enabled to keep in line.
Being an anti-sock man, Ills first
strength lay in his feet, but in these
latter days it has settled in his head,
which may retire him, as the pops'
place more faith In heeling and toe-
ing to the mark as well as winding ud
the mouth just to hear it go.
BETRAYAL AND SUICIDE.
The Wichita papers have chroni-
cled the death of Miss Myrtle Lind-
sey, of Oklahoma City, in a lodging
house in Wichita. The coroner's
jury, in their great Kansas wisdom,
came to the very Indefinite conclu-
sion that she died from the effects of
morphine admini-tered by herself or
some other person, and then subsided.
Miss Lindsey was about 18 years of
age and was the daughter of Chief of
Police Lindsey, of Oklahoma City,
Her family are very respectabie and
well-to-do people, well known to the
Wave family. Ten years ago the
Junior of the Wavk and Myrtle Lind-
sey were school mates. We remem-
ber her as an innocent little girl, of a
sweet disposition, always in the best
Of humor, full of life and kind words
for her playmates, it was an easy
matter to gain her confidence as a
child, and we presume from reading
between the lines of the report that
this trait In her disposition led her
from the parental roof to ruin and
death at the hands of herself or some
brute in the shape of a man. We
presume the world in its great chari-
ty for criminals will forgive liltn, but
wayward girls never receive sympa-
thy in this Cruel vale of tears.
A SLOT MACHINE.
When Clayton, of Arkansas, and
Leland, of Kansas, put a nickelin the
republican slot machine in the White
House down on the banks of the
Potomac for the appointment of
friend to an office in Oklahoma the
bell rings and the appointment drop
out. Carpet baggers may not be ap
pointed, but they are running the
machine.
These facts are awful hard on the
joint waters of the nerves of such
hardworking republican patriots as
Senator Havens, Hen Asp, One-eyed
Riley, Ned Sisson, ex-Governor Tros
per and Ransom Payne, with the ac
cent on the pain.
DID YOU EVER.
Did you ever spike your head on the
bottom of a hanging lamp or run
your head against the edge of a door
in the darkV If you never did, you
will hardly be able to appreciate the
feeling of the Topeka young man,
who was suffering from a nice juicy
cold, one of the kind so prevalent
about this time, who returned home
late the other night, blew out the
light turned down the comforts and
jumped into bed and landed on a
three-cornered flatiron, which his
thoughtful mother had put there to
warm the sheets.—Kansas Breeze.
look of the Enid
aspirants to pie.
The cast of the
play is not. quite
correct, as our fellows are smiling
the smole of the serene and hopeful.
In otner words, they are going to get
suthin' or create a flood in the sandy
bosom of the Cimarron. Here is
what the Leader's correspondent
said:
Enid, April 7.—Since "Mr. Barnes,
of New York," has been declared a
winner, the political outlook in Enid
is an amusing one. The whilom con-
stituents of Mr. Flynn are waking up
to the fatal significance of his front
name, and in consequence ol their
belated grasp of the situation, art
endeavoring to re adjust themselves.
They .have apparently forgotun t ie
"congealed hand" with which the\
greeted the future governor on hi.-
last indorsement—seeking visit to
that city, and affect a far-away look
whenever Reed's name is m ;nt o e
George Orner, who is giea on war
record and who, to paraphrase Thack-
ery, has always maintained that the
government should support more
widows and orphans than the "late
unpleasantness" ever made, is fast
becoming a pessimist. He believes
that there are but three good men in
Enid and one of them is fat and
rows old.
The district judgship still hangs,
like an underripe plum, out of reach,
but the chances of its ultimate fall
are hungrily noted. One of the
present incumbent's would-be success-
ors, a lineal iiescendent of the gre.it
Roscoe Gonkling, scans his foretoo
every morning for a sign of that
redoubtable statesman's unmistaka-
blecurl. Two other aspirants for the
same place are Switzer of Enid; who
lays great stress upon his honesty,
w th but scant allusion to his ab'litv,
and Ri'ibert.s of Kingiisher, who is
perfectlv willing to leave the first
named quality to the charity of the
public, provided he can convince it of
his claims to the last. The preten-
tions of Emory D. Brownlee to the
territorial secretaryship breathe of
the purer realm of sentiment. It is
whispered that the president's brother
(doubtless in his salad days) "kept
company" with the youthful aspirant'.-
auntie. Whether the president is
dedicating the patronage of his posi-
tion to the throbbing memory of his
brother's love affairs, is a mooted
question, but Mr. Brownlee may yet
taste the inherited sweets of the doc-
trine of compensation.
Captain Hassler of the land office,
has just returned from a visit to
Washington. It is observed that the
Captain fails to speak of "Me and
Mark" with that familiarity which he
was once accustomed to air in allu-
ons to "Me and Grov r."
Mr. Orput of North Enid, who as-
pires to be marshal, has no home
competitor, and according to his own
statements is backed by the United
States and half of the territory, with
but little active opposition from the
Dominion of Canada.
And last, but not least, Ned Sisson,
who endeavored to pose as the rabbit
footof every embryo statesman in the
territory, is seeking his reward in the
shape of any place with a salary
attached. So the game goes menily
on, to cease only when possibilities
have craystalized, "and the one shall
be taken, and the other left."
An Observer.
the house, where, under the Reed
theory it would be carefully pigeon-
holed. Here is where the fun will
commence.
| "Pettigrew, in conversation with a
Republic correspondent this evening,
said tha the tariff bill could never
| pass the senate until the free home
| oill had passed the house. It will re-
quire the vote of Pettigrew and four
; other silver republicans to pass the
I tariff bill in the senate. These votes
according to Pettigrew, will not be
i on hand for the tariff bill unless the
, free home bill has been pa-sed by the
1 house and approved by McKinley in
the meantime. This presents a very
| interesting situation. Pettigrew can
| bluff, but is net entirely a bluffer. He
knows the full value of a "hand" and
j he has put the fret- home bill in the
("pot." If Pettigrew compels Reed
to come off the perch he will make
himself famous. Pettigrew intends
to do it."
DUPLICATE VOTING.
It would seem that no law can be
passed that would be beyond the gen-
iu of ma "to circumvent or foil. The
r ce> le slature repealed that part
ection law allowing the
election to instruct any
vto vote, which, of course,
the illiterate voter of any
lor condition.
Perry the Illiterate voters
fut .shed with a blank piece of
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CAPITAL GOSSIP.
According to all reports, there is
eooti to be a serious shake-up in the
personnel of the Dawes Indian Com-
mission. Ex-Delegate Dennis Flynn,
of Oklahoma, who was talked of at
first for the governorship of that ter-
ritory, is now said to be slated for
membership on the Dawes commis-
sion, and that lie Is to have as an
associate thereon Mr. Thomas Nee-
dles, who has not yet been given any
of the positions which he has been
hitherto seeking,—Washington l\)st.
•
'It i the exact size of the bal-
oted. In the card board
i square holes at the
ii,when the card board
( ■'< > the billots, the voter
the holes would vote the
epublican ticket.
1 his . fwhat we might call saving
the country by beating the devil
through holes. It might be called
duplicate voting or voting by proxy,
as the fellow who cut the holes in the
card board was reallv the voter. The
fellows who nude the marks were
simplv a part of the American repub-
lican machine.
Anything in the shape of a man. be
he white, black or any other color,
who is compelled to resort to such a
device to cast his ballot, should not
be entitled to vote, for the reas.it
; that mjcIi a person is wholly incapa-
J ble Oi for ning nil intelligent opinion
j afe to what woul 1 be the best For his
| home or country in casting a ballot,
j When wo come to think of these
thine* seriously we wonder how long
our glorious r,-utblic will be able to
stand witleait ; nfng to rack <>r blush-
ing .it the dishonesty of its own .
pic.
A PROBABILITY
There is likely to be a reorganiza-
tion of that ancient hipoodrome, the
Dawes commission. Among the pos-
sibilities for one of the vacancies, is
our Dennis Flvnn. Isenbe'-g's declar-
ation that Dennis has gone tempor-
arily into cold storage raav be true
If so it is only to preserve him for the
banquet that is sure to come.— King-
fisher Times.
There was a time since the election
that Flynn would rather have had a
Dawes commission appointment than
any other, but his friends and public
sentiment drove him iuto the guber-
natorial race. Now as he entered
the gubernatorial arena he cannot
back down until the appointment is
made: in fact, Flynn's actions show
plainly that lie has not given up the
struggle and still entertains hopes of
success against Barnes.
SOAP.
WILL FORCE THE FIGHT.
A special to the St. Louis Republic
from Washington has this in regard
to the free home bill:
"Senator Pettigrew, of South Da-
kota is an expert and successful
fighter. He is about to lock horns
with Speaker Reed and his bullies in
the house.
"As has heretofore been explained
in these dispatches, it Is Heed's plan
to prevent the consideration of any
general legislation during the extra
session. He refused to appoint the
house committee so as to cripple Its
capacity for work. Pettigrew has In-
troduced the free home bill in the
senate. He expects to force it to a
vote and pass It in that body within a
couple of weeks. It will then go to
■A-en soap is to be taxed under the
Dingley hill. This is a grave poiiti-
cai blunder. Soap Is a staple repub-
lican article; it's the mainstay of the
party, the lubrihant that induces re-
peaters to repeat; the salve that
heals the heeler, and the resolvent
that will reduce tumors on the bodv
politic to a minimum size when ap-
plied through an oratorical valve A
free use of "soap" is the only hope
for republican supremacy, and it
should be as free from taxation as
the diamond that sparkles in the
shirt front of the monopolistic octi-
pus.—Tecumseh Herald.
Governor Renfrow will return
from the Arkansas hot springs Mon-
day. It was his intention before
leaving to make all the appointments
required of him by the acts of the
recent legislature on his return so
those appointments may be looked
for next week. Enid has only one
candidate in lin- for any of those
appointments. 1). L. F. Banks, col-
ored, is well recommended for one of
the regents of the colored college
Enid and the west side are entitled
to this appointment,
Thk republican candidal for may-
or of Perry was elected by one major-
ty Col. Dick Plunkett claims to
have cast that vote.
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