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DEMOCRAT OFFICE.
A man who thinks more of the In-
dian territory than lie does of Okla-
homa. should not a>k the people of
Oklahoma to elect him to congress.
The democratic politicians aud
wire pullers, are unpinning a cam-
paign on n statehood platform for the
Indian territory. The people of Ok-
lahoma will conduct a campaign for
Oklahoma, with the Indian territory
frill left off the the prongram.
The fellows who want to run for
congress on a statehood platform,
with the Indian territory and Okla-
homa as one state, had better post-
pone there candidacy until such time
in the future as will be required for
the Indian territory to get ready for
statehood.
Would it not be a good plan for
the stat hood democrats who are more
anxious to represent the Iudian ter-
ritory iu the matter of statehood than
tkeir own country, to just move their
congressional boom across the line,
into the Indian territory ?
The voting away of the peoples'
money on subsidies and other
"grabs" by the present congress
threatens to assume alarmiug pro-
portions. The time has come for the
tax-payers to call a halt before they
are further robbed iu the interests of
trusts and syndicates.
The extreme caution with which
the democrats are choosing the
chairman of the national committee,
aud the earnestness with which they
are preparing for the struggle, show?
that they realize the opportunities of
the campaign and argues well for
their success.
The democratic congressional situ-
ation to date shows a bevy of candi-
dates up and doing. We note: E. W
Jones. Robert Forrest. Wm. Cross.
Thos. Hensley. Freeman Miller. C.
B. Ames. L. P. Ross. R. J. Ray and
one or two other stalwarts. — Guthrie
Leader.
The democrats of El Reno have
nominated for candidates on the
school board. Dr. J. A. Hatchett.
from the first ward. John II. Roberts
from the second ward. W. J. Free-
born and J. O. Shaw, from the third
ward and F. L. Adams, from the
fourth ward. There are no better
men in El Reno for the places (or
wh'chthe people have named them. j
Col. Forrest has returned from the
southwe>t. The colonel's political
strength is increasing rapidly. He
will secure the nomination at Enid
easily.—El Reno Globe. Will be?
••Yust rait a leedle yet." -one more
counties to hear from, brother—
Shawnee Democrat.
Yust vait for ze no. /.e fro:.. Yashita
counties blease.
Col. Bob Forrest, of the demo-
cratic party. Col. Dick T. Morgan of
the republican party and Jay Youn£
Callahan of the pop party are the
mascotts of the congressional situa-
tion. They have all been standing
candidates for six years and either
decline the nomination, or resolve to
accept it every fortnight.—Enid
Wave.
A Gospel Truth.
Those who are knocking against
Flynn's statehood bill are those who
for political reasons do not want
statehood at this session of congress.
—Apache Weeks Review.
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TAMMANY MALL
Frank Mathews,* aagulnt wriUr,
in *|teaking of the effects of bossism
on a political party gives a fine his-
torical observation consenting
Tammany Hall, that is worth remem-
bering. He says that the Tamauy
organisation has never been consul-
tant, except in one thing, aud that
is iu securing public plunder. It has
never been good except when whip-
ped at the polls. Arron Burr was
the first man who took it into poli-
tics. It sympathized with the French
revolution. It made a mockery of
Alexander Hamilton's funeral pro-
cession. It always took care of the
kickers and gave them olllces. In
17y 1 it declared that only American
born citizens should hold ofllce. It
embezzled $1000 given to bury the
bones of those who died on prison
ships in the day- of the revolution.
It opposed every working man's
project for justice in the early days.
The Irish mobbed its wigwam, in
1817. It opposed the construction
of the Erie canal, that in one year
added sixty millions to the business
of New York. Its common counsel
wanted to fine every person five dol-
lars who went fishing or hunting, or
who took recreation on Sunday. In
1818 it declared for protective tariff.
It fought equal rights aud changed
front on that question iu 1838. The
avarice of its leaders brought on the
bread riots and the fearful suffering
of 1837. It formed an alliance with
aliens only when defeat stared it in
the face in 1840. All the time its
leaders grew monstrously rich. It
tratlicked iu bank charters aud not a
leader of importance flourished who
did not have stock iu these concerns,
when it denounced the whole money-
ed class of the country as danger-
ous to our liberties. It sold offices
as early as 1845. It levied tribute
through the police in the early thir-
ties. It entered into a water supply1
deal that was so inadequate and I
dangerous, that it brought on an
epidemic of yellow fever and cholera.
It always plundered the tax pay-'
ersin its street clesaing. It raised1
salaries and taxes right and left and
its ••Hunkers" of 1846 adopted the
motto of, "get all you cau and keep ■
all you get." It had its commou !
couusel of Forty Thieves. It de-
nounced the imbecility of the ad-
ministration of Abraham Lincolu.
It created the gangs that used to be
the terror of the city, and it brought
convicts by the score from Black-
wells Island to vote at the |>olls. It
always promised reform to get iuto
office. Fernando Wood closed
saloons and other disreputable places
on Sunday to make a shewing of re-
form.
Wm. Mooney. one of its founders,
spent one thousand dollar- of the
city's money for trifles for Mrs.
Mooney. Many of its sachems have
been convicted of stealing. There
were Hubbard and Broome, at the
start, then came Xaphatali Judah,
who stole the secrets of the lottery
and £"t rich. Noah anl Ogden >tole
a ten thousand dollar reward to
which they were not entitled. Jacob
Bark and hi< followers >tole stocks
and bonds by the million dollars
worth. Jacob Swar: ut embezzled
Sl.;22.705 from the federal govern-
ment as collector of the port at New
York and fled. His brother Robert
eml>ezzied - wnething like sixty thous-
and dollars. Jesse Hoyt and W. M.
Price were also worthy forbears of
Tweed, and a ii>t amounting to
hundreds might be compiled. From:
first to last it has )een one Jong story
of plunder and public robbery. The
Tammany of recent times need not
be described.
With this history of old Tammany
-taring the democratic party in the
face, it still talks about reforming
the organization : and the democratic
party of Oklahoma are trying to build
up a miniature organization of the
-ame kind in this territorv.
TltK ItiilES FOR 1904.
The atetMMBt U frequently made
hy a portion of the democratic press,
that if the party expects to win in
1904, it must repudiate Bryan and
Bryanism, and return to the prin-
ciples advocated and practiced by
(irover Cleveland during the eight
years that he was chief magistrate of
the nation. Air. Bryan may not be
nominated again for the presidency,
but he will name the nominee and
the man chosen will not be of the
Gold Standard or Cleveland stamp.
The democratic party cannot get
away from Mr. Bryan and it cannot
afford to go back to Mr. Cleveland.
Ninety-five per cent of the rank and
tile of the democratic party believe
in the principles enunciated by the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms
upon which Mr. Bryan has made two
campaigns of education, and if the
party abandons the advanced posi-
tion it took iu these two campaigns
aud goes back to Mr. Cleveland and
his political sreed, it will be lost
amidst a mountain of adverse bal-
lots. There is absolutely nothing
left for the democratic party to do,
if it expects to be successful, but to
stand upon the advance ground upon
which it permitted itself to be led by
Mr. Bryan and his populistic allies.
It cannot take a single backward
step and survive. The party is
thoroughly committed to Bryanism
and Bryan has the majority of the
democracy upon his side, and unless
this majority is given an opportun-
ity to vote for all the principles con-
tended for in the last two campaigns
it will stay at home and allow
the party to again go down in de-
feat. The Cleveland element of the
party has racked its brain to find
new issues that could be used to ob-
seure the Chicago and Kansas City
platforms,and put Bryan on the shelf
But outside' of Bryanism so-called
there is no issue. Tariff reform is a
chestnut and imperialism has been
prematurely taken out of the cam-
paign by the organization of a re-
public iu Cuba, the removal there-
from of our army of occupation and
the stand Roosevelt has taken to se-
curefor the infant republic the broad-
est and freest possible commercial
relations with the world. Roosevelt's
action against the northern securities
company, is a more positive and ef-
fective attack upon the trusts than
any democratic leader has yet dared
to make—practically nullifying this
issue, or at least transferring it to
the republican side of the ledger.
Therefore there is absolutely noth-
ing left for the democratic party to
stand for except the revolutionary
reforms demanded by the party dur-
ing the last two presidential elections.
As above stated, the vast majority of
the rank and file of the demoeratle
and populiat parties are unalterably
in favor of not only the spirit but the
letter of the Chicago platform, and
to succeed they must be held to-
gether, otherwise there will be no
formidable organized opposition to
republicanism at the next presiden-
tial election.
Freeman Miller, the Stillwater
poet, is a candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination for congress.
Miller should have the nomination
by all means. Tom Hensley must
now bury his hopes, Edgar Jones
withdraw, Bill Cross take to the
woods, Tom Doyle throw up the
sponge and Bob Forrest go off and
die, figuratively. Owing to the fact
that the democrats will have a six
months campaign the people want
entertainment and diverson. 1 his
Miller is qualified to give, lie could
recite his book of poems, rattle otf
dramatic verses to a standstill, lie
might also give us some blank verse—
very blank. lie would afford the
people much entertainment and weld
them to himself with poetic warb-
lings. How could the other candi-
dates entertain iu comparsion with
Miller? Imagine Forrest reciting a
poem or Bill Cross striking a dra-
matic pose, elevating dreamy eyes
to the sky and saying. "Avaunt!
why huntest thou me with phantoms
of defeat? To be or not to be—wilt
thou list unto my pleading, and give
each the story of my son ? Yote for
me. Oh! my beloved!" Miller is the
logical candidate and will be nomi-
nated by acclamation after he recites
to the convention.—Enid Events.
Ptwnnttt C—ity' 
The Demoeratto County Ceatral
Committee of Canadian oountj baa au>
thorissed the calling of a demceratie
democratic tiolegnte convention to be
held at El Hen" on tne 12th day of
April, at 1 o'c'ock P. M. for ths
purpose of selecting fifteen (II) dele-
pates to represent Canadian county at
the Democratic Territorial Convention
at Enid on the 22nd day of April, 11)03.
The basis of representation from the
several voting precincts in the county
is on every fifteen (15) votes cast for
the Hon. Bobt. A. Neff at the election
of 1900, and one additional delegate
for each fraction of 15 over one half.
On this basis the several precincts are
entitled to the following number of
delegates respectively:
VOTES FOR NE1*I'
DELEGATES
El Reno,
! 1st Ward,
2nd "
; 3rd "
| 4th "
Calumet,
Cement,
! Darlington,
Frisco,
i Maple,
j Matthewsoo,
J Meridian,
Mustang,
I Oak,
| Okarche,
Prairie,
I Purcell,
Reno,
ltock Island,
Union,
Valley,
Whitlock,
Y ukon,
Walnut
Total
00
110
54
ill
18
65
91
54
132
30
54
155
10
103
NOBLE FOR DOYLE.
The democrats of Noble county
selected delegates to the congress-
ional convention yesterday, aud in-
structed them for Hon. Thomas
Dovle for congress.
BOODLE IN CONGRESS.
A sensation was sprung on the
house of representatives yesterday,
by congressman Richardson, of Ten-
nessee. introducing a resolution au-
thorizing the investigation of alleged
charges of corruption in connection
with the sale of the Danish West In-
dies, to the United States. The
charges made iu semi-official circles
was, that ten per cent of the pur-
chase money of these islands was
used to boodle members of congress'
and subsidize certain newspapers.
The investigation promises to reveal
a condition of affairs more sensation-
al than the beef contract at the be-
ginning of the Spanish-American
war.
The Ei Reno wholesale Paper com-
any can save El Reno merchants
money on wrapping paper.
Primaries.
The precinct primaries to select the
delegates will be held at the place of
holding the last general election in
1! 00, in each precinct between the
j hours of two and four o'clock P. M. on
| Thursday the 10th day of April, 1902.
In Walnut precinct, south of rher, the
j primary will be held at the house of
| W. C. Dougherty, committeeman, on
1 the nw of sec. 20, T 11 n, of 9 w.
R. B. Forrest,
J. 1, Phelps, Chair. Cen. Com.
Secretary.
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