The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO OKMOORAT I Tb* Majority of lb* Croat or.ro-
~ paign committee are new men, and
|W|W, but then a new broom, it la
said, hIwrv sweeps "leanest.
PlHII.IHIIIEl) THURSDAY*.
Fnternd !ntoth * iMwtnfWi'H at F.I K *no, OU .
f ir tranmiiUHloD t hrutiKli the ma Ut.aiiMCOoO
CIa* h mull matter.
Democratic Territorial
Ticket.
l'or Delegate to Con^res*.
WILLIAM M. CROSS,
(If Oklahoma County.
Frank Greer and his brother K<1
were here this week. Kd in a regu-
| lar whispering gallery and it was
j whispered that lie may take charge of
' lirother Frank's Kl Heno newspaper.
If somebody will yank Hill Cross
off of Dead Heat Urown's scavenger
cart, which lie lias appropriated as
Ins "oilicial organ," he can yet suc-
ceed.
If l>ick Morgan crosses bnts willi
Hill Cross, tlit; farmers will more
than likely umpire the game and if
Hill don't watch out they will foul
liim before lie reaches a free home
base.
Canadian County Announcements.
FOK SHKKIFI".
We are Huthori/i'il to announce tlio
name of John C. O/mun of I'ureell
precinct at a candidate for sheriff,
nubjioi to tlir action of the democratic
primary election to be hold on the 2nd
dny of September, 100'.'.
We are authorized to announce the
name of W. J. Clark of Rock Island,
product as a candidate for sheriff,
subject to tho action of the democratic
primary election to be held on the 2nd
day of September, 1902.
Elwood I enney desires to announce
to tho voters of Canadian county that Qi 11 Cross i9on the statehood spcclal
ho lg a candidate for the nomination of j t,0und for congress.—Guthrie Loader.
sheriff for Canadian county subject to jjp n,ls going south shadowed by
the action of the Democratic primary i Q 1>or(er jobusoni the Chicago de-
to be held Sept. 2, 1902. . .
tective, the last time he was seen in
Kl Reno.
Congressman New lands of Nevada
who is urging the reclamation of the
arid west, says: "The American
government ought to stop the irrita-
tion of other lands and begin the ir-
rigation of its own."
We a e authorized to announce the
name of M. 11. Tweed of Union City, |
Union township as a candidate for The Jefferson Club is doing some
sheriff subject totheaction of the dem- |ierojc campaign work. It is under-
ocratlc primary election to be held on ^ director.in.chief Forest
the second day of September, 190J.
will shortly take to the woods with a
for register. cross-eyed speech reachiug from the
We are authorized to announce the Pentateuch to Shakespeare.
name of J. K. Stone of Kl Heno as a | ——
candidate for register of deeds, subject j Hob Crowley is the logical candi-
He lives
' near what will be the center of the
— new district. He belongs to the
We are authoriznd to announce the ! country and too many of the pros-
name of Charles M. Standard, of pective candidates are bunched up
Okarche, as a candidate for register of j jn Reno
deeds, subject to the action of the dem- ___________
ocratic primary to be held on the 2nd
day of September 1902.
to the action of the democratic primary , . . . .
, i 11 .l a a date for the legislature
election to be held on the second day | 0
of September, 1902.
There is no law against a candi-
date for congress registering as if
for county commissioner. from Kansas City, and there is no
We are authorized to announce the crime in being employed as a drum-
mer for Swafford Brothers; but it
name of H. B. J. Hinnencamp of Ce-
ment township, as a candidate for
county commissioner for the third dis- (i°es show a want of political sense
trict, subject to the action of the dem- j for a candidate to take up with a
ocratic primary election to be held on ; dead beat. a social outcast and an
the second day of September, 1902.
We are authorized to announce the
name of H. H. Leeper of Yukon town-
ship as a candidate for county commis-
sioner of the second district, subject to
itinerant newspaper grafter and
make he, she. or it his campaign
manager and campaign organ.
Bill Cross made his maiden speech
Comtnanche yesterday at a con-
federate soldiers' reunion and opened
the action of the democratic primary at Comraanche vesterdav at a con-
election to be held on the second day
of September, 1902.
his campaign at the same time. The
for the legislature. Democrat offers a years subscription
We are authorized to announce the to any mail who can tell from his
name of Robert Crowley as a candi- speech whether Hill is running for
date for the 13ih legis.ative district, 00ngress in Oklahoma or the Indian
subject to the action of the democratic t- "• , , . , • ,
lerntorv. In fact, judging from
convention or primary election. i • -job
the number of times he refers to the
i two territories jointly we would infer
Si . tRiNTEXDENT of public schools f^at he jma2rines that he is a candi-
diate at large for the two territories.
We are authorized to announce the
name of D. D. Davisson of Walnut
township as a candidate for superin-
tendent of public instruction, subject It is authoritatively stated that
to the action of the democratic pri- :i,e Guthrie democrats will demand
marv election to be held on the 2nd • .
, ■ _ Oene Gill s appointment as secre-
day of September 1>02. i '
tary of the campaign committee,
The successful man in anv under- an^ if their demand is not heeded
taking is always assailed. The fool l^ev will kick the machine into
and the failure only, escape. smithereens. Gill's appointment is
1 proper for several reasons. In the
, . first place he has been on the Slate
It was a curious over-sight of the , ... , , ,
,, . Capitol long enough to have absorbed
Cross managers to overlook the
Supper Bell when they were rustl-
ing for a '-campaign organ."
from Frank Greer some knowledge
; of practical politics, something the
! democratic politicians in charge of
No, Greer county was not named Part? are destitute of. In
after Frank Greer of the State Capi- the 86001111 Place" with the headquar-
tal. It was named a long time be- lers of both Parties in Guthrie, and
fore Frank learned the use of his Gil1 as one of the campaign managers
printing graft. ; in touch with Frank Greer, it will
AP0L0IY.
We hart been aaked who this
Brown, editor of the Chinese stink
pot is. We regret the necessity of
polluting the columns of tho Dem-
ocrat, or of offending the sense of
sight and smell of its readers by
even the bare mention of his name.
Hut there are some disagreeable
things in life that must be endured
for a time. Brown is one of them.
lie is the same Brown who came
to this country from Kansas, where
his social, political, and financial
standing was likened to the standing
of the festering leper in old Jerusa-
lem, where tin crowd would fall back
crying unclean, unclean, at his ap-
proach. lie did not have credit for
a mug of beer in Kansas and soon
acquired the same financial standing
in Oklahoma,
He first appeared upou the scene
when K. E. Brown editor of the
Times-Journal of Oklahoma City
was appointed as coal oil inspector
and the fact of his appointment was
published in the Katisas newspapers.
Hundreds of letters were received by
him from people who had been vic-
timized l>3' the bogus Kansas reform-
er. The letters were mailed under
the impression that coal oil inspector
Brown, of Oklahoma City, and Ob-
server Brown of Guthrie were one
and the same person. They dunned
him for borrowed money, laundry
bills, whiskey bills, board biils and
gambling debts; accused him of
crimes, dubbed him a deadbeat, a liar,
a scoundrel, in fact said everything
that could be thought of until poor
coal oil Brown was buried under an
avalanche of letters, many of them
of the most salacious character, let-
ters aimed at the Kansas refugee but
mailed to the coal oil inspector. Coal
oil Brown published a part of this
correspondence and the Kansas ren-
egade, instead of paying his debts
and squaring his record at home at
tempted to break into the courts in
order to stop coal oil Brown from
airing his dirty linen through the fear
that it might injure his chances of
becoming the "official organ" of the
democratic congressional campaign,
and joint heir with usurper Mose
Anderson to the campaign fund con-
tributed under the standup and de-
liver plan employed at the Enid con-
vention.
He is the same Brown who com-
menced the publication of a dirty
little three column, peewee sheet in
Frank Greer's office in Guthrie last
winter called the Observer.
This sheet was started in further-
ance of an attempt to levy blackmail
on Governor Jenkins and the repub-
lican administration, and to bleed
politicians of both political parties
in Oklahoma. It was built on the
plan of the Kansas City Sunday Sun,
a sheet whose editor was kicked out
of every town in Missouri which he
attempted to enter, and was finally
pumped full of lead by one of the
judges of the supreme court whose
character was attacked in a similar
manner to the officials at Guthrie,
and no notice whatever was ever tak-
en of the shooting. The judge held
court the same day as if nothing had
occurred. Such a sheet as the Sun-
day Sun, or Brown's Observer is a
suppurating sore upon the body pol-
itic and must be removed even if the
knife, the bludgeon, or the shot gun
is invoked. In fact it is a waste of
time and energy to lumber up a
court docket with libel suits against
the skunk that edits it. It should
be abated like any other nuisance by
the shortest and quickest route, for
the influence of such a sheet is like
the malodor of dissolving carrion or
bkekfuard who poaw m Um
ponaible editor of the Guthrie sewer
vent iljflei himself ''Brann the sec-
ond." Such an assumption coming
from the spawn of a pole cat is not
only an insult to thh memory of
Brann, but to the intelligence of ev-
ery man or woman who ever read a |
line of his writings. ' Brann the
second!" Don't that cork you?
Brann carried more gray matter un-
der the nail of his pencil linger, than
can be found in Brown's whole anat-
omy. Brann was one of God's noble
men and would not stoop to do a
questionable act, tmuch less to levy
journalistic blackmail. Brann clothed
his thoughts in the vernacular of the j
gods of high Olympus and not in
the patios of the vulgar or the slum-
gullion of the gutter.
Brann the first soared intellectual-
ly and morally like an eagle at the
sun. Brann the second crawls like
a maggot in the mire.
Brann left a fortune to his wife and
children as the product of his pen.
Brann the second will leave nothing
to his but an infamous name.
Brann the lirst would not touch a
dirty dollar—Brann the second would
do adything on earth for a dollar,
except to be decent.
We have ran the gamut of the
English language from the first gut-
tural sound to the last terminology,
searched the warp of shame and the
woof of infamy, from Adam to the
Enid convention, for a word suffici-
ently expressive to describe this
second edition of "Brann" and locate
him in that sphere of infamy where
his intellectual and moral attain-
ments would place him, but we have
searched in vain.
Judged by the elements of moral-
ity, by every principle of honor and
manhood, he is infinitely below the
Bowery bum who pimps for his
mother or puts the frowsy charms of
his best girl up at public auction."
Or to borrow an expression of
Brann the original, to properly des-
cribe Brann the counterfeit, "he is a
creature so foul that were Doll
Tearsheet his mother, Fallstaff his
father, and Perdition his birth place,
he would shame his shameless dam,
disgrace his graceless sire and dis-
honor his honorless country."
But we started out to tell you who
the editor of the Observer was and
not what he is.
He is the same Brown who attack-
ed Jim Robb the mayor of Kingfisher
in his Sunday Sun, and Robb fitting
a punishment to the crime, punched
both of his eyes into one and then
kicked him out of a public resort in
Guthrie, like a dog, because he did
not have courage enough to defend
himself.
He is the same Brown who visited
the slums and saloons of every town
in this territory and accepted bribes
in the nature of bonuses and paid up
subscriptions to libel and slander the
temperance people and the temper-
ance workers throughout the terri-
The fisherman, the sailor, the
yachtsman and everybody, is liable
to sudden attacks of disease.
"PainkitteY
(PEKUY I>AVISO)
Acts like magic forcholera, cramps,
sudden colds, or chills from ex-
posure;
Take no substitute. Price 25c. & 50c.
therefore be an easy matter for the a festering pestilential cesspool. It
If the republicans nominate Dick ; republicans to know just how every- 1 slimes the senses, drowns in filth the
Morgan Bill Cross will have none thing is done and when it is done, moral concept of everything it touch-
the best of the race by reason of a In fact it seems to us that it is un- es. and is as dangerous to moral
handy appellation. It is just as necessary to have two headquarters growth as the noxious exhalations of
and two sets of clerks with Frank 1 an open sewer is to physical health.
Greer boss of both ranches. | The coarse, illiterate, cowardly
easy to say "hello Dick'
Bill."
•hello
Attention,
Harvesters.
We are now making special prices
for your benefit, and for the next 30
days we will sell to harvesters at the
following low prices:
El Reno Club l?yeyepaerr °^,$3.00
R. Island Club 2.50
Kentucky Valley f,Va?SS2.25
Old Honesty 2.00
Old Kentucky 1.75
We also make special prices on
California Wines and Blackberry
Brandies.
Mailorders will have our prompt
attention. No charge for jug or
boxing.
EL RENO LIQUOR CO.
El Reno. O. T.
tory.
He is the same Brown who went
to the Enid convention in order to
have his "Sunday Sun" made the
official organ of the democratic con-
gressional campaign.
He is the same Brown who de-
manded last week at Oklahoma City
a share of the swag for dirty cam-
paign services already rendered, and
got it.
He is the same Brown who has
been backed with money and prom-
ises of money by democrats of this
territory to purchase a cylinder press
and other material on which to print
his "official organ" for the demo-
cratic party at Oklahoma City.
Pie is the same Brown that rumor
says has associated himself with C.
Porter Johnson whom it is said will
hereafter put on the literary touches
of the "official organ."
He is the same Brown who has
been slandering and persecuting
temperance democrats for the past
year and is now trying to lead them
up to the booth and vote them like
cattle.
If we have not sufficiently ac-
quainted our readers as to who the
editor of the Observer is, we will
give them an installment confined ex-
clusively to the gentleman's Kansas
record in our next.
In naming himself as chairman of
the democratic campaign committe
and claiming the privilege of appoint-
ing the secretary, Mose Anderson has
left no chance for a dispute as to what
town he hails from, nor of his unfalt-
ering determination to cling close to
the Cross.—Snawnee Herald.
^ ou mean close to the campaign
fund that was contributed by the
counties of the territory,—Mose is
another Johnson.
J. W. LAUCK, M. D.
LATE ASSISTANT SURGEON
U. S. MILITARY HOMES,..
209 Rock Island, El Reno, O. T
Office over Friend & Blevins.
DR. A. SCOTT BRONSON,
HOMEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Phone 180.
El Kkno jalonic bldg.
COR. WOODSON and BICKFORD
JAMES N. ROBERSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Democrat Block el reno.
J. C. BECKET,
GENERAL ACCOUNTANT.
ALL WORK STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Drop me ;i line If you need asslstanceof
auykind on your books.
Box 72S,
Fl Reno, O. T.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1902, newspaper, June 19, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112287/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.