Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY
J. M. DOLPH, Pres. JOHN GOLOBIE. Sec
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THURSDAY. JUNE 13, 1907
JOHN GOLOBIE. EDITOR.
Primary Nominations
The Luxury of the Rich.
Whether the fabulous sums reported to have
been spent by the principal candidates for office
in the democratic primary nominations are as
high as rumor has it or not, it has been demon-
strated that the system is too costly for any poor
man to run for office under it. None but rich
men can offer themselves to popular fa\or. The
two chief candidates for governor are said to
have spent over fifty thousand a piece and two
out of the five candidates for United S tates sen-
ator as much or more.
Many things look promising in theory
that prove a failure .n practice and the primary
method in nominations except in municipal and
county elections,' is probably one of these, if the
present tremendous test is to be taken as an ex-
ample. It absolutely defeats the peoples choice
should it fall on an able but a poor man. No
man can make fifty thousand dollars out of a
governorship or senatorship, and it argues that
he must be very rich and desire the office but as
an ornament or have corporation money behind
him to be able to make the race. There has
been a half million dollars spent in the present
campaign for nominations, all told, and there is
still the election to be gone through. Then be-
sides the wear and tear on the pocket book, there
is the fearful onslaught on the characters of
the opponents within the party. If what each
candidate said of another be true, not a single
demecrat should be elected.
This matter of primaries will have to be re-
examined by the democrats when the final reck-
oning of the present campaign is made to see if
the benefits equal the cost.
When Kentucky and Illinois are devastated
by death producing storni and flood it does not
seem half as horrible as when the same happens
in Oklahoma.
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The Newspaper and The Reader
The fall of the Chicago Cronicle is another
instance that a newspaper that but represents
the special interests of some political faction or
the interests of organized capital as against the
interests of the people generally, cannot live. It
is asserted that many of the metropolitan papers
are subsidized by the trusts. If so, their sub-
scription list invariably shows it by standing
still.
It is a hard matter to talk contin ually foror-
ganized wealth and deceive the readers which
must come from the people. In the end a sub-
sidized paper becomes of no value even to or-
ganized wealth because the misses whom the
trusts desire to deceive wont read it. The re-
sult is that the paper becomes a burden on the
intersts it represents to pay its deficiencies at
the buisness office, until it becomes finally a
question where the paper is helping the trusts to
rob the people as mu:h as it costs to keep it up.
The dav conn - when the trusts consider it a
losing' business venture nd let it drop.
Such was the condition of the Chicago
Chronicle and such is the condition of some news-
papers in this terr.tory. The difficulty with a
subsidized daily paper is that it must g-et its
readers from the people while it talks against
their interests and for the interests of those who
oppress them; and there never was a writer so
wise and resourceful yet that could pull the in-
telectual wool over the eyes of the people for any
length of time, and like sheep make themj think
thistles taste like clever.
Doyle's Strong Argument
Against Statehood.
Tom Doyle in hil address in this c tv gave the
1 — stronger
lican press,
ritory—the
n the legis-
y a pro-'
«n imposed
Oklahoma
:ne money
it now they
leave Ok-
xes. Mr.
■ m.ittcrs
strongest argument against statehoo
than the combined efforts of the rep i:l
He openly accused
Southern democracy
lature and the ji: Jic
hibitory measure as
condition, fixed a sc
school lards are to 1
spent in the Ind:an '
propose to steal the
lahoma nothing but
Doyle went into terr
and shewed that tl.<
the constitution was
have ro herd in the
it wcu'd pay almost
I his that he placed
e Ir}d'
>f havu
, force,
while
upon
J cboien from the Oklahoma sid
Mr. Dofle used convincing facts'* in stronp
language—nothing was too mean for him to sav
of his opponents, and especiallv of Haskell; and
it is to b hoped he will preserve his speech to
use in the convng campa:gn to help save us
from the ti:re evils he so forcibly and truthfully
predicted.
+ + +
Candidates as Merchandise
For th Newspapers.
The present democratic campaign has es-
tablished a new principle of newspaper ethics in
announcement of candidates for office. The
primary spstem at first unconsciously demanded
a new attitude of partisan papers to candidate?,
and before the campaign was over what was be-
gun as a special favor to a few became a regular
system for all.
The multiplicity of candidates nnde it em
barrassing for newspapers to give n : iicity bjt
to their personal choice. As the fight develop-
ed, in many cases their per- nal choice was
honestly changed. Then again, f ihe psp-'r
had no personal choice in a candidate but nad
espoused on purely sentimental grounds, when
he showed to be a losing horse, it d ! not So k
like wisdom to stick to him an J guore the victor
who desired to pay for more put loltv th in the
conventional announcement h-jretoi\.re accepted
as a legitimate treatment of all c in !i l.ites n'ike.
The result was that when well in.o t e h ,t
of the fight, the newspapers found •. hcm-elVt
under the necessity of treating cand. J-itis is -o
much merchandise to He advertised. It went a
little against the grain with newspapers trained
under the old idea. It looked like insincerity to
give fulsome flatery to and and against the op-
ponent in the same issue; it seemed more thin
lack of sincerity, it seemed like an o"utrage to
print the vile charges of one candidate against
another and equally as vile retaliations of the
one attacked; yet this is what the two leading
democratic papers of Guthrie and Oklahoma
City were compelled, as well as paid to do. The
blame is not all on the papers—the candidates
demanded space to place their own and the op-
ponents case before the public in their intense
desire to win. The result was that instead of
the newspapers printing the public attacks as a
matter of news they printed the campaign mat-
ter as a merchandise of advertising.
In one sense, the new method is of greater
justice to the newspaper?. Heretofore it was al-
ways Considered a matter of party loyalty for
them to boost all aspirants for office. What for
God only knows, for the average politician is of
no earthly value to the newspaper. Nine times
out of ten if the burden of chosing a public fffi-
cer wre realy placed on the newspaper, it
would warn the public against the particular
politician who thinks the newspaper's only pro-
vence is to serve the party while his is to get an
office. It costs money to print a paper, and if for
any reason a man wants office andjdesires a news-
paper to print his virtues and his enemies falts, a
paper is under no obligations to publish them for
nothing.
Is it?
May You Live Long In Btosper.
The State Register desires to add its congra-
tulations to the many received bv the Oklahoma
City I'ost on reaching alive and in good condi-
tion its first anniversary mile post. The Tost
started to give Oklahoma City what would have
been a paper equal to any in Kansas City or St.
Louis, but for some unexplainable and unrea-
soning reason the commercial organization took
it into its head that it was best for the interests
of the city not to have any more dailv newspa-
pers, and the merchants, unfortunately, to .ved
its advice 3nd withheld their patronage, hus
systimatically limiting its resources fror.i the
start.
We have always thought such action on the
part of an organ zation was actionable for dam-
ages. A free hand for competition for favor
and business is the right and profitable thing for
a city to give a newspaper as it is for any other
business. Competition in the newspaper line
shoves all the papers higher up into metropoli-
tan character; and if there is any who fitted a
town in its crude and immature infancy and
have not enough ability to fill the wider and
more intelligent demanefs of a cultured comrner-
cisl and social metropolis, no maudlin, grannv
sentiment shoula be allowed to sustain its crip-
pled condition, but it should be allowed die a
natural death. Why should citizens band them-
selves against a new. vigorous and able
per coming to town that brings cap.tal a
ence anymore than a new citizen with
and a good character. Both add to :
and help increase its
city never loses fron
the intense charactei
dominated by sub
organs.
alth and p
.wspaper compet
ut it dies of dry re
ized, personal or
)ne million in
Oklahoma has i
sury for which some respect should be gi\
the Indian Territory even if her politic:j
run over.
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nflu-
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The
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Sl'IT SALE AT
THE ANNEX
$2.85
Buys you your choice of 75 two piece
Suits and not a suit in the lot cost whole-
sale less than $4.00. We own these goods at such a price
that vou will be astonished at the value we offer them you
We have 89 Suits of the second lot left,
- Many of which are wool, there are suits that
sold as high as .512.50 an J none less than $8,50. Come in and
pick out what you want of them for $4.85 This is a bargain.
$7-45
The third lot contains suits from the best
makers, all wool, many of them worth
$12 50 to $17.50 and good value at that. These we only
ask §7.45 for. W'e are putting a price on them that will
move them out. This price lasts w hile the goods last.
REMEMBER IT IS THE ANNEX
At the old Welcome Grocery Bldg.
Harrison & Division
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Fire Stock j
Sales
a Specialty ;
R E.
LIVESTOCK
AUCTIONEER
A natural ex- j
pert judpe of j
swice : : Also j
breeder choice 1
Jersey Hcgs. j
Terras reason- j
able. Satisfac-
tion jruarant'd
Leare orders ;
; 5-7 N. 1st St ;
aj-Mrr'v 7 Te'epbone
Mf rid an, Ok
The Secret ol
A BEAUTIFUL
COMPLEXION
Now Revealed
FREE
What beauty is more desirable than an
;xqui ite complexion and ele^ar t jewels."
An opportunity for every v/omen
to obtain both, for a limited time only.
1 lie directions and recipe for ob-
tain:r . faultless complexion is the secret
Ion? Kiijcded by the master minds of the
OKI UN IALS and GRF.KKS.
1 l is we obtained after years of
work and at great expense. It is the
metI10 J uvd by the fairest and most
beiiititu! women of Europe.
1 l- ajreds of American women who
now us- it have expressed their delight
and satisfaction.
I his secret is easily understood and
simple to follow ar.d it will save you the
expense . 'reams, cosmetics, bleaches
and forever give you a beautiful com-
plexion r.'.d free your skin from pimples,
bad color blackheads, etc. It alone is
worth to you many times the price we
ask ou to send for the g-nuine diamond
ring of latest design.
We trii you thu ring at ooe imail
profit above nu. iuf >1urin® cott
1 br prtcr *«• U\*n om
hftif what uthort cKarge
TI* wop« ■ fre« wwfi every ring
It it a grnwne rose cut diamond
ring ol sparkling brilliancy absolute-
ly guaranteed «ery dainty, shaped
like a Relr!- vith Tiffany setting
oi 12K.I. ju.u shell, at youx local
jeweler it would coat considerable more
•han $2.00. Notice style ol ring.
We mail you this beautiful com-
plexion rrcipe free when your order is
received for nng with sire marked on dia-
gram herewith and$2.00id money order,
stamps or bills Get your order in
before cur >upp!y u exhausted.
This offer is .oade for a limited
time only a* a tnear.« of advertising
and introduciwtf r foods.
Send to-day b«We t*Ms opportunity
is forgotten.
T. C. MOSELEY
32 Las* 23rd Sfet, New York Gty
JWALL PAPER
When you think of WALL PAPER think
of Gray's Drug Store w here you can find the
best and largest assortment to be found in
the city. Our prices are right and our de-
sire is to please. We employ none but the
best workmen to hang our paper and guaran-
tee satisfaction.
Our Motto:—''A Square Deal to AH"
Gray's Drug Store
ran 111 MHnniHiiHiiiaiB mmamammmmammmmammamKi m
A. E. GRAY, Prop.
120 li. Okla. Ave. , Phone 317. Guthrie
FRUIT CANS
We have a full line of tin fruit cans
Alasons Glass Jars. :: ::
EXTRA TOPS AND RUBBERS
We can supply you at the Right Prices-
DAY BROS.
W'e stl| Alaska Rcfilgerators n7 WEST HARRISON
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FREE
To women tor collecting names
-eiiii:^- 1 ovelt < . we gi\« trove but that it is iu ^
big premiums send your nnmc
FARn LOANS
The Fallis Star has moved to Tryon,
Editor Barber states he regrets the
ry. I.ow Rates CJuick Money
Privilege of Prepayment
with little work write to
to-d y for ou' new t.lan of bl. profit. Boy "s and Girl's Shoes, full vamps, I Write us and get our'rates, terms
F. B. FRENCH, Mgr
Basset Bldg. Oklahoma City
TruRtCompaay of Dalla «
C. T MOSELEY Premium departinenl. all solid leather. $1.00 to fci..r>0 at Kob-
32 F Street York City.. inson's.
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1907, newspaper, June 13, 1907; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112551/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.